Sei Network wins Xiaomi mobile phone: All new phones are pre-installed with "Web3 App", encrypted wallet, Dapp entrance, stable currency payment are all handled
Sei Network, a Layer 1 public chain focusing on high performance, announced that it has reached a major cooperation plan with the Chinese consumer electronics giant Xiaomi Group: starting from 2026, all new Xiaomi, Redmi, and POCO smartphones sold in mainland China and outside the United States will be directly pre-installed with a "next-generation crypto wallet and application discovery app" with the underlying technology provided by Sei.
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Layer 1 public chain Sei Network focusing on high performance was launched in December An announcement was issued on the 10th, announcing that it had reached a major cooperation plan with the Chinese consumer electronics giant Xiaomi Group.
According to the official press release, starting from 2026, all new Xiaomi, Redmi, and POCO smartphones sold outside mainland China and the United States will be directly pre-installed with a "next-generation crypto wallet and application discovery app" with underlying technology provided by Sei. Users only need to use the existing Google By logging in with one account or Xiaomi account, you can immediately have a fully functional on-chain wallet without additional downloads or cumbersome registrations, which greatly lowers the threshold for ordinary consumers to enter the crypto world.
A new era of mobile finance is coming to Xiaomi's global user base.
A next-gen finance app powered by Sei and designed for stablecoin payments, will be integrated into the Xiaomi mobile ecosystem, coming pre-installed on new devices.
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Core features of the pre-installed App
Official introduction, this pre-installed App The core features include:
- Institutional-level wallet security mechanism using MPC (multi-party computing) technology, no need to memorize seed phrases;
- Built-in entrance to selected popular DApps, you can use DeFi, GameFi, social and NFT and other applications directly on the mobile desktop;
- Supports point-to-point instant transfers, and C2B (consumer to merchant) payment functions that can be used directly for consumption in the future;
- All transactions are in Sei Completed natively on the chain, it enjoys a final confirmation time of less than 400 milliseconds and extremely low handling fees.
A further highlight lies in the physical payment level. The two parties have launched a stablecoin payment system development plan, which is expected to be launched in the Hong Kong and EU markets as early as the second quarter of 2026, and will gradually expand to other compliance regions in the future. Looking to the future, when consumers shop at Xiaomi's more than 20,000 Mi Homes around the world or its official website, they can directly use stablecoins such as USDC native to the Sei chain to purchase mobile phones, tablets, electric vehicles and smart home appliances.
The first batch of pre-installation will give priority to markets where Xiaomi has a high market share and high encryption acceptance, including Europe (Greece accounts for 36.9%), India (24.2%), Latin America, Southeast Asia and Africa. Sei added that Xiaomi's global mobile phone shipments in 2024 will reach 168 million units, with a market share of 13%, firmly ranking among the top three in the world. This means Sei gains direct access to hundreds of millions of mainstream users at once, far exceeding the number of active users of any current crypto wallet or exchange.
Sei launches US$5 million "Global Mobile Innovation Program"
In addition, in order to encourage more developers to create applications for mobile phone scenarios, Sei simultaneously launched a US$5 million "Global Mobile Innovation Program" to specifically fund the development of blockchain applications that run natively on Xiaomi phones. Jeff Feng, co-founder of Sei, said in the announcement: "This cooperation with Xiaomi not only solves the problem of 'how to get users started', but also directly brings Web3 to the devices and life scenarios that users already use every day." Jay Jog, another co-founder, emphasized: "We are moving from a world of "you have to find encryption" to an era of "encryption comes to you."
