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Announcing Ethlabs: a non-profit R&D lab for Ethereum and ETH Our mission is to make Ethereum the settlement layer of the global economy. The internet became global because shared protocols created a common language between networks. Private systems remained useful, but bounded. Finance is approaching a similar moment. As value, assets, and markets become digital, the world needs shared settlement infrastructure. Ethereum is uniquely positioned to become that shared base layer, the neutral foundation on which users, institutions, and agents can transact without intermediation. What we believe: • We believe credible neutrality matters. Ten years of uptime and the lowest counterparty risk. Ground that cannot be pulled away by any one country, institution, company, or person. • We believe ETH matters. The most valuable, programmable store of value. A decade of broad distribution, deep liquidity in onchain markets, and maximally trustless asset on Ethereum. • We believe DeFi matters. Markets, liquidity, credit, exchange, and coordination, open to anyone. • We believe adoption matters. Principles do not change the world until people benefit from them. We sit between two worlds: real usage from the builders at the frontier, and the protocol that has to support it. We work with users, applications, wallets, L2s, infrastructure teams, institutions, ETH holders, core devs and researchers, then turn what they actually need into protocol work, shared standards, infrastructure, and shipped products. Ethlabs is independent but Ethereum is a shared project. We are one node in a much larger network of stewards. This is the multi-node future. We have spent the better part of the past decade contributing to Ethereum core research and development. We are opinionated and transparent. We move with urgency, learn in public, and course-correct when we’re wrong. We are building a lean, talent-dense team for people who want to do the most important work of their careers: join@ethlabs.org

Excited to welcome @pendle_fi to the Monad Ecosystem! Longtime user and fan here Starting off with two interesting PTs/YTs from @withAUSD and @upshift_fi

@socialforging Had amazing time there last week, def coming back! Enjoy!

@BitCtrl_io You know it

Gmonad

Bulletin Chain is a specialized storage chain in the Polkadot ecosystem. Data is submitted via authorized extrinsics, indexed with Blake2b-256 hashes, and retrievable by content hash from IPFS or directly from the node. Storage expires after the retention period. Renew it if you need it. Let it go if you don't. Store static sites, media assets, and application data with built-in availability and censorship resistance. Not everything needs to live on-chain forever.

Monad v0.14.4 has been released to Monad mainnet. This version features a fix for the `eth_fillTransaction` convenience RPC method released recently, as well as additional preparatory work for deterministic raptorcast and zkVM. I love the power and elegance of the Monad client, and it's only getting better as @category_xyz continues to put in the work on the next 3-4 major features.

The UFO files are crazy: gmonads.com

@f5nodes @monad Great job! 👏

Introducing Monad Watchtower → monad-watchtower.xyz An analytics and performance dashboard for the @monad ecosystem and validators. 1,329 epochs of history: 168 days of mainnet + 142 days of testnet. All visualized, searchable, and live-updating. A brief backstory about how it all began. From the early Monad testnet days we developed a monitoring and alerting system for validators called Monad Watchtower, with the goal of keeping teams in the loop with real-time notifications. Since then we've been pushing the development forward, consistently improving the logic, adding new features, and most importantly - collecting all the data for each epoch... Now, having this much data, we decided to build a public dashboard to visualize all of it and make it available for everyone to use, analyze, and compare. Every validator would love to track their own performance, every delegator just wants a clear view of who's healthy and worth delegating to, and of course the Monad Foundation team needs to evaluate validators in the VDP. So we put it all in one place. 👉 What's inside: 1. A live network overview that updates every 30 seconds: network success rate, online/offline validators, current epoch progress, alerts. 2. Per-validator deep dives with full epoch participation history (all the way back), alert state, 24h stats, and a VDP compliance card showing flagged weeks against the rolling 3-month window. 3. An Epoch Browser pulling every epoch ever produced, with adjustable trend charts and a "by validator" view to jump straight to anyone's history. Weekly Reports broken down by ISO calendar week with notable events flagged for each. 4. The page worth bookmarking is the VDP Watchlist. Every validator with flagged weeks (≤98% weekly success rate) in the rolling 3-month window, sorted by severity. 3 flagged weeks triggers a delegation review by the Monad Foundation, so we surface the risk before it lands. 5. An Alerts page split into offline, recovering, and degraded validators so you can see who's actually in trouble at a glance. And we just shipped a full mobile redesign too, so you can check on the network from your phone! Massive thanks to @socialforging - you've been there with us through every question, every "wait is this actually useful?" moment along the way. Your feedback shaped Watchtower into something we're actually proud to ship. Truly grateful for everything! 🙏 There's still a lot in the works, we'll keep you posted as we ship new features. gmonad! 💜

🟠️TESTNET RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT v.0.14.3 🟠 A new release is available on Testnet for all nodes! Upgrade instructions are located here: docs.monad.xyz/node-ops/upgra… Full change log located here: github.com/category-labs/… Reminders: 1. The color coded system has this release coded orange - action recommended within 24-48 hours. 2. As of v0.14.3 authenticated UDP is enforced!

New blog posted about MIP-8 blog.monad.xyz/blog/mip-8 Accelerate the EVM

why stake MON: validators earn MEV revenue that revenue compounds to stakers no lock-ups, no claiming, no managing just more MON every ~5.5 hours

v0.14.2 has been released to Monad mainnet This version includes various performance improvements to MonadDb (compaction routines), networking, and RPC, as well as preparatory work for future improvements to Raptorcast and zkVM proof execution Changelog link in the next tweet, with links to PRs

@MagmaStaking @monad Asking the question on gvaults on your Discord got me banned. Not great!

Have you seen our gVaults dashboard already? Stake with a validator of your preference, get yield and then drop your $gMON in another DeFi protocol on @monad for even more. This is how it’s done.

Update to the announcement below: Category Labs is expanding the potential open-market purchase authorization up to $80 million and extending the period through the end of 2026. Any purchases, if made, may be initiated, suspended or discontinued at our discretion and will be conducted in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. This update does not constitute a commitment to acquire any specific amount of tokens, but reflects our intent to consider opportunistic purchases depending on market conditions.

Save 10x On Gas on Monad: Category Labs Presentation with Kevin Kuehler x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

free @monad 💜

@0xFastLane Monad model is getting more interesting. Not just liquid staking. A layered system where one side captures yield and another can support liquidity and broader validator growth. That is a smarter staking design than a one-size-fits-all pool. BitCtrl is already on the validator side of that flow.

Staking on Monad ELI5