Why Monad Is Our Next Blockchain — And the Fully Onchain NFT Game We’re Building For It

At Viri NFT Market, we’ve spent the last several months building a marketplace that can handle high-frequency trading, real-time auctions, and interactive NFT experiences without the bloat and cost that plague most chains. Today we’re announcing the next major chain we intend to integrate: Monad.

Why Monad?

Monad stands out because it delivers Ethereum compatibility without compromise while pushing throughput, latency, and cost far beyond what current layer-1s can offer. Its technical specification is not a list of aspirational roadmap items — it is shipping today, and it is built for exactly the workloads that an NFT marketplace and gaming platform demand.

• EVM-identical execution: Existing Solidity toolchains, wallets, and indexers work with minimal changes. Deployments can be ported in hours, not months.
• 10,000+ TPS: Parallelized execution and a pipelined consensus model mean network congestion is no longer a ceiling for application designers.
• Sub-second block time: Near-instant finality keeps bid/ask spreads tight and user feedback loops short.
• Low transaction fees: Micro-transactions for in-game actions, splits, and continuous mints become economically viable at scale.

But the specification detail that truly captured our attention is the 128 KB contract size limit.

Why 128 KB Matters

Most chains cap smart contracts at 24 KB or 48 KB of bytecode. That forces projects to split logic across multiple contracts or offload assets to IPFS and Arweave. Monad’s 128 KB limit is a different proposition entirely.

For an NFT project, it means we can store complete SVG images encoded as base64 strings inside the contract itself. It means metadata JSON for every token can live onchain rather than behind a mutable gateway. It means game logic — state transitions, cooldowns, crafting recipes, rarity distributions — can all reside in a single auditable contract.

No IPFS hashes. No reliance on third-party pinning services. No risk that an image disappears because a gateway went down. The artwork and its rules live forever on Monad, exactly as they do on Bitcoin.

The Game: Monad Realms

We’re building a game called Monad Realms. It is an onchain strategy game where every character, weapon, and piece of land is an NFT. Unlike typical web3 games that hide assets behind CDN URLs, everything in Monad Realms is fully onchain.

• Images: Each NFT’s visual is a base64-encoded SVG stored in the contract. No external URLs, no broken links.
• Metadata: Token attributes, rarity tiers, and ownership history are emitted through events and readable directly from contract state.
• Gameplay: Battles, resource gathering, and realm upgrades are executed as smart-contract transactions. Outcomes are verifiable onchain without trusting a centralized server.

The result is a self-contained universe that anyone can inspect, fork, or build on. That is the kind of permanent digital property rights that made NFTs compelling in the first place.

Monad Resources

To learn more about the chain, start here:

• Official website: monad.xyz
• Documentation: docs.monad.xyz
• Technical blog: monad.xyz/blog
• Block explorer: testnet.monad.xyz
• GitHub repository: github.com/monad-labs/monad
• Discord community: discord.gg/monad

What’s Next

We are targeting a testnet release of Monad Realms alongside Monad’s own testnet launch. If you are a collector, developer, or game designer who wants to build on a chain that treats permanence and performance as first-class citizens, now is the time to get involved.

The future of NFTs is not just about proving ownership. It is about owning something that can never be taken down, never moves, and never depends on anyone else’s server. Monad makes that future practical. So do we.

Follow our progress on GitHub or join the conversation in our Discord.