Sei price and where to buy SEI

What is Sei?

Sei is a proof-of-stake blockchain built for trading applications, with very fast finality and a parallelised engine compatible with Ethereum smart contracts. SEI pays network fees and is staked by validators.

How to buy Sei, step by step

1. Pick an exchange. SEI is listed on every exchange we track. Compare fees, funding options and whether it serves your country in our exchange reviews.
2. Create and verify your account. Regulated exchanges ask for identity documents before you can deposit fiat.
3. Fund the account. A bank transfer or a stablecoin deposit usually costs far less than a card payment.
4. Buy SEI. Use the SEI/USDT or SEI/USD market, and check the cheapest venue in the table above first.
5. Decide where to keep it. On the exchange is simplest, but the exchange then holds your coins. Sei has two address formats; check which one your wallet uses before you withdraw.

Where to buy Sei at the best price

The cheapest venue right now is marked in the table above. Add its trading fee before comparing: on SEI the venues disagree by about 0.11 percent on average, so on a small purchase the fee and the funding method usually matter more.

• The price on that venue. Each row shows the gap to our composite.
• The trading fee. Our fee comparison lists spot fees side by side.
• How you fund the account. A bank transfer or stablecoin deposit is usually far cheaper than a card payment, which often costs several percent.

Why the Sei price differs between exchanges

In our minute-by-minute measurement the gap between the highest and lowest venue averaged about 0.11 percent, against about 0.025 percent for Bitcoin. It went above half a percent in about 15 minutes out of every thousand, and reached about 2.0 percent at its widest.

Just over half of the SEI spot volume we track trades on a single venue. The spread figure at the top of this page is the live measurement; our guide on why crypto prices differ between exchanges explains the mechanism.

What moves the Sei price

The wider crypto market, and in SEI’s case its own news too. In our hourly composite, SEI moved with Bitcoin at a correlation of about 0.46, where 1 would mean identical moves, and its moves were about two and a half times the size of Bitcoin’s.

SEI-specific drivers come on top: activity on its trading applications, token unlocks and leverage. The funding rates on this page show whether leveraged traders are paying to be long or short right now.

Pros and cons of Sei

Pros

• Very fast finality aimed at trading applications.
• Compatible with Ethereum smart contracts.
• Listed on every exchange we track.

Cons

• Its hourly moves were about two and a half times Bitcoin’s in our data.
• A large part of the supply is still being released.
• It trades far below its all-time high of about $1.14.

Sei’s highest price

Sei’s all-time high is about $1.14 on volume-weighted data. The chart above shows the last 30 days of our composite, and the SEI to USD converter applies the live price to any amount.