Just finished watching the interview with @jayendra_jog, founder of @Sei_Labs. It was truly inspiring and incredibly engaging, with crystal-clear logic and a penetrating understanding of #Web3. We've translated parts of the interview into Chinese for everyone to study! 🧐 Jayendra Jog is a typical "Bay Area tech guy." He went to high school in California, a place where everyone was focused on getting into Stanford and MIT. He went to UCLA to study computer science, interned at Facebook and Pinterest, and finally plunged into Robinhood, working on the most arduous but crucial backend systems: KYC, clearing, and securities lending, laying a solid foundation in underlying financial technologies. In 2021, the GameStop incident rocked the market. Retail investors were frantically buying GME through Robinhood, only to have the platform suddenly restrict trading. Jayendra was on the system's backend at the time, witnessing the server constantly sending alerts, regulatory calls pouring in, and users unleashing a torrent of anger. At that moment, Jayendra suddenly realized: the existing financial system is fundamentally not designed for ordinary people. It may appear efficient, but once centralized institutions hold the reins of power, ordinary people don't even have the freedom to buy and sell. After that, he began to ask himself: Can we build a truly open, fast, and user-friendly trading infrastructure? Not just about changing a token and telling a story, but about making the underlying trading engine extremely fast and stable, like building a road. So in 2022, Jayendra and his partner Jeff Feng (another geek from the traditional finance and technology circles) co-founded @Sei_Labs. Instead of chasing trendy buzzwords like "metaverse" or "AI + Web3," they focused on one thing: optimizing blockchain scalability and transaction execution speed. They directly applied the high concurrency, low latency, and matching engine technologies they learned at Robinhood to a public blockchain, resulting in the current #SEI. Many people laughed at them at the time: "Another public blockchain? It's 2022, and they're still dabbling in infrastructure?" But they firmly believed in one thing: in the early days of the internet, everyone laughed at TCP/IP and HTTP as "boring protocols." But without them, where would Amazon or WeChat be? In the end, #SEI raised $35 million, and its token market value once surged to $2.7 billion. In the interview, what made them most proud was not the great achievements they had made, but that many small merchants in Southeast Asia were now using USDC to make instant transfers on SEI, that freelancers in Latin America were using it to avoid hyperinflation in their countries, and that developers were building truly decentralized exchanges on it, with no intermediaries, no freezes, and no "sorry, system under maintenance". Jayendra recalls that leaving Robinhood in 2022 was the boldest and most correct decision of his life. He is a cautious and conservative person, afraid of failure, afraid of losing income, and afraid of being called "another crypto scammer." But he later realized that the biggest risk is not failure, but that you clearly see the problem but dare not take action to improve and fix it. Their entrepreneurial journey has been very inspiring to me. Many people think that starting a business requires waiting until you're "ready": waiting until your skills are stronger, your experience is greater, or your savings are thicker. But the truth is—you're never truly ready. Real growth happens the day after you quit your job, when you first pitch to a stranger and no one listens, and when you've gone three months without paying salaries but still have to smile and hold team meetings. If you're also writing CRUD code at a big company, but a voice inside you keeps asking, "Is this really meaningful?" then I want to tell you: Don't wait. Problems won't disappear on their own, and opportunities won't wait for you to be "perfect." Sometimes, leaving a good job is when your career truly begins. The crypto world isn't a casino; it's a blank slate for those willing to redefine money, trust, and freedom with code, logic, and courage. Jayendra's experience deeply impresses me. He could have stayed in his comfort zone, but he chose to change, to take a gamble. This boldness, courage, and dissatisfaction with the status quo deeply move me, and it's one of the key reasons I'm optimistic about #SEI! 🧐