Hedera vs Monad

Hedera Hashgraph uses a gossip‑about‑gossip DAG protocol that achieves asynchronous Byzantine fault tolerance and finality in 3‑5 seconds. Governing Council members like Google and IBM run permissioned nodes, and the Hedera Token Service allows issuance without smart‑contract coding. The 2024 ‘Smart Contract 2.0’ release introduced Solidity bytecode support via Hyperledger Besu integration.

Monad is an Ethereum-compatible Layer-1 focused on high throughput, low fees and scalable decentralization. Its architecture targets 10,000 TPS with sub-second finality while preserving bytecode-level EVM compatibility, so Solidity contracts, wallets and infrastructure can work without major rewrites. The MON token is tracked by CoinGecko as the network's associated asset.