Check your Monad Airdrop: A New Era for High Performance Layer 1 Begins

Monad, one of the most anticipated Layer 1 blockchains of the year, has officially announced the opening of the Airdrop Portal for eligible users to receive MON tokens. This is an important milestone for Monad to thank users for their support over the past time as well as part of Monad’s preparation for the upcoming mainnet launch.

The Most Anticipated Airdrop of 2025

Monad Launches MON Airdrop Claim Portal, the project’s first large-scale community distribution. It marks a significant step in decentralizing ownership and governance of the network.

According to the project’s official announcement, the airdrop is designed to recognize, thank, and reward the sincere contributors who have supported the project throughout the testnet and development phase. As well as turn Monad Community members and blockchain users into early stakeholders in the Monad network.

Eligible participants can now verify eligibility and claim MON tokens directly through the official claim portal, focusing on main groups: 

Monad Community

Most of the airdrop goes to the Monad Community – early adopters who gave life to and push the project forward with active engagement, creativity, and leadership. From content and program initiation to grassroots mobilization, these users turned Monad from a technical proof of concept into a living collective. Their influence is comparable to that of the early adopters of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, whose share vision infused those technologies with life beyond code.

In order to seek such members, Monad used manual screening, community referrals, and social graph analysis to target actual long-term contributors and not bots or casual followers.

On-Chain Users

The remaining half of the airdrop goes to active blockchain users, identified through on-chain analytics. This group includes serious traders, DeFi users, NFT holders, and DAO voters across Ethereum, Solana, and other networks. The snapshot was taken on September 30, 2025 (23:59 UTC) and reflects consistent activity and value creation within decentralized ecosystems.

Crypto Community

The airdrop also reaches members of the broader crypto community, selected through social network analysis and initiatives like Monad Cards, which recognized active and thoughtful Twitter users. Included groups feature Backpack, LobsterDAO, MetaDAO, ARC, Fantasy Top, and Farcaster participants – individuals who help crypto culture thrive.

Crypto Contributors & Crypto-Curious

Monad acknowledges people who have advanced the industry through security research, protocol development, and education, including ZachXBT, SEAL 911, Cantina auditors, and Protocol Guild members. The list also covers students and instructors from RareSkills and SheFi, who have helped expand crypto literacy and developer knowledge.

Monad Builders

A special portion of the airdrop rewards builders within the Monad ecosystem. It includes teams developing natively on Monad, hackathon participants, and contributors with verified work. In the interest of fairness and decentralization, Monad Foundation and Category Labs employees are excluded from receiving airdrop tokens.

The MON airdrop isn’t a marketing stunt. It’s a genuine gesture of appreciation toward real people who’ve brought social, cultural, and technical value to the ecosystem. By tying distribution to merit, engagement, and belief, Monad reinforces a timeless crypto truth: technology becomes revolutionary only when powered by community.

MON Airdrop Details 

• Claim Portal: https://claim.monad.xyz/ 
• Claim Period: Opens October 15, 2025, and remains active for several weeks
• Eligibility: Early testers, community members, and verified contributors
• Token Utility: MON serves as the native asset for gas fees, staking, and on-chain governance

Monad Labs notes that this airdrop is the first phase of a long term token distribution plan designed to reward early supporters and foster a fair, decentralized ecosystem.

The MON airdrop signals the beginning of Monad’s expansion into mainnet. With multiple infrastructure providers, DeFi protocols, and wallets already integrating, Monad is poised to become a major player in the next generation of high-performance blockchains often dubbed “Ethereum at the speed of light.” 

Monad Tokenomic 

• Total Supply: 100B MON 
• Max Supply: 100B MON 

Other information Monad is still holding the glasses and there is no official announcement yet. 

About Monad

Monad is a high performance, EVM compatible Layer 1 blockchain engineered to push the boundaries of speed, scalability, and efficiency. Developed by a team of former Jump Trading engineers and seasoned systems researchers, Monad introduces parallel execution and deep consensus-level optimization to deliver performance that rivals centralized systems – while remaining fully decentralized.

Monad’s mission is to create a developer friendly, Ethereum equivalent environment where applications can achieve thousands of TPS, instant finality, and predictable low fees. By preserving EVM composability and improving execution efficiency, Monad envisions a blockchain ecosystem where innovation scales without limits.

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