Summary
Keone Hon is a founder and engineering leader who builds high-performance systems, currently serving as Co-Founder & GM of the Monad Foundation, stewarding a parallel EVM blockchain designed for >10,000 TPS and 1s finality. He brings eight years of low-latency trading and machine learning experience from Jump Trading and Jump Crypto, where he led HFT teams that specialized in system design and short-term price forecasting. At Category Labs he transitioned those performance and research skills into blockchain infrastructure, focusing on scalability and developer portability. Keone holds advanced technical training from MIT (M.Eng and Master of Finance) and blends rigorous quantitative thinking with production systems engineering. His GitHub bio—"a Monoid in the Category of Endofunctors"—hints at a taste for elegant abstractions and functional design patterns beneath practical, performance-oriented work. Based in New York, he balances deep technical craftsmanship with product and community leadership in decentralized systems.
8 years of coding experience