Post #2288

Monad hit 200 validators with 14B MON staked across the network within Backpack. Backpack alone controls a massive share, with a steep drop-off across the rest, so decentralization is growing, but still uneven. If Monad can scale validator count without degrading performance, it solves the core tradeoff most high-throughput chains struggle with. If that holds in production, this is how you get both speed and credible decentralization, not one at the expense of the other.