Monad 

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What is Monad blockchain?

Monad is a Layer 1 blockchain that combines full Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatibility with a parallelized execution engine. It targets developers seeking to deploy existing Ethereum applications at higher throughput and lower cost without modifying Solidity code. Monad's public mainnet launched on November 24, 2025. The native coin, MON, powers gas fees and validator staking across the network.

How does Monad process 10,000 transactions per second?

Monad reaches its 10,000 TPS target through four co-designed components. MonadBFT — a modified HotStuff consensus — delivers ~800ms single-slot finality with linear communication overhead. Optimistic parallel execution runs transactions simultaneously and resolves conflicts via selective replay. Deferred (asynchronous) execution decouples consensus from state processing, expanding the compute window. MonadDB, a custom storage layer, handles blockchain-specific read/write patterns efficiently. These run on commodity hardware with 0.4-second block times.

What is MON's total supply and circulating supply?

MON has a fixed initial supply of 100 billion tokens. Per DropsTab data, allocation breaks down as: Ecosystem Development 38.5%, Team 27%, Investors 19.7%, Public Sale 7.5%, Category Labs Treasury 4%, and Airdrop 3.3%. Ecosystem Development, Public Sale, and Airdrop were fully unlocked at the November 24, 2025 TGE. The remaining 50.7% — held by insiders — is locked under a vesting cliff. At TGE, approximately 10.8% of supply (Public Sale + Airdrop) entered public circulation; as of April 2026, circulating supply stands at 11.83% per DropsTab data.

Does Monad's vesting and unlock schedule create sell pressure?

The three insider allocations — Team (27%), Investors (19.7%), and Category Labs Treasury (4%) — share an identical structure: a 12-month cliff from TGE expiring ~November 2026, followed by 36-month linear vesting. The cliff event releases approximately 16.62 billion MON simultaneously across all three groups — roughly 16.62% of total supply. Investors entered at a reported $0.0115 per MON, well below the public sale price, which amplifies mechanical sell-pressure potential after the cliff expires.

How does MON staking work?

MON uses delegated proof-of-stake to secure the network. Holders can stake directly or delegate to one of the top 200 active validators, ranked by total stake. The minimum self-stake for a validator is 100,000 MON; the unbonding period is approximately 5.5 hours. Locked insider allocations — Team, Investors, and Category Labs Treasury — are explicitly excluded from staking until their cliff expires in November 2026. The Monad Foundation delegated 15 billion MON at launch to bootstrap validator security and distribute early staking rewards to public holders.

What was Monad's ICO and presale price?

The public sale ran November 17–22, 2025 on Coinbase Token Sales — the first token sale Coinbase hosted. The price was $0.025 per MON, implying a fully diluted valuation of $2.5 billion pre-launch. Coinbase sold 7.5 billion MON (7.5% of supply) and raised $187.5 million. Total demand reached $269 million from 85,820 buyers — 144% oversubscribed — with a bottom-up distribution algorithm applied to limit whale concentration.

Who are Monad's investors and backers?

Paradigm led Monad's $225 million Series A in April 2024 at approximately a $2.25 billion pre-valuation — the largest crypto venture round of 2024 at the time. Co-investors included Electric Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Greenoaks Capital, and Castle Island Ventures. Dragonfly Capital led the $19 million seed round in February 2023. OKX Ventures participated in a strategic round in May 2024 (amount undisclosed). Per DropsTab data, Monad has 12 investors across all rounds.

Is MON a coin or a token?

MON is a coin — the native asset of the Monad Layer 1 blockchain, not a contract deployed on another chain's infrastructure. This distinction matters for custody and bridging: MON held on Monad mainnet operates natively, while wrapped versions on other chains (such as the Wormhole-bridged variant on Solana) carry additional bridge risk and aren't the same asset.

Where can you buy Monad and trade MON?

MON spot trading is concentrated on centralized exchanges. Bybit carries the largest spot volume, followed by HTX, Gate, LBank, and Coinbase. Korean venues Upbit and Bithumb list MON/KRW. Derivatives — perpetual futures — are active on Binance Futures, Bybit Futures, OKX Futures, and Hyperliquid, where pre-market trading opened in October 2025 ahead of TGE. Binance spot listing is absent. On-chain DEX liquidity across Monad mainnet and Solana (Meteora, Raydium) remains a negligible fraction of total volume.

What did Monad's airdrop require to qualify?

The November 2025 airdrop distributed 3.3 billion MON across 230,000 eligible wallets using five categories. The Onchain Users track required demonstrable DeFi activity — usage of protocols like Aave, Uniswap, or Curve, active trading on Hyperliquid, or ownership of blue-chip NFT collections — with a snapshot taken September 30, 2025. The Crypto Community category covered Farcaster users, Backpack users, and DAO participants. Builders required testnet contributions or hackathon submissions. All categories were screened for sybil activity by Trusta AI.