With crypto markets roaring back, different blockchains are jockeying to become the solution that hoovers up demand in the next wave, just as Bitcoin and Ethereum did in past cycles. A new player on the scene, Monad Labs, finalized a $225 million round led by Paradigm with additional funding by investors including Electric Capital and Greenoaks to build a layer-1 blockchain to challenge competitors such as Solana and Sui. (Fortune previously reported that Monad was in talks with Paradigm to rais...