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<span class="name">shadowoftime<small>monad reference</small></span>
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<hr class="sep">
<ol class="toc">
<li><a href="#intro"><span class="n">00</span>Intro</a></li>
<li><a href="#what"><span class="n">01</span>What is Monad</a></li>
<li><a href="#bft"><span class="n">02</span>MonadBFT</a></li>
<li><a href="#exec"><span class="n">03</span>Parallel exec</a></li>
<li><a href="#storage"><span class="n">04</span>Storage</a></li>
<li><a href="#token"><span class="n">05</span>MON & stake</a></li>
<li><a href="#compare"><span class="n">06</span>Mainnet vs test</a></li>
<li><a href="#testnet"><span class="n">07</span>Testnet</a></li>
<li><a href="#mainnet"><span class="n">08</span>Mainnet</a></li>
<li><a href="#participate"><span class="n">09</span>Participate</a></li>
<li><a href="#links"><span class="n">10</span>Resources</a></li>
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<div class="tag">Network reference · mainnet + testnet</div>
<h1>Monad — a high-performance EVM L1, explained</h1>
<p class="lede">
A concise, accurate, opinion-free reference on what Monad actually
is at the technical level: the consensus protocol, the parallel
execution engine, the storage layer, the token, and everything a
developer or validator operator needs to know about the live
testnet and the live mainnet. Every number here is quoted from
<a href="https://docs.monad.xyz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">docs.monad.xyz</a>.
</p>
</header>
<section class="block" id="intro">
<h2><span class="stepn">00</span>Intro</h2>
<p>
Monad is an L1 blockchain with full EVM bytecode compatibility,
designed for high throughput, sub-second finality and low operator
cost. It uses its own consensus protocol (MonadBFT), an optimistic
parallel execution engine, and a purpose-built state database
(MonadDB / TrieDB). The first production client is written by
<a href="https://github.com/category-labs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Category Labs</a>
in C++ and Rust.
</p>
<p>
This page is a concentrated technical reference for anyone who
wants to know what the chain actually does at the protocol level —
and the exact coordinates of the live testnet and mainnet for
developers and node operators.
</p>
</section>
<section class="block" id="what">
<h2><span class="stepn">01</span>What is Monad</h2>
<p>
Monad is an EVM-compatible L1 that keeps Ethereum's state model,
bytecode semantics and block structure, but replaces the
underlying execution engine, consensus protocol and storage layer
with designs tuned for modern hardware and modern throughput
targets. The explicit goal is:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Sub-second time-to-finality.</li>
<li>10,000+ transactions per second on mainnet hardware.</li>
<li>Fully identical block semantics to Ethereum — any valid Ethereum transaction runs on Monad and produces the same state transitions.</li>
<li>A validator set large enough to remain meaningfully decentralized.</li>
</ul>
<p>
If you already know Ethereum, the short version is: <b>Monad is
Ethereum without the bottlenecks</b>. The observable contract
semantics are the same; the throughput and latency envelope is not.
</p>
</section>
<section class="block" id="bft">
<h2><span class="stepn">02</span>MonadBFT — the consensus protocol</h2>
<p>
Consensus on Monad is driven by <b>MonadBFT</b>, a pipelined,
leader-based Byzantine Fault Tolerant protocol in the HotStuff
family — with a new twist called <i>tail-fork resistance</i>
which prior pipelined BFT protocols don't have.
</p>
<h3>Finality in two rounds</h3>
<p>
From the docs: <i>"Speculative finality in a single consensus
round, and full finality in two rounds."</i> The happy path spans
three overlapping rounds, K, K+1, K+2:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Round <b>K</b>: leader Alice proposes a block → validators vote → the next leader aggregates a Quorum Certificate (QC).</li>
<li>Round <b>K+1</b>: leader Bob proposes a new payload plus the prior QC → validators vote → Alice's block achieves <b>speculative finality</b>.</li>
<li>Round <b>K+2</b>: leader Charlie proposes with a QC-squared → Alice's block achieves <b>full finality</b>.</li>
</ul>
<p>
Because the protocol is pipelined, new blocks are being proposed
and voted on continuously — there is no idle gap between rounds.
</p>
<h3>Key parameters</h3>
<div class="stat-grid">
<div class="stat-cell">
<div class="num">400 <span class="unit">ms</span></div>
<div class="lbl">min block time</div>
</div>
<div class="stat-cell">
<div class="num">400 <span class="unit">ms</span></div>
<div class="lbl">speculative finality</div>
</div>
<div class="stat-cell">
<div class="num">800 <span class="unit">ms</span></div>
<div class="lbl">full finality</div>
</div>
<div class="stat-cell">
<div class="num">10k+ <span class="unit">tx/s</span></div>
<div class="lbl">target throughput</div>
</div>
</div>
<h3>Fault tolerance</h3>
<p>
Standard BFT: <code class="inline">n = 3f + 1</code>, tolerating
up to <code class="inline">f</code> Byzantine faulty validators.
Two-thirds of the active set must remain honest for the chain to
progress.
</p>
<h3>Leaders & stake weighting</h3>
<p>
Leadership rotates every round according to a schedule derived
from stake weights, computed in advance. No single validator
dominates block production — influence scales with stake, but
every validator in the active set eventually gets turns.
</p>
<h3>Tail-fork resistance (the novel bit)</h3>
<p>
In classical pipelined BFT protocols, a malicious leader can
sometimes fork away from their predecessor's block — effectively
orphaning it. MonadBFT closes this by making leaders <b>obligated
to re-propose the previous block</b> referenced in
<code class="inline">high_tip</code> of the Timeout Certificate,
unless they can get a supermajority attestation that the prior
block was not seen. This forces eventual inclusion of honest
proposals.
</p>
<h3>RaptorCast</h3>
<p>
Because Monad blocks can be large (10k+ transactions) and need to
reach the full validator set within a 400 ms round, naive
broadcast does not fit in the budget. Monad uses a
<b>RaptorCast</b> layer built on Raptor fountain codes — the
leader encodes the block into redundant packets that validators
can reassemble from any sufficient fraction, allowing propagation
to scale to large validator sets without each validator needing
the entire block from the leader directly.
</p>
</section>
<section class="block" id="exec">
<h2><span class="stepn">03</span>Parallel execution</h2>
<p>
Monad executes transactions <b>optimistically and in parallel</b>,
while preserving exactly the same block semantics as Ethereum.
The docs put it bluntly: <i>"Monad blocks are the same as Ethereum
blocks — a linearly ordered set of transactions. The result of
executing the transactions in a block is identical between Monad
and Ethereum."</i>
</p>
<p>
Instead of processing transactions one at a time, the client
speculatively runs multiple transactions in parallel and
reconciles them afterwards:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Start executing transaction 2 before transaction 1 has completed.</li>
<li>Track the inputs used by transaction 2 and compare them to the outputs of transaction 1.</li>
<li>If the inputs of 2 intersect the outputs of 1, the speculation was wrong — <b>re-execute</b> 2 with the correct post-state of 1.</li>
<li>If they don't intersect, the speculation was correct — commit both.</li>
</ul>
<p>
This is software transactional memory / optimistic concurrency
control applied to block execution. Conflict-free transactions
run truly in parallel; only conflicts pay the re-execution cost.
For typical real-world blockspace (where most transactions touch
independent contract state) the speedup is substantial while the
observable semantics remain bit-for-bit identical to Ethereum.
</p>
<div class="note">
<span class="nhead">EVM semantics</span>
Fully transparent. If your Solidity contract works on Ethereum,
it works on Monad, with the same opcodes, the same gas accounting
and the same storage layout. Parallelization is an <b>internal
optimization</b> of the client, not a change to the execution
model that developers see.
</div>
</section>
<section class="block" id="storage">
<h2><span class="stepn">04</span>Storage — MonadDB & TrieDB</h2>
<p>
Monad stores state in a purpose-built database called
<b>MonadDB</b> (sometimes referred to as TrieDB in client
configuration). It's a Merkle-Patricia Trie store that lives on a
<b>raw block device</b> — not on a filesystem, not on a generic
key-value store like RocksDB. The point is to eliminate
filesystem overhead from the hot path and to match the access
patterns a consensus-driven execution engine actually produces.
</p>
<p>
This is why Monad node operators dedicate a whole NVMe drive to
the TrieDB — the database mounts it directly via a stable symlink
(<code class="inline">/dev/triedb</code>), partitioned but
unformatted. Any other workload on the same device would compete
for the I/O queue and degrade consensus-critical latency.
</p>
</section>
<section class="block" id="token">
<h2><span class="stepn">05</span>MON token & staking</h2>
<p>
<b>MON</b> is Monad's native token. It pays for gas, it's the unit
of staking, and it's what validators earn as block rewards. It's
also the unit delegators use when bonding to a validator.
</p>
<div class="facts">
<div class="row"><div class="k">Min self-stake</div><div class="v"><b>100,000 MON</b> <span class="note">(MIN_AUTH_ADDRESS_STAKE — required to register a validator on-chain)</span></div></div>
<div class="row"><div class="k">Active set threshold</div><div class="v"><b>10,000,000 MON</b> <span class="note">(ACTIVE_VALIDATOR_STAKE — total self+delegated stake needed to produce blocks)</span></div></div>
<div class="row"><div class="k">Active set size</div><div class="v"><b>200</b> validators <span class="note">(ACTIVE_VALSET_SIZE — top 200 by stake)</span></div></div>
<div class="row"><div class="k">Block reward</div><div class="v"><b>25 MON</b> per block, minted by the protocol</div></div>
<div class="row"><div class="k">Epoch length</div><div class="v"><b>50,000 blocks</b> <span class="note">(≈ 5.5 hours at 400 ms block time)</span></div></div>
<div class="row"><div class="k">Withdrawal delay</div><div class="v"><b>1 epoch</b> <span class="note">(≈ 5.5 hours after <code class="inline">undelegate</code> before funds can be withdrawn)</span></div></div>
<div class="row"><div class="k">Commission</div><div class="v">0% – 100% (validator-configurable; VDP participants are capped at 20%)</div></div>
<div class="row"><div class="k">Dust threshold</div><div class="v">1 gwei (DUST_THRESHOLD — minimum delegation amount)</div></div>
<div class="row"><div class="k">Delegation</div><div class="v">Permissionless — any address can delegate to any registered validator</div></div>
<div class="row"><div class="k">Slashing (on-chain)</div><div class="v">Not currently active — violations are logged for accountability, no automatic on-chain penalties yet</div></div>
</div>
<div class="note">
<span class="nhead">What "active" means</span>
A validator becomes "active" (produces blocks, earns rewards) only
when its <i>total</i> stake — self-stake plus accumulated
delegations — exceeds <b>10,000,000 MON</b>. The 100,000 MON
self-stake is the minimum needed to register and start accepting
delegations; it's the floor, not the finish line.
</div>
</section>
<section class="block" id="compare">
<h2><span class="stepn">06</span>Mainnet vs Testnet — side by side</h2>
<p>
Both networks are live. Both run the same client and the same
protocol. They differ only in chain identity, endpoints, token
realism and the consequences of failure.
</p>
<div class="net-compare">
<div class="head">
<div>parameter</div>
<div class="mn">mainnet</div>
<div class="tn">testnet</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="k">chain id</div>
<div class="v">143</div>
<div class="v">10143</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="k">native token</div>
<div class="v">MON (production)</div>
<div class="v">MON (testnet, from faucet)</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="k">client version</div>
<div class="v">monad v0.13.1 / MONAD_NINE</div>
<div class="v">monad v0.14.2</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="k">primary RPC</div>
<div class="v"><a href="https://rpc.monad.xyz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rpc.monad.xyz</a><br/>wss://rpc.monad.xyz</div>
<div class="v"><a href="https://testnet-rpc.monad.xyz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testnet-rpc.monad.xyz</a></div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="k">alt RPCs</div>
<div class="v">rpc1 (Alchemy), rpc2 (Goldsky), rpc3 (Ankr), rpc-mainnet.monadinfra.com (MF)</div>
<div class="v">rpc-testnet.monadinfra.com, rpc.ankr.com/monad_testnet</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="k">faucet</div>
<div class="v">—</div>
<div class="v"><a href="https://faucet.monad.xyz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faucet.monad.xyz</a></div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="k">explorers</div>
<div class="v"><a href="https://monadvision.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MonadVision</a> · <a href="https://monadscan.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Monadscan</a> · <a href="https://monad.socialscan.io" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Socialscan</a></div>
<div class="v"><a href="https://testnet.monadvision.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MonadVision</a> · <a href="https://testnet.monadscan.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Monadscan</a> · <a href="https://monad-testnet.socialscan.io" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Socialscan</a></div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="k">validator set</div>
<div class="v">Live, permissioned via Foundation-backed delegation</div>
<div class="v">Live, permissioned via VDP program participants</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="k">failure cost</div>
<div class="v">Real — delegation loss, reputational damage</div>
<div class="v">Low — test MON is not real money</div>
</div>
</div>
</section>
<section class="block" id="testnet">
<h2><span class="stepn">07</span>Testnet</h2>
<p>
The Monad testnet is the primary sandbox where developers deploy
contracts, where wallets and dApps integrate, and where aspiring
validators build operational history before applying to the
Validator Delegation Program. It's fully live and accepting
traffic today.
</p>
<h3>Quick start — add to wallet</h3>
<div class="facts">
<div class="row"><div class="k">Network name</div><div class="v">Monad Testnet</div></div>
<div class="row"><div class="k">New RPC URL</div><div class="v"><code class="inline">https://testnet-rpc.monad.xyz</code></div></div>
<div class="row"><div class="k">Chain ID</div><div class="v"><code class="inline">10143</code></div></div>
<div class="row"><div class="k">Currency symbol</div><div class="v"><code class="inline">MON</code></div></div>
<div class="row"><div class="k">Block explorer URL</div><div class="v"><code class="inline">https://testnet.monadscan.com</code></div></div>
</div>
<h3>Faucet</h3>
<p>
Test MON is distributed through the official faucet at
<a href="https://faucet.monad.xyz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faucet.monad.xyz</a>.
Amounts per request are modest — enough for gas and normal
interaction, not enough to register a validator on-chain. For the
latter, operators typically wait for a <a href="#participate">VDP</a>
decision and receive onboarding guidance directly from the team.
</p>
<h3>What testnet is used for</h3>
<ul>
<li><b>Developers:</b> deploying Solidity contracts, dApp integration, stress-testing applications against real Monad consensus.</li>
<li><b>Validators:</b> accumulating the 4+ week operational history required by VDP, proving 98%+ uptime, demonstrating monitoring and incident response capability.</li>
<li><b>Ecosystem:</b> wallets, indexers, block explorers, oracles, bridges — everything that needs to talk to Monad is validated here first.</li>
<li><b>Protocol teams:</b> trialling staking, governance and delegation flows before touching real MON.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section class="block" id="mainnet">
<h2><span class="stepn">08</span>Mainnet</h2>
<p>
Monad mainnet is live and running <b>monad v0.13.1 / MONAD_NINE</b>.
Block production is real, MON is the production token, and
validator participation is gated through the Validator Delegation
Program during the bootstrap period.
</p>
<h3>Quick start — add to wallet</h3>
<div class="facts">
<div class="row"><div class="k">Network name</div><div class="v">Monad Mainnet</div></div>
<div class="row"><div class="k">New RPC URL</div><div class="v"><code class="inline">https://rpc.monad.xyz</code></div></div>
<div class="row"><div class="k">Chain ID</div><div class="v"><code class="inline">143</code></div></div>
<div class="row"><div class="k">Currency symbol</div><div class="v"><code class="inline">MON</code></div></div>
<div class="row"><div class="k">Block explorer URL</div><div class="v"><code class="inline">https://monadscan.com</code></div></div>
</div>
<h3>RPC provider options</h3>
<ul>
<li><code class="inline">rpc.monad.xyz</code> — QuickNode, <b>25 rps</b>, primary</li>
<li><code class="inline">rpc1.monad.xyz</code> — Alchemy, <b>15 rps</b> (debug/trace disabled)</li>
<li><code class="inline">rpc2.monad.xyz</code> — Goldsky Edge, <b>300 per 10s</b>, historical lookups supported</li>
<li><code class="inline">rpc3.monad.xyz</code> — Ankr, <b>300 per 10s</b> (debug disabled)</li>
<li><code class="inline">rpc-mainnet.monadinfra.com</code> — Monad Foundation, <b>20 rps</b>, historical lookups supported</li>
</ul>
<div class="note warn">
<span class="nhead">On-chain slashing is not yet active</span>
At the time of writing, MonadBFT slashing is logged for
accountability but not enforced automatically on-chain. This will
change. Operators should not interpret the current state as
permission to be careless — double-signing and downtime still
cost reputation, delegation, and VDP status.
</div>
</section>
<section class="block" id="participate">
<h2><span class="stepn">09</span>How to participate</h2>
<p>
There are three ways to meaningfully participate in the Monad
network. Each one has its own entry cost and its own operational
discipline.
</p>
<h3>As a full-node operator</h3>
<p>
The lowest barrier. You run the client, you sync the chain, you
get a local RPC endpoint. You don't earn rewards, but you also
don't need stake — and you get to verify the chain independently,
run private services against it, and accumulate the operational
history that feeds the next tier. I've written a
<a href="guide.html">practical install guide</a> for exactly this
path.
</p>
<h3>As a validator via the Validator Delegation Program</h3>
<p>
The realistic path to the active validator set for independent
operators. The Validator Delegation Program (VDP) is the Monad
Foundation's mechanism for extending stake to qualified
third-party operators so they can meet the 10,000,000 MON active
threshold without needing to source that much stake themselves.
</p>
<h3>VDP selection criteria</h3>
<ul>
<li><b>Testnet operational history</b> — minimum 4 weeks of active operation before you can be considered</li>
<li><b>Uptime discipline</b> — 98%+ SLA, tracked from your own monitoring and audited during review</li>
<li><b>Industry experience</b> — track record on other protocols is a plus, especially at operator level</li>
<li><b>Monitoring & security</b> — you must be able to describe your monitoring stack, alert pipeline, incident runbook and backup strategy</li>
<li><b>Geographic decentralization</b> — the Foundation explicitly weighs operators outside over-saturated regions</li>
<li><b>Ecosystem contribution</b> — write docs, help other operators, publish tooling</li>
<li><b>KYC / KYB</b> — mandatory before receiving delegation</li>
<li><b>Commission cap</b> — VDP participants are capped at 20% (normal is 10%)</li>
<li><b>Mandatory testnet operation</b> — even after receiving mainnet delegation, the testnet node must keep running at all times</li>
</ul>
<p>
The application form is at
<a href="https://tally.so/r/81N1KO" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tally.so/r/81N1KO</a>.
Wave 2 is open at the time of writing.
</p>
<h3>As a delegator</h3>
<p>
If you hold MON and want to earn staking rewards without running
infrastructure yourself, you can delegate to any existing
validator using Monad's staking CLI or any wallet integration
that supports it. Delegation is permissionless. Rewards
accumulate automatically as the validator produces blocks, and
you can either claim them (withdraw to your account) or compound
them (auto-restake). The withdrawal delay after
<code class="inline">undelegate</code> is one epoch (~5.5 hours).
</p>
</section>
<section class="block" id="links">
<h2><span class="stepn">10</span>Resources</h2>
<h3>Official</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://docs.monad.xyz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">docs.monad.xyz</a> — official documentation index</li>
<li><a href="https://docs.monad.xyz/monad-arch" target="_blank" rel="noopener">docs.monad.xyz/monad-arch</a> — architecture deep-dive</li>
<li><a href="https://docs.monad.xyz/monad-arch/consensus/monad-bft" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MonadBFT specification</a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.monad.xyz/monad-arch/execution/parallel-execution" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Parallel execution overview</a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.monad.xyz/reference/staking/overview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Staking reference</a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.monad.xyz/node-ops/full-node-installation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Full node install</a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.monad.xyz/node-ops/validator-delegation-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VDP program</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Client & tooling</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/category-labs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Category Labs GitHub</a> — first Monad client (C++ & Rust)</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/monad-developers/staking-sdk-cli" target="_blank" rel="noopener">staking-sdk-cli</a> — CLI for on-chain validator registration, delegation, rewards</li>
<li><a href="https://pkg.category.xyz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pkg.category.xyz</a> — APT repository for the monad package</li>
<li><a href="https://bucket.monadinfra.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bucket.monadinfra.com</a> — testnet config, snapshots, forkpoint, validators files</li>
</ul>
<h3>This site</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="index.html">shadowoftime profile</a> — who I am, what I run</li>
<li><a href="guide.html">Monad full node install guide</a> — the practical walkthrough, including the rakes the docs step around</li>
</ul>
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