Monad Blog

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.

An overview of the programs and activations available to builders in the Monad ecosystem, from first hackathon to funded company.