[AMA] Eunice joins Koreanads chat!!

I've actually visited Korea two times over the past year actually to visit Korean ads so this is the first time on a Twitter space for the Korean audience but otherwise yeah not the first time Twitter-based communication with KoreanNAT. Many people are surprised about that.

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You, co-founder of Monad, are showing on KoreanNAT weekly community content.

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As you know, last week, the Caribbean interned with me and was chilling with us

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and sharing many vision and many growth plan and all of the Monad.

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So I'm wondering that which information and which things will you share in the Monad

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KoreanNAT AMA in this time?

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Could you sharing some teaser for our AMA from now?

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Yeah, absolutely. So it looks like we've got a couple of good lineup

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a good lineup of questions coming up.

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We'll chat a little bit about myself.

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We'll talk about Monad Foundation, Monad's upcoming roadmap.

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We'll talk about the team and what

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we can expect between now and the end of the 이제는 2026년과 더 이상의 기대가 될 것입니다

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오케이 오케이

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일단 한국어로 안내를 드릴게요

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오늘 번역은 아무래도 모나드에서 중요하신 분이 왔으니까

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제가 번역에 항상 최선을 다하지만 그래도 성모님이 더 잘하시거든요

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그래서 성모님이 조금 더 정확한 번역을 줄 거라고 제가 생각을 해서

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특별히 번역을 성모님에게 부탁드렸습니다

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그래서 오늘 Q&A 세션은 성모님께서 번역을 주실 거니까

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더 양질의 해석과 정보를 얻을 수 있을 것이라고 생각을 합니다.

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성모님 번역 부탁드립니다.

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네, 질문이 그냥 오늘 어떤 내용 다룰지 질문을 해주셨고요.

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유니스가 답변하기로는 오늘 되게 여러 좋은 질문이 준비되어 있고

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그리고 유니스 본인, 그리고 모나드�� 재단 그리고 모나드 로드맵 그리고 모나드 팀 그리고 지금과 연말까지 어떤 걸 기대할 수 있는지에 대해서 설명을 해주신다고 합니다 We can hear the translation from the Song Mo because I asked Kim to give more exact translation

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because the co-founder's comment is very important to any Korean audience.

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You can hear the very exact and very clean translation from him. I will ask about 7 questions about the future of the Monad and about Eunice.

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Then Eunice answers and after that, Sungmo will give Korean translation for Korean audience.

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Also, I want to notice that there are some mini events for our korean audience today so you if you join this

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space you can join a google form and participate the event for korean now so please after the ama

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join and enjoy our event for small gift for korean that okay let's start the ama uh the q a session so the first question we want to know

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about you uh the mob so nice to meet you so could you please introduce yourself in korea we've been

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familiar with kione but we haven't heard much about units so please introduce about you and what's the role of the Monad.

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Yeah, absolutely happy to. Yeah, so I am Eunice, one of the co founders alongside Keone between the two of us. I'm

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definitely the more shy one. I'm not as much in the public

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light. But you know, I'm trying to it's one of the things that

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I'm trying to improve on. so hopefully uh i'll be a little

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bit more visible throughout the next couple of months for example i'll be coming back to seoul

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later in september for kbw so really excited about that and a couple of the events that we'll be

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hosting um sungmo is playing a key role in putting together some awesome events um for everyone there

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is playing a key role in putting together some awesome events for everyone there.

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But let's see a little bit about myself.

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So here at Monnet Foundation, I work pretty cross-functionally with a lot of our different teams,

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obviously with our ecosystem and BD teams.

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But more recently, I've basically gone back to some of my product roots and I'm working with some of our engineering team, our design team, our quant team in some projects that we will be sharing shortly.

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So that's something to look forward to.

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And also just internally operations, thinking about how we should be growing our team

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in the most effective way. But beyond that, a little bit about myself. So I

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have, I started out with a technical background. I went to university at MIT to study computer

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science. And that was actually when I met Keone for the first time.

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He was also there. We studied together. And after graduation, my career took me to traditional

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finance initially. Sungmo, stop me at any time if you want to do like a piece-by-piece translation,

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and I can do that as well. I can do it. It's fine. Okay. So after graduation,

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I went into traditional finance. I worked in rates, exotics trading at B of A in New York on

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Wall Street. As exciting as it was, I felt like it wasn't going to be my career path. So I

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transitioned into technical product management and worked with a SaaS company doing trading

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enterprise solutions and then continued on my product career into product payments at

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Shutterstock. After about seven, eight years in the industry, I was feeling a little bit burnt out

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and I ended up pivoting, had basically a quarter

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life crisis and worked at a restaurant in New York.

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It's a two Michelin star restaurant, Jean-Georges, in case anyone is familiar, as a pastry cook

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there.

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So that was 2019 into 2020, a year in the life of a kitchen. And then the pandemic hit. And with that pandemic,

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I was, I guess, enabled to think of another career option at that point since all restaurants

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basically closed. And that's when I found crypto. So I first stumbled into crypto in,

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I'd say it was like late 2020, leading into 21. So it was like NFT summer for

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Solana. I thought like a ton of the NFTs were super cute. I went to my first crypto conference

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at Mainnet New York in September 21. And it was at that point where I realized like, wow,

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there's a lot of opportunity here. Um, and a lot of really

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cool tech that's being built on chain that I had no idea what was going on for the past decade.

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Um, and so when I, when I had the opportunity to join Keone and James to start up Monad labs

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in early 22, for me, it was like, you know what, let's try something new to a different adventure.

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I have different skillsets that can compliment theirs. And a little over three years later, here we are. I have not left. And that is my story and what brings us to today so far.

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통역을 한번 해보겠습니다.

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저는 유니스고요.

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키오니랑 같이 코파운더입니다.

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그런데 저는 조금 대향적이고

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그런데 여러모로 발전을 시키려고 노력을 하고 있고요.

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앞으로는 조금 더 공식석상에 많이 나오도록 노력을 할 거라고 합니다.

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그리고 KBW 때도 올 거라서 많이 기대가 되고

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이벤트도 준비 열심히 하고 있으니까

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많이 좀 와주시면 감사하겠다고 말씀하셨고요.

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그리고 유니스는 모나드 재단에서 전반적으로 여러 팀들을 조율하는 역할이고요.

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에코시스템, 비리팀 다 관리를 하고 있는데

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원래 프로덕트 매니징을 하던 커리어를 살려서

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지금 프로덕트도 관리를 하고 있다고 말씀해주셨습니다.

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그리고 저희가 지금 곧 어떤 제품을 발표를 할 건데

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그 제품의 전체적인 프로덕트 매니징을 총괄을 하고 있습니다.

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그리고 유니스는 좀 기술적인 백그라운드가 있는데요.

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원래는 MIT에서 컴퓨터 공학을 전공을 했고

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키오니도 거기서 만났습니다.

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그리고 졸업하고 나서는 전통금융에서 첫 직장을 잡았고

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월스트리트이 재밌긴 했는데

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조금 더 기술적인 곳으로 가서

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기술적인 면모를 좀 펼쳐보고 싶다고 생각을 해서

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프로덕트 매니징 커리어를 시작하게 됐고

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특히 셔터스톡이라는 곳에도 일을 했다고 해 줬습니다

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근데 이제 그러다가 번아웃이 와서

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조금 다른 걸 해보는 게 좋겠다고 생각을 해서

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뉴욕에 있는 장조지라는 미슐랭 투스타 레스토랑이 있습니다.

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거기서 페이스트리를 담당하는 요리사로 일을 했고요.

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2년 동안 키친 라이프를 즐겼다고 말씀해 주셨습니다.

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근데 이제 2년 정도 하다 보니까 코로나가 찾아왔고요.

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코로나 때문에 레스토랑이 갑자기 다 닫게 돼서 되게 어려워졌는데

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그러다가 크립토를 만났다고 합니다.

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그래서 2021년쯤 NFT가 많이 나와서 여러 귀여운 사진들 보면서

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관심을 갖기 시작을 했는데

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그때 9월쯤에 메인넷 뉴욕이라는 행사에 처음 가게 됐었는데

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거기서 느낀 게 진짜 많은 기회가 있구나라는 걸 느꼈다고 해요.

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그래서 정말 많은 일들이 내가 모른 사이에 일어나고 있어서 공부를 많이 해봤고

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어 그러다가 이제 키오니와 제임스, 저희 CTO와 함께 2022년 초에 모나들을 창업하게 됐고

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그리고 3년 뒤 지금이라고 합니다 그래서 창업한 뒤 3년이 됐다고 하네요

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네 이상입니다

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Thank you for your story.

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And we pass to the story of the Monad.

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The second question is that we already heard a lot information and vision through the Songmo,

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but we'd like to hear about the Monad's vision directly from a co-founder of Monad.

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So could you share it with us?

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Yeah, absolutely.

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I think there's no surprise here that at Monad Foundation,

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we have a really amazing vision in mind

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for where we hope Monad will go.

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In the shorter term,

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I think the goals are clear.

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We are excited to get closer and closer to mainnet to launch and finally be able to showcase

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a ton of the applications that have been building on Mana Testnet and a ton of the teams that

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have been putting in so much effort into making mainnet and the on-chain experience unique.

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A lot of the vision that we have in mind is enabled directly because of the technology

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that the Monad blockchain is built on.

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It's through, and I won't go into detail here,, the client is completely rebuilt from scratch. And so that

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basically allows the Monad blockchain to be super efficient, super performant, super fast,

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and also super cheap for all users. And the reason why this is beneficial is because it unlocks a ton

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of unique use cases. Well, not just unique use cases, but it unlocks a lot of utility for existing use cases as well.

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So basically it transforms the design space from what we have come to learn to expect with

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on-chain transactions and on-chain usage to something much, much more. The way that I think

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about it is in terms of like how computers used to be back in, let's say, you know, the Windows 95 era.

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During that time, like it was already so amazing what you could do on a PC.

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There was a beautiful UI.

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There were tons of apps like, you know, Microsoft Windows, sorry, Microsoft Word and Excel. But then as soon as like Windows

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XP came out, you know, like I think it was what, five, six years later, suddenly the design space

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transformed substantially. What you could do on your PC was just like night and day, the power behind it, the graphics cards behind it, CPU

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capabilities.

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And one thing that I remember is the difference in the type of games that were preloaded onto

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the Microsoft Windows OS at the time.

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Like in Windows 95, I think the coolest game was like Minesweeper, which for what it's worth, I think is like such a cool game. It's OG,

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will forever be one of the best simple games in my mind. But with like Windows XP, I think that's

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when the pinball machine came out and the graphics at the time were like, oh my goodness, I can't

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believe this is on my computer, on my screen. This looks like

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real life and super interactive, all these buttons. So I think it's kind of like that.

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The experience is suddenly going from the on-chain experience where the games, the

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experience might be a little bit more clunky, more basic, like a minesweeper. And then now being able to go into the next phase of what

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on-chain usage is like, which is the more subtleties, more details, more intricacies

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and complexities that are unlocked because of the performance and speed and openness accessibility of Monad, like the pinball machine.

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Yeah, I'll pause there and then I'll keep going.

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Sangmo, if you want to go ahead and translate.

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OK.

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Monad은 정말 큰 비전이 있습니다.

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단기적으로는 목표가 분명한데요.

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메인넷에 가까워질수록 저희가 에코시스템 앱들을 쇼케이싱할 기회가 많이 늘어나고 있고요.

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정말 되게 많은 팀들이 엄청난 노력을 기울여서 온체인 경험이 특별할 수 있도록 많은 기획을 기울이고 있습니다.

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그리고 저희가 생각할 때는 모나드 기술 덕에 가능할 수 있게 된 여러 부분들을 더 자랑스럽게 알려드리고 싶습니다. 저희가 얼마 전에 발표했듯이

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저희가 클라이언트를 아예 없던 바닥부터 새로 만들었기 때문에

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많은 유니크한 유스케이스가 만들어지고

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실제로 많은 유틸리티가 그런 기술로부터 생겨날 것이라고 생각을 합니다.

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그동안 불가능했던 부분들을 모나드 기술로서 열어주는 건데요.

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비유를 들자면 윈도우 95도 되게 많은 것을 할 수 있었죠

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윈도우 95 나오는 거 보니까

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이분의 연배가 좀

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가늠이 되죠

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많은 프로그램이 실제로

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윈도우 95에서도 실제로 돌아가고

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엑셀이나 워드도 잘 돌아갔는데

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그러다가 윈도우 XP가 나왔을 때

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정말 사람들이 많이 놀랄 정도로 많은 것을 가능하게 해줬습니다

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그리고 또 그래픽카드나 CPU 능력에 따라서

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천차만별인 게임들이 다양하게 돌아갔고요

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예컨대 윈도우 95에는 마인드 스위퍼라는 게임이 돌아갔는데

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XP에서는 핀볼머신이 미리 깔려서 나와서

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핀볼도 재밌게 했던 기억이 있는데

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그래픽 자체도 그런 도트 그래픽보다는

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정말로 리얼리스틱한 그래픽이 선보여지면서

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사람들을 많이 놀라게 했습니다

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진짜 실제 같은데 라는 생각이 들 정도로

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그렇게 새로운 경험이 만들어졌는데요

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모나드도 이런 경험을 만들어내고자 하고 있습니다

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그래서 이런 트랜잭션 경험 자체가 지금은 되게 기본적인 트랜잭션인데

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이후 모나드가 런칭이 되면 온체 경험 자체가 새로운 차원이라고 느껴질 수 있도록 할 예정입니다.

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캠, 던.

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오케이, 감사합니다. 마지막으로 여기의 vision은 크립토의 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 매우 mass adoption of crypto. And whether that's from an entertainment perspective or utility perspective,

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we are hopeful that the Vana blockchain will enable onboarding for basically everyone,

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whether that's because of, let's say, cross-border payments, whether that's because of the

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openness and experience that DeFi brings to those that aren't able to access traditional finance solutions, or whether

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that's more from a social connectivity perspective and bringing more and more people around the

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world together.

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That is the big vision for what Monad is aiming to 것과 도움이 되어야 하는 것입니다.

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저희 비전은 매스 어댑션입니다. 그래서 다양한 사람들이 블록체인을 경험할 수 있게끔 하는 거고요.

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그게 엔터테인먼트든 아니면 실제 사용성 있는 유틸리티든

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Monad은 모든 사람들이 온보딩 될 수 있도록 할 예정입니다.

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그게 크로스보더 페이먼트거나 아니면 디파이가 가져올 혁신이거나 아니면 전통 금융에서는 불가능했던 일들을 가능하게 할 것이고 사람들이 사회적으로 더 연결될 수 있도록 글로벌 사람들이 서로 문제없이 서로 교류할 수 있도록 할 수 있는 그러한 일들을 기술로서 가능케 할 것입니다.

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I think it is just a coincidence because the next question is about the mass adoption.

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So I want to hear the answer more specifically.

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Recently, there have been many efforts to achieve mass adoption for many blockchain projects.

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So I'm wondering about that Monat is making, which effort is made by Monad to achieve mass adoption as well.

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Yeah, definitely.

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And, you know, I'm just thinking back in school, how when you're opposed with a problem,

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there's not necessarily just one solution to it, or there's not necessarily just one

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way in which you can approach the problem.

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And the same can be said of our team here and how we're tackling this effort.

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With one approach, it's about the technology.

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And so I think much of this audience might already be familiar with it.

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But again, as an example, we are introducing a net new client, a net new implementation of the virtual machine that is much more performant

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than any other VM that's out there right now.

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Secondly, more recently, the new Monad BFT, the consensus mechanism, has been introduced

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and rolled out.

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That is another huge aspect for the technology being a differentiator and an enabler for bringing mass adoption of blockchain to everyone.

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But then beyond that, the tech is one thing and the tech is great, but you also need things that actually utilize the tech to be the other.

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So one way in which we're supporting this effort is through supporting the existing ecosystem.

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And that's, there's hundreds of applications that have deployed on the Monarch testnet, as an example, and our ecosystem and BD and ecosystem engineering teams or dev role teams are all focused on making sure that that experience for deployment, for live applications

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is as smooth and enabled as possible. So whether that be through identifying tools that would best

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benefit project teams or infrastructure providers that make application development that much easier,

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we're working

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through those efforts to make sure that, you know, if there's an idea that you have, you can actually

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build it instead of running into a, oh man, but like, what about, you know, I don't have a specific

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data set. Like I need this Oracle and it's not available on Monad. Like we don't want that to

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be a blocker whatsoever. So we're meeting

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developers and builders where they're at. The other effort is making sure that the

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things that you can do on chain are actually meaningful to everyday people.

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Like I consider myself an everyday person and are also also meaningful to those of us who consider

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ourselves like DeFi fiends or DGens or the super crypto native and needing to find what's

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going to, what's like the next big thing in crypto and making sure that it's also available

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and findable on Monad.

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So that's like the use case identification part of it.

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So there's like a little bit of a trifecta going on there with those three pieces.

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But the final piece is also in thinking about how do we break out of this?

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How do we just how do we break out of this? How do we just how do we

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break out of crypto and actually make the on chain experience accessible, easy and not

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scary to most of the people out there who right now see crypto as like a gray area or, ooh, it's spooky, it's scary, I'm not familiar with it, or needing to take a ton of different clicks online or steps and download this and click through that.

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It's super, I think we all know this, it's super clunky for our friends and family who aren't as familiar.

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clunky for our friends and family who aren't as familiar. So identifying a meaningful use case

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that makes it so that some of these like, I'm trying to think of the word here,

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the activation energy worth it is going to be powerful as well. The way in which we're thinking about that

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is through, for example, the recent acquisition of Portal, which is stablecoin and payments

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infrastructure that is meaningful for Web2 companies to then enable cross-border payments on chain and also coalescing like the web two versus web three worlds together.

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And in doing so, that opens up the space by which like crypto can reach a different audience,

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a more broad audience. Yeah, so I'll pause there since I basically said a lot, but 그래서 제가 많이 말했을 때, 그런데,

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우리가 마스아지의 목적을 접하는 목적의 목적을

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하고,

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그 목적을 만들고,

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그 목적을 만들고,

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감사합니다.

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문제가 있을 때 해결 방법이 하나만 있는 건 아닌 것 같습니다.

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모나드가 택하는 여러 접근 방식이 있는데요.

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첫 번째로는 당연히 기술일 것 같습니다.

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여기 듣고 계신 많은 부분들이 알 수 있을 것 같은데요.

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예컨대 모나드는 아예 새로운 클라이언트를 선보였고

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두 번째로는 저희가 최근에 새로운 컨센서스 메커니즘인

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모나드 BFT를 소개하기도 했습니다.

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기술은 이제 또 일부이고

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실제로 더 중요한 것은 이 실제로 기술을 활용하고

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응용할 수 있는 것들이 필요하다고 생각을 합니다.

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그래서 저희 모나드 재단은

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에코시스템을 지원하는 것을 통해서 이 문제를 해결하고자 노력도 하고 있습니다.

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에코시스템을 지원하는 것을 통해서

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이 문제를 해결하고자 노력도 하고 있습니다.

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에코시스템 내에서 많은 빌더들이 앱을 만들고 있는데 정말 많은 시도들이 있고요.

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재단은 이러한 좋은 시도들이 더욱더 성공적이고 부드럽게 이루어질 수 있도록 노력을 하고 있습니다.

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아이디어가 있다면 그냥 생각만 하는 게 아니라 실제로 만들고 실제로 그 프로덕트들을 내보일 수 있게 도움을 주자는 게 저희의 목표입니다.

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그래서 저희는 개발자들이랑 빌더들을 되게 열심히 만나서 이야기를 꾸준히 많이 나누고 있습니다.

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그리고 또 저희는 온체인에 살 수 있는 것들이 사람들에게 실제로 의미 있는 게 되게끔 하고자 하는 것도 저희의 목표인데요.

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디젠들이 생각할 때 다음 빅딩이 뭐냐고 물어볼 때도

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그 모나드에서 그 다음 빅딩, 뱅어가 생겨나게끔 하는 것도 저희의 목표이고요.

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어쨌든 실질적으로 유즈케이스를 찾아내는 게 더 중요하겠다고 생각을 하고 있습니다.

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그리고 마지막으로는 우리가 어떻게 되게 작은 크립토 버블을 깨고 나갈지에 대한 생각도 많이 하고 있는데요.

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온체인 경험이 되게 쉽고 접근 가능하고 무섭지 않게끔 하는 것이 저희의 목표고요.

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일반인들이 겁먹지 않고 시도할 수 있도록 하는 그런 경험이 되게 중요하다고 생각을 합니다.

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그러니까 에콘데 그냥 일반인들이 이런 여러 가지를 시도하는 걸 액티베이션 에너지라고 할 때

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이 액티베이션 에너지가 쓸모 있게끔 하는 게 중요하다고 생각을 해요.

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그리고 저희가 최근에 포털이라는 스테이블 코인이랑 지급결제 인프라를 인수를 했는데

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이것은 웹2 회사들한테 되게 중요한 부분일 수도 있습니다.

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크로스버더 페이먼트를 실질적으로 가능하게 하는 인프라이기 때문에

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이런 것처럼 웹3 기술을 이용해서 실제로 실생활에 도움이 될 수 있도록

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그리고 더 넓은 유저들을 만날 수 있게끔 하는 게 기술로서 이루어질 수 있게끔 하는 부분이기 때문입니다. everyone. So in some respects, like for the crypto and sorry, for the technology enthusiasts who were

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super excited about the leading technology, like we want Monad to be a place where you can get

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lost in that and really marvel at some of the engineering nuances behind what makes the Monad

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blockchain unique. For builders of the space and for founders of the space, we want Monad to be a place where blockers are unblocked and where the limits of possibility have been increased.

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And where the constraints of certain technology trade-offs are lessened or no longer there, no longer there. Like we want it to be a

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fun place to build. And for community and for end users who are looking for, whether it be a place

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of social fun, finding new friends, or whether it's a place of finding the next best thing on

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chain or finding ways to make life easier. We want Monad blockchain to be a platform that unlocks that as well.

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조금만 더 덧붙이자면,

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Monad는 모두에게 조금씩 어필하는 부분이 다를 수도 있는데요.

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기술에 대해서 되게 관심이 많고 열광하시는 분들은

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Monad가 그분들에게 많은 엔지니어링적으로

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만족감을 줄 수 있는 기술이 되고자 하고요.

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그리고 원래 웹3 유저들에게는 기존에 조금 블록이었던 막혀있던

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부분들을 해결해주는 기술을 자리매김하게끔 자리하고 싶고 커뮤니티

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에게는 사람들을 새로 만나고 친구를 만들 수 있고 같이 온체인 활동을

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하면서 어떻게 이런 기술들이 실생활에 잘 적용될 수 있을지 고민하는 공간으로 자리매김 했으면 좋겠습니다

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so as the huge founder of a huge project so i'd also like to hear about your experience what do you believe is the most important aspect when it comes to building a blockchain project? Very good question. What is the most important aspect of building a blockchain project?

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I don't know if I'm going to be able to always recall, and this is not just true of blockchain

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projects, but just generally, if you're building something, if you're bringing something to market,

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the important thing to keep in mind is who your audience is, who your users are, who your community is. Because ultimately, it's one thing to build

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for yourself, which can be fulfilling in one way. But if you're building for others and,

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you know, giving utility, giving enablement, giving empowerment to others, like that makes

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whatever it is that you're building that much more special. So I think for Monad, especially

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in the earlier days, community is everything. It still continues to be everything. And I think we

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owe a lot of the growth of the ecosystem, the growth of Mindshare because of the strength of the community that we've seen today, up until today, rather.

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And in addition to that, like, ultimately, in order to have really good and interesting apps,

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you need the technology, you need the baseline in order to support those apps. And so thinking about ways to actually make that happen, whether it be through motivating the team to identify like what types of new engineering advancements that should be prioritized, whether it be through determining which infrastructure providers and needs that need to be met, understanding what those frictions

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are and working to unlock it. That is super, super important. If you're building something

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without an audience in mind, then it's kind of, if a tree falls in a forest, does anyone hear it? Or like, you know, does it, I think that's how the phrase goes. I might be messing it up here. But like, you cannot build in a silo, you have to build for someone on behalf of someone and something.

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네 질문 자체가 블록체인 프로젝트를 할 때 가장 중요하게 생각하는 게 뭐냐고 질문을 주셨는데요

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답변으로는 딱 하나만 콕 집어서 말할 수 있을지는 모르겠습니다만

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블록체인 프로젝트뿐만 아니라 어떤 것이든지 새로 만든다고 하면

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진짜 중요한 건 당신의 유저가 누군지

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그리고 커뮤니티가 누군지를 설정하고

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찾아내는 것이라고 생각을 합니다.

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만약 다른 사람들이 여러분의 프로덕트를 쓰게 만들고자 한다면

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사실은 그 사람들이 뭘 원하는지 알아야 된다고 생각을 하고요.

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모나드에게 커뮤니티가 정말 중요한 이유는

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그 사람들이 모나드를 실제로 사용하는 유저들이기 때문입니다.

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커뮤니티가 강해왔기 때문에 마인드쉐어랑 내러티브가 강화되었다고 생각을 하고요.

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그래서 지금도 모나드에게 가장 중요한 게 커뮤니티라고 생각을 합니다.

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팀이 어떤 기술적 우월성을 가져가야 될지

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어떤 인프라를 도입할지

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그리고 어떤 그 도입 과정에서 마찰이 있을지

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그런 것들을 생각하는 게 중요한데요.

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이러한 것들은 모두 어떤 오디언스가 있는지,

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그러니까 유저가 누군지를 고민을 해봐야 생각해낼 수 있는 부분들이라서

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이런 제품을 만들 때 절대로 혼자서 만들 수는 없고

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누군가를 위한 제품을 만드는 것이라면

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그 누군가가 원하는 게 뭔지를 알아내는 것이 중요하다고 생각을 합니다.

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원하는 게 뭔지를 알아내는 것이 중요하다고 생각을 합니다. build up conviction towards what that idea is or what the use case is. But conviction

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and staying true to the path and keeping the vision aligned and the same, I think is also

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important in building up confidence in what it is that you're building.

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One thing that I think has stuck for, we've been building, we've been working on the efforts to bring

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Mana to market over three years at this point.

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It's a long time.

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And I know that many people have waited a long time.

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But it's because good things take time.

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Building something from scratch takes time.

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This is a very unique project in a way that we haven't seen other L1s come to market before.

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But throughout all of this time, though, the vision and the mission behind Monad has never changed.

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We've always wanted to bring a new and exciting and performant version of the EVM to market. We've always wanted to only adhere to the best engineering practices.

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We've always said from the very beginning that community comes first, that technology comes first, and that there's no excuses, no shortcuts.

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And that has never deviated. So we have conviction in that as a part of our core ethos and mission.

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And I do think that those who have been following the MONA project for a long time now has seen

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that we haven't deviated from that mission either. It's stayed the path and there's hopefully just as much conviction

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in the work that our team is doing as we ourselves within the team

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are seeing and living out and working through as well.

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I think that this is not to say that pivots cannot happen because sometimes when you're working on, um, an idea, the, the market shifts, um, or the needs of your audience shifts and attention shifts.

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And maybe it's, uh, it's needed in order to survive, to, to make a quick pivot.

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Um, but pivots shouldn't happen on a whim. They should still be based

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on who you're building for in really understanding the needs and desires of your audience. Um,

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big pivots without that in mind, uh, I think can be seen as, um, uh, uh, what's, I'm trying to think of a word here, my goodness. It can be seen as kind of like

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quick, I guess, cash grabs or like, you know, like not really having that much conviction.

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Man, I'm being a little bit circular with my words here. That's not great either, because then like

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you, if you don't have

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conviction in what it is that you're building and if there's no stability in what it is that

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you're building, then your audience is going to be confused. We don't want that either. So

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yeah, I'll just circle back here and say a second point to the what is important is to keep in mind 두 번째로는 컨빅션이 있는 것도 중요합니다.

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내가 만드는 것에 대한 확신이 있어야 됩니다.

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유저가 누군지 알고 그 사람들이 뭘 원하는지 안다면 이런 확신이 생기기 마련입니다.

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이런 컨빅션과 비전이 맞아 떨어지면 자신감이 생기는 것입니다.

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모나드는 3년 정도 제품 개발을 하고 있는데요.

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되게 긴 시간인 것은 알고 있습니다.

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그래도 여기에 대한 이유는 정말 좋은 것을 만드는 데는 정말 오랜 시간이 걸리기 때문입니다.

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많은 레이어 원들이 나왔지만 저희는 정말 다른 것을 만들고 있고요.

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그래도 한 가지 말할 수 있는 부분은 모나드의 비전은 창업 당일부터 바뀐 적이 없습니다.

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EBM의 퍼포먼스를 압도적으로 개선하는 것이 저희의 목표입니다.

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시작부터 그래 왔습니다.

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커뮤니티와 기술이 우선이고 지름길은 없다는 게 저희의 좌우명이었습니다.

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그래서 이것을 기반으로 컨빅션을 만들어냈고

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오래간 모나드를 팔로우해본 분들은 아시고 계시겠지만

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한 번도 저희는 이 컨빅션에서 벗어난 적이 없습니다.

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그렇다고 저희가 일반론적으로 피봇을 하면 안 된다고 말하는 것은 아닙니다.

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어떤 시점에는 마켓이 변화하기도 하고 어텐션이 바뀌기도 합니다.

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생존하고자 하면 계약을 바꿔야 될 때도 있는데요.

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하지만 피봇을 하더라도 유저가 누군지를 이해를 해야 성공적인 피봇이 될 것입니다.

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유저에 대한 이해 없이 큰 피봇이 있다면 성공적이지 못할 수도 있고

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단기간에 돈만 보고 달려가는 단기간적인 프로젝트가 될 수도 있습니다.

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만약 당신이 만들고 있는 것에 대한 컨빅션이 없다면

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안정성이 없을 것이고 커뮤니티도 그걸 알게 될 것입니다.

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결론적으로 중요한 건 컨빅션이라고 할 수 있겠습니다.

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중요한 건 컨벡션이라고 할 수 있겠습니다. recreated with any history? Ooh, okay, yes.

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Very long history with mostly, yeah.

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There's not necessarily one way

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in which the team came together.

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I'll maybe talk about the founder story first as well.

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I came in as kind of like the tertiary founder,

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James and Keone together.

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And for those of you who don't know, so again, Keone is a co-founder of Monad Foundation.

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James is currently CEO and CTO and founder of Category Labs. The three of us started MonEd Labs together in early 2022. Before that, James and Keone had been working together for almost a decade at jump trading. So they have a very technical background focused

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on high frequency trading. They really worked on and in super fast environments, um, basically tick to trade times within a span of

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nanoseconds. Um, whereas like in the crypto world, we oftentimes think of things in the,

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the frame of seconds or milliseconds. Um, you know, so this is order of magnitudes faster.

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And that's like the, the speed in the domain that they were working in. So having worked

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together for many years in jump trading, and then also transitioning into jump crypto, and then

0:48:34 - 0:48:41

seeing like the world of on-chain trading or the world of on-chain technology. I think at that

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point, they quickly discovered that the technology that was holding up this whole ecosystem of DeFi and other use cases was severely limited in the way that it was implemented.

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And so that was the core vision behind bringing Monad to life.

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you know, bringing Monad to life. Having known, I've known Keone since uni days,

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and I had met James as early as 2014 is when I first met James. I kind of knew that these two

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were a powerhouse together. Their shared vision for improving technology, their shared experiences and working together in a very

0:49:30 - 0:49:36

high-stress environment, in a high-stakes environment, I think showed a lot of grit

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and integrity. So I was super excited to join the team with them. And then from there, we slowly

0:49:42 - 0:49:50

built out the rest of the team. Honestly, some of our earliest hires were kind of like happenstance.

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Um, I remember when we were first looking to bring on a couple of engineers, we just

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kind of posted throughout a whole bunch of different forums.

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We used AngelList, we used LinkedIn, um, we reached out to friends. We posted on various college job boards.

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And our very first engineer came in through AngelList, and we took a complete gamble.

0:50:16 - 0:50:24

At the time, we were hiring folks just based off of online interviews.

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Just based off of online interviews, nowadays we actually fly people in or we go out to meet them during conferences or something. Because sometimes you are able to get a better sense of who someone is in person rather than just over a Zoom call or a Google Meets call.

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But anyway, yeah, we took a few gambles earlier on.

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And it was just like, you know what, let's see how this goes.

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The very first two engineers that we made in June and July, the first two engineering

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hires in June and July of 2022, sorry, is that right?

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20, yeah, 2022.

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They're still with Category Labs and they're grinding and they're basically leading the

0:51:19 - 0:51:21

efforts on consensus.

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efforts on consensus. We had another engineer join in November of 22, and they're also still

0:51:29 - 0:51:39

kicking it at Category Labs, I believe, leading a lot of the efforts on the execution side of

0:51:39 - 0:51:48

technology stack. So I think the coming of the team in the early days was really like through

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word of mouth and maybe through a lot of trust. I think we had a lot of conversations with folks

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who were like, are you sure that what you're building is going to be good? Like, do people

0:52:02 - 0:52:06

want this? Like, are you sure you want to build another L1? And at the time,

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the L2 narrative was just starting to take off. And so we were met with a lot of

0:52:11 - 0:52:17

maybe concern and skepticism. But I think that also says a lot for when you're building an early

0:52:17 - 0:52:31

team, when there is skepticism and you still are able to bring new people on, those new people have to have some form of conviction

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and buy-in into your vision.

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So yeah, and I think that still shows to today.

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In any case, as we progressed into 2023 and announced our first raise, it made recruiting a little bit easier.

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At that point, our team was about seven people full time, I want to say, at the start of 2023.

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We had just recently brought on Bill Monday to lead the efforts for community building.

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to lead the efforts for community building.

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We had converted one of our engineering interns

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and also our first female engineering hire at the time onto the team.

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And yeah, I think 2023 was a year where we were really able

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to start pushing down on the gas pedal. That was the year that our ecosystem team really started to grow.

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We brought on two of our BD folks, Joey and Abdul, later on in that summer as well, I think May and July respectively.

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And from there started to gain traction amongst the community.

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The community started growing a lot under the direction and ideas that Bill had and in turn joined shortly thereafter.

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So there was certainly a lot of excitement into 23. We brought on our first recruiter,

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which I think is also extremely important for an early team. The engineering team grew a ton that year as well.

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And this is bringing back memories here. And then into 2024, that's when, I think that's when

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I first started going to conferences and people were like, oh yeah, I've heard of you guys. And

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I remember going to conferences before and having to, you know,

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basically do an elevator pitch every single time I met someone new. I was wearing the first version

0:54:52 - 0:55:00

of the Monad hat. And I think very few people recognized who we were, what we were doing. But

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yeah, 2024 was a big changer at that point when people started to take notice and we were able to announce our next, our Series A raise.

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It opened up a ton of doors.

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This was also the time that Sungmo joined in building out the APAC team efforts.

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So a lot of growth and excitement during that year. Um, let's see. So fast forward

0:55:30 - 0:55:39

to 2025 with Monad foundation. Um, we started off the year with, um, a still a fairly lean

0:55:39 - 0:55:48

team across like ecosystem, BD engineering, um, quant. And I think we've since almost doubled in size

0:55:48 - 0:55:51

because there's just so much work to do.

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We've got a ton of stuff on our roadmap

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and milestones planned for the future.

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So it's been such a fun experience

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in growing out the team.

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We've definitely grown out our, uh, operations

0:56:06 - 0:56:14

team to help, um, us scale and grow and be, be organized and efficient as, uh, a team. Uh, we've

0:56:14 - 0:56:19

grown. Yeah. I mean, honestly, I could list basically all of the different, um, all of the

0:56:19 - 0:56:27

different, uh, departments that we've added folks to, um Apologies to everyone. I didn't have the

0:56:27 - 0:56:32

opportunity to list everyone by name. So Monad Foundation folks, please don't get mad at me.

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Let's see. I think that, yeah, the recruiting element also changed a little bit as more and more people were aware of what Monad was

0:56:46 - 0:56:53

and what we were building. Word of mouth definitely helps a lot in recruiting the best talent

0:56:53 - 0:57:02

and having good representation on the timeline, for example, has also been super helpful.

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모나드 팀에는 정말 긴 히스토리가 있습니다.

0:57:22 - 0:57:26

먼저 파운더 스토리를 알려드리면 유니스는 세 번째로 들어왔습니다.

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제임스랑 키오니가 먼저 시작을 했고요.

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키오니는 모나드 재단의 코파운더입니다.

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제임스는 카테고리랩스의 CEO고요.

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모나드 재단과 카테고리랩스는 실제로 카테고리랩스가 개발을 담당한다고 보시면 되고

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재단은 좀 생태계를 꾸리는 역할이라고 보시면 되고요.

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그리고 유니스까지 셋이 모나드를 시작했습니다

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이게 2022년 초였고요

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제임스와 키오니는 점프트레이딩에서 10년 가까이

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하이프리퀸시 트레이딩이라고 해서

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되게 빠르게 사고팔고 사고팔고 하는 그런 기법이 있는데

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그런 금융공학을 담당을 했었고

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정말 빠른 속도로 진행되는 트레이딩 환경에서 일했습니다

0:58:05 - 0:58:08

그 둘은 상당히 긴 기간 같이 일했고

0:58:08 - 0:58:10

점프크립토에서 일해본 결과

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온체인 환경도 여러모로 개선될 수 있다는 점을 알게 되었습니다

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전체 디파이 생태계와 여러 유즈 케이스들이 되게 기술적인 제안 때문에

0:58:18 - 0:58:20

실현되지 못하고 있었는데요

0:58:20 - 0:58:23

그래서 이걸 가능케 하기 위해서 모나드를 만들게 되었습니다

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유니스가 키온 일을 알게 된 건 대학 시절부터였고 제임스는 2014년부터 알았습니다.

0:58:28 - 0:58:31

그 둘이 합쳐졌을 때 정말 좋은 파워하우스가 되겠다 생각을 했고

0:58:31 - 0:58:34

그들은 비전과 경험, 기술력을 모두 가졌고

0:58:34 - 0:58:40

정말 높은 스트레스 환경에서도 많은 애들을 해내는

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그리고 성공적으로 임무를 수행해내는 모습이 감명 깊었습니다.

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그리고 이렇게 3명에서 시작하고 나서 사람들을 점차 늘리기 시작했는데요.

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여러 다른 채용 플랫폼에 채용 공고를 내기도 했고

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친구들한테 소개를 해달라고도 하고

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대학교에 채용 공고를 게시하기도 했습니다.

0:58:55 - 0:58:58

그래서 첫 채용 공고는 엔젤리스트라는 곳에 처음 채용을 했는데

0:58:58 - 0:59:02

사실은 인터넷에서 지원을 받다 보니 정확히 누군지를 몰랐기 때문에

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도박적인 부분도 많이 있었습니다.

0:59:05 - 0:59:12

요즘은 채용 프로세스가 모나드에서는 많이 개선되어서 실제로 사람을 꼭 직접 만나보고 인터뷰를 진행하고 채용을 하게 되는데요.

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예전처럼 줌콜만으로 채용을 하진 않습니다.

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어쨌든 처음 몇 명 채용은 도박이었는데, 첫 두 명의 개발자들은 2022년 6월에 들어왔고 아직까지 잘 일하고 있습니다.

0:59:23 - 0:59:25

또 다른 엔지니어는 11월에 들어왔는데

0:59:25 - 0:59:28

실행, 엑세큐션 팀에서 잘 일을 하고 있고요.

0:59:30 - 0:59:34

어쨌든 초창기 팀을 꾸리는 데는 소개가 대부분이었고

0:59:34 - 0:59:37

신뢰가 높은 사람들이 많이 남아있었습니다.

0:59:37 - 0:59:40

사람들이 이거 많이 질문을 했던 게

0:59:40 - 0:59:43

이게 진짜 사람들이 필요로 하는 제품이 맞아? 라는 질문도 많았고

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이거 진짜 돼? 라는 질문도 많았습니다.

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그래도 초창기 팀원들은 이런 질문들을 무시하고 원하들을 신뢰하고 컨빅션이 있는 사람들이었습니다.

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그 이후에 2023년에 처음 레이징을 했고 리쿠르팅을 더 잘할 수 있었어요.

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그때는 7명이 풀타임이었고 그 이후 커뮤니티 빌딩을 하기 위해서 빌 먼데이도 들어왔고 첫 여성 개발자도 들어왔습니다

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이때가 에코시스템 팀이 조금 자라나기 시작하는 시점이었고

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피츠도 그때 들어왔고 두 명의 비디도 그 해에 들어왔습니다

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이후 더 인기가 생기기 시작했고 커뮤니티가 생기기도 시작했고요

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그때 인턴 케빈도 들어오기 시작했습니다

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그리고 저희 채용 담당자도 들어왔고요.

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근데 2024년이 되었을 때는 사람들이 이제 사람들이 모나드를 들어봤다고

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말하기 시작을 하더라고요. 그 전까지는 계속 컨퍼런스에 가면 모나드에

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대해서 소개를 하고 피칭을 해야 됐는데 이제는 사람들이 먼저 알아보게

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됐습니다. 그래서 시리즈A도 레이징을 했고 저도 성모도 그때 조인을 하고

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나서는 아시아를 키우기 시작했습니다.

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지금도 엄청 큰 팀은 아닌데요.

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작년에 비해서는 그래도 안 좋습니다.

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달성해야 할 일들이 너무 많고 할 일들이 너무 많습니다.

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사람들이 더 들어오기 시작하면서 그리고 모나드가 더 알려지기 시작

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하면서 리크루팅 프로세스도 많이 달라졌습니다.

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정말 좋은 사람들을 모실 이유가 많이 늘어났습니다.

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많이 늘어났습니다.

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이상입니다.

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이상입니다. ask about that with this story. I think the mainnet phase of the Monad

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is close to the goal.

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So it seems that the first time Monad

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has spoken so directly about the world mainnet.

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So does this mean the preparation for the Monad

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mainnet is already complete?

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Good question.

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Mainnet is coming up.

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That's definitely the biggest milestone

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that we have on deck as a whole team

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and for the public audience as well.

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We're excited about it.

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There's still some work to be done.

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So we are nearly complete. That is true. 저희는 더욱더 궁금합니다. 아직도 많은 작업이 되어있는 것입니다. 아직도 많은 작업이 되어있는 것입니다.

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그래서 거의 다 완벽한 것입니다.

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더 말할까요?

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아니, 괜찮아요.

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다른 마이크가 끊어져서 말할 수 있을까요?

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메인 넷은 당연히 가장 큰 마일스톤 중의 하나고요.

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저희는 정말 기대하고 저희도 역시 정말 선보이게 되어서 기쁩니다.

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몇 가지 사소한 개선 부분이 있지만 그것도 거의 다 되어가는 중이고

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실질적으로 거의 다 완료되었다고 말씀드릴 수 있을 것 같습니다.

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OK, 더 깊은 것 같습니다.

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recently, Monad has entered large-scale from the various audit company for the mainnet.

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If any anomalies are found, will the mainnet launch

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be delayed for a long time?

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Yeah, it probably definitely depends

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on the nature of what is found.

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I will say this, that as an engineering organization,

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I have full faith faith that category labs has

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done adequate testing.

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Um, sorry, more than adequate testing of their code base prior to the audits.

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Um, the, the audits act as like basically an additional, um, additional step that I

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think is super helpful in having a third party come in, take a look

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at code, make sure that it's written in a way that is like super secure and also in

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a way that conforms to certain standards.

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So for the case of the Monat blockchain and the VM in particular, the idea here is to

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make sure that, you know, if you're feeding in transactions, that those transactions actually result in the expected outcome for what is stored in state.

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Since it is also EVM, like the way that it's been backtested even prior to the audits within the team internal to category labs,

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They basically use real life Ethereum history to confirm that the code that they wrote for the Monad virtual machine is accurate to a T.

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Basically rerunning and replaying all of these like Ethereum transaction histories to confirm that the outputs do match, that the blocks and the state, the resultant state do match.

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So I think that there's a high level of confidence that the code is ready.

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But of course, we can't predict the future.

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If audit companies do identify an anomaly or something that needs

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to be addressed then what it what I think is more important and what I believe that everyone

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here can ascribe to is that it's better to be secure it's better to have a product that

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is ready to go to market than to push a launch date too soon and find out the hard way. 런칭 자체는 오딧에서 뭐가 새로 나오는지 발견되는지에 따라 달라질 수 있지만

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카테고리 랩스가 정말 많은 테스팅을 진행하고 오류도 많이 고쳤습니다.

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진짜 여러 번 제대로 봤는데 그래도 제3자가 들어와서 오딧을 진행하는 게 중요하다고 해서 진행을 하고 있고요.

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실제로 저희 트랜섹션이 들어갔을 때 아웃컴이 제대로 잘 나오는지

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이런 부분이 당연히 중요하지만 정말로 확실히 하고자 해서

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여러 번 테스트를 진행했고 백테스트도 많이 진행했습니다.

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백테스트는 이더리움의 실제 트젝 히스토리를 이용해서 트랜잭션을 날려보고

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실제로 같은 아웃컴이 나오는지를 테스트해봤습니다.

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그래서 실제로 지금 이더리움에 저장된 스테이트와 똑같이 나오는지도 테스트를 했고

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잘 나오는 걸 확인을 했고요.

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코드가 완성적이라는데 정말 정말 높은 레벨의 자신감이 있습니다.

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물론 사소한 부분들은 어쩔 수 없이 생길 수도 있겠지만

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제품이 완성적으로 준비되어 가고 있다는 것에 대해서 자신감이 있고

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이러한 준비 없이 그냥 빠르게 런칭을 하는 것보다는

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정말로 완성적인 상태에서 런칭을 하는 것이 중요하다고 해서 조금은 힘들지만 오래 걸리는 길이지만 But rather than just launching, it is important to launch in a really complete way.

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It's a little bit difficult, but it's a long time.

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It's almost like it's been a long time. important information and roadmap about Monad and also very interesting and

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impressive story about the history of Monad members and history of you and

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what the vision and what is the main aspect of the blockchain building as a

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founder. I want to say thank you again. And if we have any good opportunity, OK, with W or Accenture,

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I want to meet in face to face in the world.

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And I want to take so many contents for our Korean love.

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Thank you, Eunice.

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Thank you so much, Edward.

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It was such a pleasure to join the spaces today.

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And yes, we should definitely sync up.

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And I'll be in Seoul later on this fall.

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Is it fall?

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Is it September?

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Fall?

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I don't know.

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But I'll be there in September for KPW.

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So, you know, we should definitely meet up then.

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On that note, if it's okay, I wanted to pub a few quick things that are on the horizon for the Korean community.

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Verizon for the Korean community. First up, there is going to be a Blitz event in Seoul

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on August 30th. Please correct me if I'm wrong there, but I believe it's August 30th. So

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if anyone here or if anyone you know is interested in participating in a one day Blitz and what

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that is, it's like a quick one day hackathon of sorts, super fun. You get to learn a little bit more about EVM building, um, get to work on a specific,

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um, project and challenge, uh, deploy something on Monad testnet.

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Um, please let them know about Blitz.

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I think there will be information on the Monad dev channel, excuse me, the Monad dev Twitter.

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That is, uh, M O N AA-D underscore D-E-V.

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I hope I got that right.

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And then of course we will also be there for KBW.

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So I look forward to hopefully seeing many of you there in person.

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유니스가 이번 가을에 KBW에 방문을 할 예정이고요.

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그리고 한국 분들 오디언스에 대해서 한 가지 말씀드리고 싶은 것은

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8월 30일에 모나드 블리츠가 두 번째로 열리는데요.

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주변에 모나드에 관심이 있으시거나

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실제로 모나드에 뭔가를 만들어 보고 싶으신 분들이 계시다면

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지원하셔서 8월 30일에 같이 뭔가를 만들어 보는 기회를 가지면 좋겠고

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EBM에 관심이 있으신 분들도 다 같이 오시면 좋을 것 같고요

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KBW 때도 많은 분들 만나면서 교류를 하면 좋겠습니다

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감사합니다

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네 오늘 AMA는 여기서 마무리하도록 하겠습니다

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개인적으로 유니스가 질문에 대한 답변을

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진정성 있게 많이 해줘서 좋았어요

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저번에 켈빈하고도 함께 했을 때도 느꼈는데

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모나드의 중요 팀원들은 항상 모나드만 생각하면 벅찬 것 같습니다

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그래서 되게 진심을 담아서 답변을 해주는 모습이

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좀 감명 깊다고 해야 되나?

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그래서 저도 이번 기회에 모나드 아드버카트로서

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주요 팀 멤버들과 이렇게 소통할 수 있는 기회를 가져서

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개인으로서도 상당히 기뻤다 라고 할 수 있을 것 같습니다

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이상으로 오늘 AMA를 마치도록 하겠고요

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오늘의 비밀코드는 이제 오늘 게스트의 이름인

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유니스를 그냥 한국어로 적어주시면 됩니다

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유니스를 비밀코드로 부탁드리겠습니다.

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오케이, it's time to say goodbye and good night or good morning.

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Thanks for all participants to join our weekly korea not and monat community space.

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I will invite many good people such as kiyonan and beer many people recommended about. 많은 좋은 사람들, 기온에, 비율을 제공하고 있습니다. 저는 제 최선을 다해 많은 한국낮을 통해 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 많은 Thank you for some more for good translation and good bye. Thank you. Thank you everyone. Thanks

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