Greg⨀ retweeted
Addiction to signals creates Burj Khalifas
since we got ‘retail’ to participate in various ways, they have no way of knowing what to bet on (with their time and money)
so they look for signals like: a bug VC or a chain tweeting about a product or a KOL
this pumps resources into wrong projects. and it also encourages founders (many times good founders) to bait CT
this creates burj khalifas of attention and token charts alike
Monad will win if we solve this alone
how?
by NOT paying attention/$ to projects unless they show the only unfakeable signals: Shipping and Retention
only then you support a project
that motivates founders to think about their ICP, a Delta 4 product, and a core loop that keeps users coming back
one of the biggest waste of times this entire quarter was probably @world_xyz
got a good amount of attention from the entire space just to do no airdrop, rug the stimmy after a couple of hours and now literally nobody uses the platform
a total of $60K in OI on their top markets COMBINED
lesson learned somewhere: don't bait people
Greg⨀ retweeted
Quantum-Resistance is hard because PQ signatures are much larger (25x larger) and quorum certificates on PQ signatures are much much larger (2500x larger)
So, @category_xyz solved this problem with Quantum Cadence, a new version of Cadence that eliminates quorum certificates altogether. The new protocol actually scales better with more proposers.
Incredibly exciting developments in the Monad world. Monad will simply run faster as quantum takes center stage
Today we are releasing Quantum Cadence, a post-quantum version of Cadence, our consensus protocol with multiple concurrent proposers. Quantum Cadence uses no quorum certificates, and its safety and liveness do not depend on signatures.
Most modern consensus protocols, Cadence included, rely heavily on signatures and quorum certificates, which a large-scale quantum computer could forge. Simply replacing today's signatures with post-quantum ones would make certificates too large for every validator to send around in a high-performance blockchain. Quantum Cadence instead draws on Forget-IT, a recent signature-free consensus protocol co-developed by researchers at Category Labs.
Quantum Cadence still keeps the overall architecture and core guarantees of Cadence, so our Cadence prototype was easy to carry over: an AI was able to adapt it to Quantum Cadence in a few hours, and an early prototype now runs on an internal test network.
We designed Quantum Cadence to be practical for a high-performance blockchain. In our simulations, its latency is similar to Cadence's, and it scales better with the number of proposers.
Interactive explainer: category.xyz/quantum-cadence.
Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2610.32803.
Joint work by @MohammadMJalal1, @TobiasKlenze, and @komasito55
Greg⨀ retweeted
AI infra. Space. Memes. Take your pick!
Stock bundles are now live on Monorail.
Choose a ready-made portfolio or build your own with up to five stocks and ETFs.
Yep, it’s that simple now.
monorail.xyz/stocks/bundles
Greg⨀ retweeted
Metropolis submissions closed with 885 teams, 1,256 participants, and builders from 76 countries
Thank you to everyone who participated. Winners will be announced in early November
Introducing the Metropolis global hackathon
Six weeks to build the next generation of startups on Monad.
4 tracks. Over $250K in prizes for builders.
Submissions end October 13th.
monad.xyz/metropolis
Greg⨀ retweeted
Monad Foundation will now be sharing all protocol / client / network related announcements verified with GPG signatures.
This is a hardening of comms processes to ensure ecosystem participants can be sure these important communications are coming from the team.
The public repo for GPG signed messages, with instructions:
github.com/monad-crypto/mf-n…
Instructions for verification in thread.
Greg⨀ retweeted
Everything you need to know about Monad Private Settlement
@JanCamenisch, Staff Researcher at @category_xyz, breaks it down 👇
