Monad hits $500,000,000 in TVL less than than 8 months after launch. On July 8, @monad crossed $550M in TVL for the first time ever, less than 8 months after launching its official mainnet in November 2025. It is also approaching the $500M mark in terms of stablecoin market cap, per DefiLlama data, that figure up +9% over the past week. You bullish on $MON ...?

Monad Blitz AI Hackathon is 6 days out ⚡️ The agenda looks stacked: workshops in the morning, 6.5 hours of heads-down hacking, then pitches, judging, and prize presentations This one fills fast. Register now or miss it ↓

Monad eBTC/Curvance trace: not a Curvance lending bug. The eBTC admin granted DEFAULT_ADMIN_ROLE to 0x6A0109, who revoked admin, self-granted MINTER_ROLE, minted 1,000 eBTC, posted 45 eBTC as collateral, and borrowed ~11.296 WBTC. Looks like admin-key/role compromise. Key txs: admin grant 0x1684...cf6f, mint 0x2cc9...57c0, borrow 0xa797...778e.

Monad v0.14.3 has been released for mainnet. This version is the first time that nodes are required to use Authenticated UDP for RaptorCast. Authenticated UDP is an improvement that significantly reduces overhead of verifying consensus messages; it was rolled out a few months ago in optional mode to give the network time to switch over. You can read more about Authenticated UDP here: This release also makes changes to allow full nodes to participate in reputation scoring, and does some preparatory work for Deterministic RaptorCast. Full changelog linked in the next post.