Ethereum-compatible Layer 1 Monad has launched its devnet having reached 10,000 transactions per second in internal testing.

"Monad Devnet is live. 10,000 real TPS achieved on the EVM," the project posted on X.

Monad claims to have optimized the way Ethereum works to provide greater throughput — designed to offer up to 10,000 TPS with a one-second block time. However, this may be more challenging for node operators, with hardware requirements around twice as large compared to the main Ethereum blockchain.

Rather than simply cloning the Ethereum codebase, Monad says it’s building a new EVM from the ground up, using a pipelined architecture. This staggered approach, rather than carrying out each process one after the other, enables more efficient processing and instant block finality. …