As we wait for @indigo4043 to take the stage at @paradigm's Frontiers event later today, we wanted to share an interactive blog post bringing MonadBFT to life in your browser via an open-source tool we call monad-viz. 👇

Levr is excited to announce our $3M seed round led by @blockchaincap & @Maven11Capital with support from @KosmosVC This brings our total funding to $5M+ and will help us bring the first ever leverage-based sportsbook to the masses.

ozempic: lose weight (desired outcome) without exercise (tiring process) AG1 green supplements: get healthy (desired outcome) without needing to eat tasteless vege (tiring process) AI: complete your tasks, e.g. topic research (desired outcome) without having to spend time reading, analyzing, and evaluating (tiring process) these 'optimizations' in life saves time for individuals this means increased amount of time made available for leisure, i.e., hobbies, social interaction, etc. agents won't dominate human leisure activities; that's where humans go to take a break from AI an agent that helps to play the game for you? I don't think that's gonna fly, I played MapleStory mobile where they had an automated mode - was boring because the only thing I could do was look at the mushrooms jump around

Re-Introducing Narrative - the first ever perpetual information market.

Monad consensus client was open sourced today! 🎉 If you're non-technical like me, here's what this means in three simple points: 1️⃣ Open sourcing = anyone can now verify Monad's performance, find bugs, build tools. Most chains keep code secret until mainnet (and some are on "mainnet" but haven't open-sourced!) Making the code open-source reinforces the standard of decentralized systems: "don't trust, verify!" 2️⃣ This release is half of Monad's codebase. Every blockchain has two main components: Consensus layer (open sourced today): How validators vote and agree on transaction order; and Execution layer (coming later): How those transactions actually get processed. 3️⃣ Two major innovations you will see named are: MonadBFT and RaptorCast. They work together to make Monad so fast! ⚡ - MonadBFT solves "tail forking" - when a validator misses their turn, other chains restart the whole voting process. Monad doesn't have to. First to solve this! - RaptorCast spreads big blocks of data by splitting them into pieces that reconstruct themselves back (I think of it like streaming tech for blockchain data). This is how Monad becomes the fastest EVM L1 without centralization shortcuts. Years of hard work, now visible to everyone in the code. Huge congrats to the engineers @category_xyz! 💜

Monad’s RaptorCast is actually pretty sweet. It’s hard to blast multi-megabyte block proposals from a leader to 1k+ validators in a few hundred milliseconds. They do some interesting rethinking of the transport protocol, the error-correction scheme, and the broadcast topology.

This is a big milestone: half of the codebase, implementing MonadBFT, RaptorCast, blocksync, statesync, mempool, etc. is open source! This codebase is a treasure trove of performant systems engineering work. We hope this materially pushes the space forward. Step by step.

Monad consensus client is now open source (link below). This is the result of thousands of hours of effort by the team at @category_xyz. Enjoy

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