ChainCatcher news, Monad co-founder Keone Hon stated on social media that the Monad testnet is currently suspended. The reason is the failure to reach a majority consensus at the epoch boundary. This round's epoch originally planned to add 15 validators to the active validator set, but the transition process did not proceed as expected.Currently, the validator nodes are actively working to resolve this issue and are striving to restore network operation.

ChainCatcher news, according to a post by Monad co-founder Keone Hon, the maximum contract size on the Monad testnet has increased to 128 kb (Ethereum's limit is 24.5 kb).

ChainCatcher message, Aptos research director Alexander Spiegelman posted on X: "I don't understand why Monad is taking so long to copy Aptos's technology. It's all open source, and there are already many peer-reviewed papers; instead of being secretive, they might as well just copy openly."In response, Monad co-founder James Hunsaker stated: "I was researching Software Transactional Memory (STM) in a Haskell environment when you were still in diapers; BlockSTM is a simple extension of these things. I have never looked at any Aptos code, and in fact, if you hadn't published this nonsense, I wouldn't even think of Aptos."