What is Monad in 60 seconds
A high-performance, EVM-compatible L1 designed to run smart contracts much faster and cheaper, while keeping the developer experience familiar.
If Ethereum is the global computer, Monad is the “make it fast” version — without making you rewrite your app.
Monad in one line
A high-performance, EVM-compatible L1 designed to run smart contracts much faster and cheaper, while keeping the developer experience familiar.
Why people care
- EVM compatible → your Solidity contracts + most Ethereum tooling still make sense.
- Parallel execution → instead of doing one transaction at a time, Monad is built to execute many in parallel when possible.
- Low latency mindset → the whole stack is designed around speed (execution + networking + state access).
- Same app ideas, bigger scale → DeFi, games, social, infra… but with way more headroom.
So what does that mean for me?
If you build or trade on EVM:
- Faster confirmations
- More throughput during spikes
- Lower fee pressure (especially when activity heats up)
Learn more (official docs)
See links below.
https://docs.monad.xyz/
https://monad.xyz/
https://forum.monad.xyz/
