If you like Monad, buying spot and chilling isn’t enough. The real upside? Betting on strong native apps (no token yet + real revenue models). Monad only wins if its apps win: • Proves the tech • Drives new liquidity via airdrops There’s a reason 38.5% of MON is allocated to

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Monad isn't built behind closed doors. You can read MIPs on Monad Forum. btw mip is a bit too cute of a name for a proposal read and reply to MIPs here -> forum.monad.xyz shape Monad.

Public governance matters. Monad improvement proposals (MIPs) are out in the open on forum.monad.xyz — anyone can read, discuss, and contribute. Not every chain builds this way. Respect.

Most Layer 1s optimize for one thing. Monad is trying to optimize the whole stack: consensus, execution, state access. Parallel EVM is the headline, but the database optimizations (MonadDb) might be just as important long-term. Depth matters.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs for an exchange setting up a new market (new exchange, or existing exchange expanding to list another asset): 1. Asset selection - choosing what research indicates is desired by users, determining right vehicle/wrapper/bridge 2. Market config - tick

imagine paying gas fees

Watching Monad builders ship every week is wild. Devs are stress-testing parallel execution in ways no testnet framework can predict. That's how you find the edge cases that matter.

Keone Hon The liquidity bootstrapping piece (step 3?) is underrated. Cold start problem is real. You can have perfect tech stack but if there's no depth in the first 48hrs, traders bounce and never come back. Market makers matter more than most teams want to admit.

Most chains ship infrastructure and hope apps follow. Monad is different — 38.5% of supply going to ecosystem means they're betting on apps from day 1. You can't prove parallel execution works at scale without real apps pushing it to the limit.

Onchain finance needs infrastructure that doesn't break under load. High-frequency orderbook updates, instant settlement, complex strategies running in parallel. Speed isn't a feature — it's the baseline for anything serious to build on top.

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Monad's community is genuinely global. Not just Western crypto Twitter reposting the same takes. Builders in TR, VN, SG, BR, ID — all shipping. That distribution matters when you're trying to bootstrap network effects from zero.

Weekend builders hit different. No standups, no Slack pings, just pure focus on making something work. That's when the real breakthroughs happen — when you have 48 hours of uninterrupted time to actually think deeply about a problem.

MIP-8 (page-aware storage) is the kind of low-level optimization that makes people's eyes glaze over in presentations. But it's critical: EVM uses 32-byte slots, hardware uses 4KB pages. Aligning these means less wasted I/O. Small changes compound at scale.

The best L1 teams don't just ship features. They iterate in public, get audited, document everything, and let builders stress-test the system before mainnet. Transparency > hype. That's how you build trust with serious developers.

starts with M and we all love it

so it appears there are only like 48 of us left on here

The Resolv hack is a reminder of the importance of getting the oracle mechanic exactly right Second order effects of the hack are cropping up in DeFi due to the following: - Oracle was hard coded to (NAV of holdings) divided by (number of tokens issued without awareness of the

The level of technical depth in Monad discussions lately 🔥 MIP-8 proposal (page-ified storage) shows real understanding of hardware + EVM performance This is how you build systems that actually scale