Key Takeaways

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• aPriori is an MEV powered Liquid Staking platform built on the Monad blockchain

• MEV (Maximum Extractable Value) maximizes value earned by stakers

• aPriori provides important infrastructure needed to help scale Monad

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What is aPriori?

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aPriori is an MEV powered liquid staking platform built for parallel execution on the up and coming Monad blockchain. They are one of the premier dApps on Monad with a strong product market fit that is primed to attract users from numerous L1s like Ethereum, Solana and Sonic.

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Their efficient MEV marketplace reduces spamming and increases Monad validator incentives. MEV allows aPriori to maximize value earned from staking by optimizing order of transactions.

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• ‍MEV: Maximum Extractable Value

• Liquid Staking: A method of staking crypto assets while also retaining useable assets that can be used to earn further yields

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What problems does aPriori solve?

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• ‍Robust block production design: Monad's robust blockchain needs a fair and transparent block production architecture that incentives users to support the network

• ‍Block space auction: A method for prioritizing and assigning space for blockchain transaction blocks

• ‍Spam minimization: Using their block space auction aPriori is cutting down on MEV-induced spamming on the network

• ‍Incentive compatibility: Cooperation between users and block producers to ensure the interests of all network participants are aligned

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Who founded aPriori?

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Founders Ray S. and Olivia Z. have backgrounds at crypto powerhouses like Jump, Coinbase and Pyth. They bring a strong technical expertise to the startup along with a nuanced understanding of the blockchain industry.

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aPriori is backed by well known firms like Pantera Capital, Binance Labs, Consensus, OKX Ventures, Everstake Capital and several angel investors. In total they have raised more than $8M at an expected $100M token valuation.

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What is Monad?

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Monad is one of the newest L1 blockchains aligned with EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) to scale transaction speeds and lower costs. The L1 is built in full compatibility with current EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) standards along with the Ethereum RPC API which will enable developers to easily adopt their existing work to Monad.

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