Most people underestimate how critical this really is.

On $SEI, the low transaction fees you see aren't because the network is underused—that's the real misconception. It's the opposite. Fees stay compact because of how the chain actually executes transactions. Parallelized execution lets multiple operations run simultaneously rather than queuing up. You get fast finality, meaning confirmations happen quickly and predictably. And block space? It's predictable, not volatile.

This combination matters hugely for payments. When you've got compressed fees baked into the architecture itself, not just lucky timing, throughput can scale without fees spiking. That's the infrastructure you actually want.