Keone Hon is the CEO and Co-founder of Monad Labs, the team supporting the high-performance Monad blockchain. He is a software developer and blockchain researcher. Before founding Monad, he spent eight years at Jump Trading, leading an HFT team. In 2021, Keone joined Jump’s crypto division and led a team of engineers focused on blockchain research and dApp development.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- JUMP Trading
- High frequency trading
- The relationship between HFT and crypto trading
- Security on the Monad blockchain
- L1 pros and cons vs. the pros and cons of L2s
- The narrative always changes
- Roll-ups
- Scaling blockchain tech at the L1 level
- Creating better blockchain-based mobile apps

Monad Labs
Website: www.monad.xyz
Twitter: @monad_xyz
Discord: discord.gg/monad

Keone Hon
Twitter: @keoneHD
LinkedIn: Keone Hon

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#239: Keone Hon, CEO of Monad Labs, on High Frequency Crypto Trading, L1s, L2s, and Security