Dragonfly-backed Monad is solving the 'most obvious' setback for the DeFi market, says founder
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Keone Hon is the founder and CEO of Monad Labs — the development team behind a new Layer-1 blockchain that aims to bring pipelined execution to the Ethereum Virtual Machine. In this episode, Keone shares how his background at various HFT firms led him to identify problems with existing blockchain infrastructure and ultimately inspired him to rebuild the EVM entirely to optimize it for high-performance trading activity. Monad has raised $19 million from investors including Dragonfly Capital, Naval Ravikant, Cobie, Hasu and others. OUTLINE: 03:33 - Monad Overview 05:17 - Another Layer-1? 06:26 - ‘Pipelining’ 08:32 - Web3 Social 11:38 - Bridges to Monad 12:11 - High Performance DeFi 13:34 - DeFi Summer 2.0? 16:01 - Monad’s Funding 16:49 - Onchain HFT 19:05 - The Future of Trading 22:55 - Onchain Sports Betting 23:19 - Surviving Crypto Winter 28:30 - Closing Thoughts
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