Keone’s blog
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A world computer worthy of the world’s money

Open finance must meet the expectations of users and businesses. Monad aims to close the gap and build a financial system worthy of the world’s money.

markets
6 min read

Open by construction

Open access to fair financial markets on neutral ground: Monad’s mission and the principles behind it.

monad
10 min read

Deterministic RaptorCast

Deterministic RaptorCast lets validators vote before decoding a full block, enabling deeper consensus pipelining.

protocol
8 min read

Staking

A delegator's guide to Monad staking.

protocol
6 min read

How parallel execution actually works

Monad runs transactions concurrently while preserving Ethereum’s sequential semantics. Conflicts are detected and re-executed.

protocol
11 min read

JIT compilation

Monad compiles EVM bytecode to native machine code, with adaptive compilation, register allocation, and an optimized interpreter.

performance
10 min read

Async I/O and io_uring

Combining io_uring, lightweight fibers, and backpressure to keep execution productive while state reads are in flight.

performance
13 min read

MonadDb

MonadDb uses direct trie storage, asynchronous I/O, and SSD-aware layout to accelerate state access.

performanceprotocol