After a long and meticulous testnet phase that showcased Monad’s raw performance and developer-first architecture, the network is now entering its final pre-mainnet chapter.
As Monad Public Mainnet approaches, the Monad Foundation has announced the $MON Airdrop — allocating tokens to 5,500 members of the Monad community and nearly 225,000 members of the wider crypto ecosystem.
Its purpose is clear: to make those who eat, sleep, and breathe crypto the initial stakeholders of the Monad network.
Eligibility was defined through on-chain analysis across EVM and Solana networks, using a snapshot taken on September 30 2025 (23:59 UTC). Included are:
► DEX traders on Hyperliquid, Phantom Wallet, and Pump.fun / Virtuals
► DeFi depositors on Aave, Euler, Morpho, Pendle, Lighter, Curve, PancakeSwap, and Uniswap
► NFT collectors from communities such as CryptoPunks, Azuki, Mad Lads, Milady Maker, Pudgy Penguins, Sappy Seals, and Solana Monkey Business (Gen 2)
► Governance participants active in major Ethereum DeFi DAOs, and Monad Cards holders
Claims remain open on the official portal until November 3 2025, secured through Privy authentication for EVM or Solana wallets, with optional social verification.
Surprisingly, Monad chose not to reward testnet activity — a rare move in today’s airdrop meta. Still, testnet participants played a key role in shaping and refining the network, paving the way for a smoother mainnet launch.
About Monad
Monad is a next-generation, EVM-compatible Layer 1 built to scale Ethereum’s ecosystem through parallel execution, modular consensus, and sub-second finality.
Its architecture combines MonadBFT for fast, fault-tolerant consensus with MonadDB, a high-efficiency state layer optimized for SSD storage — reaching ~10 000 TPS, 400 ms blocks, and ~800 ms finality while preserving decentralization.
Monad now prepares for mainnet genesis, enabling developers to deploy seamlessly through Hardhat, Foundry, or Remix, with full JSON-RPC compatibility and comprehensive documentation guiding the transition from testnet to production-ready applications.
