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Monad wants your code. It would rather skip the queue.
The blockchain built by trading engineers keeps Ethereum’s familiar contracts and rearranges the machinery beneath them. Its next test is whether faster settlement makes money more useful.
The Blockchain That Voted to Stop Being a Blockchain
ThunderCore spent seven years making a blockchain fast enough to feel ordinary. Then exchange delistings forced a harder invention: deciding what was worth saving when the chain itself no longer was.
The Houseparty Guy Got Burned Twice. Now He Wants You to Own the Group Chat.
Ben Rubin built Meerkat and Houseparty, watched both die, and decided the problem was ownership. Towns Labs is his answer: a messaging protocol where the community holds the keys, not the landlord.
Alpen Labs
Alpen Labs is a Bitcoin infrastructure company building Strata, a zero-knowledge (ZK) validity rollup and bridge that lets people borrow, earn, and transact in dollars directly on Bitcoin - without wrapped tokens or custodians. Founded in 2022 by a team of MIT alumni, the company uses ZK cryptography to bring programmable smart contracts and DeFi-style financial products to Bitcoin while preserving its security and decentralization.