Today, as co-founder and CEO, I couldn’t be prouder to introduce Monolith and our mission to bring onchain institutional derivatives to the US - starting with energy. Over my career in systematic trading, market making, and designing institutional-grade risk systems for digital assets - two things became clear: (1) Markets can, and should be, global, programmable and always on. (2) Institutions were never going to accept the risk, governance and market-structure shortcomings of legacy onchain finance. Instead, the select benefits of being onchain would need to fit into the regulatory framework and market protections that already supports global finance. For the first time, I believe there is now a real regulatory path to do that in the US, and bring with it the benefits of tokenization and 24/7 markets. This is a once-in-a-generation chance to help define what regulated financial markets look like when the infrastructure is finally built for the internet age. We intend to be at the center of it.