Monad Launches Mainnet with 10,000+ TPS and Sub-Second Finality
Monad Launches Mainnet with 10,000+ TPS and Sub-Second Finality
⚡ Monad mainnet drops
Monad has launched its mainnet as a performance-focused Layer 1 blockchain targeting over 10,000 TPS and sub-second finality.
Key Features:
- Fully EVM-equivalent with Solidity and Ethereum tooling compatibility
- Uses MonadBFT consensus and optimistic parallelism
- Public testnet processed billions of transactions with stable performance
Funding & Team:
- Raised ~$244M from Dragonfly, Paradigm and other investors
- Built by ex-Jump low-latency engineers
- Structured through Category Labs and Monad Foundation
Market Position: Monad positions itself as the "parallel EVM bet" - maintaining full Ethereum compatibility while delivering significantly faster transaction speeds and lower costs.
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