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Monad is a layer 1 blockchain with custom execution and consensus clients, offering 10,000 TPS, single-slot finality, low-hardware requirements and full EVM bytecode compatibility.
1000x
faster than Ethereum
Designed to be the smoothest user experience for your apps.
Sub-cent
gas fees
Sub-cent gas fees for extreme scalability and mass adoption.
100%
EVM-compatibility
Use the existing EVM ecosystem to your advantage.
Low
hardware requirements
Consumer-grade hardware creates a clear path to decentralization.
Over 90% of all capital in DeFi is in EVM apps.
The EVM is the ubiquitous standard of web3. In spite of this and all of the resources being poured into the EVM, EVM-compatible blockchains have extremely low throughput.
Ethereum supports roughly 10 TPS, and no EVM rollup is over 50 TPS.
Why?
Transactions on most blockchains are inefficient.
For most blockchains, block creation requires consensus and execution of ordered transactions, which are interdependent. This intertwined process consumes time and resources, leading to slow and costly block creation.
The unwillingness of the industry to modify and optimize the Virtual Machine has led to minor improvements to overall throughput.
Different consensus mechanisms are able to support shorter block times and somewhat higher gas limits (i.e. execution budgets); the combination of these factors results in a 5x improvement in throughput for the EVM blockchains relative to Ethereum. While this sounds impressive, it’s against a very low baseline of 10 TPS.
It's extremely expensive to scale decentralization.
Nodes require powerful and expensive RAM to run— costing thousands to even begin participating in the network, making it incredibly difficult to scale decentralization.
To make EVM transactions more efficient, deep optimization is needed across all levels of the stack.
From the database layer, to the virtual machine layer, to the consensus and networking layer— low-level optimizations are required at every step to allow consumer-grade hardware to deliver exceptional performance while maintaining a high degree of decentralization.
Introducing Monad.
With Monad, a new paradigm of blockchain technology is available to developers and users— solving both performance and market issues with 4 key features.
Optimistic Parallel Execution
Efficiently processes blockchain transactions by executing them in parallel using multiple virtual machines, predicting dependencies to optimize scheduling, and merging results sequentially to ensure correct execution order while maximizing resource utilization.
Asynchronous Execution
Execution begins on a block after consensus completes, running in parallel to the next block’s consensus.
MonadBFT
A custom BFT mechanism derived from HotStuff, optimized to reduce communication phases from three to two, enhancing efficiency. Its optimistically responsive design allows rounds to progress at actual network latency, improving performance.
MonadDB
A custom state database that significantly enhances blockchain performance by optimizing storage and access of Merkle Patricia Trie data, enabling high-performance parallel access crucial for Monad's parallel execution capabilities.
MonadDB allows you to keep most of the state on SSD instead of RAM— reducing RAM requirements, costs and allowing consumer-grade hardware to participate in the network.
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Monad’s features bring about the original promises of Web3.
Scalable.
Decentralized.
Secure.
And extremely fast.
Reinventing the Layer 1 Blockchain.
Build on the fastest EVM-compatible layer 1 blockchain.
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