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How Monad's parallel EVM handles DeFi contention

Monad executes transactions optimistically in parallel and re-executes any that read state an earlier transaction changed. Popular pools are hot state, so swaps into the same pool behave as if serial while unrelated work runs alongside.

Alpha · unaudited contract · only deposit what you're happy to lose

2026-10-27 · network, developers

Results always match serial order. Parallelism changes throughput, not semantics.

See docs.monad.xyz for the execution model.