Sei Network Adds Stablecoin Payroll, Institutional Trading in Busy Week
Ted Hisokawa Feb 17, 2026 23:31
SEI ecosystem expands with Toku payroll integration, Monaco CLOB launch, and Q4 data showing 26% growth in daily active addresses to 1M users.
Sei Network strung together its busiest week in months, landing a stablecoin payroll integration that taps into the $50 trillion global payroll market while simultaneously launching institutional-grade trading infrastructure. SEI trades at $0.075 with a $506 million market cap, up slightly as the announcements rolled out.
Toku Brings Sub-Second Payroll Settlement
The headline grab goes to Toku, the crypto-native payroll provider that plugs directly into enterprise systems like Workday and ADP. Their Sei integration, announced February 12, means companies can now settle employee payments and vendor remittances in USDC with sub-second finality instead of waiting the standard two to three days for bank transfers to clear.
The Sei Development Foundation already uses the system for its own payroll and token distributions. That's not just a marketing partnership—it's production-level validation. Sei processed over $3 billion in stablecoin volume over the past 30 days leading up to this integration, suggesting the infrastructure can actually handle enterprise-scale flows.
Monaco Opens Private Alpha for Institutional Trading
On the trading side, Monaco launched its private alpha on February 11. This isn't another AMM—it's a Central Limit Order Book built specifically for Sei's parallelized EVM, targeting 400ms settlement finality for high-frequency order matching.
The architecture matters here. Monaco operates as a shared liquidity layer that other front ends can plug into rather than fragmenting liquidity across isolated pools. Mach 1, announced February 13, became the first specialized interface to connect, offering what they're calling "quant trading desk" tools with agentic capabilities.
Q4 Numbers Back Up the Momentum
Messari's Q4 2025 report, released February 14, provides the receipts. Daily active addresses hit 1 million—up 26% quarter-over-quarter. Daily transactions reached 2.3 million, a 17% increase. Both metrics peaked at all-time highs in mid-December. That's six consecutive quarters of growth.
Developer tooling expanded too. Envio went live on Sei during the week, claiming 2,000x faster event syncing compared to standard RPC methods. When you're processing millions of daily transactions, indexing speed becomes a real bottleneck—this addresses that.
Institutional Recognition Building
CoinShares, the fourth-largest ETP manager globally, featured Sei alongside Ethereum, Solana, and Sui in their programmable money analysis. They already offer two regulated products with SEI exposure: a staked SEI ETP and the DIME ETF. Getting mentioned in the same breath as chains with multi-billion dollar market caps signals where institutional capital sees potential.
Meanwhile, Toro DEX crossed $5 million in trading volume since its December launch—modest numbers, but early traction for the ecosystem's DEX layer.
The next catalyst to watch: Monaco's transition from private to public alpha, which should reveal whether that institutional-grade infrastructure can attract meaningful trading volume beyond early adopters.
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