Every frontier used to be gated.
New market access used to be limited in the same way: to whoever was closest.
The world's trading floor
Let markets meet you where you are, every hour of every day.
Built by alumni of
Blockchain at Berkeley
Global Frontier Access
A trading floor built for the world
Onchain markets can transcend antiquated infrastructure, while opening the door to markets for those who have never had access.
Yet, many markets remain inaccessible, built on outdated legacy infrastructure, with a closing bell in each timezone. Monaco is built to open the world's trading floor.
Our Thesis
Global
Truly global markets require:
- Decentralized coordination for 24/7 markets, with a seamless unified experience, not bound by legacy infrastructure
- Monaco's deep understanding of trading technology and market microstructure enables it to build institutional-grade prime services and yield products for global markets
Frontier
Technological and financial innovation is powering net new asset classes:
- Compute markets, power, and private investments will see dramatic adoption and require standardization
- Monaco's novel process around listings, driven by transparent incentive structures enables development of frontier markets, enabling more advanced risk management
- $5T
- Compute derivatives TAM1
- ~$100B
- Pre-IPO shares traded (TTM)2
- $400B
- Secondaries by 20303
1 Kalshi est. 2 PitchBook (TTM to Q2 ’26) 3 Blackstone (2025)
Access
Agentic tooling is going to transform market access:
- Open source and frontier models are shaping agent-based trading into a multi-billion dollar industry
- Monaco offers an agent-first quantitative approach for prosumers, with compatibility to open-source trading software, allowing liquidity to meet traders where they are
- $45.74B
- AI-in-trading software by 20304
- $4.49B
- AI agents in financial services software by 20305
- $3–5T
- Agentic commerce by 20306
4 OneDayAdvisor; software revenue 5 Grand View Research; software revenue 6 McKinsey; includes goods and services
One floor, every asset class.
The venue is the platform.
One order book connecting flow across markets, traders, and integrations.
<1msMatching
400msSettlement
BuilderCodes
USDC revenue-share on routed trades. Builders keep 100% of the fees they add.
High-throughput execution
Verifiable matching and single-slot finality on the EVM.
API and SDK access
REST, WebSocket, gRPC and an MCP server. TypeScript, React and Rust SDKs, with generated clients for Python, Go, C++ and more.
Propose markets and earn
Propose new markets and earn revenue-share on their activity.
From the research desk.
Market structure
The Monaco Manifesto: The Architecture of Wealth
Compute markets
Does Compute Want To Become A Commodity? (Part I)
Compute markets
Does Compute Want To Become A Commodity? (Part II)
Prediction markets
The Bane of Binaries: What Prediction Markets Are Missing
Market structure
Why Delta-Neutral Funding Trades Aren't Free Money
Global Frontier Access
A trading floor built for the world