Category Labs is a blockchain infrastructure developer that rebranded from Monad Labs to its current name in December 2024. Category Labs's Twitter Score is 61 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of October 2026, ranking #14,376 (top 5%) among 498,348 tracked accounts.
Category Labs is building Monad, a fully EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain designed for high throughput, targeting 10,000 transactions per second with one-second block times, single-slot finality, and low hardware requirements, with a public mainnet now live. To achieve this performance, the team has developed several foundational technologies, including a new database for the Ethereum merkle trie, a new BFT consensus mechanism, and optimistic parallel execution of Ethereum transactions. The organization is led by CEO and co-founder James Hunsaker and is staffed by systems engineers and researchers focused on optimizations spanning the database, virtual machine, and consensus layers.
Category Labs raised a $225M Series A round led by Paradigm, with additional backing from Electric Capital, Greenoaks, Dragonfly, and Coinbase Ventures. Category Labs has published 136 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 80 accounts across 152 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Category Labs include 190 founders, 71 angel investors, 72 influencers and 2 VCs. Among its notable followers are Chris Burniske, Mert, Haseeb Qureshi, Hasu, Andre Cronje and Hsaka.