The status quo for developers choosing an ecosystem for their blockchain usually revolves around trade-offs: do they go for Ethereum’s network effect, liquidity and decentralisation, or sacrifice some features in favour of a higher throughput. Monad aims to combine the best of both worlds, while not being limited by excessive hardware requirements. Monad built an EVM-compatible L1 from the ground up, completely rethinking execution and consensus, in order to achieve the infamous 10,000 TPS. This extreme scalability is made possible through Monad’s optimistic parallel execution which is asynchronous from consensus. The latter has also been optimized in order to achieve single-slot finality. Monad’s proprietary database architecture allows for states to be stored on SSDs instead of RAM, which ensures that consumer-grade hardware can run a Monad node, further increasing decentralisation.

Topics covered in this episode:

Keone’s background
TradFi vs. DeFi and how Monad was founded
EVM’s network effect vs. other VMs
How Monad aims to improve EVM’s performance
MonadDB
MonadBFT - New consensus mechanism
Asynchronous execution
MEV and proposer-builder separation (PBS)
Monad’s throughput
Further scaling and limitations
Alternatives & trade-offs
DevEx
Community & ecosystem development

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This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain.

Monad: The EVM-Compatible 10,000 TPS L1 Blockchain - Keone Hon

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