Monad Blockchain Goes Live With 100B Token Supply and Airdrop

Tech Share Share this article Copy link X icon X (Twitter) LinkedIn Facebook Email Monad Blockchain Goes Live With 100B Token Supply and Airdrop The total supply of MON is 100 billion tokens, with 10.8% currently unlocked and in circulation. By Margaux Nijkerk | Edited by Sheldon Reback Nov 24, 2025, 2:00 p.m. Monad blockchain, airdrop go live on Monday (Ian Dooley/Unsplash modified by CoinDesk) What to know : The layer-1 Monad blockchain went live on Monday, accompanied by an airdrop of its MON token. According to project documentation , the total supply of MON is 100 billion tokens, with 10.8% currently unlocked and in circulation. That circulating portion is divided between two buckets: 7.5% was made available over the past week through a public sale on Coinbase’s Token Platform at $0.025 per token, and the remaining 3.3% unlocks as part of the airdrop. The layer-1 Monad blockchain went live on Monday, accompanied by an airdrop of its MON token. The Monad team described the blockchain as a “high-performance network capable of supporting a broad range of growing industry verticals, including DeFi , payments/ stablecoins , and emerging institutional use cases for high frequency finance.” STORY CONTINUES BELOW Don't miss another story. Subscribe to the The Protocol Newsletter today . See all newsletters Sign me up By signing up, you will receive emails about CoinDesk products and you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy . Previously, the team said that the blockchain is also “EVM-compatible,” and that the chain is designed to help scale Ethereum’s virtual machine into its next stage of growth. As for the airdrop, according to project documentation , the total supply of MON is 100 billion tokens, with 10.8% currently unlocked and in circulation. That circulating portion is divided between two buckets: 7.5% was made available over the past week through a public sale on Coinbase’s Token Platform at $0.025 per token, and the remaining 3.3% unlocks as part of the airdrop. The remaining supply is allocated as follows: 27% to the Monad team, 19.7% to investors, 4% to the Labs Treasury, and 38.5% toward ecosystem development. Some community members on X expressed frustration with the distribution, arguing that the team’s share is unusually high compared with industry norms. “Monad mainnet’s public launch marks a major step toward making high-performance blockchain infrastructure accessible to everyone. Developers shouldn’t have to choose between speed, security, and usability,” said Keone Hon, the co-founder of Monad, in a press release shared with CoinDesk. “With Monad, we’ve worked to deliver all three, without asking builders to abandon the tools and languages they already know. We’re excited to empower a new wave of applications and bring blockchain technology closer to mainstream and institutional adoption.” Read more: Monad Unveils Tokenomics Ahead of Nov. 24 MON Token Airdrop Monad airdrop token Token Governance More For You Protocol Research: GoPlus Security By CoinDesk Research Nov 14, 2025 Commissioned by GoPlus What to know : As of October 2025, GoPlus has generated $4.7M in total revenue across its product lines. The GoPlus App is the primary revenue driver, contributing $2.5M (approx. 53%), followed by the SafeToken Protocol at $1.7M. GoPlus Intelligence's Token Security API averaged 717 million monthly calls year-to-date in 2025 , with a peak of nearly 1 billion calls in February 2025. Total blockchain-level requests, including transaction simulations, averaged an additional 350 million per month. Since its January 2025 launch , the $GPS token has registered over $5B in total spot volume and $10B in derivatives volume in 2025. Monthly spot volume peaked in March 2025 at over $1.1B , while derivatives volume peaked the same month at over $4B. View Full Report More For You Sunrise Debut Streamlines Solana Token Imports as Monad Goes Live By Margaux Nijkerk , AI Boost | Edited by Sheldon Reback 23 hours ago The platform introduces a unified gateway that allows issuers and users to move tokens from any ecosystem into Solana. What to know : Sunrise, a new product from Wormhole Labs, started up on Sunday with the aim of becoming the primary access point for new digital assets onto the Solana blockchain. The platform introduced a unified gateway that allows issuers and users to move tokens from any ecosystem onto Solana. The debut coincides with the arrival of Monad and its token going live on mainnet on Monday. 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