Thogard | Holistic Arc (@ThogardPvP) / X

Thogard | Holistic Arc

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Thogard | Holistic Arc

@ThogardPvP

Making Monad faster @0xFastLane. We make smart contracts that help apps and validators with sequencing, staking, and UX.

Joined July 2019

Thogard | Holistic Arc
@ThogardPvP
Aug 5, 2025
I've been talking to a lot of VCs lately and they all start off the conversation with some form of the same question: "Why Monad?" Many of them seem genuinely surprised to find out that I'm building on a chain widely known for its blue animal mascots and aggressive airdrop
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Thogard | Holistic Arc
@ThogardPvP
Sep 3, 2025
Article
Dark AMMs are the Future; Monad is the Place
Proprietary ("prop") AMMs, aka "Dark AMMs," have been gaining narrative momentum lately despite emerging in an execution environment poorly suited for them (the SVM). Many of you have heard me say...
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Thogard | Holistic Arc
@ThogardPvP
Jun 29, 2022
Pro tip - if you’re new to MEV, don’t post your address or any links to transactions *anywhere*. My first day doing arb I made 12k net.. wasn’t even using a smart contract. But I ran into a small bug with a trade and linked a tx in the protocol’s discord. Big mistake. (1/4)
Thogard | Holistic Arc
@ThogardPvP
Jul 2, 2025
When i look at the code for this new hyperliquid one-way bridge thing, the abyss stares back. Using a for loop *just to waste gas* is fine I guess.. but doing it inside a *precompile* on a chain with a 2 million block gas limit? That's certainly not in the bible.
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Thogard | Holistic Arc
@ThogardPvP
Sep 3, 2022
Private order flow and MEV accrual rights are hot topics right now, and these conversations are happening alongside debate over transaction censorship, the anticipation of ZK roll ups, and the gaining momentum of stat arb MEV on atomic MEV. They're all linked, anon 1/x
Thogard | Holistic Arc
@ThogardPvP
Jun 23, 2025
I recently had the pleasure of asking @_jhunsaker deeply technical questions about monad for two hours. This is the result. No dumbing down of responses, no self-censoring for broad market appeal. This is a podcast for technical people who care about high performance EVM
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Thogard | Holistic Arc
@ThogardPvP
Oct 24, 2025
We didn’t raise the most money. We didn’t have the most testnet TVL or “users” We didn’t throw the most expensive pre-launch parties. But we shipped the most code. We onboarded the most apps. We won over the most validators. I still think the underdog will win. ShMonad.
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Thogard | Holistic Arc
@ThogardPvP
Feb 8, 2022
When you quit tradfi to learn programming and your 'hello world' project is a MEV bot...
Thogard | Holistic Arc
@ThogardPvP
Jan 4, 2024
It’s a shame that people are surprised by the Polygon PoS parallel execution from a year ago - probably because zkEVM was getting all the hype at the time It’s also a shame that people don’t talk about the novel synergies between Polygon 2.0 interop layer + new (re)staking layer
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Thogard | Holistic Arc
@ThogardPvP
Apr 15, 2023
🎉Congrats🎉 to @CurveFinance for the shoutout they got in the SEC release today for being the SEC's example of... *checks notes* ...the high-bound cost of compliance that the token holders might be liable for. 🎉🎉🥳🥳 Way to go!
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Thogard | Holistic Arc
@ThogardPvP
Oct 3, 2023
I recently gave a talk on the intersection of MEV and Account Abstraction, at the All For Staking event hosted by @a41_allforone at KBW. Account Abstraction will change MEV, even the parts of the MEV supply chain that don't currently use it. Rare thog thread time. (1/22)
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Thogard | Holistic Arc
@ThogardPvP
Dec 27, 2022
imo those celebrating avi getting charged are grossly underestimating the implications for crypto trading as a whole. of particular importance is that these same precedents could be applied to many types of MEV. I wouldn't want to be a US-based sandwicher right now.
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Thogard | Holistic Arc
@ThogardPvP
Oct 22, 2025
In order to demonstrate our alignment with the Monad ecosystem and promote ShMonad / FastLane as the premiere LST / MEV provider, we’ve decided to launch the FAST token on cardano.
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Thogard | Holistic Arc
@ThogardPvP
May 17, 2022
Polygon Fast Lane white paper rough draft is up: medium.com/@thoggy/polygo… Please let me know what you think and if you see anything the team and I should change before finalizing it. Thank you so much to everyone who has already helped us out. (will do 🧵 on final version)
medium.com
Polygon Fast Lane
A Proposal for a Polygon ‘Fast Lane’ — 3/22/2022 (Updated 5/17/2022)