SEI's move really caught everyone off guard—directly engaging in deep integration with Xiaomi.

Initially, it was suspected to be just a pilot test in a certain overseas market, but unexpectedly, they are pursuing a global strategy. Through pre-installation, smartphone users can access encrypted payment features based on the SEI network right after turning on their phones. What does this mean? Xiaomi currently holds 13% of the global mobile phone market share, with 170 million new users each year, and the existing user base exceeds 600 million.

In other words, this is not a small-scale technical demo; rather, it brings cryptocurrency payments directly into the daily scenarios of hundreds of millions of users. Traditional hardware giants are starting to embed Web3 capabilities as standard features, and this signals something worth paying attention to.