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Monad: $MON Airdrop Allocation Overview

Monad: $MON Airdrop Allocation Overview

深潮2025/10/15 04:50
By: 深潮TechFlow
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The primary goal of this airdrop is to make Monad community members and blockchain power users the first stakeholders of the network.
The primary goal of this airdrop is to make Monad community members and deep blockchain users the first stakeholders of the network.

Author: Monad

Introduction

As the Monad mainnet approaches, the Monad Foundation officially announces the MON airdrop. This airdrop will distribute tokens to 5,500 Monad community members and approximately 225,000 broader crypto community members. The core philosophy of the MON airdrop is to ensure that those who truly “live and breathe Crypto” become the first stakeholders of the Monad network.

The distribution of MON tokens is divided into five main categories, each with several subcategories. Individuals who meet multiple subcategory criteria can accumulate and claim the corresponding shares.

The distribution categories include:

  • Monad Community

  • Onchain Users

  • Crypto Community

  • Crypto Contributors & Crypto Curious

  • Monad Builders

Anti-Sybil Mechanism

The primary goal of this airdrop is to make Monad community members and deep blockchain users the first stakeholders of the network. The challenge is that new networks often become prime targets for Sybil attackers and mass registration farms. When designing the selection criteria, we focused on which behaviors are easily faked by Sybils and which are harder to forge. For example, “low-value repetitive transactions” can be easily executed by scripts, so they cannot serve as effective independent criteria; otherwise, the shares of real users would be diluted by a large number of bots. Ultimately, we selected a set of standards that reflect both high on-chain activity and genuine off-chain contributions:

  • On-chain dimension: mainly measures long-term capital deposits in DeFi protocols, active high-frequency DEX traders, specific NFT collectors, etc.

  • Off-chain dimension: social identity verification, participation in Web3 education and community activities, contributions to public goods/security research, etc.

The Foundation also made extensive use of manual labeling and launched two applications, Monad Community Recognizer and Monad Cards, inviting the community to participate in the selection process.

In addition, we collaborated with third-party provider Trusta AI to detect and eliminate Sybil addresses on-chain. Their professional experience in anti-Sybil distribution has been immensely helpful.

Monad Community

The Monad community is the largest component of this airdrop. The reason is simple: community is everything.

Monad has always emphasized that a single smart and insightful supporter can change the trajectory of a startup. For Monad, this impact is amplified thousands of times over.

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Monad community members constantly push their own boundaries: founding new companies, launching initiatives, building audiences, unleashing creativity, organizing others... Through their actions, they prove that the way the world transacts can fundamentally change—and that such change is highly probable, all thanks to persistence, fearlessness, and a bit of luck.

Crypto has always been a story about community:

  • Early Bitcoin believers gathered for “decentralization, censorship resistance, self-sovereignty, and open-source code.”

  • Early Ethereum geeks were obsessed with “programmable money on the world computer.”

  • Solana community members envision “DeFi at Nasdaq speed and hardware-driven high performance.”

Every time, it is not the technology itself that creates profound impact, but the community that dares to be optimistic and goes all in.

Today, those early believers in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana have become industry leaders. But a few years ago, they were just smart, curious people willing to keep trying. Now, the Monad community is at the same moment.

We hope Monad community members can become important stakeholders in the network, because we believe in their future influence and their potential to shape the direction of Monad and the entire Crypto space.

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This distribution uses manual labeling + community voting + social graph analysis, focusing on members who have participated deeply and contributed continuously to the Monad ecosystem over the long term.

Unlike traditional airdrops where “social distribution is often chaotic and inefficient, casting too wide a net to find a few truly important contributors,” the Monad community has many high-contribution members with tightly interwoven social networks, making precise distribution possible, more efficient, and more impactful.

The moral support, sense of humor, creativity, goodwill, initiative, and genuine care of the Monad community have greatly inspired the Monad team and all ecosystem builders.

In a word: All in one.

Onchain Users

This category targets heavy on-chain users on major public blockchains, with criteria including trading activity, NFT holdings, governance participation, etc. Specifically covering:

  • High-frequency traders on major DEXs

  • Large deposits in mainstream DeFi protocols

  • Long-term NFT holders

  • Recently active participants in Ethereum DeFi protocol governance

The snapshot time is 23:59 UTC, September 30, 2025, with some indicators calculated retroactively over several months.

Crypto Community

This section targets the broader crypto community, using social graph exploration and the Monad Cards program for selection. The goal is to find people who truly love Crypto.

Although it is impossible to capture everyone, completely eliminate farms and bots, or avoid duplication, we strive to ensure that those who genuinely care about Crypto become stakeholders in the Monad network.

Among them, Monad Cards is an important component. This program identifies active, engaged, and deep-thinking users on Twitter/X, and allows selected users to nominate others who were missed but are equally deserving of recognition. Recipients of Wave 1 and Wave 2, as well as those who missed the claim, are all included in this airdrop.

In addition, we also covered:

  • Community members

  • Participants in the Legion fundraising platform

  • Backpack users

  • Fantasy Top heroes

  • ARC community members

  • Active members of LobsterDAO Telegram

  • MetaDAO token holders

  • Active users on Farcaster

Crypto Contributors

This category targets builders who are advancing the Monad ecosystem:

  • Security researchers, protocol developers, education promoters

  • Representatives such as ZachXBT

  • SEAL 911 members

  • Cantina auditors (those with high-value discoveries)

  • Protocol Guild members (confirmed via Splits contracts)

At the same time, we have also included students and mentors from educational projects, such as Rareskills and SheFi.

Monad Builders

This section covers builders who are driving the growth of the Monad ecosystem:

  • Teams natively deployed on Monad

  • Developers who submitted qualified projects in Monad Blitzes, Dev Missions, and hackathons

  • And individuals who actively participated and made significant contributions at IRL events

All lists are manually selected, with a focus on actual results (proof of work) and verifiable attendance.

To avoid ambiguity, Monad Builders in this airdrop do not include team members of the Monad Foundation and Category Labs. We have proactively excluded all identity markers related to project team members, making them ineligible for the claim list, and explicitly prohibit full-time team members of the Monad Foundation and Category Labs from participating in this Monad airdrop.

Conclusion

This airdrop embodies the tremendous efforts of the Monad Foundation’s quant and engineering teams. We not only sorted through massive amounts of on-chain and off-chain data, but also built new tools such as Monad Community Recognizer and Monad Cards to ensure a more fair and community-driven distribution.

Even so, there will still be some deserving individuals who are not covered. We sincerely apologize for this and equally admire your passion and perseverance.

Please stay tuned—the upcoming Monad mainnet will bring more opportunities and surprises.

Disclaimer: The content of this article solely reflects the author's opinion and does not represent the platform in any capacity. This article is not intended to serve as a reference for making investment decisions.
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