Welcome to Banklist where we explore the frontier of internet money and internet finance and today on Bankless we are exploring the frontier of the

Ethereum virtual machine from two different architectures.

Two different blockchains are on the show today.

Monad representing the layer one camp and mega eith representing the layer two camp.

Both are using the eVM and really turning the EVM up to 11 to see how far it can go, but with very different paths to actually getting there.

On this episode we compare and contrast each of these respective

blockchains with the respective founders of each of the respective

blockchains. So some of the topics that we talk about which one is faster, which

one is more decentralized, which one is moreorship resistant, all of the technical properties that we enjoy talking about in the blockchain world.

Also, how did both Monad and Mega Eath attract such large communities ahead of actually shipping a test net.

That's right, not a main net, a test net.

And then also, what do they think about Anatoly's claim that building with the EVM is building

through Quicksand.

What do they think about that?

And why of all EVM's did they choose to build on the EVM?

All of these and other topics as well.

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