{"id":3986,"date":"2025-08-07T03:17:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T03:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tde.fi\/founder-resource\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T03:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T03:20:49","slug":"how-monad-labs-raised-225m-by-refusing-the-impossible-trade-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tde.fi\/founder-resource\/newsletter\/how-monad-labs-raised-225m-by-refusing-the-impossible-trade-off\/","title":{"rendered":"How Monad Labs Raised $225M by Refusing the “Impossible” Trade-off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I\u2019m going to tell you to do something you\u2019ve been told not to do your entire life!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Question<\/strong> whether the limitations imposed on you are real<\/strong> or just a mental construct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most founders see technical limitations<\/strong> as challenges that can\u2019t be overcome. They accept them as part of the process and move on. But what if you could rebuild the foundation,<\/strong> and the only thing stopping you is your vision? That\u2019s exactly what Monad Labs<\/strong> did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The founders didn\u2019t just work around the problem\u2014they rebuilt <\/strong>the very foundation that everyone else had accepted as unchangeable.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They didn\u2019t see limitations; they saw opportunity<\/strong> in redefining the limits.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that bold vision led Monad Labs<\/strong> to a $3B valuation<\/strong>, all while rebuilding Ethereum <\/strong>from the ground up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today’s Story: How 2 Wall Street Veterans Rebuilt Ethereum and Raised $225M Doing It<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keone Hon and James Hunsaker launched Monad Labs<\/strong> in 2022, bringing 8 years of high-frequency trading experience from Jump Trading<\/strong>. While the crypto world debated Layer 2 solutions, they spent 2 years quietly rewriting Ethereum\u2019s execution layer<\/strong> from scratch to eliminate inefficiencies that others had accepted as permanent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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