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Monad Foundation acquires Ponder, an open-source blockchain data indexing framework

Monad announced on platform X that the Monad Foundation has acquired the blockchain data indexing open-source framework Ponder, with the specific acquisition amount not yet disclosed. The entire Ponder team will join the Monad Foundation and contribute to protocol-level, open-source tools, and standards, while also supporting applications in leveraging Monad’s performance and decentralization features.

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