In the last week of November 2025 I posted a series of X updates that highlighted our event participation, product milestones, ecosystem growth, and funding mechanics.
- Event participation: “Meet us!” – invitation to meet the Monad team at IBW flagship event on 2 December. ^39fb71
- Network preview (quoted from @keoneHD): “birth of a new network” with “hundreds of people…running validators, bridges, oracles, indexers, block explorers, paymasters, wallets, trading apps, lending protocols, risk curators, stablecoin issuers, dexes, onramps, custodians, consumer apps, analytics tools, NFT platforms, and tons of net‑new applications.” ^e4
- Product roadmap progress: SDK/UI/contract modules are 70 % – 95 % complete across several teams. ^e6
- Funding mechanism: Coinbase‑mediated MON token sale “unique” – serves small buyers while allowing unlimited high bids; not an arbitrary allocation. ^e11
These updates reinforce our strategic decisions: attending IBW for community‑building, delivering the “all three” trilemma solution, using a fair token‑sale mechanism, and openly tracking product progress.
- First campaign pre‑sales: 50 pre‑sales secured. ^e7
- Infra query optimization: reduced hot path from 1,600 → 1 query per request. ^e8
- UX improvement claim: “100x better” after upgrades. ^e9
- Security audits: at least 3 products have completed formal audits. ^e10
- Validated consensus segments: “Stablecoins, RWAs, Payments, Token Launches” are validated segments with large players entering. ^e5
- ROI comment: “the ones with highest ROI would fail at this”. ^e1
- Trilemma claim: “Monad gives you all three”. ^e2
In late November 2025 I tracked the chaotic launch of Monad, noting that the mainnet went live on 2025‑11‑24 and that the network now runs 170 validators across 27 countries and 53 cities with a ~400 ms block time and 100‑200 TPS on consumer‑grade hardware.
Monad currently has 170 validators.
The average block time is ~400 ms.
Throughput ranges from 100‑200 transactions per second.
Validators are distributed across 27 countries and 53 cities.
Pre‑deposits raised $5.7 M on one product, bringing total cap to $10 M, and a $1.5 M pre‑seed was announced.
New perpetual primitives have already processed multi‑million‑dollar volume.
Skrumpeys ranked #7 volume‑wise on MagicEden across all chains on 2025‑11‑24.
On 2025‑11‑25 Skrumpeys rose to #6 for a specific asset on MagicEden.
Don’t ask what the ecosystem needs. Ask what you want to build that makes you come alive, then ship that. Coz the ecosystem needs founders who come alive.
Volume‑wise, Skrumpeys is #7 on MagicEden today across ALL chains.
In late November 2025 I reflected on accelerator dynamics, stablecoin politics, and hiring philosophies across several X threads. The discussion emphasized Y Combinator’s unique model, the challenges of chain accelerators, and a “Geniuses only” hiring standard.
YC is 20yrs old.
Accelerator hit ratio is supposed to be low.
PG spent 4‑6 hours even “after” making $300 mn exit.
Robinhood drove more than half of Kalshi's total volume over the past few months.
Accelerator can only be done by two kinds of people – a founder who has scaled and had a massive exit (with their own $) or someone obsessed with helping founders.
this historic day when they're trying to replace gmonad, here is the most boring video on the power of incentives https://t.co/Pb10jwe4Q6
In late November 2025 I posted a series of X updates tracking the chaotic launch of Monad, community sentiment, strategic founder guidance, and a repeated call for developers to build a dedicated SocialFi protocol on Monad.
Monad: Lock with cliff, no staking for locked tokens. Least inflation in L1s
Arthur: Unlock tokens right now. All of it.
i am once again asking you, who wants to build a SocialFi protocol (not an FC client) on Monad?
Community reaction to the mainnet launch was unusually hostile. Memerail RUN market cap was reported at ~$226k. Founder House #3 application link: https://t.co/E4UfsS8nAA. The start‑of‑mainnet tweet referenced: https://t.co/lAZrrIVUyu. I also shared the “greatest poem ever” link: https://t.co/N8ocbnBIwE.