🧵 Blockchain Beef: Aptos’ Director Goes Full Drama Mode over Monad’s Alleged Cloning 🥊🐑

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🧵 Blockchain Beef: Aptos’ Director Goes Full Drama Mode over Monad’s Alleged Cloning 🥊🐑

🧵 Blockchain Beef: Aptos’ Director Goes Full Drama Mode over Monad’s Alleged Cloning 🥊🐑

Alexander Spiegelman, Director of Research at Aptos, has officially donned the mantle of the blockchain sheriff, accusing Monad of some rather dramatic daylight robbery—allegedly copying key technologies from Aptos without so much as a polite nod or thank-you banana. 🍌

The soap opera began to unfold on the wild west of the internet, X (formerly Twitter, now an enigma wrapped in a white X logo), shortly after Monad strutted onto the stage with its testnet launch. Cue the ominous music. 🎻

Aptos vs Monad: “My Code’s Bigger Than Your Code!” 🤖💥

Now, in case you blinked and missed it, Monad is a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain that fancies itself Ethereum-compatible. 🥱 According to its “official scrolls” (or documentation), it boasts optimizations in spicy-sounding areas like MonadBFT, Asynchronous Execution, Parallel Execution, and MonadDb. All very exciting if you’re into engineering jargon or want to impress people at blockchain mixers. 🍷

But Mr. Spiegelman wasn’t impressed. He lobbed accusations faster than a memecoin pump, claiming Monad copied Aptos tech while, presumably, twirling a metaphorical mustache behind the scenes. His grievance? That Monad’s engineering feats bore an awfully uncanny resemblance to Aptos’ execution models and consensus mechanisms. Gasp-worthy stuff. 😱

“I really don’t understand why it takes so much time for Monad to copy Aptos tech,” Spiegelman quipped, possibly while sipping coffee from a mug labeled “World’s Saltiest Blockchain Developer.” ☕

The smoking gun? He pointed dramatically at MonadBFT, accusing it of being a suspiciously apt clone of AptosBFT (just add the “monad” and stir). For good measure, he threw in Monad’s pipelined design, allegedly pilfered from Diem—that plucky little project that metamorphosed into Aptos. 🦋

And oh, Solana didn’t escape his verbal pyrotechnics either. Solana uses “static” parallel execution, while Aptos’ BlockSTM boasts “dynamic” parallelism—obviously better, because it’s mysterious *and* sexy-sounding. Spiegelman wasn’t done yet—Monad’s *inspired edits,* he alleges, can’t cover up the fact they’re riding on Aptos’ brains. 🧠🚀

“One day, in 2029, when they finally release their code we will all see,” Spiegelman prophesied, shifting from expert to blockchain oracle. 🔮

But plot twist! James Hunsaker, aka Monad’s co-founder and guardian, emerged from his programming cave to clap back boldly. (*Cue audience gasps and dramatic camera zooms!*)

“I’ve never looked at any Aptos code. In fact, I never think about Aptos except when you post nonsense like this,” Hunsaker declared, mastering the art of no-chill snark. 🤨

Hunsaker went full professor mode, noting optimistic concurrency control has been around since 1979. Turns out, blockchain drama is older than disco. 🕺 He humbly reminded the world that his work predates Aptos. Oh, and BlockSTM? It’s just a remix of older concepts that have been gathering dust in academia’s archives. 🧑‍🏫📚

He also countered that Monad gives proper citations (they have footnotes, people!) for consensus-related work in its docs. But Spiegelman wasn’t letting it go—once you’re riding the drama llama, there’s no dismounting. 🦙🔥

According to Spiegelman, BlockSTM isn’t just any software transactional memory (STM)—this baby is one of the rare few actually being deployed in *real life™*. Forget office chairs and printers; this is deployment on an existential plane. 🌌

In the meantime, Monad is flexing its wins. The project raised a cool $225 million (spare change, really) in a Paradigm-led funding round. 🤑 And their testnet—despite the ongoing tech roast—recorded an almost absurd 334 million Remote Procedure Call (RPC) requests in *12 hours*. That’s “refreshing your browser until frustrated” levels of action. 😬

Oh, and for the kicker? Over 8.8 million active Ethereum addresses got free testnet tokens during the launch. That’s like Oprah handing out self-esteem boosts: “You get coins! You get coins!” 🪙🚀

The saga isn’t over, though. Somewhere, on the blockchain horizon, two developers are typing furiously, fueled by equal parts caffeine and stubbornness. And the rest of us? We’re just grabbing the popcorn. 🍿

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2025-02-20 15:20