Keone Hon is the CEO and Co-founder of Monad Labs, the team supporting the high-performance Monad blockchain. He is a software developer and blockchain researcher. Before founding Monad, he spent eight years at Jump Trading, leading an HFT team. In 2021, Keone joined Jump’s crypto division and led a team of engineers focused on blockchain research and dApp development.
In this conversation, we discuss:
– JUMP Trading
– High frequency trading
– The relationship between HFT and crypto trading
– Security on the Monad blockchain
– L1 pros and cons vs. the pros and cons of L2s
– The narrative always changes
– Roll-ups
– Scaling blockchain tech at the L1 level
– Creating better blockchain-based mobile apps
