My public journey into Monad: a from-scratch, EVM-compatible L1 built for high performance without sacrificing decentralization.
This repo is both my personal learning log and my build-in-public base camp. Everything here is meant to be genuinely useful to anyone else going down the same path.
Go from curious to fluent, then build. Concretely:
- Understand Monad at a low level: architecture, consensus, execution, storage, networking. Not just "what" but "how" and "why."
- Explore the tooling: RPC providers, indexers, wallets, dev toolkits, node ops tools. Install it, test it, break it, write honest reviews.
- Explore the products: what's actually being built on Monad, how it uses the chain's unique properties (parallel execution, low fees, EVM compatibility).
- Build in public: ship my own open-source projects on Monad and/or contribute via MOST (Monad Open Source Track), and turn all of the above into content (this repo, X/Twitter, Medium).
The first three feed the fourth: understanding the stack and its tools/products is what makes it possible to build something worth shipping, and to write about it with substance instead of hype.
| Directory | What lives there |
|---|---|
blockchain/ |
Deep dives on architecture, consensus, execution, storage, networking -> the core protocol |
tooling/ |
Notes, hands-on tests, and reviews of RPC providers, indexers, wallets, dev toolkits, node-ops tooling |
ecosystem/ |
Exploration of apps/products built on Monad: what they do, how they use the chain, what makes it unique and interesting |
contributions/ |
My own open-source projects and contributions (including MOST work) |
content/ |
Drafts, published pieces, and a log of everything posted externally (X/Twitter, Medium, etc.) |
- High-level map of the stack (node components, consensus, execution, storage)
- Monad components deep dive
- Experiment with tooling
- Explore ecosystem
- Ship a first small open-source project on Monad
- Apply to MOST
- Publish first piece of content
Living list, updated as things move.
Projects / contributions
- Monocle: modular onchain analytics on Monad (Perpl first). Notes:
contributions/monocle.md
Content
- Nothing published yet, tracked in
content/
- X/Twitter: @BL0CKRUNNER
- Medium: @BlockRunner