The head of Aptos research questioned Monad's alleged plagiarism, and Monad Lianchuang refuted it

Aptos research director Alexander Spiegelman took to social media to question Monad's plagiarism of its technology, saying he did not understand why Monad spent a lot of time copying Aptos' technology, and that it was open-source and had peer-reviewed papers.
In response, Monad co-founder James Hunsaker countered, saying that he had been working on software transactional memory (STM) in the Haskell environment for a long time, and that BlockSTM was just a simple extension of these technologies, emphasizing that he had never looked at any of the Aptos code.