Everyone in crypto is chasing TPS. Eunice Giarta thinks that's the wrong race entirely.

As co-founder of Monad Foundation, she spent four years building what she calls the Ethereum of high-performance blockchains, a chain with validators on six continents that doesn't sacrifice decentralization for speed.

In this episode of Endgame, Amanda Cassatt sits down with Eunice to break down what actually makes a blockchain worth building on in 2026, what the real killer use case for Monad looks like, and why bear markets build better products than bull markets. But the most unexpected part isn't the tech, it's the path. Eunice went from Merrill Lynch to Shutterstock to a pastry kitchen at Jean-Georges in New York. A Pi Day pandemic layoff sent her down the crypto rabbit hole.

Four years later, she co-founded one of the most talked-about L1s in the space.

What you'll take away:

- Why TPS is a misleading and gameable metric

- How Monad achieves real decentralization across 6 continents

- The use case that truly requires Monad's architecture

- How to measure genuine product market fit in crypto

- Why bear markets produce better products than bull runs

- What AI agents actually need from blockchain infrastructure

- The most unexpected founder story in crypto right now