Metropolis is now live. Six weeks to build the next generation of startups on Monad. $250k in prizes across 4 tracks. Submissions close October 13th: monad.xyz/metropolis

Ankr is now live on the Monad API Hub app.monad.xyz/agents/api-hub…

We're excited to welcome @monad as a sponsor of UBC 2026! 💜 Monad is a high-performance, EVM-compatible blockchain built to enable highly performant apps. With a strong focus on developer adoption, Monad Foundation regularly hosts hackathons and is looking to work with university blockchain communities around the world. If you're a student interested in learning more about Monad, make sure to meet the team at UBC 2026!

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.

Ankara, mark your calendars for October 24 🇹🇷 Monad Blitz is heading to Ankara for a full day of learning, building, and bringing ideas to life on Monad. What to expect: → Monad 101 and hands-on guidance → A full day to build and ship a working project → Live demos, networking, and up to $2K in prizes Applications are now open: luma.com/blitz-ankara-24-Oct

Metropolis submissions end tomorrow Submit your projects here: hackathon.monad.xyz

The most important thing is still simple: build something people actually want to use. @danielvf puts it well: you don’t need to make millions of people happy on day one. Start by making a dozen people really happy with what you built. If you can do that, there are probably more people like them.

Your first users probably won’t magically find you. @pareen’s advice: DM 200 people, talk to everyone who replies, and bring the early believers into one group chat. Listen closely, ship what they ask for, and keep the conversation active.

Fetching one piece of data from storage can be expensive. @danielvf explains the core idea behind MIP-8: instead of fetching one value at a time, fetch a whole chunk of nearby values together. Getting 128 values can take roughly the same time as getting one, which makes nearby data dramatically cheaper to access. Think ~100 gas instead of ~8,000 gas. More on MIP-8: mipland.com/mip-8

No shortcuts around live funds. Vibe coding can get you to a working product fast, but that doesn’t mean the product is secure. Client-side admin controls, missing access controls, and exposed user data are the kinds of mistakes you need to catch before real users or real money are involved. Take the time to check what’s happening behind the frontend.

Metropolis submissions end in 5 days Thank you for your attention to this matter hackathon.monad.xyz

An audit should not be the first time someone seriously tries to break your protocol. You’re audit ready when your team has already used every tool and capability available to secure the system: documentation, peer reviews, testing, internal security checks, and more. A third-party audit should find what your team couldn’t, not what your team simply hadn’t checked yet.

Devrel Livestreams - Learn about Taceo nitter.siddz.com/i/broadcasts/1dKrPrWEv…

Devrel Livestreams #14 with @TACEO_IO Going live in under an hour with @gm_usi to talk about: → TACEO Merces, private payments on the chain you already use → how a private USDC payment works on Monad → what you have to trust, and how compliance fits in → what's live on Monad mainnet today and how builders can start Join us live on X!

Sometimes the safest way to protect something is simply not to have it there in the first place. Every extra feature, permission, dependency, or piece of stored data creates more surface area to secure. Good security often starts with making the system smaller.