The Monad Movement: Keone's Journey from HFT Systems to EVM Scalability

We chat with Keone, Co-Founder & CEO of Monad.xyz, about his background in building high-performance systems for Jump Trading’s high-frequency trading and crypto divisions. We unpack how Keone is leveraging his expertise to scale the EVM. Traditionally, most approaches to scaling blockchains, such as Solana, Sui, Aptos, Sei, etc, choose to eschew the EVM in favor of maximizing performance. Keone believes that maintaining compatibility with existing EVM tooling and infra is key to long-term success. We talk about his vision for scaling the EVM to 10k TPS, the challenges of launching an L1 ecosystem, what consumer adoption looks like, and a litany of design considerations throughout this discussion. (0:52) - Monad’s vision (3:54) - Why not build out an L2? (9:56) - Parallelizing the EVM (17:19) - Hardware requirements (22:02) - Future of DEX trading (32:32) - Exciting areas of crypto (36:29) - Responding to criticism (40:13) - Where does Monad fit within Ethereum (42:21) - Horizontal scaling future for Monad (44:37) - Integration with Solana (45:44) - Benefits of single slot finality (49:00) - Go-To-Market strategy (52:36) - Privacy on blockchains -    - Podcast Resources Follow Sal: https://twitter.com/sal_coin Follow Dave: https://twitter.com/SolBeachBum Follow Unlayered: https://twitter.com/UnlayeredPod Subscribe on Apple: http://apple.co/3VyBSWI Subscribe on Spotify: http://spoti.fi/42q03J2 Subscribe on Google: https://tinyurl.com/5dwn2476 -    - Episode Resources Follow Keone: https://twitter.com/KeoneHD Follow Monad: https://twitter.com/Monad_xyz Galaxy Website: https://Monad.xyz