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Host 1
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Brendan
All right, everyone, welcome back to the Crypto 101 podcast. We hope everyone's having a good morning or evening because it's been matter where you're coming in from. You're certainly in the right place here today. It's going to be another killer episode. Hope everyone is having a good time at the time of recording this. We're coming in right after Easter. Crypto market's still pretty choppy, but as we always like to say, it's not a bear market, it's a builder's market. And if you've been listening to some of the recent episodes, you would really know this. I mean, we've had guests from all different industries, all different verticals of all different sizes. And the one theme that we keep hearing about, despite whatever's going on with price action, is that the crypto market is building. There's so much adoption happening. You can hear that in the rundowns. But here on today's episode, we're really, really stoked because we have Eunice Giarta. She is the co founder or one of the co founders over at the Monad Foundation. Monad is a leading new age layer one. They're EVM compatible. We're excited to talk to them here today. Eunice, welcome. It's good to have you.
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Eunice Giarta
Glad to be here. Definitely excited. And thanks so much for having me on the show, Brendan.
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Brendan
Absolutely. You know, we were talking a little bit before the podcast started. And I was just telling you, we have someone over on our team, shout out to Rohit, awesome analyst, but he focuses on two different areas, projects that are either very new and in the early stages or projects that are very small. And he was the one who pointed you all out to us like a while back. And I know he's been keeping track of this, he's excited for this episode. But we love to keep tabs on what's happening. I mean, it's funny because one of the, the best things about the podcast is that we truly do get to have a sense of what's going on from leaders in all different sectors. And we, we just talked to the Solana foundation about a week ago and now here we are talking to you. And so we love to hear what's going on in different areas. We like to hear how the overall health of the crypto sector is doing. And, and we're not just focused on like one area of blockchain tech. So let's kick it off out there, you know, for the listeners who are coming in, they're not sure what Monad is and who you're, you know, what you're working towards. Give us a high level overview to kind of get everyone accustomed to Monad.
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Eunice Giarta
Yeah, absolutely. So Monad foundation is the organization that I am with and the team here is focused on supporting the growth and adoption of the Monae blockchain. The Monad blockchain, AKA Monad, is, as you had mentioned earlier, high performance EVM layer one. It's EVM compatible. It's also new. It just launched about a little over four months ago in November of 2025 and we are super excited to get started. It's focused on performance, it's focused on actual use cases across finance, defi, institutional adoption and tokenization and then some. What's really cool is that the focus on performance means that there is opportunities for new use cases to come about regardless of the type or style of on chain activity.
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Brendan
So Monad is its own layer one. And for the listeners out there, when we say layer one, think Ethereum, Solana, stuff like that, it's infrastructure in which you can build on top of as opposed to other layer twos or other projects which are saying, hey, we're going to build on top of a layer one, right? Chainlink is built on on top of Ethereum or you have, you know, Radium, which is built on top of Solana. And the list goes on. But Monad is its own layer one. While it's EVM compatible, meaning that it is compatible here with the Ethereum virtual machine. So there can be a kind of seamless operation when needed or if needed for the listeners out there. Again, what would you say are some of the main differences that make Monad stand out? Because there's a lot of different layer ones. On top of that, there's a lot of layer twos. Everyone's kind of saying, hey, here's why we should get your attention. What is Monads?
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Eunice Giarta
Totally. Yeah. And so Monad is a complete redesign of the Ethereum virtual machine. So beyond compatibility, it actually is EVM itself. So there's a new execution client, there's a new consensus client with Monad bft. And what makes it unique is that there are some introductions of several fundamental changes with parallelized processes. For example, optimistic execution, which is one of the things that Monad is most well known for, but also for pipelined, and asynchronous execution, which means that blocks aren't bottlenecked by consensus and the time of consensus. Um, consensus mechanism itself is called monadbft. It's super optimized for communication efficiency and finality. Um, and it also has Raptor cast, which is a novel way of propagating block information across the entire globe. So it's fast. It's super fast. It's 500 millisecond block times, um, 800 millisecond finality, so less than a second to finalize transactions. It's super performant. It handles load quite well and can handle load of 10k tps. Not just burst, but consistent. Consistent load supporting about 500, not about supporting 500 million gas per second. That's massive considering the current gas limits that Ethereum has, which is about 5 million gas per second. But finally, the biggest piece is that it is a decentralized L1. It's truly decentralized where many LTVM chains, L2s forego this very core principle of being decentralized technology. Monad does not. So I think the exciting piece here is that we get performance, we get speed, we get security, and we get decentralization with Monad.
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Brendan
I think I'm glad that you brought that up because that's something I wanted to talk about again. We just had the Solana foundation on. We're huge fans of Solana over here. But that has been a cause for some investors concern is to say, well, if you look at other blockchains, other layer one, some of them sacrifice decentralization for speed and for efficiency and for scalability and a couple of these other things and I think for investors who really like blockchain at its core core, and they believe in those original principles, some people are saying, hey, that's fine, that's okay. Other people are saying, no, you know, we want to keep this. What you all have been able to do here is not make investors necessarily have to choose right. You're able to say, hey, you can get scalability, you can get efficiency, but you can keep decentralization. And I think that's one of the big standouts. Is that correct?
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Eunice Giarta
Yeah, certainly. And it's not just for investors to choose, but it's also for developers, for institutions who are looking for the right kind of blockchain that doesn't sacrifice on elements of performance or on decentralization to have all of that within one. So it's a, it was a hard problem to solve. It's not particularly solved yet either. I think there's many improvements that can be made in the future and the Category Labs team is, has dedicated researchers to making the existing level of decentralization of Monad even more improved going forward. So it's just, we're just at the beginning and we want to make sure that the future of Monad is something that doesn't sacrifice on either performance or on decentralization.
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Brendan
You know, one of the questions I always like to ask people who are coming in as part of a foundation is what role does the foundation play in relation to the underlying project or the token itself?
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Eunice Giarta
It probably depends on foundation to foundation. So I can speak on behalf of Monad foundation in particular, but the way in which our team functions is one that helps define certain elements of the Monad roadmap or help onboard and educate developers who are looking to deploy their applications on Monad or new users who are looking to play around on Monad and see what apps are made are available to helping facilitate new entrants to the validator set and other network participants. So it really is kind of like a guide or a shepherd in some ways. Yeah, acting as like a, hey, this is kind of where we see the future of Monad goi but ultimately because it's decentralized, it's dependent on the network participants to, you know, actually see a lot of the things come to fruition. And it's also permissionless. So anyone can deploy their application on the Monad network.
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Brendan
Got it. Do you find that Monad has attracted or it's trying to focus in on a specific area? Right, because there's a lot of layer ones out there who just say, you know, we wanted to do, do everything. Real world assets, financials, cross border payments, you know, decentralized storage, whatever it may be. Right? There's a, there's a million of them. Is Monad trying to focus in on one of those areas or is it kind of all encompassing?
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Host 1
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Eunice Giarta
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Brendan
a parent, I immediately felt a lot
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Host 1
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Brendan
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Host 1
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Eunice Giarta
My relationship with my family and with my boyfriend and with myself were suffering. I really needed help. I was ruminating a lot.
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Brendan
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Brendan
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Eunice Giarta
Yeah, what I see Monad being is an ecosystem of opportunity, essentially a chain of opportunity if you will. So a platform for the next generation of small businesses to thrive, but also a place where app developers who have already maybe found a place on an existing chain have reached certain performance limits and are looking for a place where they don't have to architect around a chain's limitations, but also a blockchain that provides a layer of scalability for high fidelity institutional grade financial activity. So I realize this is a little bit of a cop out answer to say that like hey, we want to do everything, but I truly believe that the performance that Monad provides is able to provide that level of necessity for this type of on chain on chain facilitation. If we think about like operating systems for example, I like going back to this analogy. It helped me when I was first thinking about crypto, but it's also very illustrative. So back when Windows 95 came to light, I think that was like a pretty game changing operating system. And I was certainly a kid at the time, but I remember playing around with the computer that was at home And I'm sure you did too, Brendan. And so Windows 95 had like this extreme hold on in the professional workspace for a long time. And then Windows XP came along and suddenly the games. The game was changed and games were changed, literally. Like Windows 95 had Minesweeper and I remember the screensaver of like, that maze, which is super cool. But then with xp, the games that shipped with XP were like the pinball machine. It's like, holy crap. Like, it looks so realistic and like, you know, the graphics were unreal. So it's kind of like that where Monad is increasing the design space for DAPP builders and allowing for a world of possibility that wasn't possible before on previous chains. So TLDR just like reducing that performance gap without compromises.
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Brendan
Yeah. Which is super important. You just talking about the games, it brought me back to my childhood. It got me thinking how far we have come. I remember when I was young, I would go and I would try to play a game on the computer. It wasn't just like you load it up like you do today or whatever. I remember I had this physical disc and you'd have to have this disc that you would insert into there, and you'd barely get any frames. And it was the most basic of games. And I was young and I was trying to play all these things. And it's crazy that we've gone from that. And like you said, like Minesweeper or Solitaire or something so basic or Tetris that we've gone from that to now having the kind of decentralized applications that we have today. And even today, like, I think we get. So people be. Get impatient or maybe just they don't get satisfied quite as much as they should, because people want overnight instant gratification, instant success. And it's like, look at what we have built. Even if it's just in the last 20 to 30 years. And it's crazy how far we've come. And that's just generally speaking. And then you look at crypto, I would say in the last six or so years, since around the time of COVID to where we're at today, Huge leaps and bounds. And this is coming from someone who reported on this stuff, like way early on, before most of these, before almost, you know, any altcoin projects existed. So it's fascinating. And again, that's something I've noticed is that especially in bear markets, people like to take what we've built for granted. And I don't know, it kind of just goes past the Everyday eye. But you know, there's a lot of applications out there, especially on Monad. I'm going to ask you to do something hard here, which is I was going to ask you to maybe pick a couple of your favorite ones that are building out there, but I won't make you pick favorites. Maybe just some ones that you like or, or that you want to generally highlight because of what they've been doing and building towards without getting you in trouble. I know I'm basically asking you to pick a favorite child here, but I like to ask it to a lot of the infrastructures.
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Eunice Giarta
Definitely hard to pick a favorite child. So honestly, I think it really depends on what you're looking for on chain. Monad has over 100 applications deployed at this point and the best way of getting started and exploring what an application that a new user might find to be their favorite would be. Well, actually we've got a website. If you go to App Mana xyz, you'll see a list and we'll highlight the top ones of the day, the top ones of the hour, and there's also a whole other interface to explore all of them. So whether you're a defi maxi or whether you're looking for something that's a little bit more gamified, there's going to be something there. I would encourage exploring that something for everyone.
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Brendan
Absolutely. So guys, if you're listening out there and you're interested, definitely go make sure that you check it out because again, there is a lot going on. I think, you know, we want to make sure that you all are tied in. But I want to bring us back to a previous point, which is just talking about Monad as a solution, right? Because I've seen you talk about how you think that crypto needs a global economic engine for high frequency finance. And that's something that is, I was going to say, slowly becoming a reality. It's very quickly becoming a reality. If you look at the financial space, they want to be a part of this. They're trying to be a part of this. They're waiting on different regulation and infrastructure and what compliance and all these things they want in. And everyone has a different opinion about how that should be or where they should go. But you've talked about this, right? This, this, I believe you called it the global economic engine and saying we need this for high frequency finance. Why is Monad the solution for that? And just talk to that subject as you will, because I think it's a super fascinating one.
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Eunice Giarta
Yeah, of course. I think Fundamentally it comes down to providing frictionless opportunities for on chain finance. And also the other piece being that institutional markets require a level of rigor in their solutions and in their infrastructure. So this means a combination of performance that we talked about, permissionlessness, trustlessness as well. So with Monad and the performance that it provides, there's extremely high throughput that can support continuously high volumes of transactions without facing congestion. To a point, of course. But finality, that's also fast enough, that feels instant and is fast enough for complex strategies to react to market conditions in real time. There's also predictable fees, you know, gas fees spiking throughout the day is a pretty terrible experience for businesses that maybe rely, or may rely on a ton of transactions on chain. If you can't extrapolate what your operating costs are, that could be pretty detrimental to your business. It's as well there's also composability. Being EVM and having a good number of bridges and cross chain protocols allows for easier cross chain composability. But also even within protocols deployed on Monad itself, it allows for potentially complex multi leg cross protocol trades to execute seamlessly. And then of course there's like Oracle infrastructure as well where we know that having real time information and then being able to react to that is super, super important and hard to do on with on chain oracles that don't have the, don't have like a high enough frequency of updates. So I think all of those pieces really make Monad a unique solution.
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Brendan
What do you think that it takes for on chain markets to resemble institutional grade environments?
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Eunice Giarta
I guess alongside the things that I had already mentioned, it's probably having the right type of primitives in place as well and then starting to move from, you know, we've seen over the past couple of years a lot of proof of concepts, also a lot of proof of concepts that are standalone chains for. Yeah, standalone chains that aren't exactly integrated in an economy setting. If, if it's a standalone chain, it's really kind of like the intranet versus the Internet and you don't get as much facilitation. You don't really, you're not as ingrained as a part of the economy. So that's probably the next piece along with like all of the fundamentals that are needed to build the ecosystem. It's actually participating and being a part of the ecosystem.
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Brendan
I mean, how close do you think we are to this? Right? I. We've heard a couple different variations. How close are we to the on chain markets actually resembling this institutional grade environment and infrastructure that we're so used to. I mean, some people say, hey, it's here right now. Some people say we're close, but maybe it's a little bit longer. What's your opinion on all that?
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Eunice Giarta
We've never been closer than we are today, so that's one. I think it may still take a little bit of time, but more so than ever. I mean, we are seeing a lot of interest amongst institutional counterparties and players. And just thinking back to the past couple of conferences that I've been to, I just got back from ecc. There's certainly a little bit of like bear market vibes, but. And There was also DAs in New York about two weeks ago there also. I was, I was very pleasantly surprised by the amount of attention and questions that were being asked by people who are currently at banks, who are currently at other types of like asset allocators that are genuinely curious about crypto. Now more than ever, despite, you know, potentially the more difficult market conditions that we're seeing, there is keen interest in moving in that direction. So I don't know if it's going to be within. It's probably not going to be by the end of 2026 for sure. But the, there is an accelerant to adoption and so, you know, we might start seeing more of that like hockey stick curve. But I'm also really bad at predicting the future, so I would not take my word as law.
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Brendan
It's a hard thing and you know, no one has a crystal ball, not even us. Sometimes we really wish we did. But there's, there's no, there's no shame in that. To your point though, you know, I've heard you talk about why you think I believe infrastructure, not applications, may define the next phase of growth. I'm curious, what does that mean for retail investors and who's more affected by that? Is it retail or institutional?
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Eunice Giarta
Honestly, probably a bit of both. But if we think beyond just investment, we should think about retail as being like everyday people, you and me included. Right. And trying to understand what opportunities are on chain and the way that that user interacts with being on chain is through applications. So as much as, you know, infrastructure can lead the efforts, ultimately it is an ecosystem and also comes down to the applications that are deployed on it. Solutions are only as good as the fundamentals that it's given. If we think about new apps that are running on outdated technology, we can go back to the Windows 95 example versus Windows XP. New apps are going to be constrained on outdated technology. Institutions also depend on reliable, up to date performance solutions. You can't run a multibillion dollar business on Windows 95 anymore and you probably don't want to be running a multibillion dollar business on one centralized machine. Like there's duplicative efforts, there's decentralized, sorry, there's distribution, distributed, decentralized data centers that these companies seek and build their business upon. So all of these are all in aggregate, a part of the, the on chain future and how users will, regardless of institution, institutional users or retail users, will interface with a chain like Monad for sure.
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Brendan
And you know, there's a lot that's just going on here in general.
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Host 1
Right.
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Brendan
We've talked about some of the more specifics in this podcast, but I think the average listener out there is just like, guys, there's a lot that's going on this year and I think a lot of them probably feel a bit whiplashed about which way they should look, what they should pay attention to. There's a lot of opinions about people coming to them, you know, on different YouTube videos or social media or TV or whatever it may be and saying this is what you need to pay attention to and what do you think? Or what are some of the most important things that, that you want to pay attention to and that you're looking out for and some of the things that you're most excited about as we work our way into, you know, almost at this point, you know, the second half of the year, we're not quite there yet, but.
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Eunice Giarta
Yeah, yeah, good question.
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Brendan
I know you brought up the Nitro program that you were talking to me about earlier too.
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Eunice Giarta
Yeah, I can definitely talk about that too. Well, yeah, that's actually one easy thing to pay attention to in the near term. So the Mana foundation is supporting a new initiative called the Nitro Accelerator. And it's a cross chain accelerator programs essentially kind of adopting the YC model for crypto. And so in later this month, actually the first cohort is going to be kicked off and that'll be 15 teams, each of whom will run through a three month intensive accelerator program. And each who will be given $500,000 in funding on day one to get their journey started. So it's fairly unprecedented in, in the crypto industry today. And the fact that it's also cross chain means that there's a commitment to building the next gen of applications for the industry, not just for Monad, but for the entire industry. So certainly something to look out for.
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Brendan
Absolutely. Well, I guess you know, what else is there? You know, is there any other big roadmap changes or updates or upgrades or I guess just anything in general, whether it's with Monad or something different? What else are you trying to pay attention to as we work our way into the rest of 2026?
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Eunice Giarta
Yeah, I'm super excited for 2026, at least for Monad and the roadmap that we have at Monad Foundation. So the tech stack for the Monad blockchain will continue to improve and that's honestly one of the most exciting pieces is that as performant, as decentralized and as enabling as a blockchain is right now, it's still like V0, it's still in its infancy. So a ton of MIPS, which are Monad improvement proposals are in flight and we'll probably see them being adopted in the future. The Category Labs team has a team of researchers and engineers that are focused on finding the next areas of optimizations. And you were talking about this earlier, Brendan, with the continuous improvement over time and seeing massive changes from, you know, years ago to now, like, we can also see those improvements through consistent 10% improvement that compounds over time. On the Monad foundation side of things, we've got a team of engineers and our Devrel team who are also committed to bringing improvements to tooling to make development and deployment for apps and developers much easier. And there's also other projects that we have in the work to help with onboarding of users and developers. What else? The validator set will continue to grow and expand. This will also be coupled with improvements to the consensus mechanism over time and the ecosystem itself continues to grow. I was just taking a peek at Defi Llama earlier and the TVL metrics for DeFi and stablecoin market cap and overall TVL continue to grow and I think right now hovering just around the 7,700 million in TVL on chain right now. There's also a ton of on chain primitives, stablecoins that are deployed natively like USDC, AuSD, USDT0, there's tokenized assets, commodities on chain, FX, like all of those things are continuing to grow. I'm pretty sure I'm forgetting something, but regardless, very excited for what's in store for 2026.
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Brendan
Yeah, you know, hopefully we're looking at the whole market here and we're looking at a bit of an upturn because again, despite the fundamentals really progressing, I know just about everything, right people, I don't think we can, I don't think it's fair to just look at the crypto market and say, oh well, it's hurt this year. Really. Everything has been hurting this year no matter where it is. So, you know, looking higher and better as we work our way into the next stages of 2026. But Eunice, we appreciate your time. If people are listening out there, they want to get more involved. They want to track not only what you're doing but what Monad is doing. Where can they find you at?
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Eunice Giarta
Yeah, there's a couple of different areas to get up to date for. For those listeners who are on Twitter, I highly recommend following the Monad main account. It's at Monad just M o n a d and there's also a ton of other accounts to follow as well. Those that are excited and interested about getting updates to the accelerator. It's nitro acc literally N I T R o D o T a c C and there's a weekly newsletter that folks on our team aggregate information from across the interwebs and the happenings at Mana foundation and Monad Ecosystem. I am failing on what the exact URL is there, but if you go to Monad xyz there will be a link to sign up for that newsletter. So a ton of places to keep up to date and final pub for the App Hub or like the Monad App Hub, I think that's what it's called. App Monad xyz again, a great resource to see what's been trending and new apps that are deployed and all of the apps in the ecosystem in general.
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Brendan
Awesome. Well, Eunice, thank you for joining. We appreciate your time. To everyone that's listening out there, if you guys are interested in Monad, make sure you check them out. Clearly doing a lot of cool things and we're always excited to talk to fellow builders here in the crypto space. So Yunus, we appreciate your time. Thank you for joining us and we'll see all of you at the same time, same place next week.
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