Category Labs builds high-performance decentralized systems and blockchain infrastructure. Its technical work spans low-level systems, decentralized architecture, and C/C++ standards, with a team that includes high-frequency trading experts, low-level systems experts, and C/C++ standards pioneers. Engineers at the company contribute to writing the standards themselves.
The company's primary product is Monad, a layer 1 blockchain that is 100% EVM-compatible. Monad achieves 10,000 transactions per second with 1-second block times, single-slot finality, and low-hardware requirements. It is designed to deliver high throughput while maintaining compatibility with the existing Ethereum ecosystem.
