JericD ⁒ retweeted
At the beginnings of a movement, to outsiders, the odds seem impossibly long. How could a tiny thing change the world? The believers, what idiots they are. How embarrassing, to believe something might matter.
To the believers, the signals are there. In hindsight, those signals become obvious. But in the moment, it is not easy to drown out the wisdom of the crowd. Good luck.
JericD ⁒ retweeted
chogathon
chogOS is an AI-governed civilization on Monad. Its AI records decisions on growth, infrastructure, governance, and economics. SHA-256 hashes verify event-data integrity; confirmed transactions link to Monadscan. Explore citizens, economy, and history without a wallet
JericD ⁒ retweeted
— 1hr in 15% of max raise achieved.
wallets are still being added and processed from raffles, public form and collabs (this will run simultaneously for 48 hours)
be rest assured.
I’m equally still clearing out 100s of DMs across X and Tg and haven’t closed my eyes or taken a break at all…
Raise is live: daos.world/launch/paperdao
More flexible system this time, deposits will take place over next 1-2 days.
Thank you for the overwhelming number of applications (over 10k on the form). More still remain to be processed !
JericD ⁒ retweeted
GIVING AWAY 3 GTD FOR @paperdao_xyz launching in @daosdotworld 🥳
To join:
1. Follow @jayjaynft4 & @paperdao_xyz
2. Like and RT this tweet
3. Tag 3 friends and Drop your EVM wallet!
This will launch on Robinhood. I am bullish on this DAO. Bullish on $PULP
Winners will be drawn in 24 hours via Twitter Picker
JericD ⁒ retweeted
Giving away 3 GTD spots for @paperdao_xyz on @daosdotworld
Been keeping an eye on this DAO and I’m pretty bullish on what @paperdao_xyz is building, especially with $PULP
How to enter:
Follow @paperdao_xyz
Follow @AlphaIntelMedia
Follow @ZygfridS
Like & RT this post
Tag 3 friends
Drop your EVM wallet below
PaperDAO is launching on Robinhood, so definitely one I’ll be watching closely
Winners picked in 24H via Twitter Picker
good luck 🤝
JericD ⁒ retweeted
BIG BUY ALERT
biggest single transaction this week on exsaverse. @dollclubnft , 26 WLs (FCFS) for $550
FCFS opens at 5.30 AM UTC.
somebody loaded up ahead of FCFS. will you?
JericD ⁒ retweeted
KURU AGENT ARENA FINALS ARE LIVE
Roughly two weeks ago we invited every Monad Card holder into our first ever agent trading tournament, for free. Bots battling live on-chain, on our order book. Fighting for a $100,000 prize, split among the final eight.
We wanted to light a fire back into this community, a homage to the ones who came early. Early to Monad. Early to us.
Was it perfect? No. We missed the mark in many places. Some of you felt slighted. Some of you felt it wasn't fair. We heard every word of it, and where we could, we made it right.
We tried some something new. We learned. We had fun. We cried a little.
But if this experience proved anything beyond doubt, it's that the Monad community is here. Louder, smarter, and more unshakeable than ever, and you will always stand for fairness, for justice, and for each other.
Every one of us leaves this campaign with growth. A few of you are leaving it richer.
and we hope you return to our order book and for the next campaign.
To our top 8, congratulations on your prizes:
5th: @xCashich
6th: @balerion2025
7th: @ericonomic
8th: @forretevm
You all take home $2,500.
3rd: @FaizenSosuke
4th: @jumplifey9
You both take home $7,500.
And to the last two standing, @0xCal1 and @Jiraiyyya, one of you walks away winner, $50,000 richer. The other, runner-up, $25,000 richer.
Whatever happens next, that's a W for you both.
May the best agent win.
JericD ⁒ retweeted
for monad to have motion, it needs to embrace memes the same way it embraces DeFi.
we’ve got several great dapps, and i’m sure they’re driving activity and keeping people busy, but we still lack volume and liquidity. BUT most importantly, we lack excitement and fun.
the blueprint is clear: embrace memes as part of the chain.
base:
> immediately adopted the meme culture. jesse got into the trenches, started tweeting about them, and causes an alt szn on base.
solana:
> memes literally revived the chain.
robinhood:
> it gained relevance because of memes. when vlad only shilled RWA, the chain was bleeding. then he rotated back to memes.
stable:
> “wow, we suddenly got users even though we were focused on institutions.”
monad:
> you already have a great meme culture. all you need to do is pull the trigger so the chain becomes appealing to crypto’s largest user base: the trenchers.
things could get really funny on monad.
thank you for reading my ted talk. RT for exposure.
JericD ⁒ retweeted
Look what I found! This is a browser game @MonExMonad on @monad that combines X and AI
developed by @jericddd Batteles between monanimals
How it works
1. reply "catch" on this post or any post with mentioned MonEx and cath command
2. AI will respond to you with results
3. Then go to monexmonad.xyz/ and claim your catch monanimals with their rarity and skills. Them you can see at home page on the log. Also there on site you can see guide how to play
4. Log in with your X profile
5. Dont forget daily check-in for Monballs
6. Put on "Game Start" and have fun with your monanimals 🔥
JericD ⁒ retweeted
what’s your favorite project in the ecosystem so far?
Phase 3 is open for applications — see the builder list + how to apply in the link below.👇
opinionlabs.notion.site/2e1b…
JericD ⁒ retweeted
Vitalik's walkaway test is a wishlist for future-proofing Ethereum. This is a great scorecard; some features are live on Monad already, while others will require more development.
Vitalik's list:
1. Full quantum resistance
2. Many thousands of TPS
3. A state architecture that can last decades
4. Full account abstraction (a move away from enshrined ECDSA for signature verification)
5. A gas schedule free of DoS vulnerabilities
6. A PoS economic model that will work for decades, and that doesn't penalize unstaked ETH so much that people won't want to use it for collateral
7. A decentralized block-building model
Ready in Monad already:
2. Many thousands of TPS - implemented directly
3. A state architecture that can last decades - significant progress - Monad's database design allows scaling via SSD as opposed to scaling with RAM. This is orders of magnitude cheaper, and makes Monad unironically scale to billions of accounts. Still need to implement rationalization of storage charges
Partial progress:
5. Gas schedule free of DoS vulnerabilities - some changes implemented in Monad already - in particular, 6 precompiles have been repriced, and cold reads are repriced. Future improvements are planned to further rationalize hot vs cold slot access
6. A future-proofed PoS economic model - it's fair to say that increasing issuance with the square root of amount staked (what ETH does) was overoptimizing for defending against "discouragement attacks". Reducing issuance to the Minimum Viable Issuance (MVI) level is crucial to making ETH (rather than stETH) a good choice of collateral. As a new network, Monad's issuance policies are still nascent, but it is starting at a lower point than almost all networks (2% of total supply on Day 1)
Lots more work needed:
1. Full quantum-resistance
4. Full account abstraction - somewhat relatedly, Monad has already addressed making EIP-7702 compatible with async execution, but moving to full AA is a different beast
7. Decentralized block building - super important!
Bonus:
It would be hard for a system to stand the test of time without these features:
- Sub-second finality - implemented
- Async execution - implemented
- Replacement for libp2p / gossip-based message propagation - Monad's solution: RaptorCast
Let's check back on this in a few months!
Ethereum itself must pass the walkaway test.
Ethereum is meant to be a home for trustless and trust-minimized applications, whether in finance, governance or elsewhere. It must support applications that are more like tools - the hammer that once you buy it's yours - than like services that lose all functionality once the vendor loses interest in maintaining them (or worse, gets hacked or becomes value-extractive). Even when applications do have functionality that depends on a vendor, Ethereum can help reduce those dependencies as much as possible, and protect the user as much as possible in those cases where the dependencies fail.
But building such applications is not possible on a base layer which itself depends on ongoing updates from a vendor in order to continue being usable - even if that "vendor" is the all core devs process. Ethereum the blockchain must have the traits that we strive for in Ethereum's applications. Hence, Ethereum itself must pass the walkaway test.
This means that Ethereum must get to a place where we _can ossify if we want to_. We do not have to stop making changes to the protocol, but we must get to a place where Ethereum's value proposition does not strictly depend on any features that are not in the protocol already.
This includes the following:
* Full quantum-resistance. We should resist the trap of saying "let's delay quantum-resistance until the last possible moment in the name of ekeing out more efficiencies for a while longer". Individual users have that right, but the protocol should not. Being able to say "Ethereum's protocol, as it stands today, is cryptographically safe for a hundred years" is something we should strive to get to as soon as possible, and insist on as a point of pride.
* An architecture that can expand to sufficient scalability. The protocol needs to have the properties that allow it to expand to many thousands of TPS over time, most notably ZK-EVM validation and data sampling through PeerDAS. Ideally, we get to a point where further scaling is done through "parameter only" changes - and ideally _those_ changes are not BPO-style forks, but rather are made with the same validator voting mechanism we use for the gas limit.
* A state architecture that can last decades. This means deciding, and implementing, whatever form of partial statelessness and state expiry will let us feel comfortable letting Ethereum run with thousands of TPS for decades, without breaking sync or hard disk or I/O requirements. It also means future-proofing the tree and storage types to work well with this long-term environment.
* An account model that is general-purpose (this is "full account abstraction": move away from enshrined ECDSA for signature validation)
* A gas schedule that we are confident is free of DoS vulnerabilities, both for execution and for ZK-proving
* A PoS economic model that, with all we have learned over the past half decade of proof of stake in Ethereum and full decade beyond, we are confident can last and remain decentralized for decades, and supports the usefulness of ETH as trustless collateral (eg. in governance-minimized ETH-backed stablecoins)
* A block building model that we are confident will resist centralization pressure and guarantee censorship resistance even in unknown future environments
Ideally, we do the hard work over the next few years, to get to a point where in the future almost all future innovation can happen through client optimization, and get reflected in the protocol through parameter changes. Every year, we should tick off at least one of these boxes, and ideally multiple. Do the right thing once, based on knowledge of what is truly the right thing (and not compromise halfway fixes), and maximize Ethereum's technological and social robustness for the long term.
Ethereum goes hard.
This is the gwei.
JericD ⁒ retweeted
Final window of 2025.
Most outcomes look settled.
Any outcomes could still flip when no one’s paying attention?👀
Trade now: app.opinion.trade
JericD ⁒ retweeted
MITM: prediction markets??? Giving away MON with @TrendleFi @hyperstiti0ns xitter.gq/i/broadcasts/1YqxolrqY…
JericD ⁒ retweeted
Hey Maher, great questions!
1. Validator Rewards
The foundation is currently delegating 12.5B MON (we previously communicated an expected delegation from MF of 15B-25B in the first year, so we're a little low, but close). This is to support an appropriate level of economic security, given that investor/team tokens can't stake.
You are correct that rewards from this go back to the Ecosystem Development portion of tokens.
A related question you might ask is - what's the purpose of the EcoDev tokens. These tokens will be used to grow the Monad ecosystem over many years. It is the Monad Foundation's job to steward these resources well, and to not overspend tokens.
2 and 3 - Monad Momentum
Monad Momentum is an iterative effort focused on user acquisition (UA). The first iteration covers the first month only.
By making the iterations short and frequent, the MF gets to see how efficiently teams use the incentives to acquire new users. We also create an incentive for every team (whether selected or not in wave 1) to experiment and improve their UA strategy since there will be many more waves.
For the first wave, our team evaluated how compelling each team's initial pitch was for acquiring new users. That might be one reason why some of the selections don't square with your own beliefs - because we asked "if you had X to spend, what is your best strategy for using that to acquire users"; some teams came up with reasonable-sounding ideas, and we said "ok prove it". In wave 2, the results of that will be evaluated (for every team that received incentives in wave 1), and everyone will refine their proposals.
There are a lot of imperfections in the process. We had to finalize selections for wave 1 a few weeks before mainnet. Some teams showed us demos that were going to improve; other teams shifted their timelines since then. And of course every selection process is imperfect. That's another reason for short periods, so that we can keep iterating and improving.
And even if we did have perfect insight, the ecosystem is still very new. Every Monad-native team literally took in their first dollar of TVL and earned their first dollar of revenue in the past two weeks. There are a ton of kinks to be worked out; no team should take on too much TVL right now. So all incentives have been relatively measured in nature.
I appreciate you sharing your feedback about what you like and don't like about each app. It's extremely helpful for every builder who is trying to improve as quickly as possible.