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Monad Airdrop Details

Status: Ended. The MON claim ran from 14 October 2025 to 3 November 2025 and is closed (as of 22 October 2026).
Result: Monad made 4.73B MON available to 289K eligible accounts. 76,021 unique wallets claimed 3.33B MON, about 70.4%.
Payout: Monad’s results post set 24 November 2025, the mainnet launch date, for releasing claimed MON to claimer wallets. Unclaimed MON is reallocated to Ecosystem Development.
Claim path: none. claim.monad.xyz now forwards to the Monad app portal.
Second airdrop: not announced by Monad (as of 22 October 2026).

Source: Monad’s MON airdrop results post.

Latest Update: Monad Cards Go Onchain With Community Wave

Monad opened Wave 3 of Monad Cards to 1,250 community members on 14 April 2026, then put the cards onchain on 14 July 2026. Minting your card onchain is free with zero gas costs. The eligibility check is still up on the Monad Cards site (as of 22 October 2026).

Mint Your Monad Card

Open the Monad Cards site and run the eligibility check. Account linking is not required.
If you’re eligible, claim your card onchain as a soulbound token to the Monad address you choose.

Community wave eligibility: members who stuck around for 8 or more days since the start of the year on Discord, Telegram or X, with a verifiable X account. The snapshot was taken at midnight UTC on 31 March, ahead of the Wave 3 opening on 14 April 2026.

Earlier waves: roughly 5,000 Crypto Twitter accounts picked through a reputation network approach that mapped accounts followed by known people across crypto verticals, with claimers able to nominate mutuals who were missed.

Cards are soulbound. Once minted, a card is bound to your wallet and cannot be listed, sold or transferred.

What cards paid in the MON airdrop: Monad Cards Wave 1 recipients received 88,888 MON and Wave 2 recipients received 38,888 MON. Recipients who failed to claim their cards received 18,888 MON. Monad hasn’t announced more MON for card holders (as of 22 October 2026). A card holder Season 2 is CT talk only, such as the math @labro_corsa posted on 4 October 2026 for about 2,000 holders.

How to Position for Monad Ecosystem Airdrops

The chain has distributed its token. Most applications on Monad have not. These steps cover mainnet setup and building usage history with the protocols that still have tokens to give.

Step 1: Set Up a Monad Wallet

Use MetaMask, Rabby, or any EVM wallet. Add the Monad mainnet RPC through ChainList, or accept the network prompt the first time a Monad app asks to connect.

Step 2: Fund Your Wallet With MON

You need MON for gas on every transaction below. Two routes work:

Buy MON on an exchange such as Binance and withdraw directly to Monad mainnet
Bridge assets in from Ethereum, Solana, or another chain using the official Monad bridge or a router like Relay
You can also use the widget below to bridge assets

Keep a small MON buffer at all times. Gas is cheap, but a transaction failing on an empty balance still breaks a streak.

Bridge funds

Swap and bridge across 30+ chains without leaving this page.
Fast routes, low fees.

Opens an interactive bridge widget

Step 3: Delegate MON to a Validator

Monad uses delegated proof of stake. Open a staking interface such as the MonadVision explorer, pick a validator, and delegate. A delegation becomes active in the next epoch, or the one after if you delegate past the boundary block. Boundary blocks come about every 4 hours 12 minutes. To exit, you undelegate and wait one epoch before you can withdraw, per Monad’s staking docs.

Step 4: Route Stake Through a Liquid Staking Protocol

Liquid staking protocols issue a receipt token usable elsewhere in DeFi. Options include:

Kintsu (sMON)
aPriori (aprMON)
Magma (gMON)

Check each protocol’s own site for a token before you farm it for one.

Step 5: Trade and Provide Liquidity on Monad DEXes

Swap volume and liquidity depth are the metrics most DEXes weight in retroactive allocations. Spread activity across order book and AMM venues, including Kuru, Ambient, and OctoSwap.

Step 6: Use Lending and Perps Protocols

Supply collateral, borrow against it, or open modest perp positions. These protocols measure borrow duration and open interest, not one-off deposits, so a small position held for months beats a large one held for a day.

Step 7: Track New Deployments

The earliest users of a protocol tend to receive the largest per-wallet allocations. Browse the Monad app portal and our list of Monad ecosystem airdrops to catch protocols before they get crowded.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I still claim the Monad airdrop?

No. The MON claim ran from 14 October 2025 to 3 November 2025 and is closed. claim.monad.xyz now forwards to the Monad app portal. Monad has announced no new claim (as of 22 October 2026). Read how to tell if a crypto airdrop is a scam before you connect a wallet to any claim page.

Will Monad do a second airdrop?

Monad has not announced one (as of 22 October 2026). About 38.5B MON sits in Ecosystem Development, which the Monad Foundation stewards for grants or incentives where strategic. Unclaimed airdrop MON is reallocated there too. Season 2 posts on X, such as one on 14 October 2026 saying it “is coming”, are rumor until Monad posts it.

How were MON tokens distributed?

Monad made 4.73B MON available to 289K eligible accounts across five tracks. In total, 76,021 unique wallets claimed 3.33B MON. The Monad Community track was the largest, with 5,935 accounts allocated 1.670B MON.

Do I need to spend money to farm Monad ecosystem airdrops?

Yes, in practice. Mainnet activity costs gas, and most allocation formulas weight capital deposited and duration held. Costs are low given Monad’s fee structure, but this is no longer free testnet farming.

Is staking MON worth it for airdrop purposes?

Staking earns MON rewards and keeps capital productive while you farm elsewhere. Farming a liquid staking protocol for airdrop exposure makes sense only while it has no token of its own, so check its site first.

Conclusion

The MON airdrop is over: 76,021 wallets claimed 3.33B MON, set for release at mainnet launch on 24 November 2025. We wouldn’t farm Monad itself for a Season 2 that only CT posts talk about. If you hold a Monad Card, mint it onchain, since it’s free. The steps above farm apps on Monad, not Monad.

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What is Monad?

Monad is an Ethereum-compatible Layer 1 blockchain focused on improving scalability while maintaining decentralization. The project has gained significant attention after raising $225 million in funding led by Paradigm, with notable backers including DragonFly Capital, Shima Capital, and Electric Capital.

The blockchain achieves high performance through parallel transaction execution and superscalar pipelining, supporting up to 10,000 transactions per second with 1-second block times. Monad’s architecture allows for running nodes on consumer-grade hardware, promoting greater decentralization.