At Monad, we are committed to decentralization and performance
Bringing CEX like trading experiences to EVM DEXes is one of our main goals
A thread on how Monad will enable on-chain limit order books 👇
Most DEXes are AMMs that use formulas such as x*y=k for conversion rates between assets
This allows for convenient, permissionless on-chain swaps
But AMMs’ capital inefficiency results in slippage for users -- as trade size increases relative to liquidity, slippage gets worse
The majority of large traders use CEXes to minimize slippage
CEXes almost exclusively use limit order books where market makers compete to provide the best prices by constantly sending orders, leading to much lower slippage for users
“Blockchain becomes interesting once it can process 10,000 transactions per second”
- Steve Jobs, probably
Monad is the first EVM chain to reach this threshold by enabling parallel execution and other innovations.
Let’s take a look at how they did it👇🧵
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Smart contract blockchains have two main components: the consensus mechanism and virtual machine (VM).
Ethereum was the first blockchain to meaningfully enable programmable smart contracts, aka apps. The Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) works as a shared computing engine.
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The EVM is battle-tested and reliable.
It’s supported by over 20 blockchains and accounts for 97% of TVL in DeFi.
Apps written in Solidity and Vyper run on any EVM chain. EVM is the best choice for writing portable code.