PANews reported on January 21 that, according to Cointelegraph , Bhutan's sovereign wealth fund , Drug Holding and Investments ( DHI ), will partner with the Sei Development Foundation in the first quarter of this year to deploy and operate Sei Network validator nodes as part of its digital transformation. A DHI representative stated that the two parties may further collaborate in areas such as payments, tokenization, and digital identity. The report notes that Bhutan has already provided approximately 800,000 residents with an Ethereum-based self-identity system and accumulated approximately 11,286 BTC through Bitcoin mining for national projects including the Gelephu Mindfulness City.