Monad Labs Information

Monad Labs is building Monad, the high-performance Layer-1 blockchain that massively accelerates the Ethereum Virtual Machine. We recently raised $225M in series A funding, and are backed by Paradigm, Electric Capital, Dragonfly Capital, and others. What we are building gives developers the best of both worlds between performance and portability. The EVM is the ubiquitous standard of web3; over 96% of all capital in DeFi is in EVM apps. In spite of this, EVM-compatible blockchains have extremely low throughput: Ethereum supports roughly 10 transactions per second, and no EVM rollup is over 50 tps. We are solving this problem with Monad, the performant Layer-1 blockchain that introduces parallel execution and superscalar pipelining to the EVM. 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 - in order to streamline EVM transaction processing. Monad introduces these low-level optimizations, allowing consumer-grade hardware to deliver exceptional performance while maintaining a high degree of decentralization.