Monad Architecture and Benchmarks
summary
Monad publishes a live testnet with 300 million gas/sec budget today (500 ms blocks, 1 s finality), 57 validators and ~250–300 TPS, and targets 1 billion gas/second goal. A purpose-built MPT database, optimistic parallel execution and asynchronous execution decouple consensus from execution. Demos hit a 400,000-iteration increment_many (141M gas, ~1.1 s) and push_many allocating 6,500 slots (146M gas, ~1 s). Live tools: gmonad.com visualization, GitHub speedtest repo and m-speedtest.vercel.app (password pragma2025).
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction & Testnet Overview
- 1:00Live Network Visualization: gmonad.com
- 2:15High Throughput Demo: Large Gas Transactions
- 4:45Contract Benchmarks: Increment & Storage Ops
- 6:30Open Invite to Explore & Test Break the Network
- 8:23Overview of Monad’s Architecture & EVM Compatibility
- 9:32Four Core Improvements: MPT Database, Parallel Execution, Async Execution & BFT
- 11:18Asynchronous Execution Explained
- 14:10Impact on Global Throughput: 1 Billion Gas/Second Goal
- 15:55Developer Resources & Current Testnet Stats
- 16:30Final Thoughts
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