Monad Blog

Learnings from building Monad Bugfinder, an internal AI-assisted vulnerability discovery and triage system for the Monad blockchain.

Deterministic RaptorCast is an upcoming upgrade to RaptorCast, Monad's frontier block propagation mechanism. It lets validators vote as soon as they verify a single chunk against the leader's commitment, removing full-block decoding from the consensus critical path.

Valos launched an institutional credit vault on Monad using Accountable's verification layer and Agora's AUSD, reaching over $110M TVL by end of April — enabled by Monad's ~400ms blocks and ~800ms deterministic finality.

Category Labs' draft proposal optimizes state storage to be aware that data is fetched from SSD in 4 kb page units. This optimization massively reduces the cost of state access for contiguous storage slots.

Coinbase Wrapped Bitcoin (cbBTC) became available on Monad in March 2026 via Chainlink CCIP, crossing $20 million in TVL within weeks across lending markets, DEX liquidity, and structured products.

Etherfuse, in partnership with Shinhan Securities, has brought Korean Treasury Bonds onchain as KTB — a yield-bearing Stablebond on Monad with sub-second settlement and 24/7 market access.

Traditional "instant" payouts are really prefunded advances; stablecoins on performant blockchains remove the need for float, banking-hour constraints, and high payout fees.

The next wave of consumer finance products will hide DeFi in the backend while using high-performance onchain infrastructure to deliver familiar fintech experiences.