A Primer on Monad

Introduction

Monad’s Mission “is "to power a new world economy, suitable for a world that is increasingly online and onchain, through state-of-the-art financial infrastructure" via the pillars of

1. The Best Developer Experience: Seamless EVM compatibility and awesome initiates like Monad Madness, Monad Founder Residency connect developers and founders in the Monad ecosystem to investors and businesses to build new blockchain-based services. Monad also has impressive physical locations where builders can meetup and discuss the next big ideas. Visit The Studio.
2. Global Reach & Impact: Monad aims to expand high-performance blockchain infrastructure worldwide, emphasizing emerging markets driving real crypto adoption. This includes Latin America’s fast-growing blockchain payments ecosystem and enterprise-level deployments in Southeast Asia, where scalability and low-cost transactions are crucial. Monad positions itself as the financial backbone for global, permissionless value transfer.
3. Best in-class Technology: Powered by innovations like MonadDB and Parallel Execution, Monad claims to have achieved 10,000+ transactions per second throughput required for mainstream applications such as high-frequency trading, real-time payments, and consumer apps demanding instant settlement. High transaction throughput, combined with EVM compatibility is Monad’s approach to tap into the world's largest developer community in the blockchain space with scalability with minimal friction.

MON Token Public Sale & Airdrop Distribution

MON Circulating Supply: MON is Monad's native tokens for conducting transactions and staking for yield and network security. The total MON supply is 100 Billion tokens.

MON Token Public Sale: 7.5 percent of the 100 billion token supply was allocated for public sale at the price of $0.025 per MON via the Coinbase token sale platform. Learn More

MON Token Airdrop: The MON Airdrop made available 4.73B MON tokens to be claimed across a total of 289K eligible accounts. In total, 3.33B MON tokens (~70.4%) were claimed. Learn About MON Airdrop

Switching to Monad network on Metamask

Monad is an L1 network, meaning it's on the same tier as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana. The process of switching from Ethereum to Monad is similar to switching from Ethereum to Solana. The same process applies for switching from Solana or other networks to Monad network

Monad blockchain is supported by most major wallet providers. With Metamask, you can simply swap your tokens for Monad. Make sure you have added Monad Blockchain as one of the accepted networks. Simply select the Monad Network or All Popular Networks to access Monad features in Metamask.

Phanton wallet also has Monad network integration by default. It's as simple as selecting either Ethereum or Solana mainnet. Simply switch and select a different network.

Briding your tokens to MONAD

Use MonadBridge to bridge your tokens from other blockchains to Monad. I bridged my ETH tokens to MON tokens from Ethereum mainnet to Monad public mainnet wallet using MonadBridge. MonadBridge.com allows you to select a different wallet to transfer your bridged asset.

Select your destination wallet and you will receive the tokens. Monad bridging from ETH mainnet to Monad mainnet happened under 15 seconds with a small transaction cost.

How to publicly access Monad Blockchain and MON Token Data?

MON tokens are currently trading for 4 cents a piece. To make the most return out of the Monad blockchain and MON tokens without technical/developer experience, stake your MON tokens with participating validators to generate a 15.4% yield on your stake. Start with less than $10 and see exceptional yeild for an L1 blockchain.

1. Staking : Stake your MON tokens to earn a 15.41% APY. Note this could change anytime. Monad is a Proof of Stake (POS) mechanism, thus staking secures the network and insures the validators have a financial incentive to act honestly. Currently 12.8 billion MON tokens are staked, represeing a 12.8% of total MON supply of 100 billion. You can stake as little as 1 MON token, which is currently trading for 4 cents a piece. Learn more via Staking on Monad.

2. Validators: THe Monad Validator ecosystem currenly has 164 validators. While staking MON tokens, you need to choose a validator and stake with them. Monad has a 25 MON token reward per block generation and validators take a 10% cut of each block reward, meaning 22.5 MON is distributed among the stakers. More about validators.

3. Charts : Monad boasts an impressive 400 millisecond block time, 114 maximum transactions per section recorded with a median block fees of less than 1 MON per block. Checkout more stats from the Charts section.

DApps on MONAD

Prediction Markets have arrived on Monad and you can make props with RareBetSports. A prediction line requires minimum of 50 MON tokens. This is not an investment advice. Gambling is highly risky and we do not recommend gambling and prediction marekts.

Explore a wide range of other DApps and Services on the Monad Ecosystem via the Monad App Portal.

• Stake and power the network with GMonad and MonadVision
• Engage in De-Fi with spot& perpertual trading with Kuru, LeverUp & others. Read the Monad Defi Guide on X.
• Deploy your own token on the Monad blockchain with Clanker and Nad.fun, Printr & others
• Conduct lending & borrowing with Townsquare, Neverland and other Monad-native lending protocols.

Explore 76 and counting Apps Available on Monad.

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Conclusion

Monad is quickly establishing itself as a powerful new Layer-1 blockchain—the new kid on the block with the transaction speed and scalability needed for next-generation on-chain applications. With a rapidly expanding ecosystem of DApps, bridges, DeFi protocols, staking platforms, social apps, and gaming/betting services, Monad makes it easy for users to move assets from other chains and start earning, trading, or experimenting with new use cases using the MON token. Early network activity has already peaked at 114 transactions per second, signaling strong initial adoption and developer interest.

As the ecosystem grows, Monad offers a rare mix of EVM compatibility, high throughput, and low fees, making it an exciting opportunity for builders, power users, and investors looking to participate in the next wave of blockchain innovation. I’m personally excited to continue exploring what Monad unlocks—and I hope this guide helps you dive deeper into the Monad blockchain as well.

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