Sei Labs Acquires Bilinear Labs To Accelerate Sei Giga Development

Engineering Talent Moves In-House

@Sei_Labs has acquired @bilinearlabs, bringing the firm's Rust-based engineering talent and data analytics capabilities directly into the $SEI ecosystem. The Bilinear team is transitioning into core development roles focused on Sei Network and the upcoming Sei Giga scaling initiative, deepening the in-house technical bench at a critical moment for the protocol.

The move follows Bilinear's track record of delivering real-time financial insights and on-chain intelligence for high-velocity decentralized markets, a profile that fits squarely with Sei's performance-first positioning in DeFi infrastructure.

What Is Sei Giga and Why Does It Matter?

Sei Giga is @Sei_Labs' most ambitious technical undertaking to date. The initiative targets over 50x throughput, 70x faster block production, and 40x execution efficiency, with the broader goal of making Sei the first multi-proposer EVM Layer 1. It leverages parallel block proposals to solve bottlenecks, scaling the EVM with innovations across data availability, consensus, execution, and storage.

Key targets include 5 gigagas of throughput at roughly 200,000 transactions per second, alongside sub-400ms finality for low-latency, high-speed applications. Achieving that throughput would deliver execution speeds 50 times faster than any other mainnet chain, comparable to Web2-level transaction performance.

Advanced features including Autobahn consensus, a multi-proposer architecture, and the 5 gigagas throughput target are currently in development. Sei Labs has already achieved 5 gigagas of throughput in an internal devnet using Autobahn, a new consensus protocol designed for high throughput and low latency in globally distributed validator networks.

Bringing Bilinear's engineering resources in-house signals that Sei Labs is consolidating specialist talent rather than relying on external contributors as Giga moves closer to production. For the $SEI ecosystem, the acquisition adds depth on the data and systems side at a point when the protocol's technical roadmap is at its most complex.

Sources
Sei Labs publishes Sei Giga whitepaper, Sei Blog
Sei Labs releases Giga roadmap, Business Wire