IT guy / Investor / NFT and Art collector nad-OG @monad
Joined April 2021
- Tweets4.4K
- Following2.2K
- Followers4.6K
- Likes7.4K
LastExam retweeted
i wouldn’t really call myself part of the monad community anymore
monad was the first and very possibly the last time i genuinely got involved in a crypto community beyond just hanging out in discord and shitposting. i spent nearly three years building, working, making friends, and dedicating a ridiculous amount of my time and energy to something i believed in
then tge happened, and a surprising number of people i considered friends, including some of my closest friends both on and offchain, pretty much disappeared overnight
after spending years building those relationships, i had absolutely no interest in going through the same bullshit again with a whole new group of people
so i stopped showing up. simple as that
what hasn’t changed is the reason i stuck around for all those years in the first place. i believed monad had the potential to become an indispensable part of crypto back then, and i still believe that today
would i have liked to take a lot more profit than i did? absolutely. but the price action hasn’t changed a single thing about why i got involved with monad the way i did
i might have lost interest in the social side of things, but i’ve never lost conviction in what they are building
and i genuinely believe that if something like monad fails, then the rest of crypto is pretty much fucked. because at that point, i don’t know what else this industry is supposed to be waiting for
LastExam retweeted
In this age of AI-empowered attackers, the only way forward for our industry is to continue hardening. Security should be every team's top focus.
The Monad Foundation invests heavily in security and is sharing the following resources to the community:
Everyone:
- The Crypto OpSec Bible: monad.xyz/blog/crypto-opsec-…
Smart contract developers:
- Importance of not relying on EOAs for admin roles: monad.xyz/blog/say-no-way-to…
- Importance of only signing admin functions on a dedicated laptop: monad.xyz/blog/monad-foundat…
Hardening code with Ultrafuzz, our open source tool for agentic fuzzing and threat hunting:
- Codebase: github.com/monad-developers/…
- Overview: monad.xyz/blog/ultrafuzz
- monad.xyz/blog/open-sourcing…
Learnings from the field on threat hunting with LLMs:
- monad.xyz/blog/writing-secur…
- monad.xyz/blog/evaluating-my…
Learnings from securing code with Formal Verification:
- category.xyz/blogs/finding-b…
- category-labs.github.io/cate…
LastExam retweeted
Here's how to turn an iPhone into the most secure crypto wallet. 10 steps:
1. Buy the cheapest new iPhone (17e, $699 in the US). Never used.
2. New Apple ID, fresh email, unique password
3. Face ID off. Custom alphanumeric passcode, 12+ characters
4. Lockdown Mode on
5. Erase data after 10 failed passcode attempts: on
6. iCloud backup off, before you install anything
7. Install the wallet from its official site and check the publisher
8. Generate a new address. Write the seed phrase on paper or steel. Never photograph it
9. Send a small test amount first, then move everything
10. Airplane mode, no SIM, no Wi-Fi ever again. Phone in a safe, seed in a different place
Skip step 6 or step 8 and the whole setup falls apart.
LastExam retweeted
Most of what a bank, fund or corporate treasury does has to stay confidential: client flows, payroll, supplier payments, trading positions.
For institutions exploring public blockchains, that can create a trade-off between keeping sensitive activity confidential and accessing the liquidity and connectivity of an open market.
Category Labs is developing Private Settlement on Monad, designed to give institutions confidential execution on a high-performance, EVM-compatible L1 without leaving its liquidity.
→ Transactions stay encrypted and confidential from intent to settlement
→ Each business configure its own domain(s): validators, trust model and access rules
→ Confidentiality stays accountable: auditors and regulators can be granted scoped access
→ Private activity is designed to stay connected to the Monad network's pooled liquidity
If your team has payments, treasury or trading workflows, the Private Settlement design is worth a close look
LastExam retweeted
Today we are announcing Monad Private Settlement, which gives banks and enterprises the best of both worlds: sovereign execution environments with privacy and compliance by default, which benefit from the composability and performance of Monad
Monad Private Settlement enables an onchain financial ecosystem where enterprises can run entire business processes onchain and interact with each other on the open Monad network.
Read the design specifications here: category.xyz/monad-private-s…
LastExam retweeted
September was another big month for Monad
Privacy is coming to Monad 👀
Roadmap for a quantum-resistant future released
A proposal to deploy Aave V4 on Monad went live
Ornn building compute markets on Monad
Huge list of speakers for Monad Open Summit revealed
Crystal brings a fully onchain orderbook and launchpad to Monad
Dirol Social - a social trading app built on Monad
Moose, the first fully onchain aggregator, is live on Monad
StraitsX announced as a title sponsor for Open Summit
o1 exchange brings its entire exchange stack to Monad - terminal, aggregation, and launchpad
Monad DeFi TVL crossed $1 billion
1inch joins the Monad ecosystem, live now
Monad is live on Glider
Record high for spot volume on Monad
Monad API Hub introduced, pay-per-request with USDC on Monad
OpenReserve has received preliminary conditional approval from the OCC to form a blockchain-native bank, part of the Monad ecosystem
Monad has been added to the Visa Onchain Analytics Dashboard
the Y10k AUSD Vault is live on Monad, using Morpho infrastructure
Yields on Monad, now accessible via the Yield API by Yield xyz
TACEO Merces is live on Monad mainnet
Pods now enables Pix to Monad, connecting Brazil’s most widely used instant payment rail directly to Monad
Euler markets on Monad have crossed $400M TVL
Rally is coming to Monad
earnAUSD now on Jumper Exchange
Monid AI is live, pay per call with USDC on Monad
REVERSE is bringing Japanese TCGs to Monad
Oripa cards is live on Monad
Ryllo, cricket on the blockchain, only on Monad
Ad spaces on the internet, paid for by agents on Monad with Frontpage
also
Monad launched the Metropolis global hackathon with over $250K in prizes for builders
Metropolis live events in Buenos Aires, New York, San Francisco, Shenzhen, London and more
Monad docs are now available in Chinese
and of course, even more announcements and updates from ecosystem projects shipping every week
