In the past few days, the news that the Monad ecosystem @apr_labs has completed a $20M financing has attracted a lot of attention. You might be curious about what protocol has made top VCs like YZI Labs, Pantera, and Consensys eager to invest? Let me explain: 1) aPriori is officially positioned as a CeDeFi platform protocol at a high-frequency trading (HFT) level. In Crypto Native terms, it is a MEV infrastructure and liquidity staking protocol built on the Monad platform. This explanation makes sense because aPriori is essentially doing one thing: integrating Wall Street's high-frequency trading systems with Crypto's MEV capture mechanisms. Specifically, aPriori aggregates funds by issuing the $aprMON LSD token and then builds a three-layer flywheel system based on this: The bottom layer captures MEV profits shared with stakers, the middle layer uses AI to intelligently analyze order flow to improve trade execution rates, and the top layer provides institutional-level trade execution through the Swapr aggregator. To put it simply, the innovative aspect of aPriori's protocol in relation to Monad is akin to the combination of "jito + Jupiter" for Solana, and then implementing these innovations into institutional-grade trading products using Wall Street high-frequency trading technology. 2) After understanding this comprehensively, I distilled two of what I believe are aPriori's biggest innovations: 1. It integrates MEV and aggregated trading into a single infrastructure rather than two separate products: Protocols like Jito and Jupiter on Solana are independent of each other, with Jito acting as an intermediary in the MEV auction market earning auction fees, while Jupiter focuses on aggregating liquidity and trade routing. aPriori's uniqueness lies in its ability to use AI to identify order flow opportunities in real-time, execute in milliseconds, and then distribute profits to stakers through aprMON. Trades submitted through Swapr go directly through aPriori's MEV channel, enjoying faster confirmations and MEV protection. This integrated flywheel design from entry to execution to profit distribution is particularly suitable for a high-concurrency, high-performance new public chain like Monad. 2. It transforms order flow from "negative externality" into a "layered pricing product." In traditional DEXs, all order information is treated equally, leading to a significant lack of trading precision, which can cause serious experience issues. For example, the arbitrage actions of MEV bots can affect ordinary users' trading slippage, while a sudden influx of ordinary users' FOMO trades can impact the network stability required for institutional-level trading. In response, aPriori's solution is to productize and tier the order flow using AI, analyzing the "toxicity" of each trade in real-time and then implementing layered pricing. For instance: Highly toxic orders (arbitrage bots) incur high fees, directing them to the public market for PVP; lightly toxic orders (private trades) incur medium rates, executed in private dark pools; non-toxic orders (ordinary users) enjoy discounted rates for optimal execution prices. This productized segmentation of layered pricing effectively transforms the original zero-sum game into a positive-sum game, where the high costs of toxic trades subsidize the trading experience of ordinary users, allowing everyone to get what they need without affecting each other. This reminds me of how Robinhood achieved a "zero trading fee" experience for retail investors by selling retail orders to market makers. In comparison, aPriori not only draws on this mature TradFi mechanism but also makes the system transparent and decentralized, without retaining any value for itself, ultimately returning value to all participants through aprMON. In summary, the $20 million that institutions are eager to invest is not just about buying a simple DeFi protocol; it resembles acquiring the monopoly rights to a "new type of MEV + high-frequency trading infrastructure" for the future of the Monad ecosystem and even the broader EVM ecosystem? It integrates TradFi's high-frequency trading, AI's intelligent layered routing, and Crypto's MEV capture into a brand new "species": a solution that combines mining, trading, and profit distribution.