Monad Team Launches MON Token Claim for 230,000 Users

The project also revealed criteria for participation in the distribution.

EVM-compatible L1 platform Monad has opened a portal for claiming its native token, MON. The claim will be available until November 3. 

The Monad Airdrop Claim Portal is live

Claim your MON here: https://t.co/WAKIvKK8xmhttps://t.co/WAKIvKK8xm

— Monad (mainnet arc) (@monad) October 14, 2025

According to criteria, during the airdrop, the project team will distribute coins among more than 235,500 users, including: 

• active community members who have long supported the project on social media and participated in various initiatives;
• traders with high trading volumes on DEX platforms like Hyperliquid and sites such as Pump.fun;
• long-term holders of popular NFTs (CryptoPunks, Pudgy Penguins, Mad Lads);
• participants in voting on DAO platforms based on Ethereum. 
• contributors who have aided the ecosystem’s development through development, auditing, security, or education;
• developers already creating products on Monad and participating in the project’s hackathons. 

The Monad Foundation team and Category Labs employees will not participate in the distribution. The snapshot was taken on September 30. 

MON tokens will become available after the TGE, which will occur alongside the mainnet launch. The exact date is yet to be announced. 

Perpetual contracts for the coin are already available on Hyperliquid. At the time of writing, the price stands at $0.07 with a daily trading volume of $5.9 million. Open interest has reached $7.7 million. 

Fraudulent Advertising on Telegram

Prior to the MON claim opening, scammers placed fraudulent ads with phishing links in the official Monad Announcements channel. This was reported by the project’s co-founder, Keone Hon. 

Telegram sells ads targeted at a single public channel. Scammers have purchased ads on the Monad Announcements telegram channel.

Crazy that telegram will push content directly into a channel that otherwise only contains content from one party. We are working on getting this… pic.twitter.com/0WmSrUmVoO

— Keone Hon ⨀ (@keoneHD) October 13, 2025

“Telegram places ads in specific public channels. Scammers bought ads in Monad Announcements. It’s astonishing that the messenger allows content promotion in this way, which should only contain information from one party. We are already working to remove all this,” he wrote. 

Back in February, the platform’s developers launched a public test network. 

In July, the Monad Foundation acquired Portal Labs, the company behind the infrastructure platform for stablecoins Portal.