{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Scoop","title":"Dragonfly-backed Monad is solving the 'most obvious' setback for the DeFi market, says founder","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/06659b9f\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1868,"description":"Keone Hon is the founder and CEO of Monad Labs — the development team behind a new Layer-1 blockchain that aims to bring pipelined execution to the Ethereum Virtual Machine.\nIn this episode, Keone shares how his background at various HFT firms led him to identify problems with existing blockchain infrastructure and ultimately inspired him to rebuild the EVM entirely to optimize it for high-performance trading activity.\nMonad has raised $19 million from investors including Dragonfly Capital, Naval Ravikant, Cobie, Hasu and others.\n\nOUTLINE:\n03:33 - Monad Overview\n05:17 - Another Layer-1?\n06:26 - ‘Pipelining’\n08:32 - Web3 Social\n11:38 - Bridges to Monad\n12:11 - High Performance DeFi\n13:34 - DeFi Summer 2.0?\n16:01 - Monad’s Funding\n16:49 - Onchain HFT\n19:05 - The Future of Trading\n22:55 - Onchain Sports Betting\n23:19 - Surviving Crypto Winter\n28:30 - Closing Thoughts","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/kC6kzNjgr18dm0FmBfV_f9xccAkjj-QXoCJmVNlNtrU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xZmIz/N2E5MmRmMzJjOTU3/OTNhYjJkYzcxZTlj/MTU2Yi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}