Feb 22, 2025
The Projects
How to Prepare for Monad: The High-Speed EVM Layer-1 Blockchain
A new layer-1 blockchain is set to rival Ethereum and Solana. Here’s how you can prepare. After years of building and more than $225 million raised, Monad officially unveiled its testnet on February 19. The high-performance Ethereum Virtual Machine layer-1 network aims to rival the speed and scalability that Solana offers, while interacting with the vast Ethereum ecosystem and its applications and protocols. It does so by using parallel execution, in other words, executing transactions that d...
Feb 20, 2025
Gaming
Ethereum NFT Game 'Fantasy Top' Expands to Monad Alongside Testnet Launch
Ethereum NFT game Fantasy Top is expanding from layer-2 network Blast after its buzzy launch last year. On Wednesday, the developers announced that a free-to-play version of the game will debut on the just-launched testnet of new layer-1 blockchain, Monad. The game, which mirrors traditional fantasy sports, replaces football and basketball stars with the top crypto social media personalities on X (formerly known as Twitter) that it calls “heroes.” For example, like athletes earn for performance...
