Sei starts phased Eidos upgrade to prepare network for 200,000 TPS

Sei has begun rolling out its Eidos storage upgrade, rebuilding how the layer-1 network stores and verifies on-chain data as its Giga roadmap targets throughput of 200,000 transactions per second. Summary Sei has begun the phased rollout of Eidos through its v6.6 mainnet upgrade. Eidos is rebuilding the network’s storage architecture as Giga targets 200,000 TPS. EVM state is being separated into a dedicated database, while FlatKV and LtHash are planned for later stages. The migration is designed to run while Sei remains online, with existing and new storage systems operating alongside each other. Sei said in an Aug. 12 technical update that Eidos is designed to remove storage constraints that could prevent the network’s execution layer from operating at the speeds planned under Giga. The upgrade is the storage component of a three-part architecture overhaul that also includes Autobahn for consensus and Ares for transaction execution. The first Eidos components have already reached mainnet through Sei v6.6, though the full storage system is being introduced in stages. EVM state has started moving into a dedicated database, while FlatKV, LtHash, new receipt storage and off-node archi...