MONAF Blog https://monaf.ai/services Reported guides to the Monad stack and the MONAF desk. Figures are attributed. Not a forecast or an offer. en-GB Sun, 26 Oct 2026 16:00:00 GMT Size a Monad swap so the fee is smaller than the move you need https://monaf.ai/services/size-a-monad-swap https://monaf.ai/services/size-a-monad-swap Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT How to size a MONAF velocity clip on Monad: gas on the way in and out, the pool fee, the one percent floor, and a worked 10, 50 and 100 MON example. The second tap: how a close gets signed twice, and how the nonce stops it https://monaf.ai/services/the-second-signature https://monaf.ai/services/the-second-signature Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Monad nonces, replacement transactions, and why tapping Close twice can sell a position twice. What to do when the screen times out after a hash. What the revert meant: the errors this desk actually shows, and the one fix for each https://monaf.ai/services/what-the-revert-meant https://monaf.ai/services/what-the-revert-meant Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT A field guide to MONAF trading errors on Monad: no quote, empty vault, no minimum, wallet too small, receipt timeout, and a reverted sell. What each one means and the single next action. The green digits are staking. The red number is the trade. Do not add them. https://monaf.ai/services/green-digits-are-not-pnl https://monaf.ai/services/green-digits-are-not-pnl Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT How to read MONAF My money: aprMON, sMON and gMON accrual versus a velocity mark-to-market, the Other row, unpriced items, and spare MON. Price a 350,000 gas sell on Monad before you sign it https://monaf.ai/services/price-a-sell https://monaf.ai/services/price-a-sell Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Worked Monad gas arithmetic for a MONAF close: 350,000 gas in the wallet, 550,000 in the vault, base fee, tip, and why the receipt beats the estimate. You entered five trades and two cards came back: how to find the ones that are still yours https://monaf.ai/services/two-cards-and-a-wallet https://monaf.ai/services/two-cards-and-a-wallet Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Why MONAF can show fewer velocity cards than the trades you signed, how wallet and vault notebooks differ, and how to match each hash to a balance. When 600 milliseconds is final enough, and when you still wait for the receipt https://monaf.ai/services/when-600-milliseconds-is-final https://monaf.ai/services/when-600-milliseconds-is-final Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Monad finality after MIP-12: inclusion, speculative finality at one slot, full finality at two. When a MONAF close, a payment, or a withdrawal should wait. Approve the router once: the first close takes two signatures, and the rest take one https://monaf.ai/services/approve-the-router-once https://monaf.ai/services/approve-the-router-once Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT How ERC-20 allowance works on a MONAF close: PancakeSwap router approval, exact versus unlimited, consecutive nonces, and how to revoke. Four fields on the explorer that tell you whether the close landed https://monaf.ai/services/four-fields-on-the-explorer https://monaf.ai/services/four-fields-on-the-explorer Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT How to read MonadVision or Monadscan after a MONAF close: transaction status, signer, method, gas used, logs, and the balance that proves the sell. What the browser key can sign, and the prompt that means you should stop https://monaf.ai/services/what-the-browser-key-can-sign https://monaf.ai/services/what-the-browser-key-can-sign Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT The MONAF trading key threat model: what the browser agent can and cannot sign, the 0.25 MON float, where profit is allowed to go, and which wallet prompts to reject. Close a Monad trade in one slot: the only sequence that matters https://monaf.ai/services/close-in-one-slot https://monaf.ai/services/close-in-one-slot Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT How to close a MONAF velocity trade on Monad with the price already on the card: no second quote, broadcast the sell, and remove the position when the hash exists. Read a Monad pool without a quoter: slot0, decimals, and the back amount https://monaf.ai/services/read-the-pool https://monaf.ai/services/read-the-pool Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT A practical guide to PancakeSwap v3 slot0 on Monad: sqrtPriceX96, token decimals, MON value, and why a mark is not the same as a sell quote. Leave a staking receipt: aprMON, sMON and gMON are not spendable MON https://monaf.ai/services/leave-a-staking-receipt https://monaf.ai/services/leave-a-staking-receipt Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT How aprMON, sMON and gMON work on Monad, why the My money counter ticks, and the real exit for aPriori, Kintsu and Magma receipts. The trading key: what 0.25 MON is, and what Withdraw profit sends https://monaf.ai/services/the-trading-key-float https://monaf.ai/services/the-trading-key-float Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT How the MONAF trading key balance and Withdraw profit work: the 0.25 MON gas float, who can receive the surplus, and how to check the key on chain. When a card is a call: read the meter before you trust the badge https://monaf.ai/services/when-a-card-is-a-call https://monaf.ai/services/when-a-card-is-a-call Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT How MONAF velocity calls are chosen: conviction, the meter, a cold board, a flat pool, and why only the real calls should sit at the top. Wallet or vault: which MON a trade is allowed to spend https://monaf.ai/services/wallet-or-vault https://monaf.ai/services/wallet-or-vault Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Why a MONAF entry says the vault holds 0 MON or that there is no quote, and how the desk chooses the wallet when that is where the MON is. The hash is the close: what to do after the wallet returns one https://monaf.ai/services/the-hash-is-the-close https://monaf.ai/services/the-hash-is-the-close Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT How to read a Monad transaction hash after a MONAF close: inclusion, two-slot finality, and why a receipt timeout is not a failed sell. The one percent floor: set a minimum or do not sign https://monaf.ai/services/the-one-percent-floor https://monaf.ai/services/the-one-percent-floor Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT How MONAF sets amountOutMinimum at 99 percent of the pool mark, with a worked 50 MON example, and when a trade is too thin to sign. Unpriced, and still yours: find the positions the total left out https://monaf.ai/services/unpriced-and-still-yours https://monaf.ai/services/unpriced-and-still-yours Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT What MONAF means by unpriced items and Other on My money, how the 5 MON floor works, and how to identify every token the total could not price. A desk day on MONAF: enter, mark, leave, and take the profit back https://monaf.ai/services/a-desk-day https://monaf.ai/services/a-desk-day Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT An operator’s sequence for a MONAF session on Monad: fund the right balance, enter one trade, read the mark, close it, and withdraw only the key’s surplus. Monad, after the first year: a parallel EVM that finalises in two slots https://monaf.ai/services/what-monad-is https://monaf.ai/services/what-monad-is Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT What Monad is in October 2026: parallel EVM, 300 ms blocks after MIP-12, 600 ms finality, MON, and the four systems that make the speed real. MonadBFT: two rounds to finality, and a block the next leader cannot throw away https://monaf.ai/services/monad-bft https://monaf.ai/services/monad-bft Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT How MonadBFT reaches speculative finality in one 300 ms slot and full finality in two, and why tail-fork resistance matters for traders. Optimistic parallel execution: run them together, replay the ones that collided https://monaf.ai/services/parallel-execution https://monaf.ai/services/parallel-execution Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT How Monad’s optimistic parallel execution and asynchronous execution fit in one block, and what a Solidity developer does not have to change. MonadDb: the database is part of the consensus budget https://monaf.ai/services/monad-db https://monaf.ai/services/monad-db Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Why MonadDb exists, how state reads dominate EVM time, and what that means for indexers and archive nodes. RaptorCast: getting a block to two hundred validators before the slot ends https://monaf.ai/services/raptorcast https://monaf.ai/services/raptorcast Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT What RaptorCast does on Monad, why propagation dominates a 300 ms slot, and what MIP-10 would change. On Monad the gas limit is part of the price https://monaf.ai/services/gas-and-the-limit https://monaf.ai/services/gas-and-the-limit Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT How Monad gas works after mainnet: block gas limit, base fee, and why a high limit can cost more than the trade it protects. Where Monad actually trades: Kuru, Uniswap, and the rest of the book https://monaf.ai/services/dexes-on-monad https://monaf.ai/services/dexes-on-monad Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Monad DEX landscape in October 2026: Kuru’s share, Uniswap, PancakeSwap, Curve, and what the volume split means. Liquid staking on Monad: aprMON, sMON, and what the receipt actually is https://monaf.ai/services/liquid-staking https://monaf.ai/services/liquid-staking Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT aPriori aprMON, Kintsu sMON and Magma on Monad: what liquid staking receipts are, how exits work, and what not to assume. Lending came with the bytecode: Morpho, Aave, Euler https://monaf.ai/services/lending-markets https://monaf.ai/services/lending-markets Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT How Morpho, Aave and Euler fit the Monad credit stack in 2026, and which risks are the protocol’s rather than the chain’s. A field guide to the Monad stack, from the slot to the wallet https://monaf.ai/services/ecosystem-map https://monaf.ai/services/ecosystem-map Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Monad ecosystem map for October 2026: consensus, execution, DEXs, staking, lending, wallets and what is still proposed. Add chain 143 without signing your money away https://monaf.ai/services/chain-143 https://monaf.ai/services/chain-143 Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT How to add Monad mainnet: chain id 143, MON, public RPCs, MonadVision and Monadscan, and which wallet prompt is a setting rather than a payment. Four clocks on one Monad transaction https://monaf.ai/services/read-the-receipt https://monaf.ai/services/read-the-receipt Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT How to read a Monad receipt: inclusion, one-slot speculative finality, two-slot finality, and why the gas limit is the bill. The gas bill is the limit times the price https://monaf.ai/services/the-gas-bill https://monaf.ai/services/the-gas-bill Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Monad gas arithmetic: 100 MON-gwei minimum base fee, 150 million block gas, 30 million per transaction, and a worked bill for a padded limit. Five checks before a Monad swap is worth signing https://monaf.ai/services/before-the-swap https://monaf.ai/services/before-the-swap Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT A practical checklist before swapping on Monad: recipient, minimum out, a second quote, the gas limit, and the contract address behind the ticker. WMON is a contract. The ticker is not. https://monaf.ai/services/wmon-and-the-wrappers https://monaf.ai/services/wmon-and-the-wrappers Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Canonical wrapped MON on Monad, and how to check WETH, WBTC and cbBTC addresses before a swap. A ticker is not a contract. What a Solidity developer changes on Monad, and what they leave alone https://monaf.ai/services/for-builders https://monaf.ai/services/for-builders Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT A builder’s guide to Monad: EVM bytecode without annotations, 300ms timestamps, a 30 million gas transaction cap, and RPCs that do not all serve history. Your indexer is three blocks late, and the book has moved https://monaf.ai/services/three-blocks-late https://monaf.ai/services/three-blocks-late Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT How to index Monad without lying to yourself: websockets, historical eth_call hosts, rate limits, and why a one-second loop is already stale. The tail fork is resisted. The sandwich is not. https://monaf.ai/services/what-mev-remains https://monaf.ai/services/what-mev-remains Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT What MEV still exists on Monad after tail-fork resistance: sandwiches, missed slots, oracle lag, and the gas limit as a cost. Get MON onto chain 143, and ignore every other door https://monaf.ai/services/getting-mon https://monaf.ai/services/getting-mon Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT How to move MON onto Monad mainnet safely: chain id 143, exchange networks, and why a searched-for bridge is the usual loss. How this desk holds the money, and how it comes back https://monaf.ai/services/operating-the-desk https://monaf.ai/services/operating-the-desk Sun, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT How MONAF’s trading key and vault work: who can withdraw, the 0.25 MON gas float, and the only address profit is allowed to reach.