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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?
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.
Super cool! @TACEO_IO built a prototype of Merces, their privacy layer for onchain finance, as a Monad Private Settlement Domain (PSD). Deposits, private transfers, and withdrawals already work end to end
This shows the power of the PSD framework
Developers, please use ultrafuzz from @aviggiano to improve your smart contract security!
monad.xyz/blog/open-sourcing…
Security incidents in crypto will continue until everything is hardened
Privacy is eroded in a variety of places. Here is an important one: currently, third-party RPC providers can see what accounts you are reading, and what transactions you are simulating before you send them.
Perhaps most significantly, if your browser wallet has multiple accounts, the provider can group them together by seeing which accounts are queried from the same IP address at the same time.
@category_xyz researchers have addressed this with WP-ORAM (write-public ORAM), a new means of making servers oblivious to what data is being read, while keeping writes (and the actual state) public. The paper includes both a proposal and a real, pragmatic implementation that can keep up with Monad.
Practical innovation to solve real privacy problems. Great job @AnanyaAppan James Austgen @KushalBabel @sourav1547 !
Today, @category_xyz is sharing the full whitepaper for Monad Private Settlement Domains (MPSDs)
Quick summary:
* transactions encrypted for the domain, ordered by Monad
* operators execute in Monad’s order; no separate domain consensus
* operators submit attestations and state commitments to Monad
* contracts exchange asynchronous messages across private domains and with public Monad
* contract access rules written in Solidity
MPSDs position Monad for a future where institutions move more of their financial operations onchain. Those institutions will need privacy and control, alongside access to shared liquidity and other applications.
The design puts Monad at the center of that activity. Institutions run their applications privately while using the public network for transaction ordering and settlement.
We are building for where institutional demand is heading, so Monad can support that growth while delivering the best of all worlds between privacy, compliance, and composability.
Whitepaper link in the next tweet
Last month, we introduced Monad Private Settlement. Today, we're publishing the technical white paper.
It details private execution domains, shared sequencing on Monad, cross-domain messaging, and configurable access controls.
Read the research: category.xyz/mpsd-whitepaper
.@HarryAlford3 calling his shot right now - onchain business banking will be one of the big narratives of 2027
Keone Hon retweeted
Cadence looking pretty good here 👀 (comparison of MCP protocols, eprint.iacr.org/2026/2684.pd…)
Quantum Cadence is a step forward for consensus, delivering the properties that we think blockchains really need: quantum-security, extreme pipelining, and censorship-resistance.
We've published a primer, starting with the fundamentals:
monad.xyz/blog/quantum-caden…
Smart contract developers, please run Ultrafuzz on your contracts!! It's open source and available to anyone, consolidating many years of learnings from @aviggiano
github.com/monad-developers/…
If you run into any issues, Antonio is eager for feedback, DM him
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…
The best entrepreneur of the next decade is out there somewhere raising at a sub-$10m valuation and struggling to get it, building in crypto which investors aren't thinking about.
That's just how it works.
Keone Hon retweeted
We are organising the 1st Workshop on Multiple Concurrent Proposers (MCP), which will be co-located with FC’27. It takes place on February 12, 2027 in Barbados.
We are accepting archival paper submissions and non-archival talk submissions. Submit your work by Nov 24 AoE!
More details: fc27.ifca.ai/mcp/
correct
Addiction to signals creates Burj Khalifas
since we got ‘retail’ to participate in various ways, they have no way of knowing what to bet on (with their time and money)
so they look for signals like: a bug VC or a chain tweeting about a product or a KOL
this pumps resources into wrong projects. and it also encourages founders (many times good founders) to bait CT
this creates burj khalifas of attention and token charts alike
Monad will win if we solve this alone
how?
by NOT paying attention/$ to projects unless they show the only unfakeable signals: Shipping and Retention
only then you support a project
that motivates founders to think about their ICP, a Delta 4 product, and a core loop that keeps users coming back
Quantum-Resistance is hard because PQ signatures are much larger (25x larger) and quorum certificates on PQ signatures are much much larger (2500x larger)
So, @category_xyz solved this problem with Quantum Cadence, a new version of Cadence that eliminates quorum certificates altogether. The new protocol actually scales better with more proposers.
Incredibly exciting developments in the Monad world. Monad will simply run faster as quantum takes center stage
Today we are releasing Quantum Cadence, a post-quantum version of Cadence, our consensus protocol with multiple concurrent proposers. Quantum Cadence uses no quorum certificates, and its safety and liveness do not depend on signatures.
Most modern consensus protocols, Cadence included, rely heavily on signatures and quorum certificates, which a large-scale quantum computer could forge. Simply replacing today's signatures with post-quantum ones would make certificates too large for every validator to send around in a high-performance blockchain. Quantum Cadence instead draws on Forget-IT, a recent signature-free consensus protocol co-developed by researchers at Category Labs.
Quantum Cadence still keeps the overall architecture and core guarantees of Cadence, so our Cadence prototype was easy to carry over: an AI was able to adapt it to Quantum Cadence in a few hours, and an early prototype now runs on an internal test network.
We designed Quantum Cadence to be practical for a high-performance blockchain. In our simulations, its latency is similar to Cadence's, and it scales better with the number of proposers.
Interactive explainer: category.xyz/quantum-cadence.
Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2610.32803.
Joint work by @MohammadMJalal1, @TobiasKlenze, and @komasito55
Congrats @userocket_app on the launch of beta!
I must hit a 71.30x
