In this age of AI-empowered attackers, the only way forward for our industry is to continue hardening. Security should be every team's top focus. The Monad Foundation invests heavily in security and is sharing the following resources to the community: Everyone: - The Crypto OpSec Bible: Smart contract developers: - Importance of not relying on EOAs for admin roles: - Importance of only signing admin functions on a dedicated laptop: Hardening code with Ultrafuzz, our open source tool for agentic fuzzing and threat hunting: - Codebase: - Overview: - Learnings from the field on threat hunting with LLMs: - - Learnings from securing code with Formal Verification: - -

The best entrepreneur of the next decade is out there somewhere raising at a sub-$10m valuation and struggling to get it, building in crypto which investors aren't thinking about. That's just how it works.

We are organising the 1st Workshop on Multiple Concurrent Proposers (MCP), which will be co-located with FC’27. It takes place on February 12, 2027 in Barbados. We are accepting archival paper submissions and non-archival talk submissions. Submit your work by Nov 24 AoE! More details:

Quantum-Resistance is hard because PQ signatures are much larger (25x larger) and quorum certificates on PQ signatures are much much larger (2500x larger) So, @category_xyz solved this problem with Quantum Cadence, a new version of Cadence that eliminates quorum certificates altogether. The new protocol actually scales better with more proposers. Incredibly exciting developments in the Monad world. Monad will simply run faster as quantum takes center stage

I am a technology optimist. I believe: 1. decentralization and censorship-resistance (real versions of these properties, not larps) matter to human freedom in the coming age of AI 2. self-sovereign money, implemented by code and maintained through decentralized consensus, is the final form of money. But it needs to be truly decentralized -- cut out every possible weakness, trust assumption, keeper, etc. Of course there will be connectors to the real world - harden those maximally 3. AI will write most smart contract code. Spec-driven development with Formal Verification will be how new contracts are written rigorously. FV will also be crucial to securing all the infra including the blockchain itself 4. AI will harden our surfaces, with some unfortunate hacks in the process, but ultimately the crypto and financial industries will come out stronger 5. properly-constructed and properly-indexed data lakes will enable agents to build software far more productively 6. governments will move to restrict AI usage in the future, causing true decentralization and CR to matter in dramatic fashion 7. quantum security will be a must for any ledger where people trust their assets. And specifically, blockchains will need to deliver quantum-resistance while retaining programmability and performance. Again, no larping 8. ZK will be an important part of the puzzle too, as it'll be increasingly important to prove off-chain computation and utilize the result on chain. But again, performance and effortlessness for users will be the differentiator 9. pragmatic and composable privacy will be the missing piece for real adoption. People will use apps that stack together stablecoins, DeFi, blockchain settlement, passkey or MPC authentication, and friction-free onramps, but the part that gets fintechs over the line is knowing that user balances will remain private while still being able to tap into shared liquidity 10. blockchain will serve as the global, universal marketplace, for anyone anywhere to get the best opportunities. For that we will need guarantees of fair execution, protection from frontrunning, and a convergence of all of the best assets At @category_xyz and the @monad Foundation, we are assembling all of these missing pieces in parallel with extreme urgency, and I hope this is clear from our actions. See you in the future

Decentralization doesn't matter until it does. Blockchain, and more specifically a blockchain with real decentralization, censorship-resistance, and pre-finalization privacy, will be a defining part of the next era

Yesterday's Railway issues, and an increasing stream of cloud provider incidents, highlight a major issue: decentralized apps have no way of scheduling or automating smart contract calls. Someone needs to run that cron on a server, which are becoming increasingly unreliable in the age of AI. The point of decentralized systems is that we shouldn't need to rely on a single server to maintain an invariant that protects the correctness and solvency of self-sovereign money protocols. Automation needs to move to the blockchain, where a network of distributed nodes brings fault-tolerance and checks-and-balances. Scheduled Transactions are how we accomplish that. Scheduled Transactions are far more than a replacement for keepers. They let users and applications alike set up interactions that recur on a cadence, happen once at a chosen moment, or follow from something that happened earlier. Check out the details below, as well as a few examples of what you can build with Scheduled Transactions, such as on-chain keepers, recurring payments, long-running (asynchronous) computations, automatic refunds in atomic swaps, and order-book cleanup.

Blockchain has long been missing a native crontab. Check out this design for scheduled transactions on Monad by Category researchers @CAndrei1998 and @liobaheimbach. Automatic compounding, recurring payments… What use cases are most interesting to you?

infiniFi Prime is bringing diversified Private Credit to fintech earn accounts It’s a really exciting collaboration between: - @infiniFi productization - @withAUSD stablecoins - @FasanaraCapital yields - @MidasRWA vaults - @monad settlement ♾️

farcaster changed hands twice in ten months. merkle to neynar, neynar to balaji's network school yesterday it is now the Network State Protocol. accept a social smart contract, mint an nft, keep posting. decline and you are read only. ai enforced code of conduct, proof of personhood coming my timeline is calling this censorship. that take is lazy and i think Balaji is justified network school is a physical place. residents, families, kids. you cannot run a real community with a real address on an unmoderated feed full of bots and ragebait. the singapore style conduct code is downstream of the product he is actually building, not a growth hack. and an explicit constitution you sign is more honest than a 40 page tos nobody reads plus a moderation policy that changes quietly if you want to live there, those are the house rules. fine. his house the problem is the sentence everyone is repeating to make this okay: if you don't like it, take your stuff and leave you can't there is no second client with real users. people keep naming hypersnap, which is one niche app, not a market. and only your id and your keys are actually onchain. your posts, your follows, your history and your discovery live in off chain nodes that the new owner runs so you can take your name and leave your life that is what sufficiently decentralised means in practice. decentralised enough to say the word, not enough to use here is the part that bothers me most. Balaji's product is legitimate and he should never have had to buy the substrate to ship it. a family friendly, moderated, proof of personhood client is a great thing to build. it should be one client among many, sitting on a graph nobody owns, and the people who don't want those rules should keep every follower they have while scrolling somewhere else >>> he had to acquire the protocol to run a client. that is the indictment what it should look like - graph fully onchain. wallet is your identity, no registry, no signup - posts signed by you, stored outside any single app, anyone can index them - feed and moderation are modules you choose and swap in one tap - default client open source, forkable in under an hour - nobody can sell it because nobody owns it then you don't need a referendum. you need a market. balaji runs network school rules, someone runs something looser, same graph underneath, and leaving costs you nothing >> acid test for any social protocol: can it be acquired if yes it was a company with good branding building this. thesis and group chat are open TG Vision