Monad Wiki: Getting Started with Monad
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Monad Wiki: Getting Started with Monad
The highest-performance EVM L1 blockchain.
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60 Seconds to Understand Monad
Redefining the EVM
Redesigning the EVM from Scratch
Monad has re-architected Ethereum's consensus and execution systems using C++, achieving high performance while maintaining full compatibility with EVM bytecode and Ethereum RPC APIs.
How does Monad achieve this?
To overcome bottlenecks in EVM execution and enhance blockchain scalability, Monad introduces a fully custom tech stack focused on parallel processing and efficient state management.
The following four key architectural innovations address limitations of existing Ethereum-compatible blockchains:
Optimistic Parallel Execution: Monad executes multiple transactions simultaneously, assuming consistent initial states, thereby increasing throughput. Transactions with conflicting inputs are re-executed at the end to ensure consistency.
MonadBFT Consensus: A Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus mechanism based on HotStuff that reduces communication rounds from three to two, advancing rounds based on real network latency for improved performance. This consensus requires only modest hardware, enabling anyone to easily run a node.
Asynchronous Execution (Deferred Execution): By decoupling consensus from execution, Monad dedicates the entire block time to transaction processing instead of interleaving it during consensus, significantly increasing the network’s computational bandwidth.
MonadDB Database: A custom state database optimized for EVM storage patterns. Unlike traditional databases, MonadDB stores Merkle Patricia Trie structures directly on disk, reducing overhead and enabling efficient parallel state access.
What is Monad?
The Highest-Performance EVM L1 Blockchain
Monad delivers a critical combination of performance, portability, and decentralization.
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High Performance: 10,000 transactions per second (TPS), 1-second block times, and single-slot finality.
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Portability: 100% EVM compatible.
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Decentralization: Low hardware requirements for Monad nodes ensure the network remains decentralized.
Seamless Onboarding, Exceptional Scalability
Monad is 100% EVM compatible with near-zero gas fees. Use the same tools, applications, libraries, and address spaces—experience revolutionary performance gains and cost reductions!
Why Choose Monad?
Why Develop on Monad?
1,000x Ethereum Performance in Under 5 Minutes: Full EVM compatibility enables rapid integration of existing architectures.
The Power of Community Support: We believe community is the strongest growth engine. Deploying on Monad makes going from 0 to 1 happen in an instant.
Decentralization and Censorship Resistance: Security and decentralization are paramount. We maintain these core values without compromise, even at high scalability.
Built for Mass Adoption: Sub-cent gas fees and high throughput mean Monad can effortlessly handle your traffic demands as users grow rapidly.
The "Why" Behind Monad's Design
Why Position Monad as an EVM Public Chain?
Monad adopts a Layer-1 blockchain architecture to optimize every layer of the tech stack, achieving the three core goals of decentralization, high performance, and low cost.
As a Layer-1 blockchain, a Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus mechanism is required to keep globally distributed nodes synchronized, even when some nodes behave maliciously. The consensus allows nodes to check each other and jointly validate new blocks. While building a Layer-2 is simpler in many ways, it significantly impacts the blockchain’s decentralization and censorship resistance.
As a Layer-1, Monad can optimize and coordinate all aspects of the stack. Both the consensus and execution mechanisms—and their interaction logic—are built from the ground up.
For an in-depth discussion, see: Monad vs. Rollups
Why EVM Compatibility Matters
Monad embraces EVM compatibility because the Ethereum ecosystem has powerful network effects. The EVM is the dominant smart contract standard; most existing dApps, developer tools, and research are centered around it and control over 90% of on-chain capital. The EVM developer community hosts the most talented and active developers in the blockchain space.
Monad allows developers to avoid choosing between performance and portability. Developers can build on Monad to enjoy high performance and low fees, while ensuring broad compatibility across most major ecosystems.
Why Monad Is the Best Choice for Mass Adoption
Monad’s architecture focuses natively on decentralization and scalability, unlocking new possibilities in blockchain development. Monad’s mission is to support large-scale decentralized applications with minimal hardware requirements while remaining fully compatible with Ethereum. This dual focus—delivering both high performance and decentralization—creates new opportunities for dApp developers and sets a new standard for blockchain infrastructure.
Monad’s L1 design addresses the core limitations of blockchain scalability, achieving expansion without sacrificing decentralization, while staying aligned with the Ethereum developer community and future research. This architecture offers a path distinct from Rollups, proving that foundational improvements at the L1 layer are equally crucial for scaling decentralized networks.
Community and Mass Adoption
Community Is a Superpower
Community as a Catalyst for Mass Adoption
Decentralization is about returning power to ordinary people, and community is crypto’s superpower.
This is especially evident in the Monad ecosystem. The Monad community is passionate, creative, and energetic:
Community members act as evangelists and early adopters, providing developers with critical feedback and moral support. The Monad community serves as a powerful growth engine, helping developers leap from 0 to 1.
Further reading: Community Marketing for Monad Native Applications
Community as a Growth Catalyst
Monad’s strategy is simple yet effective: community size and engagement directly drive information dissemination. Unlike traditional blockchain projects that separate marketing from community, Monad tightly integrates both, ensuring every marketing effort builds and nurtures the Monad community.
Advantages of Monad’s Community-Centric Model
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Immediate User Base for Developers
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Teams building on Monad gain access to a large, active user community eager to adopt new applications. This reduces the need for extensive external marketing, allowing developers to focus on creating impactful products.
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Direct Interaction, No Intermediaries
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Monad enables application teams to interact directly with users, fostering authentic relationships and enhancing user loyalty. This direct access streamlines feedback and accelerates product improvement.
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Avoiding Superficial Collaborations
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Traditional co-marketing often involves surface-level partnerships aimed at checking boxes rather than genuine engagement. Monad shifts focus to meaningful community interactions, ensuring collaborations deliver real value, not just symbolism.
Why Monad’s Success Is Inevitable
Breaking the Blockchain Trilemma
One of the main challenges in blockchain is achieving scalability without compromising security or decentralization. Current EVM-compatible blockchains—including Ethereum—face limitations in transaction throughput and state access, making them inadequate for future global-scale applications.
Focusing on Developer Accessibility
Monad’s commitment to EVM compatibility is a strategic advantage that cannot be overlooked. The vast majority of blockchain developers are already familiar with Solidity and the EVM ecosystem. By ensuring seamless onboarding, Monad lowers the barrier to entry and cultivates a strong, talented, and active developer community. This compatibility accelerates the migration of existing dApps to Monad, boosting network utility and adoption.
Learning from History, Pioneering a New Path
In early blockchain projects, Solana pursued high performance by rebuilding the entire architecture from scratch. Drawing from such experiences, Monad Labs has taken a different approach: innovating breakthroughs while ensuring compatibility with existing standards. It is precisely this balanced approach that allows Monad to enhance performance while fully preserving the advantages of the EVM-based ecosystem, offering a more practical and scalable solution for the mass adoption of blockchain technology.
Documentation and Technical Discussions
While the Monad Wiki provides a quick overview, we strongly recommend all developers consult and explore the technical documentation and discussions to deepen their understanding.
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