Monad consensus client was open sourced today! 🎉 If you're non-technical like me, here's what this means in three simple points: 1️⃣ Open sourcing = anyone can now verify Monad's performance, find bugs, build tools. Most chains keep code secret until mainnet (and some are on "mainnet" but haven't open-sourced!) Making the code open-source reinforces the standard of decentralized systems: "don't trust, verify!" 2️⃣ This release is half of Monad's codebase. Every blockchain has two main components: Consensus layer (open sourced today): How validators vote and agree on transaction order; and Execution layer (coming later): How those transactions actually get processed. 3️⃣ Two major innovations you will see named are: MonadBFT and RaptorCast. They work together to make Monad so fast! ⚡ - MonadBFT solves "tail forking" - when a validator misses their turn, other chains restart the whole voting process. Monad doesn't have to. First to solve this! - RaptorCast spreads big blocks of data by splitting them into pieces that reconstruct themselves back (I think of it like streaming tech for blockchain data). This is how Monad becomes the fastest EVM L1 without centralization shortcuts. Years of hard work, now visible to everyone in the code. Huge congrats to the engineers @category_xyz! 💜