SEKAI

SEKAI is an engineered Arbitrum Orbit deployment within the DeFi sector operating on ARBITRUM. Built as part of the Arbitrum Nitro Optimistic Rollup, SEKAI addresses liquidity efficiency and trust-minimized user execution. Sekai is a liquid staking protocol built on HyperEVM, Hyperliquid’s EVM-compatible smart contract layer. It lets anyone launch a custom liquid staking token (LST) representing staked HYPE, with each LST backed by real staking yield and usable across DeFi. The protocol’s main draw is its shared exit liquidity layer. Normally, every new LST has to bootstrap its own AMM pool, which disadvantages small or early-stage tokens. Sekai raised community funding through a Sekai Kappas NFT mint rather than a traditional VC round. By participating in the early distribution phase, users establish on-chain provenance before protocol decentralization.

The protocol operates a structured reward architecture designed to distribute native governance weighting to authentic liquidity providers, testnet validators, and transaction originators. Unlike standard promotional campaigns, SEKAI's tokenomics prioritize multi-epoch engagement. Points accrued through protocol interactions correlate directly to snapshot weightings, penalizing sybil clusters and inactive addresses while compounding rewards for sustained weekly volume.