From 10,000 TPS to Your Corner Store bobby
Monad built the fastest EVM blockchain—10,000 transactions per second, sub-second finality, near-zero fees. Impressive tech. One problem: you couldn’t buy coffee with it. Until now. AEON just integrated MON, unlocking real-world spending across 50 million merchants globally. Monad’s speed meets AEON’s merchant network—from blockchain performance to retail payments. The High-Performance Token Goes Mainstream Monad launched with $244 million in funding, backing from Paradigm and Coinbase Ventures, and technology that processes transactions 1,000x faster than Ethereum. The blockchain works brilliantly. But MON tokens stayed locked in DeFi and trading. AEON changes that. MON now works at McDonald’s in Vietnam, street vendors in Nigeria, retailers across Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The same token powering parallel execution and optimistic processing now buys groceries. From Testnet to Real Commerce Monad’s 100 billion token supply just gained utility beyond gas fees and...