{"id":89892,"date":"2025-10-14T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=89892"},"modified":"2025-10-14T17:30:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:30:52","slug":"monad-team-launches-mon-token-claim-for-230000-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/monad-team-launches-mon-token-claim-for-230000-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Monad Team Launches MON Token Claim for 230,000 Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-the-ethereum-virtual-machine-evm\">EVM<\/a>-compatible L1 platform Monad has opened a portal for claiming its native MON token. The claim will be available until November 3.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Monad Airdrop Claim Portal is live<\/p>\n<p>Claim your MON here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WAKIvKK8xm\">https:\/\/t.co\/WAKIvKK8xm<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WAKIvKK8xm\">https:\/\/t.co\/WAKIvKK8xm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Monad (mainnet arc) (@monad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/monad\/status\/1978083577666416849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.monad.xyz\/blog\/the-mon-airdrop#monad-community\">criteria<\/a>, during the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-cryptocurrency-airdrop\">airdrop<\/a>, the project team will distribute coins among more than 235,500 users, including:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>active community members who have long supported the project on social media and participated in various initiatives;<\/li>\n<li>traders with high trading volumes on <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-decentralised-exchange-dex\">DEX<\/a> platforms like <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/the-price-of-popularity-and-a-lesson-for-all-hyperliquid\">Hyperliquid<\/a> and venues such as Pump.fun;<\/li>\n<li>long-term holders of popular <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-are-nfts\">NFT<\/a>s (CryptoPunks, Pudgy Penguins, Mad Lads);<\/li>\n<li>participants in voting on <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-dao-decentralised-autonomous-organisation\">DAO<\/a> platforms based on Ethereum.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>contributors who have aided the ecosystem&#8217;s development through development, auditing, security, or education;<\/li>\n<li>developers already creating products on Monad and participating in the project&#8217;s hackathons.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Monad Foundation team and Category Labs employees will not participate in the distribution. The snapshot was taken on September 30.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MON tokens will become available after the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-token-generation-event-tge\">TGE<\/a>, which will coincide with the mainnet launch. The exact date remains unknown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Perpetual contracts for the coin are already <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/hyperliquid-launches-pre-market-trading-for-monad-contracts\">available<\/a> 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"571\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-7ccc617006d45d64-6844257857836521-1024x571.png\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-267551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-7ccc617006d45d64-6844257857836521-1024x571.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-7ccc617006d45d64-6844257857836521-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-7ccc617006d45d64-6844257857836521-768x428.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-7ccc617006d45d64-6844257857836521-1536x857.png 1536w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-7ccc617006d45d64-6844257857836521.png 1714w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hourly MON\/USD chart on Hyperliquid exchange. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.hyperliquid.xyz\/trade\/MON\">Hyperliquid<\/a>.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fraudulent Advertising on Telegram<\/h2>\n<p>Prior to the opening of the MON claim, scammers placed fraudulent ads with a phishing link in the official Monad Announcements channel. This was reported by project co-founder Keone Hon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Telegram sells ads targeted at a single public channel. Scammers have purchased ads on the Monad Announcements telegram channel.<\/p>\n<p>Crazy that telegram will push content directly into a channel that otherwise only contains content from one party. We are working on getting this\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0WmSrUmVoO\">pic.twitter.com\/0WmSrUmVoO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Keone Hon \u2a00 (@keoneHD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/keoneHD\/status\/1977759241810178304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 13, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Telegram places ads in specific public channels. Scammers have bought ads in Monad Announcements. It&#8217;s astonishing that the messenger allows promoting content that should only contain information from one party. We are already working to remove all this,&#8221; he wrote.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Back in February, the platform&#8217;s developers <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/monads-public-testnet-set-to-launch-on-february-19\">launched<\/a> a public test network.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In July, the Monad Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/monad-foundation-acquires-stablecoin-infrastructure-firm\">acquired<\/a> Portal Labs, the company behind the development of the infrastructure platform for <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-are-stablecoins\">stablecoins<\/a> Portal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EVM-compatible L1 platform Monad has opened a portal for claiming its native MON token. 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