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What Monad has so far:
- High quality open-source C++/rust codebase with many HFT-style optimizations and architectural changes
- Public audits and clear docs that put the technology first. Transparency -- no hand-waving, no unsubstantiated claims
- High-performance system focused on true decentralization, running continuously in testnet with 186 globally distributed validators at 5000-10000 tps
- MonadBFT, a frontier consensus mechanism featuring 400ms block times, 800ms finality, large globally-distributed validator set, and tail-fork resistance
- Async Execution (while supporting EIP-7702 through the Reserve Balance mechanism)
- MonadDb for efficient merkle trie storage
- Native code compiler for frequently used contracts
- Interconnected community of smart, thoughtful crypto-natives who will grow in influence over the next few years
- Ecosystem of promising young startup founders, ready to take their shot
- Over $100m in ecosystem funding pre-mainnet
- Founder support through DeltaV, the Monad Founder Residency, Monad Madness, and more
- Monad Momentum, an incentives program focused on efficient UA and repeatable growth loops to help decentralized apps acquire normie users
- A north star of making open-source, decentralized systems more powerful
But there's still so much more to do. Are you excited?
Wow, here is a substantial advancement in theoretical consensus research from @komasito55 (of @category_xyz), @ElodinStorm and Ling Ren!
It resolves a long-standing open question and improves on the previous-best O(n^3) communication complexity of the Dolev-Strong algorithm published in 1983. The new algorithm is near-quadratic while tolerating any number of faulty participants below the total
Category Labs is making fundamental research progress as they continue to improve Monad through exceptional pragmatic algorithm engineering
Dolev–Strong is arguably the best-known consensus protocol, and for roughly 45 years, no deterministic protocol improved on its O(n³) communication.
A new paper by @komasito55, Yuval Efron and Ling Ren improves that bound to O(n² log⁴ n) for Byzantine Broadcast, tolerating t < n faults in O(t) rounds.
After thinking about the problem on and off for years, they started leveraging AI models. The paper is the result of a month of human experts digesting and simplifying the discourse with AI.
The result introduces some interesting new protocol techniques.
Dolev–Strong makes each newly convinced participant send its full evidence to everyone. In the expensive case, many participants send large, redundant sets of signatures.
The new protocol changes who does the work:
- A convinced participant announces acceptance with its own signature
- Unconvinced participants retrieve the missing evidence from multiple sources
- A procedure called Bisect assigns distinct missing signatures to sources, which limits duplicate data
- Ladder increases request sizes gradually. This limits how much communication a malicious source can waste
Commitments to sender lists, combined with graph-based checks, stop a malicious receiver from telling many sources that each must supply all the evidence.
The important difficulty is controlling costs when either side of the retrieval is malicious. The paper supplies a novel method that addresses both sides.
The cryptographic requirements are also relatively modest: signatures, a public-key infrastructure, and vector commitments that can use Merkle trees. The result does not require SNARKs or threshold signatures.
It's a major research result resolving a longstanding question in Byzantine broadcast. Super cool!
Dirol = Esports!
Introducing Dirol Esports, the first matchmaking platform for crypto trading.
Esports has been part of gaming for years, from CS to Dota and Fortnite. We believe traders are the new esports players.
Invite friends to your lobby, play trading matches, earn DRM, climb the leaderboard and prove your skill.
Preparatory work for post-quantum encrypted mempool. Not in the short path but an important building block for a bit later
Category Labs research, best in class
Check out Tree-BTE 🌳, our new tree-based approach to designing batched threshold encryption (BTE), the cryptographic tool for encrypted mempools.
Tree-BTE can be instantiated with different cryptographic hardness assumptions to yield different properties. For example, with a lattice-based hardness assumption, we get a post-quantum secure BTE scheme with >100x faster decryption than prior lattice-based schemes.
Instantiations based on other assumptions (such as DDH, DCR, LWR) are also possible. Check out our paper on eprint.
Ankr’s x402 era starts with Monad
You can pay for RPCs (from any chain) using x402 on Monad
Ankr's x402 era is officially LIVE, starting with @monad!
AI agents can now access Ankr infra and pay for it autonomously. ⚡
→ Pay per RPC request in USDC
→ No accounts, signups, or API keys
→ Autonomous access to blockchain data & agent tools
The agent economy just got a major upgrade.
Learn more 👇
ankr.com/blog/ankr-launches-…
infiniFi Prime is bringing diversified Private Credit to fintech earn accounts
It’s a really exciting collaboration between:
- @infiniFi productization
- @withAUSD stablecoins
- @FasanaraCapital yields
- @MidasRWA vaults
- @monad settlement
♾️
The next generation of Earn accounts is coming onchain.
infiniFi is partnering with @withAUSD & @FasanaraCapital to bring institutional-grade yield to neobanks and fintechs through infiniFi Prime, launching on @monad.
Three pieces of infrastructure.
One massive opportunity🧵
Keone Hon retweeted
farcaster changed hands twice in ten months. merkle to neynar, neynar to balaji's network school yesterday
it is now the Network State Protocol. accept a social smart contract, mint an nft, keep posting. decline and you are read only. ai enforced code of conduct, proof of personhood coming
my timeline is calling this censorship. that take is lazy and i think Balaji is justified
network school is a physical place. residents, families, kids. you cannot run a real community with a real address on an unmoderated feed full of bots and ragebait. the singapore style conduct code is downstream of the product he is actually building, not a growth hack. and an explicit constitution you sign is more honest than a 40 page tos nobody reads plus a moderation policy that changes quietly
if you want to live there, those are the house rules. fine. his house
the problem is the sentence everyone is repeating to make this okay: if you don't like it, take your stuff and leave
you can't
there is no second client with real users. people keep naming hypersnap, which is one niche app, not a market. and only your id and your keys are actually onchain. your posts, your follows, your history and your discovery live in off chain nodes that the new owner runs
so you can take your name and leave your life
that is what sufficiently decentralised means in practice. decentralised enough to say the word, not enough to use
here is the part that bothers me most.
Balaji's product is legitimate and he should never have had to buy the substrate to ship it. a family friendly, moderated, proof of personhood client is a great thing to build. it should be one client among many, sitting on a graph nobody owns, and the people who don't want those rules should keep every follower they have while scrolling somewhere else
>>> he had to acquire the protocol to run a client. that is the indictment
what it should look like
- graph fully onchain. wallet is your identity, no registry, no signup
- posts signed by you, stored outside any single app, anyone can index them
- feed and moderation are modules you choose and swap in one tap
- default client open source, forkable in under an hour
- nobody can sell it because nobody owns it
then you don't need a referendum. you need a market. balaji runs network school rules, someone runs something looser, same graph underneath, and leaving costs you nothing
>> acid test for any social protocol: can it be acquired
if yes it was a company with good branding
building this. thesis and group chat are open
TG t.me/+DnP-JtxPBt8zYTk1
Vision
deltav.monad.xyz/moonshots/o…
State of Onchain Social
- We got the first good attempt by Akhil. Identity to v0.1 of customisable feed
- @bensprks (who worked on Lens before) has joined the community
- TG group is not 56 members: t.me/+DnP-JtxPBt8zYTk1
- Balaji acquired Farcaster
- I could vibe code a graph on monad in one night to experiment. this is not hard anymore
With their Plume Vaults, @plumenetwork is bringing OnRe's ONyc to Monad as nONYC.
RWA distribution is a key pain point and it's been inspiring to see the Plume team tackling this head on. LFG!
ONyc is coming to @Monad through nONYC.
Built by @onrefinance, ONyc gives onchain exposure to reinsurance-backed yield, with returns generated from underwriting premiums and collateral rather than crypto-native incentives.
Until now, ONyc has been available only on Solana. nONYC packages the asset through Plume Vaults, making it deployable across supported EVM networks and opening access to new sources of capital and liquidity.
With more than $225M deployed across Solana DeFi, ONyc has already established itself as a significant RWA onchain.
Now, it’s moving beyond its original ecosystem.
This is what RWA distribution looks like: taking institutional assets that already exist and making them accessible across the networks where capital is already moving.
Swarm Inference 🤖
Introducing Fortytwo Engine
An inference API that runs open-weight models through Swarm Inference
• 7% higher scores on average vs. the base model
• Nearly 25% fewer tokens per task
• Same per-token price and speed
• Private by default
First model: Qwen3.8-27B
Try it: engine.fortytwo.network
Shoutout @LlamaRisk for great analysis and automation in support of @aave Monad. PT-AUSD-17DEC2026 now live
Risk management at scale
PT-AUSD-17DEC2026 on @Aave V3 @Monad is live with dynamic risk parameter updates, enabling a market priced to @Pendle_fi’s implied rates.
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Agents will increasingly drive financial decisions. Build for agents!
Ember Protocol and ETPLUS, a short-duration private credit strategy, are also live today on Monad!
Tokenization, on Monad
Introducing ETPLUS, Ember Treasury Plus, now live on Ember as our first vault launch on @monad.
ETPLUS provides onchain access to TPLUS, a short-duration private credit strategy backed by Epoch Digital.
The strategy allocates across bank payment receivables, payment processing receivables, and insured trade receivables, backed by contractual cash flows with insurance, over-collateralisation, or other credit enhancement.
The underlying TPLUS fund is structured through a CIMA-regulated Cayman SPC, with independent administration by Ascent, audit by Forvis Mazars, custody with Anchorage Digital, and onchain proof of reserves and daily NAV feeds via Chainlink.
Explore ETPLUS: ember.so/earn/eTPLUS
Private credit involves risks, including credit, liquidity, and loss of principal risk. Eligibility restrictions apply.
OnRe's ONyc, previously only on Solana, is coming to Monad! ONyc is a tokenized reinsurance yield token with a current AUM of about $200M
This deployment adds to the effort to make Monad the best network for the widest range of opportunities for everyone
ONyc is coming to @monad 🟣
Built by @onrefinance, ONyc gives onchain exposure to reinsurance-backed yield. Returns come from underwriting premiums and collateral, not crypto-native incentives.
Until now it's only been on @Solana. nONYC packages it through @plumenetwork Vaults, so it can be used across EVM networks.
