Monad is a new proof-of-stake (PoS) Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatible Layer 1 blockchain designed to improve the overall Ethereum ecosystem; and decentralized computation platform. Monad offers throughput that is orders of magnitude higher than any existing smart contract blockchain, supporting 10,000 smart contract transactions per second (tps) through algorithmic improvements to virtual machine design and Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus mechanisms.