The research director at Aptos accuses Monad of plagiarism, but the co-founder of Monad denies it and says, "I was developing when you were still in diapers."

Aptos Research Director Alexander Spiegelman posted on X, expressing his confusion as to why Monad would spend so much time plagiarizing Aptos's technology. Everything is open-source and there are already many peer-reviewed papers. Instead of being secretive, it would be better to blatantly plagiarize.

In response, Monad co-founder James Hunsaker said: "When you were still in diapers, I was already studying Software Transactional Memory (STM) in the Haskell environment. BlockSTM is a simple extension of these things. I have never seen any Aptos code; in fact, if you hadn't published this nonsense talk, I wouldn't even think of Aptos."