{"id":90736,"date":"2025-11-06T17:28:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=90736"},"modified":"2025-11-06T17:30:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:30:27","slug":"monad-team-announces-mainnet-and-mon-token-launch-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/monad-team-announces-mainnet-and-mon-token-launch-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Monad Team Announces Mainnet and MON Token Launch Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The release of the mainnet for the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-the-ethereum-virtual-machine-evm\">EVM<\/a>-compatible layer-one blockchain <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/how-monad-works-an-ethereum-and-solana-rival-with-10000-tps\">Monad<\/a> and its native token MON is scheduled for November 24.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Monad Mainnet will launch on November 24th, 9am ET<\/p>\n<p>Waiting room \ud83d\udc47 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3yP2WucnxU\">https:\/\/t.co\/3yP2WucnxU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Monad (mainnet arc) (@monad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/monad\/status\/1986087005386842568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-cryptocurrency-airdrop\">airdrop<\/a> for early users is expected to coincide with the launch. Coins will be distributed among 225,000 users who have passed the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-sybil-attack\">Sybil<\/a> verification. The portal for claiming MON <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/monad-team-launches-mon-token-claim-for-230000-users-2\">opened<\/a> in mid-October.<\/p>\n<p>The list of recipients includes active community members, high-volume traders on <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-decentralised-exchange-dex\">DEX<\/a> platforms like Hyperliquid, long-term holders of certain <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-are-nfts\">NFT<\/a> collections, contributors, and developers.<\/p>\n<p>The Monad Foundation team and Category Labs employees are not participating in the distribution.<\/p>\n<p>There is no official tokenomics for MON yet. However, perpetual pre-market contracts for the coin are already available on Hyperliquid. At the time of writing, the price stands at $0.05 with a daily trading volume of $4.3 million. Open interest has reached $10.6 million.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"578\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-42173c1b9b2d4703-8831927459165350-1024x578.png\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-269120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-42173c1b9b2d4703-8831927459165350-1024x578.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-42173c1b9b2d4703-8831927459165350-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-42173c1b9b2d4703-8831927459165350-768x434.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-42173c1b9b2d4703-8831927459165350-1536x867.png 1536w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-42173c1b9b2d4703-8831927459165350.png 1718w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hourly chart of MON\/USD on the Hyperliquid exchange. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.hyperliquid.xyz\/trade\/MON\">Hyperliquid<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The project was launched in 2022 as a competitor to <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-solana-sol\">Solana<\/a> and Ethereum. Through two funding rounds, it <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/monad-labs-secures-225-million-to-challenge-solana-and-ethereum\">raised<\/a> over $240 million.<\/p>\n<p>The Monad team launched a public testnet in February 2025. Developers have claimed high network throughput of up to 10,000 <span data-descr=\"transactions per second\" class=\"old_tooltip\">TPS<\/span> and block processing time of one second.<\/p>\n<p>Back 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>The release of the mainnet for the EVM-compatible layer-one blockchain Monad and its native token MON is scheduled for November 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Monad's mainnet and MON token launch set for November 24.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1158,1712],"class_list":["post-90736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-airdrops","tag-monad"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"491","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Monad's mainnet and MON token launch set for November 24.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90738,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90736\/revisions\/90738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}