Gate News, April 7, Monad co-founder Keone Hon posted a call urging DeFi protocol operators to immediately use dedicated signing computers to perform multisig wallet operations and stop using everyday computers. Keone Hon pointed out that everyday computers are highly susceptible to compromise; once controlled, even if a hardware wallet is connected, the signing process may still be maliciously altered, creating serious security risks. In addition, the Monad Foundation may in the future introduce incentive mechanisms to encourage the team to adopt this security solution.

Monad co-founder Keone Hon posted a protocol security self-audit checklist on the X platform, covering 10 key areas including fund safety and management permissions. It includes items such as time locks, real-time monitoring, and multi-signature mechanisms, to improve protocol security.

Gate News: On March 19, Monad co-founder Keone Hon posted on Twitter stating that Monad mainnet will undergo a hard fork today at 22:30 Beijing time to upgrade to the MONAD_NINE version. This upgrade introduces three improvement proposals: MIP-3, MIP-4, and MIP-5. Before the hard fork, node operators need to upgrade to at least

Monad Co-founder Keone Hon posted on the X platform to refute the conspiracy theory that Jane Street is suppressing Bitcoin below $150,000, pointing out that the total market position aligns with the total supply of Bitcoin, and any party can decide to short to increase long positions.

BlockBeats news, on November 30, Arthur Hayes and Monad co-founder Keone Hon continued their verbal battle over "Monad as a high FDV low circulation VC coin." Keone Hon pointed out that the project party of the investment portfolio under Arthur Hayes' family office Maelstrom has not unlocked all the tokens either. Arthur responded: "The projects we are currently or have previously invested in or advised also have a large amount of locked-up tokens. My advice to founders has always been that the team's and investors' tokens should be fully unlocked 100% as soon as possible, preferably unlocked all at once immediately." "Then one of the following two situations will happen: the price will drop to zero directly, and if there is no organic demand based on actual usage, it will remain there; or the price will first experience a big dump, and then..."

Keone Hon, the founder of Monad, responded to Arthur Hayes' criticism by stating that Hayes did not provide specific comments and pointed out that his investment projects also have Lock-up Position tokens. He believes that the current Blockchain is still evolving and cannot be in its final form.

According to BlockBeats, on November 5th, Keone Hon, co-founder of Monad, stated that today at 21:30 (UTC+8), the Monad Testnet will upgrade from the behavioral revision version MONADSIX [v0.11.6-tn1] to MONADSEVEN [v0.12.0]. This upgrade enables the following behavioral changes: Operation Code/pre-compiled contract pricing (increased gas costs for cold storage access; increased costs for certain pre-compiled contracts). Monad will complete all expected behavioral changes before the Mainnet launch, and the complete changelog will be released soon.