Monad CEO: How a Quant Trader Built one of the Largest Crypto Startups in the World | E72

Keone Hon is the CoFounder & CEO of Monad Labs, the company behind the MONAD blockchain, which offers users 1000x the throughput of Ethereum while maintaining cost-effectiveness.

Monad Labs just raised $225M in the largest crypto fund raise of 2024.

Keone shares invaluable insights from his journey as a Quant trader to leading Monad Labs from 0 to a Unicorn in just 2 years.

In this conversation, we dive into:

• How to Master Community Building
• What is Monad and why is it so important
• The importance of parallelism in Crypto
• How Keone and Monad Labs Raised $244 Million in 2 Years
• How to launch a token that lives up to expectations
• Being detail-oriented in Crypto
• Oh Baby Games
• Solana
• What the Crypto world will look like in 12 months

And more!

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Contents of the Video

0:00 Who is Keone Hon? 1:32 Keone Hon: Lessons Learned Through Experience 5:18 Joining Jump at Crypto, why is Crypto so Attractive? 6:58 Importance of High Frequency Trading 9:02 Current Situation of Crypto 10:27 What is Monad? 11:59 Swissborg Alpha Club 14:16 What's the Significane of Monad? 15:52: What is Parallelism? 18:58 The Approach to the Design of Monad? 21:12 What if it was the Wrong Approach? 26:59 MANTLE Partnership 28:21 Raising/ Spending $225 Million 31:32 Building Companies from the Ground Up Through Tech and Community 39:56 Building a Strong Community Pre-Token Launch 43:40 ASTAR Network Partnership 44:29 Message to the Monad Community 46:37 Token Launch Living up to the Expectations 50:28 Examples of Unique Company Building Ideas 52:46 Being/ Staying Consistent in Crypto and Real Life 56:26 What’s one of your Most Important Values? 58:21 Importance of Being Detail Orientated in Crypto 59:52 Keone Hon on Oh Baby Games and Solana 1:02:39 Advice to Keone’s Younger Self 1:05:57 Biggest Prediction for the Next 12 Months 1:07:34 Difference Between Talking and Actually Doing 1:09:28 Pivoting Away from Greed and Making Correct Decisions ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW3KlttN814