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> be Keone / James
> run Jump HFT team for 8 years
> build the fastest trading system on earth
> pivot to Jump Crypto in 2021
> dive deep into Solana, Ethereum, architecture
> most chains are just forks
> no decentralized EVM is fast
> realize you’re among a handful of engineers with the ability to rebuild the EVM, make it performant and decentralized
> also happen to love solving hard problems
> pick the hardest problem: re-engineer Ethereum so it can scale
> Eunice joins as co-founder, bringing killer TradFi, startup, web2 experience - scales ops
> raise and hire a killer team to build what everyone said was impossible
> grind 3 years building the most performant EVM ever
> people say it's a fork (lol)
> Monad Foundation acquires Portal to supercharge stablecoin payments
> acquihire Visa’s former director of crypto product
> people still say it can’t be real
> open source the entire stack before mainnet
> make sure top EVM teams are live for day 1 (Circle, Uniswap, Curve, Chainlink…)
> announce incentive program for eco teams
the founders can ship longer than people can remain skeptical
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Category Labs is fixing blockchain's biggest problems.
This paper outlines one of many cutting edge developments focused on reducing MEV and creating a better experience for traders.
It proposes a new encryption scheme that would let blockchains keep pending transactions private until they’re confirmed.
Check out our latest cryptography paper, Batched and Weighted Threshold Encryption with Silent Setup. Building on BTX, this scheme supports many desirable properties of an encrypted mempool:
⚡ Weighted decryption (ideal for Proof-of-Stake blockchains)
⚡ Silent setup (key generation no longer requires interaction between parties)
⚡ Batch and index independence (more user friendly and fewer constraints on decryption)
We’re excited about the future of encrypted mempools!
Paper link: eprint.iacr.org/2026/2087
Authors: Amit Agarwal, Champ Chairattana-Apirom (Category Labs intern ‘26), @sourav1547, Babak Poorebrahim Gilkalaye
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the final form is:
- quantum resistant
- MEV resistant
- private (more on this later)
- open / decentralized
- extremely performant
- EVM
some of this is live, some in development, some TBA
i am just a messenger, but the right curve is building
unwise to fade monad
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Are you paying attention?
The R&D firm that scaled EVM performance to 10k+ TPS across ~200 globally distributed validators
presenting "a new way to keep sensitive activity private on Monad"
probably (definitely) something
A public ledger doesn't need to be an open book
Institutions that need privacy currently have one option: move activity into closed systems, sacrificing liquidity and composability
At Open, @category_xyz will unveil a new way to keep sensitive activity private on Monad
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it would be very disappointing if crypto lost the traits that made it unique and blockchains were ultimately only used as centralized ledgers.
it's not crypto unless the system is open. crypto is, and always was, about freedom.
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category labs is extremely underrated
Category Labs takes security of the Monad client very seriously. We use formal verification extensively (we're hiring!) and our latest blog post explores use of additional techniques like fuzzing to secure the all-important staking module.
category.xyz/category-career…
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crypto's willingness to give up on decentralization will probably end up looking like early bets on AOL
AOL was easier to control and monetize
but the open internet was far more powerful (and won)
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wow, packed house at The Studio
there is no better place to build your startup in NYC
last thursday at The Studio: our biggest Studio Sessions yet. seven teams demoing live to a packed room.
from the winner of the last hackathon we hosted with Rain, to the savings app outranking banks in app store search, to one-click deposits from any chain into Monad, to AI agents paying each other for data onchain.
there's always something going on at The Studio.
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it's very easy to work on monad when you get to know the mindsets of James and the other co-founders
never pushed so hard in my life and never had so much fun working
above all else, this is what makes monad truly inevitable
The number one reason startups fail?
"[Founders] don't know what they signed up for... most people don't have the mindset of, in the face of constant adversity, I can just grind for 5 years."
@_jhunsaker stays busy.
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The future of the EVM is now
.@ethereumJoseph helped bring smart contracts & programmable money to the world
@keoneHD rebuilt the EVM to make it fast & affordable for real world use
At Open, they'll discuss The Future of the EVM: From Open Infrastructure to Open Money
Learn more: open.monad.xyz
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> 10,000 + TPS
> EVM compatible
> MEV resistant
> globally distributed (open)
> [redacted] (soon)
> [redacted] (pretty soon)
slowly, then all at once
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