Category Labs
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We build high-performance decentralized systems.
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Talking privacy, MEV attacks, BTX and the Monad tech with the expert: Babak Gilkalaye
We worked with @category_xyz and @monad on an independent review of MonadBFT, running the Quint simulator for days across two variants of the spec.
Update to the announcement below:
Category Labs is expanding the potential open-market purchase authorization up to $80 million and extending the period through the end of 2026. Any purchases, if made, may be initiated, suspended or discontinued at our discretion and will be conducted in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. This update does not constitute a commitment to acquire any specific amount of tokens, but reflects our intent to consider opportunistic purchases depending on market conditions.
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Category Labs may, from time to time, purchase up to $30 million of MON tokens on the open market in the first half of 2026 in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. Any purchases, if made, may be initiated, suspended or discontinued at our discretion. This announcement does not constitute a commitment to acquire any specific amount of tokens, but reflects Category Labs’ intent to consider opportunistic purchases depending on market conditions.
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Save 10x On Gas on Monad: Category Labs Presentation with Kevin Kuehler
Trading at the speed of light: Category Labs Presentation with Ken Camann
The BTX eprint submission is now live.
Check it out:
Check out BTX, our new Batched Threshold Encryption (BTE) scheme, which achieves:
⚡️Shortest ciphertext (same as ElGamal)
⚡️Epochless and collision-free properties
⚡️Fastest decryption (<1 ms per core per ciphertext with our AVX implementation)
⚡️Computation scales with ACTUAL (as opposed to MAX) batch size
Some of the key ideas are inspired by the recent BTE paper by Boneh et al. (eprint 2026/674) and our prior work (eprint 2025/2115).
Hitting your nearest eprint server soon!
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Check out BTX, our new Batched Threshold Encryption (BTE) scheme, which achieves:
⚡️Shortest ciphertext (same as ElGamal)
⚡️Epochless and collision-free properties
⚡️Fastest decryption (<1 ms per core per ciphertext with our AVX implementation)
⚡️Computation scales with ACTUAL (as opposed to MAX) batch size
Some of the key ideas are inspired by the recent BTE paper by Boneh et al. (eprint 2026/674) and our prior work (eprint 2025/2115).
Hitting your nearest eprint server soon!
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This week we're allowing some investors to move their locked tokens to new wallets for operational purposes. The owners of the locked tokens are not changing and remain the same legal entities.
We're excited to welcome a new Researcher to Category Labs: Victor Shoup!
Victor is a computer scientist whose research spans computational number theory and algebra, cryptography, and secure distributed systems.
Learn more about Victor here:
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Category Labs may, from time to time, purchase up to $30 million of MON tokens on the open market in the first half of 2026 in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. Any purchases, if made, may be initiated, suspended or discontinued at our discretion. This announcement does not constitute a commitment to acquire any specific amount of tokens, but reflects Category Labs’ intent to consider opportunistic purchases depending on market conditions.
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HNY! I wanted to share a simple dapp built on Monad testnet. How well could Twitch Plays Pokemon work on Monad?
Category Labs celebrated a year of relentless execution, deep collaboration, and ambitious problem-solving.
Our teams reunited & cheering to each other’s hard work, and remembering that behind every line of code is a real human pushing this forward.
Huge thanks to our global team for the energy, thoughtfulness, and ambition you bring every day. This week was a reminder of why we’re building and who we’re building with.
Happy New Year from Category Labs, here's to 2026!
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Mainnet is the starting line.
