MonadBFT
Tail-fork-resistant pipelined consensus
RaptorCast
Efficient block propagation of large blocks, utilized by leaders in MonadBFT
Asynchronous Execution
Moving execution out of the hot path of consensus so it can use the full block time
Block States
Summarizing the progression of Monad blocks from proposal to verification
Local Mempool
Policies for sharing pending transactions to leaders while minimizing bandwidth
Statesync
Algorithms for bootstrapping a node from peers
Blocksync
Algorithms for catching up on missed traffic
Peer Discovery
How nodes know where to find each other
Message Authentication
Signature schemes used in Monad
Transport Protocol Usage
TCP and UDP usage for node communication