Monad Architecture

This section surveys Monad’s major architectural innovations.

Concepts

Explaining high level themes (async io and pipelining) that recur in Monad

Consensus

Algorithms for maintaining a globally distributed, decentralized validator set

Execution

Algorithms for executing EVM transactions efficiently

Real-time Data

Consuming recent blockchain data as quickly as possible

Transaction Lifecycle

Mapping the path of a transaction in Monad

The first Monad client is built by Category Labs and is written from scratch in C++ and Rust. Check out the codebase:

• monad-bft (consensus client)
• monad (execution client)