Monad is an EVM compatible high-performant, layer-1, which uses parallel execution to achieve 1 second blocktimes and almost instant finality, that is supposedly 1000x faster than Ethereum. Mirko spoke to Keone (Co-Founder and CEO) ahead of their testnet, to learn more about the basics, the roadmap over the coming months and an early look at Monad's validator ecosystem and plans around staking.