Monad’s MON token is launching through Coinbase’s revamped ICO platform, offering retail access at $0.025 before mainnet. Here’s a fast breakdown of the mechanics, tokenomics, pricing, and risks.

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Monad Token Sale on Coinbase

MegaETH, a high-speed Ethereum Layer 2 backed by Vitalik Buterin and Dragonfly Capital, is gearing up for its token sale on Cobie’s Sonar platform — a pivotal step toward its real-time blockchain vision.

Vitalik Buterin

Joseph Lubin

Sreeram Kannan

MegaETH Token Sale on Sonar

United States of America

Coinbase Ventures is the venture capital arm of Coinbase, one of the largest and most well-known cryptocurrency exchanges in the world. Coinbase Ventures is focused on investing in early-stage companies and projects in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. It provides funding, resources, and support to startups and entrepreneurs working on innovative blockchain and crypto-related technologies and applications.

Coinbase Ventures

Dragonfly Capital Partners, commonly referred to as Dragonfly Capital, is a venture capital firm that focuses on investments in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. Dragonfly Capital is known for its active involvement in the blockchain and crypto industry and its commitment to supporting innovative projects and companies.

Josh Hannah

Bankless

Nigel Eccles

Felix Anthony

Zach Bruch

Megapot

Mason Hall

Hong Kong

Mirana Ventures is a leading global investment fund that provides long-term capital and strategic partnerships to visionary founders and fund managers in the Web3 space.

Mirana Ventures

The Fintech Fund

The Venture Dept

Gammite Ventures

Farooq Malik

Bam Azizi

Martin Derka

Rhythmic

Paradigm is a cryptocurrency-focused investment firm and venture capital company. It was founded by Matt Huang and Fred Ehrsam, both of whom have significant experience in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. Paradigm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and is considered a prominent player in the digital asset and blockchain investment space.

Liberty City Ventures invest in startups that are innovating at the cross-sections of technology, media and commerce.

Liberty City Ventures

Japan

SBI Investment (Group)

Moderne Ventures is a strategic venture capital and growth equity firm investing in disruptive technology companies like Enterprise SaaS, AI, Robotics, Deep tech, Sustainability, Data and Digital Transaction Management.

Moderne Ventures

Mesh

Galaxy is a digital asset and blockchain leader helping institutions, startups, and qualified individuals shape a changing economy.

Galaxy

Samsung NEXT is the innovation arm of the Samsung Group, a global conglomerate. Samsung NEXT is known for its role in identifying, investing in, and developing cutting-edge technologies and startups. The primary focus of Samsung NEXT is to explore and invest in emerging technology trends that align with Samsung's broader business strategies.

Samsung NEXT

PayPal Ventures invests in companies at the forefront of innovation in fintech, payments, commerce enablement, artificial intelligence, blockchain and cryptocurrency, and regulatory and cyber technology.

PayPal Ventures

Switzerland

ConsenSys develops enterprise applications, invests in startups, builds developer tools, and offers blockchain education.

ConsenSys

QuantumLight

Altair Capital is an international venture investment comp.

AltaIR Capital

Florida Funders

Streamlined Ventures is a lead seed stage investment firm that focuses on companies with applied artificial intelligence

Streamlined Ventures

Hike Ventures is an early-stage investor in applied AI, helping startups that solve well-defined problems with AI in ways that traditional software has not yet been able to solve.

Hike Ventures

Money Forward

WndrCo is a holding company that invests in, acquires, develops, and operates consumer technology businesses for the long term.

WndrCo

CapitalX

Stonks

Investing in the people and companies that shape the future of enterprise technology.

Rembrandt Venture Partners

B3 Capital is an evergreen venture vehicle looking to back ground-breaking businesses that define the new economy.

B3 Capital

SNR.VC

The Heitner Group is the family-owned investment office of entrepreneur and business leader, Bernard Heitner.

Heitner Group

Valon Capital

Network VC

Yolo Investments is a venture capital focused on seed- and A-stage investment opportunities across gaming and fintech.

Yolo Investments

Opportuna

Evolution VC

United Kingdom

Kingsway Capital

Uphold

Overlook Ventures

CE-Ventures is the corporate venture capital platform of Crescent Enterprises, investing in early- to late-stage high-growth companies and venture funds globally.

CE-Ventures

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a prominent venture capital firm recognized for its strategic investments in innovative and high-growth technology companies. Founded in 2000 by Chris Schaepe, Barry Eggers, Ravi Mhatre, and Peter Nieh, Lightspeed has played a pivotal role in shaping the success stories of numerous startups across various sectors.

Lightspeed Venture Partners

FirstMark

Bessemer Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that funds consumer, enterprise, and healthcare startups.

Bessemer Venture Partners

Sapphire Ventures

ICONIQ Growth

Norwest

Endeavor Catalyst

Rain

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joining a16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of FoundersFund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

Balaji Srinivasan

Alliance is the leading crypto accelerator and founder community.

Alliance

Hard Yaka makes early round investments in exchange space startups. Candidates are either verticals in particular categories of exchange markets or horizontals providing services across exchange sectors.

Hard Yaka

Canonical Crypto

BDMI

Latitude is a venture capital firm focused on being the first call and partner to founders scaling from 0 to 1.

Latitude

CompoSecure

Khosla Ventures

Uniswap

Mischief

Paul Veradittakit

Circle is a financial technology firm that utilizes stablecoins for payments and e-commerce.

Circle

Terraform Capital

HELLO Labs

HelloTrade

We offer investors intelligently designed investment strategies that take advantage of targeted market opportunities.

VanEck

a16z crypto is a venture capital fund that invests in crypto and web3 startups

a16z crypto CSX

Solana Ventures' mission is to accelerate the growth of the Solana blockchain and adjacent ecosystems by providing capital to the most promising teams building in the crypto ecosystem.

Solana Ventures

Santiago Roel Santos is the Partner at ParaFi Capital

Santiago Roel Santos

Big Brain Holdings Invests in Seed, Pre-Seed and Early Stage Startups

Big Brain Holdings

Austin Federa

MonkeVentures

Kash Dhanda

Akshay BD

Matt Sorg

Pharsalus Capital

Arnold Lee

Latif Peracha

Raj Gokal

Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.

Anatoly Yakovenko

Philippines

Stepan Simkin

Anagram Crypto

Andrew Kang is a cryptocurrency entrepreneur and investor. He is the Co-Founder of Mechanism Capital which invests in cryptocurrency through prop trading, mining, ventures, and secondary markets. Kang previously worked in portfolio management and venture capital at Digital Capital Management.

Andrew Kang

Nic Carter

Folius Ventures invests, popularizes, and participates in the construction of the Web3 ecosystem.

Folius Ventures

Volt Capital is a venture capital firm that specializes in investing in early-stage startups in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space. Volt Capital is known for its focus on supporting innovative projects and teams within the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem.

Volt Capital

Mexico

Lvna Capital is an investment fund specialized in blockchain-based digital assets.

Lvna Capital

Bodhi Ventures is a crypto native fund – built by founders for founders.

Bodhi Ventures

Mike Dudas

HashKey Capital is a blockchain and cryptocurrency-focused venture capital and investment firm based in Hong Kong. They specialize in funding and supporting early-stage blockchain and cryptocurrency projects, startups, and companies.

HashKey Capital

Moonrock Capital is a Blockchain Advisory and Investment Partnership based in London and Hamburg.

Moonrock Capital

ParaFi Capital is an alternative investment firm focused on blockchain and decentralized finance markets.

ParaFi Capital

Borderless Capital is a Blockchain VC firm and a modern financial institution investing capital and co-building financial products with our portfolio companies that accelerates access, bootstraps adoption, and creates value globally through the Algorand Borderless Economy.

Borderless Capital

Wintermute is a truly value adding investor dedicated to supporting the innovation in the blockchain ecosystem.

Wintermute

Race Capital

DCF GOD

Joshua Lim

Andrew Steinwold

Breed VC is an early stage crypto venture fund dedicated to helping the top founders build the decentralized future

Breed

Portal Ventures is a fundamentals driven early stage crypto investment firm.

Portal Ventures

Early stage blockchain venture capital. A JV with Lightspeedvp

Faction

Jason Yanowitz

Bryan Pellegrino is the co-founder and CEO of LayerZero Labs, a blockchain company developing LayerZero, an interoperability protocol that enables seamless communication between different blockchains. This protocol is especially significant in the DeFi space, as it allows data and tokens to move across networks like Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, and Solana.

Bryan Pellegrino

Casey K. Caruso

Escape Velocity

Mike Ippolito

Namik Muduroglu

Guy Young

Alpen Capital (Prev. Comfy Capital)

Rebecca Rettig

Topology Ventures

Metalayer Ventures

Walter Kortschak

Jason Badeaux

Serge Kassardjian

Inversion Capital

The CMT Group has acted as a valued collaborator to numerous exchanges, clearing firms, and trading and investment teams, generating edge by pairing market insight with early adoption and innovation of nascent technologies.

CMT Digital

Framework Ventures is a cutting-edge venture capital firm deeply immersed in the world of decentralized finance (DeFi) and blockchain technology. Founded by Michael Anderson and Vance Spencer, Framework Ventures stands out as a key player in the rapidly evolving landscape of digital assets and blockchain-based financial innovations.

Framework Ventures

Arbitrum Foundation

Bullish is a digital asset exchange that provides deep liquidity.

Bullish

Flowdesk

Hermeneutic Investments

USD.AI

Malta

YZi Labs is an investment firm formerly known as Binance Labs that invests in all stages of development in the fields of Web3, artificial intelligence (AI), and biotechnology.

YZi Labs (prev Binance Labs)

Boxcars Ventures

MyPrize

Andreessen Horowitz, often referred to as "a16z," is a prominent venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. It was founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, both of whom are well-known figures in the tech industry. Andreessen Horowitz is one of the leading venture capital firms in Silicon Valley and has gained a reputation for its investments in technology companies, particularly in the areas of software, internet, and more recently, blockchain and cryptocurrency.

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

Arrington Capital is a thesis-focused digital asset and Web3 investing firm. Since 2017, Arrington Capital has invested in over 200 early-stage companies in the crypto ecosystem. Arrington Capital's crypto-native team of seasoned entrepreneurs, founders, and executives is committed to doubling down on efforts to ensure our partners' success.

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