Ep. 743 Why Monad Is Taking Ethereum’s Biggest Bottleneck Head-On with Keone Hon
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In this episode of the Crypto 101 Podcast, Keone Hon, co-founder of Monad, joins from the Out East Summit to explain how his background at Jump Trading helped shape Monad’s high-throughput, low-latency blockchain design. He breaks down how Monad uses pipelining, parallel execution, faster block times, and faster finality to create a more efficient EVM-compatible Layer 1.
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00:00 - Keone Hon joins from the Out East Summit
01:00 - From Jump Trading to building Monad
02:35 - Why Keone left trading to start a blockchain
05:15 - Pipelining and high-performance blockchain architecture
08:35 - Monad vs Ethereum block times and throughput
10:55 - Why faster finality improves liquidity and DeFi
13:40 - Purple, Kuru, prop AMMs, and apps on Monad
16:10 - Why Monad is an EVM-compatible Layer 1
18:55 - Encrypted mempools, MEV, and pre-trade privacy
21:30 - Running a Monad validator on a Costco MacBook
25:10 - Coinbase token sale and Monad’s open access vision
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