Jay Jog | Co-Founder of Sei Labs — The EVM’s Dominance and Its Limitations

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 without breaking developer ergonomics. Jay also reflects on memecoins — not as a joke, but as a mechanism for coordination and community movement that can bootstrap attention and identity in an ecosystem.Expect a thoughtful conversation on execution environments, scaling constraints, and Jay’s Web3 founder journey.This episode was supported by Diksha Desai and Sachi Shiokava.