{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdeeply-intents.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fstrictly-4-the-builders-keone-pUptS9CH","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Strictly 4 The Builders - Keone ","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/1e8168c2-13b0-461e-8b1f-501139dbf367/a613a312-37b2-4e3d-b1c6-fc594ce327f0/untitled_47.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"\nIn this episode of Deeply Intents, we chat with Keone Hon co-founder & GM at Monad Foundation. Keone spent a decade at Jump Trading building algorithmic trading systems before co-founding Monad. We get into what actually transfers from HFT to crypto, why the Monad team rolled their own database, and Keone's bigger thesis on crypto as humanity's universal asset layer.                 \n\nWe open with the Jump years. In particular, what high-frequency trading actually teaches you (confidence, shipping cadence, intuition for hardware), and why the real edge isn't technical but psychological. From there, we walk through the engineering decisions that shaped Monad including values choices, not an engineering ones. We discuss why testnet metrics are mostly fake and how the Monad community quietly built itself into real social infrastructure during the bear market.      \n\nWe close on Keone's case for crypto as a universal asset layer, with income share agreements as one of the most underrated frontier use cases. We touch on specific EVM improvements he wants upstreamed to Ethereum, why agentic workflows are \"directionally correct\" but too early to pick winners, and a final note on creatine. "}