On The Brink with Castle Island Keone Hon (Monad Foundation) on Blockchains Built to Scale (EP.683)
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Nov 5, 2025 Keone Hon, founder of the Monad Foundation and an expert in high-frequency trading, dives into the future of on-chain finance. He explores how blockchains can revolutionize financial systems by 2025 and discusses Monad's unique architecture designed for high throughput and low-latency finality. Keone also sheds light on the importance of decentralization during market instability, the role of Auto-Deleveraging, and what success looks like for Monad in a few years. Plus, he shares insights on building a dynamic, entrepreneurial team to tackle these challenges.
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On-Chain Finance Expands Global Access
- On-chain finance democratizes access to global financial tools for individuals and businesses everywhere.
- It gives capital-starved businesses and people in inflationary economies equal access to dollar-denominated products and markets.
Rearchitecting Ethereum For Massive Throughput
- Monad rebuilds Ethereum with parallel and asynchronous execution, pipelining, and an optimized database for state.
- The chain targets 400ms blocks and ~800ms finality to process ~1 billion transactions per day, a ~1,000x throughput jump over Ethereum.
Finality Speed Drives Market Efficiency
- Slow finality prevents liquidity from moving quickly between venues and impedes price convergence during volatile events.
- Faster finality and throughput enable real-world commerce and more efficient enterprise cash management.