Keone Hon: Wall Street And Degens Are Both Coming To Monad (Here Is Why)

<p>Everyone wants good execution and access to the best opportunities and Keone Hon says that&#39;s why there&#39;s no real contradiction between Monad&#39;s consumer culture and its institutional liquidity push. He explains why the network effects are only now starting to compound from both directions, why building from scratch over a longer development cycle left them with foundations the core team knows cold, and what that unlocks next: solving MEV and squaring the apparent contradiction between privacy and composability. Ten months into mainnet, his biggest lesson is that speed is everything.</p><p>Keone Hon is the Co-Founder of Monad.</p><p>The Rollup is where the leaders of digital assets and finance converge. Live from the financial capital of the world.</p><p><br></p><p>Timestamps:</p><p>00:00 Intro</p><p>01:30 Monad Needs Both Sides Of The Barbell</p><p>03:45 Keone Refused To Cut Corners From Day One</p><p>05:23 Privacy And Composability Cannot Coexist Yet</p><p>06:07 Speed Is Everything Lesson From Mainnet</p><p><br></p><p>Guest Socials:</p><p>Keone Hon X: https://x.com/keoneHD</p><p>Monad X: https://x.com/monad</p><p>Monad Website: https://app.monad.xyz/</p><p><br></p><p>Partners: </p><p>If you run concentrated liquidity positions you know the grind. Price moves, you&#39;re out of range, you&#39;re rebalancing at, like, 3am. 1inch Aqua lets you take a different approach. You can stack multiple positions on the same token balance instead of babysitting a dozen pools, and your tokens never leave your wallet. Your liquidity stays awake, so you can catch up on your sleep. Check it out at https://1inch.com/aqua</p><p>---</p><p>Dinari - Over 230 1:1 backed tokenized stocks, ETFs &amp; more with dividends. US-based SEC transfer agent. Available on 5+ chains &amp; via API. https://dinari.com/</p><p>---</p><p>Space and Time is providing verifiable data infrastructure for onchain finance. A decentralized database, blockchain indexer, and ZK coprocessor in one, giving DeFi protocols,stablecoins, and tokenized assets accurate, provable data. </p><p>---</p><p>Zama is an open source cryptography company that builds state-of-the-art Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) solutions for blockchain.</p><p>Learn more here: https://www.zama.org/</p><p>---</p><p>𝗪𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵-𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗻𝗼𝗻-𝗯𝗶𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱, 𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺. 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘂