After spending time at Korea Blockchain Week @kbwofficial and in Singapore for @Token2049, I can’t shake the feeling that crypto has entered a new era. We’re not in “the first inning” anymore. Monad Mainnet is the leap from BlackBerry to Apple iOS. You don’t need to toss your N64 and Super Smash Bros, but the world is ready for GTA6 on PS5. The platform has to match the ambition of its apps. Trading, gaming, and social media use cases create very high demand for fast, cheap, secure, and high bandwidth blockspace. It is clear that having shared state onchain is a super power, aka making everything easily "composable." Monad meets this demand with 10k TPS, 0.4s block times, and sub second finality. All packaged up in an EVM compatible blockchain, this means the huge existing Solidity developer ecosystem is getting a major upgrade. After years in the making, @monad is merely weeks from mainnet launch! Greatness takes time. The wait is up. Here we are. Powered by advances in async execution, optimistic parallelization, and MonadDB, the Foundation and @category_xyz totally collapsed old tradeoffs and opened up a new design space for DeFi, gaming, RWAs & beyond. So, yada yada yada... When mainnet arrives, where do you start? Stake your MON with @Kintsu_xyz. Easy. When you do, you get sMON. "Staked MON" Think of sMON as your share of a growing staking pool. In 1 click you automatically get top notch staking & MEV yields. But it doesn't stop there. sMON is your entry ticket to the most robust and scalable yield ecosystem on Monad. You can "stake & use" at the same time, opening up a world of opportunities to use sMON as the ultimate Monad DeFi money lego. Down to the core, Kintsu is a new standard for liquid staking: - Designed as a "v3 LST," Kintsu sMON is born for composability and scale. Think of how Curve's gauge emissions democratized liquidity mining. Kintsu will create a similar shift with our novel “gauge stake delegation” mechanism design unlocking massive liquidity and yield from the base layer without the power vacuum seen in today's v1/v2 LSTs. - Powered by a DAO-curated validator registry, Kintsu gives the community control, unleashing a scalably network aligned yield machine. By sharing power all the way through to the DAO, rather than creating potentially dangerous gatekeepers, Kintsu ushers in a new paradigm for staking where liquidity and security aren't at odds with each other. - Built-in decentralization helps avoid the plateau of earlier LSTs. That said, we're building on the shoulders of giants. Kintsu aim to be the @LidoFinance or @jito_sol of Monad. But, whereas other LSTs create centralization risks at scale when controlled by a core team, Kintsu infuses this power into the hands of the community. Yield, liquidity, and composability shouldn't ever come at the cost of security, so we're built different with the express goal of passing through that power to the Kintsu DAO. And this is only the beginning. Kintsu lined up integrations across the ecosystem. We designed a legendary points program that is about to hit the market. Strap in, you’ll hear it from us first. Having had the fortune of getting to know everyone in the eco, one of the things that makes me the most bullish is the quality of other builders. The ecosystem forming in Monad is already massive and growing, including native projects such as: @kintsu_xyz @KuruExchange @perpltrade @DrakeExchange @Curvance @haha_app @alloca_xyz @ryskfinance @opinionlabsxyz @fortytwonetwork @multisynq @Levr_Bet @RareBetSports @covenantFi @enjoyoorsxyz @0xFastLane @apr_labs @MagmaStaking @Narwhal_Finance @TownSquarexyz @Bean_DEX @symphonyio @BeanstalkFarms @ChronicleLabs @CloberDEX @MuDigitalHQ @narrativexyz @naddotfun @0xNADSA @mace_ag @DirolProtocol @nitrofinance @nostrafinance @Sherpa_trade @ammalgam @AccountableData @ambient_finance @SumerMoney @monadverse, to name a few