In this episode of Blocklayer Podcast, Kenzi Takahashi, Sachi Shiokava, and Diksha Desai sit down with Jay Jog, Co-Founder of Sei Labs, to unpack why the Ethereum Virtual Machine keeps winning — and where its limits start to show.

Jay draws a sharp analogy between legacy cities and virtual machines: once a system becomes the default, it’s incredibly hard to displace because distribution, tooling, and culture compound over time. He shares his journey from traditional finance and his time at Robinhood Markets to building Sei Network, and why user feedback loops matter more than narratives when you’re trying to ship something people actually use.

We dig into the core technical thesis: why higher throughput is becoming non-negotiable, what parallelization changes (and what it doesn’t), and how Sei thinks about performance ...