Ship your own
EVM chain.

Deploy EVM smart contracts on a chain you own. Walrus handles data availability, Sui handles settlement, and throughput stays predictable.

sequencer Live
build p2p walrus sui
production sub-second
finalization walrus → sui

Production runs concurrently with finalization. Block time is never gated by DA latency.

The stack

Four layers. One chain.

Podseq as sequencer, EVM execution on Reth, data availability on Walrus, settlement on Sui. Because Walrus blobs are Sui objects, there's no trust hop between DA and settlement.

Podseq
Sequencing

Orders transactions and produces blocks. The core of the network.

EVM
Execution

Reth under the hood. Deploy any Solidity contract, unchanged.

Walrus
Availability

Erasure-coded, BFT. Blobs verifiable directly on Sui.

Sui
Settlement

Every block anchored on Sui L1. No separate trust assumption.

Why podseq

Done with shared infrastructure.

Six reasons teams run their own chain instead of renting space on someone else's.

01

Dedicated throughput, zero contention

Your chain runs on your infrastructure. No shared blockspace, no noisy neighbors.

02

Block time never waits on DA

Production and finalization run concurrently. Block time stays sub-second while the finalizer posts to Walrus and settles on Sui in the background.

03

Verifiable by anyone

Full nodes reconstruct and audit the entire chain from DA and settlement alone. No trusted sequencer.

04

EVM native. Sui anchored.

Deploy standard EVM smart contracts with the tooling you already use. Every block settles on Sui with Walrus availability.

05

Enshrined Sui bridge

Native asset bridge between your chain and Sui. Move tokens in and out of Sui DeFi without third-party bridges.

06

Capture every fee

Own the economics end to end. Transaction fees stay on your chain instead of going to a shared sequencer or an L1.

When to run your own chain

Three signals it's time.

Not every project needs dedicated infrastructure. These are the cases where it pays for itself.

1. Extend

Bring EVM to Sui

Run EVM smart contracts that settle on Sui, with Walrus for data availability. Your existing contracts deploy unchanged.

2. Connect

Tap into Sui DeFi

Your users keep the EVM tooling they know, and get access to Sui liquidity and DeFi protocols.

3. Comply

Auditable, policy-ready chains

Deterministic EVM execution with verifiable commitments on Sui. Built for payments and regulated workloads that need an audit trail.

How it works

From zero to a verified chain.

Three steps.

Full data flow
1

Configure

Create settlement and block keys, write a minimal TOML config, and start the sequencer. Defaults cover everything but the Reth endpoint.

2

Run the sequencer

Start the Podseq and Reth binaries. They communicate over the Engine API to build blocks and gossip soft confirmations over P2P.

3

Settle on Sui

Each block posts to Walrus and its blob ID anchors on Sui. Full nodes verify the entire chain from those two sources alone.

Architecture

Built to be verified.

Ordering, execution, availability, and settlement are separate. Each lives in its own crate and talks to the others through zero-dependency traits in podseq-core. Any full node can re-derive and audit the entire chain from public data alone.

tx Clients wallets · rpc · indexers
8551 Reth Engine API · EVM state
core Podseq order · build · finalize
blob Walrus erasure-coded DA
L1 Sui settlement · attest

The sequencer broadcasts soft confirmations over P2P for sub-second latency. The finalizer posts each block to Walrus and anchors the blob ID on Sui. Full nodes reconstruct the chain from DA + settlement alone. No sequencer trust required.

Quick start

A running node in four commands.

Create your keys, write a minimal config, and start. Everything else defaults to testnet.

Full setup guide
# shared 32-byte secret for Reth + podseq
head -c 32 /dev/urandom | od -A n -t x1 | tr -d ' \n' > jwt.hex

# reth
reth node --authrpc.jwtsecret jwt.hex

# both sides must use the same jwt.hex
FAQ

Questions teams ask before committing.

A single sequencer you operate gives sub-second block times, predictable fees, and control over ordering. Since DA and settlement both live on Sui, every block is still independently verifiable. For most teams this is the right trade: simplicity and speed over decentralized sequencing.

Still have questions? Read the full documentation

// Ready to deploy

Your EVM chain,
on your terms.

Walrus for data availability, Sui for settlement. Every block is independently verifiable. No shared infrastructure, no per-transaction fees to a third party.

Need a custom chain? Let's talk.