🔈Nina talks with Keone about his high-frequency trading (HFT) background & the niche industry, the decision to start Monad, Monad’s mission of enabling more performant execution of EVM, why Monad is not a roll-up, the Blockchain Trilemma, applying Monad to other use cases outside of HFT, consensus and execution, the four “pipelining” innovations of Monad, Monad’s consensus and validation mechanisms, Monad’s approach to transaction costs, view on AppChains, biggest challenges, Monad’s roadmap and Keone’s take on what needs to improve in the space.

Keone is the co-founder and CEO of Monad Labs, a team of systems engineers bringing parallel execution and low-level optimization to the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). Before Monad, Keone spent eight years at Jump Trading building an HFT (high-frequency trading) system that was responsible for tens of billions of daily notional volume in major futures markets. In 2021, Keone joined Jump’s crypto division and led a team of engineers focused on blockchain research and dApp development. Today, Keone aims to fulfil the promise of the EVM and build the future of the internet at Monad.🔈