Author: Tofu, TechFlow; Harvey, Monad
As various long-dormant projects have started to issue tokens, the market has once again become interested in harvesting airdrops.
The wealth-creating effects of large projects such as Movement, Magic Eden, and Pudgy Penguins have also fully mobilized the market's expectations for this round of token issuance, and people are turning their attention to high-quality projects that are about to issue tokens.
Among the many projects that have not yet issued tokens, the leading L1 public chain Monad, which has a parallel EVM narrative, is definitely one of the most anticipated star projects, and its massive $244 million financing has also raised the market's expectations for the launch of the Monad mainnet.
On December 17, Monad announced the establishment of a foundation, which has also made the market more eager for Monad's next token issuance move. Before Monad's official testnet is launched, paying attention to and participating in projects related to Monad, both within and outside the ecosystem, may allow you to get a share when the mainnet is launched.
In fact, there are currently a large number of projects that have officially announced that they will Build on Monad, many of which are cross-chain, and there are also many native projects. Given the many introductions or overviews of Monad ecosystem projects currently on the market.
This time, the TechFlow editorial department will organize some Monad Native projects and potential participation methods for readers' reference.
Specifically, we will select some projects for interpretation and keep them updated in the long run.
Project Introduction
1. DeFi Infrastructure
aPriori - Liquid Staking Platform
aPriori is the native MEV-driven liquid staking platform of the Monad ecosystem, aiming to optimize Monad's network performance and user experience through the development of new MEV and liquid staking architectures. Its innovative probabilistic verification design greatly reduces latency and is highly adapted to Monad's high performance.
After several rounds of financing, aPriori's total financing has reached $10.7 million.
The team members come from the professional trading field, with the founder Ray S. having previously worked at Jump Crypto and Flow Traders, and also participated in the construction of the Pyth Network as an ecosystem contributor. Co-Founder Olivia Z previously worked as a senior software engineer at Coinbase.
Participation method:
Previously, the aPriori team released the first community task, which is to post creative articles, videos, Memes or research articles related to aPriori on Twitter and tag @aprMEV, and send the link to the official designated Discord channel. Outstanding tweets will be adopted and given a special role to the creator.
Before the project is officially launched, you can join the aPriori official Discord to stay up to date on the team's latest developments.
Kintsu - Liquid Staking Protocol
Kintsu is the native liquid staking protocol of Monad, trying to solve the liquidity problem in traditional PoS staking, and provide users with a more flexible and valuable staking method, allowing users to fully utilize their assets while ensuring fund security.
The word Kintsu comes from the Japanese word "Kintsugi", which is a traditional Japanese art form of repairing broken ceramics. Just like Kintsugi repairing broken ceramics, Kintsu is described as "repairing the golden lines of broken liquidity", aiming to "repair" the "fractures" in the blockchain ecosystem, implying that the Kintsu protocol can solve the contradiction between staking and liquidity in PoS blockchains.
Kintsu has announced a $4 million financing, led by Castle Island Ventures.
Participation method:
Kintsu's project construction is relatively mature, and you can currently participate in the project's Galaxy tasks: https://t.co/6GwQTptniT
The project also provides ambassador and OG roles for Discord community members, who can obtain different ambassador roles by creating Memes, analyzing project data or contributing to project development. Users who are active in the community through normal means and reach level 35 can obtain the OG role, see the official documentation for details.
Kintsu official Discord:
https://discord.gg/JWRGmVRW
Jigsaw - DeFi Protocol Based on Liquid Collateral
Jigsaw is a DeFi protocol based on the concept of liquid collateral, with its main product being the stablecoin jUSD issued based on the CDP mechanism. The core innovation of the protocol lies in the dynamic collateral mechanism, where users can continue to manage their assets after depositing the collateral, including transferring and allocating the collateral between whitelisted protocols.
Hyperplex - Optimizing DeFi Liquidity Management
Hyperplex is an innovative project on the Monad ecosystem that focuses on optimizing DeFi liquidity management, trying to solve a core problem in DeFi: how to maximize capital efficiency and returns without significantly increasing risk, through a liquidity re-provisioning mechanism, allowing users' funds to work more intelligently.
Symphony - Cross-Chain Aggregation Trading Platform
Symphony, formerly known as Cadence Protocol, is a DeFi platform focused on solving cross-chain trading and liquidity aggregation problems, with its unique selling point being cross-chain and simplified user experience.
Symphony applies chain abstraction technology to DeFi trading, using an intent-based innovative trading architecture that will allow liquidity to be unified between chains and protocols, and provide simplified low-cost on-chain transaction execution. Symphony also uses account abstraction smart contract wallets to help users skip the complex and painful multi-chain operations.
KuruExchange - Decentralized Exchange
KuruExchange is the native decentralized order book exchange of Monad, whose Central Limit Order Book (CLOB) can provide better performance than AMM, allowing market makers to actively quote liquidity and provide users with better prices and lower slippage. It is worth mentioning that Monad's CEO Keone Hon has also personally invested in Kuru.
Participation method:
Kuru is still in a very early stage, and the official has only released the official Discord: https://discord.gg/mtq3cXHy, and the Discord has temporarily closed the role list, you can join the channel and wait for the next announcement.
Narwhal - AI-Driven Trading Platform
Narwhal is the native AI-driven trading platform of Monad, with the main feature of gamifying and socializing the trading experience. The platform provides a variety of synthetic asset trading including cryptocurrencies, stocks, indices and forex, through Pyth, and promises deep liquidity and low slippage.
The platform adopts a self-custody model, where users do not need to deposit funds into the platform before opening a position. To lower the trading threshold, Narwhal has designed a copy trading function, allowing ordinary users to follow the strategies of excellent traders.
Participation method:
Narwhal has not officially launched yet, and the official has also called for joining the Discord to stay informed of the latest developments:
https://discord.com/invite/bzTQuxr3ME
Composite Labs - Integrated Trading Leverage Platform
Composite Labs is the native decentralized trading infrastructure of Monad, providing one-stop services for spot, perpetual contracts and lending. Its biggest feature is the use of a unified central limit order book, realizing a cross-margin mechanism, allowing users to use their funds more efficiently. Regardless of the trading scale, a flat fee rate is adopted. Technically, it is fully decentralized, with all code running on-chain, deployable on any EVM-compatible network, and freely combinable with other DApps.
2. GameFi
Sparkball - 4v4 Sports Combat Game
Sparkball is the native 4v4 MOBA-style competitive game of Monad, developed by Opti Games. The core innovation of the game is the combination of ball sports and combat elements, where players need to control the ball and compete to score in the opponent's goal. While adopting the MOBA team battle mode of League of Legends, the game also incorporates the sports competition characteristics of Rocket League. The special thing about Sparkball is that it does not deliberately emphasize Web3 attributes, but focuses on creating a high-quality gaming experience.
How to participate:
Currently, Sprakball has opened account registration. By logging in through the official website, the game is expected to be launched on Steam in the second quarter of 2025, and you can now apply for early participation in Season Zero and pre-download on Steam.
RareBetSports - On-chain sports culture competitive entertainment platform
RareBetSports is Monad's native decentralized sports competition platform, which mainly provides core services such as Daily Fantasy Sports and traditional sports betting. The platform's signature RareLink system allows users to choose athlete combinations based on their own analysis to participate in competitions. In the Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) mode, users need to build virtual teams within a budget limit and obtain points and rewards based on the performance of the selected athletes in the actual matches.
How to participate:
Currently, RareBetSports is open to invitation-based experience. You can actively interact with the official on Twitter and join the Discord community, and obtain invitation codes through active participation in community activities.
LEVR_bet - Decentralized leveraged entertainment platform
LEVR is Monad's native decentralized leveraged entertainment platform, which combines sports entertainment and decentralized trading strategies, allowing users to use up to 5 times leverage for on-chain investment. It introduces an oracle-driven liquidation engine to ensure the security and fairness of transaction results.
MVP Vault is one of the core components of the LEVR platform and an innovative mechanism of LEVR. It plays the role of a counterparty automated market maker (Counterparty AMM) in the buy-in (collateral) market and the redemption market, which means that users are actually trading with LEVR's insurance vault, rather than directly betting against other users.
How to participate:
Join the LEVR Discord community and participate in daily activities to have the opportunity to win community bonuses.
Breath of Estova - Pixel-style MMORPG game
Breath of Estova (BoE) is a pixel-style 2D MMORPG Play-to-Earn betting game native to Monad. Players can earn the native token $ESTOVA as a reward for their game time. The project is currently under continuous development and has announced the upcoming launch of a test version for players to experience.
3. Wallet
HaHa Wallet - Monad native wallet
HaHa Wallet is Monad's native smart wallet, supporting interaction with DeFi applications in the Monad ecosystem. In July 2024, HaHa Wallet established a strategic partnership with Kintsu, planning to enhance the Monad DeFi ecosystem by integrating liquid staking services.
Currently, the project is in the product development and ecosystem layout stage, and is continuously updating progress through official Twitter and Discord community channels.
How to participate:
HaHa Wallet is now available on the app store. You can pre-register by entering your email on the official website and download the browser extension/mobile app from the app store. Join the official Discord to stay up to date with the latest developments:
https://discord.com/invite/MhPYjRQEa2
Mozi Wallet - DeFi yield and comprehensive application wallet
Mozi Yield Wallet is also a native wallet project of Monad, with the core feature of converting the yield generated by staking tokens into directly usable assets. Users can manage the wallet through the Telegram mini-program without the need to download an additional app. This wallet supports using the staking yield to pay for various services, including in-game purchases, Web2 subscription services (such as Netflix), and DeFi services.
According to the official tweet, the vision of Mozi Wallet is to connect the yield of cryptocurrencies with actual payment scenarios, allowing users' staking yield to be directly converted into disposable assets. In the future, Mozi will also launch a Mozi debit card to make it easier for users to use these yields.
TechFlow note: Mozi won the Community Favorite Award in the second Monad Madness roadshow competition. When participating in the roadshow, it was in the identity of a DeFi yield application, and recently the team's focus has been on the more comprehensive Mozi Wallet direction.
How to participate:
Currently, Mozi Yield Wallet is preparing for the test network stage and will be launched after the Monad test network is opened.
Official Discord:
https://discord.gg/6gWK6TKcRk
4. AI Projects
PLAYBACK
Playback is a decentralized AI project native to the Monad ecosystem, focusing on the development of Large Action Models (LAM). Its core technology can translate human intentions into specific computer operations, achieving automated control, breaking through the limitation of traditional AI that can only provide suggestions.
The project is building a decentralized training data contribution system, where users can earn rewards by providing privacy-processed screen recordings.
Different from the existing LAM that only relies on screenshots and pre-trained language models, Playback is committed to building a dedicated training dataset to advance the substantive development of LAM technology.
How to participate:
The project is shrouded in mystery, with many redacted text introductions in tweets and observations. It is speculated that more details will be disclosed after the project is launched. You can currently submit an application to the waiting list on the official website:
https://www.playback.network/
Fortytwo
Fortytwo is a native AI project of Monad. Unlike traditional AI projects that require supercomputers, Fortytwo allows ordinary individuals to participate, as they can run AI nodes on home computers. The project adopts a beehive-like network structure, where the nodes collaborate with each other to complete complex AI tasks.
Monadata.ai
Monadata is a native AI project developed based on the Monad network, mainly focusing on the development of personal AI agents and data annotation. The project adopts a community collaboration model, where users can participate in project construction through knowledge contribution and data annotation, and receive corresponding incentives. The project emphasizes user data sovereignty and uses blockchain technology to ensure users' control over their personal data.
5. SocialFi
Kizzy - Mobile social betting platform
Kizzy is an innovative social media betting application built on the Monad native, where users can predict and bet on social media events, such as the number of views of a YouTube video or the number of followers of a Twitter account. Through a decentralized liquidity pool and a dynamic odds mechanism, Kizzy ensures the transparency and fairness of the betting process. Compared to traditional betting platforms, it provides lower fees and faster transaction speeds. This project gamifies social media activities, allowing users to earn profits by predicting the daily activities of the platforms they use, while also cultivating an interactive community ecosystem.
How to participate:
Currently, Kizzy is still in the closed beta testing stage, and the official Discord and Telegram are temporarily closed. The official will occasionally announce invitation codes on Twitter. After obtaining the invitation code and activating it on Discord, you can apply for a test code by voting in Discord.
Tezza Poker - Poker social
Tezza Poker is a native poker social project of Monad. It has already held community poker tournaments through an invitation code access system, and regularly organizes poker nights in the community.
Join the Tezza Poker community to learn more:
https://discord.com/invite/TezzaPoker
Dusted - Tokenized Social Protocol
Dusted is a social platform developed based on Monad, with the core function of creating tokenized chat rooms through the CommunityFi mechanism. The platform uses smart contracts to implement community governance, and token holders can participate in rule-making, content review, and feature voting.
Dusted's CommunityFi model quantifies community contributions through tokenization, converting user behaviors that are difficult to measure on traditional social platforms into on-chain verifiable value proofs.
Participation method: You can currently register for the whitelist on the Dusted official website, and more information will be announced by the official later.
6. Business & DePin (Monad Madness Award-winning Project)
Pulse - Wearable Health Monitoring Device
PULSE (Pulse No Limits) is a native DePin project in the Monad ecosystem, combining blockchain technology with wearable health devices. The core product of the project is the Pulse One wearable device, which has the function of collecting physiological data, including heart rate, blood oxygen, and activity monitoring, equipped with wireless charging and a 5-day battery life, and also has a built-in digital wallet function.
PULSE has currently completed a $1.8 million seed round of financing, with investors including Lemniscap and Collab Currency. The project plans to launch the product in the first quarter of 2025 and is working on building a data sharing ecosystem.
The application scenarios of PULSE include personal health management, medical research data collection, clinical data analysis, and the construction of a decentralized medical data database. The project solves the problems of ownership disputes and sharing restrictions faced by traditional medical data through blockchain technology, providing a new solution for the collection, storage, sharing, and application of health data.
Plato - Web3 Yelp
Plato, in cooperation with offline restaurants, gamifies the restaurant consumption experience and provides consumers who consume at the cooperative restaurants with consumption rebates in the form of its token $FAT.
By combining offline consumption with crypto technology, Plato aims to promote user consumption and increase the revenue of catering merchants, while also collecting user data on food (pictures, comments) to build an on-chain food map.
PaperPlane
PaperPlane, a native Monad project, combines catering, accommodation, and other entertainment consumption payment/loyalty programs with $Token/Cashback to drive the popularization of Web3 through consumption rebates. The platform will put real-world transaction data on-chain to achieve cross-industry integration.
Within one year of its launch, PaperPlane has already acquired 10,000+ users and 100+ top-tier catering partner stores, including Asia's 50 best bars and Michelin-recommended restaurants; its clients/partners include Taiwan's largest cryptocurrency exchange MaiCoin, the world's second-largest wine merchant Pernod Ricard, and the Ford Mustang brand.
EarnOS - Business Platform Based on Chain Abstraction
EarnOS is an advertising platform based on on-chain technology, using chain abstraction technology. Chain abstraction is essentially hiding complex on-chain operations in the backend. On the user side, only an email is required to log in and operate the platform, and seamless interaction across all devices is achieved. The low entry threshold provided by chain abstraction technology allows EarnOS to advertise in various ways such as social media traffic, customized advertising, and AR immersive experiences, changing the user acquisition, participation, and reward mechanisms in the digital advertising field.
EarnOS has already connected to the physical business, collaborating with world-renowned companies such as The North Face and Uber, using on-chain entry points to drive traffic to offline physical brands, with over 200,000 verified users and more than 1.3 million brand interaction activities.
7. NFT
Lil Chogstar
Lil Chogstar is a distinctive PFP NFT project built on the Monad ecosystem. The most notable feature is that the design inspiration comes directly from the mascot "Chog" of the Monad ecosystem, and the Monad community naturally loves this NFT project.
Participation method:
Lil Chogstar will be officially launched when the Monad mainnet goes live. Currently, you can pre-register information through Premint to get on the whitelist:
https://www.premint.xyz/chogstar/
Monadverse
Monadverse is one of the most anticipated NFT projects on the Monad chain, with the core product being the Monanimals NFT series. The project is supported by Monad co-founder @keoneHD. Currently, a whitelist system is used, and only 100 whitelist spots are open for community members to compete for.
Whitelist application form: http://monadverse.land
Monadians
Monadians is a futuristic-style PFP NFT project initiated by Monad community members @barrybutterhand and @edenwagmi. The project is currently in active development, and the official website is still under construction.
Spiky Nads
Spiky Nads is an early Monad ecosystem NFT project built by Monad community members @andlfthegreat, @jakxpixel, and @0xkaya_. Currently, Spiky Nads is in the pre-launch phase and is distributing whitelists through community interactions.
Beyond Ecosystem Projects, How to Participate?
Deeply Engage with the Community, Be a Good Man
Previously, many quality projects have airdropped to Monad community members, and a strong focus on community development is also a well-known feature of Monad.
Monad welcomes positive dialogues within the community and encourages community members to actively participate in project construction, so actively joining the community and participating in discussions is a good way to claim Monad token rights. In the community, active participation in discussions can earn you DC group identities.
Monad community holds various activities every week, such as Twitter AMAs, community poker entertainment, and brainstorming sessions.
The community also encourages users to introduce Monad to others in their own way, including but not limited to creating meme images and writing introductory articles.
For more details, please refer to: Monad: How to Join the Community and Contribute?
Holding NFTs & Staking Tokens - Some Speculations on the Network
In addition to participating in the community, Twitter user @FabianoSolana has summarized some speculations about potential Monad airdrops based on guesses:
Backpack Wallet Users & Madlads Holders
Because Monad has invested in Backpack and announced that the Monad testnet will integrate Backpack wallet on the first day; and the Solana NFT leader Mad Lads holders have always maintained support and cooperation with Monad.
Wassieverse NFT Holders
The founder of the Wassieverse project is an angel investor of Monad, and the current floor price of Wassieverse is 20 SOL.
Wormhole-related Users
Previously, Wormhole has already given the Monad community a considerable amount of $W airdrop, and Wormhole's co-founder Robinson Burkey is also an angel investor of Monad. So $W stakers are likely to also receive Monad airdrops.
Pyth-related Users
Monad's co-founder is also a maintainer of Pyth, and has previously released Pythenian NFT. At the same time, Pyth will serve as the official oracle of Monad. Since only users holding about 4,000 $Pyth can enter the top 10,000 and qualify for airdrops.
Original link:
https://x.com/FabianoSolana/status/1870474174789251100
Image: Source Twitter user @FabianoSolanaRumors have it that Monad will launch its testnet in Q1 2025. The above is only a partial introduction to Native projects, and theoretically there will be more projects launched or supported by Monad in the future. Please stay tuned. Monad Wiki, start understanding Monad from here.
