Sei Labs Reached 100,000 Transactions Per Second
The research-stage Hermes protocol achieved sub-101 ms finality in laboratory tests.
Updated on Sept. 24, 2026 in Artificial Intelligence
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Sei Labs has announced that its Hermes consensus protocol reached a throughput of 100,000 transactions per second (TPS) in recent laboratory tests. This development remains in the research phase.
Why it matters
The result is part of a broader roadmap aimed at enhancing network performance for high-frequency financial applications. These efforts seek to push transaction speeds and finality to levels required for scalable, distributed financial infrastructure.
The Hermes protocol recorded a median finality of 68 ms and a 95th-percentile finality of 101 ms across 51 validator replicas. These results represent the current performance ceiling achieved in controlled testing environments.
The players
Sei Labs
A developer of blockchain infrastructure focused on optimizing consensus protocols for financial throughput.
The details
The protocol utilizes a shared prefix system to identify and finalize the heaviest common sequence of votes among replicas. By streamlining view changes—the process by which the network elects a new leader to propose a block—the system maintains consistency even when network conditions are sub-optimal. The tests were distributed across four regions in Europe to simulate geographic latency.
Timeline
September 24, 2026: The 100,000 TPS benchmark results were reported.
The Tech Race
This result tracks against the Giga roadmap, which outlines a research path toward a future public testnet capable of 200,000 TPS. The race in high-frequency decentralized finance prioritizes the reduction of ordering finality to support complex, rapid-fire transactions.
The SEI token, which recently recorded a 50% gain over the past week, currently trades at $0.0609. Daily trading volume remains at approximately $56 million, representing a 35% decrease.
The takeaway
The performance benchmark demonstrates a significant increase in theoretical throughput for decentralized consensus. Observers should monitor the public testnet deployment scheduled for future stages of the Giga roadmap to see if these laboratory results translate to a production environment.
Further reading
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Source note: This article includes information reported by Crypto Economy.
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