Monad

Last month, we introduced Monad Private Settlement. Today, we're publishing the technical white paper. It details private execution domains, shared sequencing on Monad, cross-domain messaging, and configurable access controls. Read the research: category.xyz/mpsd-whitepaper

CRSHMARKET has raised a $3.5M Seed round to build the first livestream prediction market. This round was led by @6thManVentures , with participation from @recvcx, @lattice_fund, and @startinglinevc. We’re building a new way to interact with live content, where anyone can predict what happens next with 60 second settlements.

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

NEW: Now tracking @monad, a high-performance EVM-compatible blockchain. Track Monad's financials, applications, RWAs, trading activity, lending activity, and more in their new ecosystem dashboard.

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

Check out Tree-BTE 🌳, our new tree-based approach to designing batched threshold encryption (BTE), the cryptographic tool for encrypted mempools. Tree-BTE can be instantiated with different cryptographic hardness assumptions to yield different properties. For example, with a lattice-based hardness assumption, we get a post-quantum secure BTE scheme with >100x faster decryption than prior lattice-based schemes. Instantiations based on other assumptions (such as DDH, DCR, LWR) are also possible. Check out our paper on eprint.

ONyc is coming to @Monad through nONYC. Built by @onrefinance, ONyc gives onchain exposure to reinsurance-backed yield, with returns generated from underwriting premiums and collateral rather than crypto-native incentives. Until now, ONyc has been available only on Solana. nONYC packages the asset through Plume Vaults, making it deployable across supported EVM networks and opening access to new sources of capital and liquidity. With more than $225M deployed across Solana DeFi, ONyc has already established itself as a significant RWA onchain. Now, it’s moving beyond its original ecosystem. This is what RWA distribution looks like: taking institutional assets that already exist and making them accessible across the networks where capital is already moving.

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