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Monad is a Layer-1 blockchain delivering high performance, true decentralization, and EVM compatibility. Its north star is making decentralization more powerful, and eliminating the perceived tradeoff between decentralization and performance. Monad supports a large globally distributed network, with intentionally minimal hardware requirements so that anyone may run a node. Performance comes from software architecture improvements rather than reliance on heavy hardware or node colocation. The network is live with 170 validators in 27 countries, 53 cities. Zero validators ran by the monad foundation The validators are ran on consumer grade hardware: - CPU: 16 core CPU with 4.5 GHz+ base clock speed, e.g. AMD Ryzen 9950x, AMD Ryzen 7950x, AMD EPYC 4584PX, etc. - Memory: 32 GB+ RAM - Storage: 2TB dedicated disk for TrieDB (Execution), 500GB Disk for MonadBFT / OS, PCIe Gen4x4 NVME SSD or better for both - Bandwidth:300 Mbit/s (Validators), 100 Mbit/s (Full Nodes) Its codebase is fully open source (consensus, execution) and is built for extreme performance in C++ and rust. Notably, Monad introduces novel architectures in five major areas: - MonadBFT, a frontier BFT consensus mechanism solving the tail-forking problem - RaptorCast for efficient block transmission - Asynchronous Execution for pipelining consensus and execution to raise the time budget for execution - Parallel Execution and JIT Compilation for efficient transaction execution - MonadDb for efficient storage of Ethereum state Monad's improvements address existing bottlenecks while preserving seamless compatibility for application developers (full EVM bytecode compatibility) and users (Ethereum RPC API compatibility). The result is an open source Ethereum-compatible Layer-1 blockchain built from scratch with 10,000 tps of throughput, 400ms block frequency, and 800ms finality. Ethereum launched in 2015. Monad launched in 2025.