Podcast Ep. 743 - Why Monad Is Taking Ethereum’s Biggest Bottleneck Head-On with Keone Hon
Can Monad solve one of Ethereum’s biggest challenges?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.
Chapters
- 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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