When the industry hit Ethereum’s scalability ceiling, developers faced a fundamental question: What’s really holding blockchains back from performing like Web2?

Monad and Solayer offer two radically different answers.

Monad says: “We don’t need to break Ethereum — we just need to make it faster.”

Solayer replies: “The issue goes deeper. The bottleneck isn’t just in the code — it’s in the architecture itself. It’s time to rewrite the rules.”

This isn’t a comparison between two products — it’s a comparison between evolution and revolution.

Imagine Ethereum — only much faster and cheaper, without needing to rewrite contracts, switch tools, or adopt new paradigms. That’s Monad.

It’s fully EVM-compatible on the outside, but under the hood, it’s a powerful transaction engine:

• Parallel execution instead of serial.

• Superscalar processing, just like modern CPUs.

• 1-second finality with 500ms block times.

All of this makes Monad incredibly friendly to the Ethereum ecosystem. It’s like upgrading your old Mac — same apps, 10× faster.

• DeFi protocols that want to stay in the EVM world;

• Projects that need low latency without big architectural shifts;

• Developers who value stability with speed.

Solayer looks at scalability and asks: “What if we’ve been using blockchains the wrong way all along?”

They’re building InfiniSVM — a next-gen virtual machine where everything previously done by software or CPU is offloaded to specialized hardware:

• Signature checks — offloaded to dedicated chips.

• Transaction sorting — done in hardware.

• Networking — via RDMA and InfiniBand (like Google’s data centers).

• Storage — optimized for parallelism and ultra-speed.

It’s more like a blockchain data center than a blockchain application.
Solayer isn’t just making things faster — it’s reinventing how execution works at the system level.

• Real-time systems like HFT, gaming, or DePIN;

• Large-scale infrastructure projects where milliseconds matter;

• Builders who aren’t afraid to step outside the EVM comfort zone.

• Monad is the choice of pragmatists. Want to scale without the pain? Pick Monad. It’s like moving from Wi-Fi 4 to Wi-Fi 6 — same tools, just faster.

• Solayer is the visionary’s bet. It’s like upgrading from a car to a spaceship — risky, costly, but it could change the entire industry.

• If your project already lives in Ethereum and you value direct compatibility, Monad gives you everything you need — fast, reliable, stress-free.

• If you’re building the next generation of apps that demand millisecond responsiveness and Web2-scale horizontal throughput, Solayer is worth serious consideration — despite its youth and boldness.