Sei and Mastercard publish new research on how financial institutions evaluate blockchain infrastructure, from eligibility and pilots to production and scale

Mastercard and the Sei Development Foundation's joint report, based on 40+ expert interviews, finds technology is no longer the bottleneck for institutional blockchain adoption. Aggregate capacity across major networks now exceeds ~3,400 transactions per second, roughly 100x 2019 levels, and over $27B in assets has been tokenized on-chain, with BlackRock's tokenized Treasury fund passing $2.5B in AUM in May. The report maps five gated stages—eligibility, validation, pilot, production, scale—and five evaluation pillars, noting that weighting shifts by use case: payments prioritize throughput while treasury workflows score governance first. Confidence in settlement finality and governance now separates pilots from production.

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