How to Build the Fastest Onchain Experience With Monad, Sei, and Eclipse

The next generation of high-throughput blockchains are on their way. Keone Hon of Monad, Jay Jog of Sei, and Vijay Chetty of Eclipse discuss the ways they’re boosting the number of transactions per second, and the tradeoffs they’re having to make.

Aug 28, 2024

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In this episode of Unchained, Keone Hon of Monad Labs, Jay Jog of Sei Labs, and Vijay Chetty of Eclipse Labs share insights on their distinct approaches to scalability and performance in high-throughput blockchains. They discuss the technical advantages of parallelized EVMs, the strategic decisions behind blockchain architecture, and the innovations driving the next generation of high-speed chains.

Show highlights:

How Monad got started and its mission from the very beginning
The features that enable Monad to be a high-throughput blockchain
Why Monad chose to make a new blockchain instead of an L2
Why Keone believes that Monad offers the best experience for developers and why he doesn’t like the ‘Ethereum killer’ description
Monad’s big venture capital raise and how they’ll use the money
Monad’s strong community
The next steps for Monad and whether we’ll see a token soon
What Sei is and the role of the GameStop saga in the creation of it
Why Jay believes the EVM developer ecosystem is so strong
Why Sei pivoted from Cosmos to the EVM that led to the launch of its v2
What allows Sei to be “the fastest chain, even faster than Solana”
How Sei DB works, and why Jay says that the monolithic approach has many advantages to the modular one
How Eclipse works by combining Ethereum, Solana, and Cosmos
How Eclipse deals with the complexities of its modular architecture
What ways there are to transact in SOL on Eclipse
Vijay’s reaction to how Eclipse Labs has responded to the allegations against its founder and former CEO Neel Somani
How Eclipse aims to attract developers
What areas within crypto Vijay expects will flourish on Eclipse
The next steps for Eclipse and when the mainnet could launch

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Guests:

Keone Hon, Co-founder and CEO at Monad Labs.
Jay Jog, Co-founder of Sei Labs.
Vijay Chetty, CEO of Eclipse Labs.

Unchained Podcast is Produced by Laura Shin Media, LLC. Distributed by CoinDesk.

HOST

Laura Shin

Laura Shin is a crypto journalist, host of the Unchained podcast, and author of “The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze” (Public Affairs, 2022). Formerly a senior editor at Forbes, she was the first mainstream journalist to cover crypto full-time, and her podcasts and videos have had more than 15 million downloads and views. Shin has spoken about cryptocurrency at places such as TEDx San Francisco, the International Monetary Fund, Singularity University and the Oslo Freedom Forum.

She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Honors from Stanford University and has a master of arts from Columbia University’s School of Journalism. She lives in New York City.