Story Protocol governance passed SIP-00011, reducing the active validator set from 80 down to 21. The upgrade is live on Aeneid testnet now, with mainnet activation to follow. Here’s what it means, why the Foundation made the call, and where Atlas goes from here. Why the Foundation Made This Call Story launched with 64 validators…
Four articles of context, architecture, and use cases. This one is about what you actually do next. WHY YOUR CHOICE OF VALIDATORS MATTERS If you’ve followed the series, you understand the problem SEDA solves, how Oracle Programs work, what products they unlock, and why institutions should care about programmable data infrastructure. This final piece is operational….
Risk managers think differently than product managers. If you’ve ever sold anything for a living and had the compliance department tell you no, then you understand what I’m talking about. A product team evaluates an oracle by asking whether it can deliver the right data, on the right chains, fast enough for the use case….
The best test of any infrastructure layer is what gets built on top of it. Parts 1 and 2 covered the problem and the machinery. This part is about the products that protocol teams can design, launch, and scale once they’re not constrained by what a legacy oracle provider. The use cases below aren’t hypothetical….
Most oracle documentation starts with architecture diagrams and works backward to usefulness. We’re going the other direction. We’re going to start with what a protocol team actually does when they integrate SEDA, then zoom out to explain why the machinery behind it is designed the way it is. START WITH THE LIFECYCLES Here’s the simplest…
THE DATA PROBLEM IN CRYPTO: WHY ORACLES HIT A WALL The scenario is more common than it should be. Let’s say a protocol team wants to launch pre-IPO perpetuals. The demand is real. The mechanism is sound. The product is ready to build. But then they go looking for data feeds. The equity prices they…
By this point, you know what Monad is, why it exists, and what you can actually do on it. This last piece is a bit more personal for us… How we think about running a validator on Monad, and how you should think about choosing who to trust with your MON. We’ll keep it laid‑back, no…
We’ve talked about what Monad is and why the tech matters. Let’s keep this article simple. If you’re a normal crypto user, what can you actually do on Monad right now? Think of this as the How To Use Monad “day one game plan.” Plus, a little primer of where validators like us fit into the…
You’ve probably heard blockchain teams flex about “parallel execution” and “sub‑second finality.” This article is about what that tech actually feels like when you’re just trying to swap a token, play a game, mint an NFT, whatever. FAST FINALITY SO YOU DON’T WAIT FOR YOUR TANSACTION On slow chains, sometimes you hit “confirm” and then…
If Article 1 was “what the hell is Monad,” this one is “why Monad is built the way it is,” in everyday language. We want this to be easy to understand so you see how the design choices actually show up in your experience as a user or builder. MONAD’S BIG IDEA: DON’T CHANGE THE…
