News
Curated articles, my blog posts, and site announcements.
Curated articles, my blog posts, and site announcements.
Monad joined the Open Transaction Layer, an open protocol stack building the coordination layer for compliant onchain transactions.
Monad shared lessons from a month operating an internal AI-driven vulnerability discovery and triage system on the Monad blockchain.
Monad Foundation built and ran Monad Bugfinder, an internal AI-assisted vulnerability discovery and triage system targeting the C++ execution client and Rust consensus client, hitting a ~100:10:1 lead → confirmed-issue → reported-finding funnel at ~$100 per confirmed issue. Architecture splits a finder agent from a triager that validates with witness ladders and strict gates (e.g. mock-swarm / monad-solonet reproductions for consensus-class bugs), coordinated via a shared relational database.
MON trading became available on OnePay, expanding consumer access to the Monad token.
Category Labs researchers received an SBC Distinguished Paper Award for their work on private mempools.
Category Labs proposed Deterministic RaptorCast, allowing validators to vote after verifying a single chunk against the leader's commitment and removing full-block decoding from the consensus critical path.
Monad v0.14.3 shipped to mainnet, the first version requiring nodes to use Authenticated UDP.
The FalconX Credit Vault on Pareto Credit became available on Monad, with AA_FalconXUSDC usable as collateral on the Morpho-Steakhouse market to borrow USDC.
Rain enabled card-issuing on Monad so users can spend stablecoins directly from Monad anywhere Visa is accepted across 150+ countries.
Valos built an institutional credit vault on Monad with Accountable's verification layer and Agora's AUSD, surpassing $110M TVL by late April.
Category Labs drafted a proposal that makes EVM state storage aware of SSD 4 kb page-unit reads, sharply reducing access costs for contiguous storage slots.
Monad released v0.14.2 to mainnet with various MonadDb performance improvements including compaction routines.
Centrifuge launched tokenized Treasury bills (JTRSY), AAA CLOs (JAAA) from Janus Henderson, and Apollo's diversified credit strategy (ACRDX) on Monad with freely transferable deRWA wrappers.
Revolut listed MON for trading, opening retail access to the Monad token.
BuildAnything launched as a platform powered by Monad that takes users from vibe coding to production-ready apps.
Category Labs published BTX, the first practical Batched Threshold Encryption scheme suitable for encrypted mempools, posted to IACR ePrint.
cbBTC surpassed $20M TVL on Monad across lending, DEX, and structured products within weeks of launching via Chainlink CCIP in March 2026.
Monad Foundation announced subsidies for dedicated signing laptops for multisig, treasury, and other critical operations to all protocol teams with at least $2.5M of TVL on Monad.
Etherfuse and Shinhan Securities issued KTB on Monad, a yield-bearing Stablebond representing Korean Treasury Bonds with 24/7 access and rapid settlement.