What is Monad Airdrop? A complete guide to understanding how to obtain potential Token rewards.

As of August 12, 2025, Monad, as a high-performance EVM-compatible Layer 1 Blockchain, continues to attract attention from the encryption industry due to its technological potential and the anticipated token Airdrop from the community. Although the official Airdrop plan has not yet been formally confirmed, early participants may obtain future Token rewards through specific actions, considering its ecological dynamics, institutional background (raising $240 million), and industry practices.

##Monad Airdrop: Definition and Latest Developments Monad Airdrop refers to the behavior of distributing the native Token $MON for free to early users, developers, or ecosystem contributors of the project, aimed at incentivizing participation in the testnet and enhancing the decentralization of the network. Its core background includes:

1. Technical Positioning: Monad achieves a high throughput of 10,000 TPS through parallel execution technology, compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), addressing the "impossible triangle" problem of blockchain.
2. Airdrop Expectations: Although the airdrop has not been officially announced, community confidence stems from two main factors:

• Industry Trends: New public chains generally start their ecosystems through Airdrop (such as Arbitrum, EigenLayer);
• Funding support: Institutions such as Coinbase Ventures and Paradigm invested 225 million USD, laying the foundation for Token distribution.

3. Moonbirds Collaboration Event (Latest Update in August):

• On August 4, 2025, the NFT project Moonbirds announced that its holders (including the Moonbirds, Mythics, and Oddities series) can claim the $MON Airdrop through the portal.
• This move is Monad's first explicit Airdrop-related action, confirming the community's speculation on Token distribution.

How to Prepare for Potential Airdrops? Step-by-Step Participation Guide

Step 1: Participate in the Monad Testnet

The testnet is the current core participation scenario, and the data performance is strongly correlated with future airdrop qualifications:

• Testnet data: Since its launch in February 2025, it has processed a total of 2.7 million transactions, with over 240,000 unique addresses, a success rate of 98%, and a block time of only 0.5 seconds.
• Operation steps:

1. Configure Wallet: Use MetaMask (manually add Monad Testnet RPC) or wallets with automatic support (such as Phantom);
2. Claim test coins: Obtain testnet MON Tokens through the official faucet (such as testnet.monad.xyz) or partner platforms (Morkie, Gas.zip);
3. Interactive tasks: Execute on-chain operations (such as transfers, contract deployment), participate in ecological DApps (see table below).

Step 2: Deep Interaction Ecological Project

Monad ecosystem applications are key to accumulating on-chain footprints, with a focus on participation in:

Project Type Representative project Operational Recommendations DeFi Reactor (MetaDEX) Exchange Tokens, provide liquidity (earn points every hour, 1 dollar liquidity ≈ 0.2 points) DEX Kuru (CLOB model) Complete transactions, create tokens, add liquidity pools, and share roles on Discord. NFT/Games MonadVerse Minting testnet NFT, participate in gamified platforms like FantasyTop DePIN Monadscore Run web nodes to accumulate reputation points (linked to future airdrop distribution)

Step 3: Community Building and Identity Binding

• Discord Roles: Join the official Discord and earn roles like Nads and Monvangelist through contributions. Historical cases show that such identities may enhance Airdrop weight (e.g., the Wormhole Airdrop for Nads roles);
• Social tasks: Bind X (Twitter) and Discord accounts to ecological applications (such as Kuru) to enhance on-chain and off-chain identity association.

##Airdrop Mechanism Speculation and Risk Warning ####Potential Allocation Rules (Based on Industry Experience)

1. Qualification threshold:

• Testnet interaction address count ≥ 1 (77% of addresses have not received other mainstream Airdrops, or have become key target groups);
• Frequency of usage for ecological applications (e.g., Reactor requires earning 1 point for every 5 dollars traded).

2. Weight Factors:

• On-chain behavior diversity (e.g. DeFi + NFT + liquidity provision);
• Community reputation value (such as Monadscore's DePIN reputation score).

Risk Warning

• Uncertainty: Airdrop is still based on community expectations, and the rules may become clearer after the launch of the Monad mainnet (expected in Q3/Q4 2025);
• Anti-fraud principle: Obtain information only through the official website, Discord, and official Twitter (@monad_xyz); do not authorize your wallet to third-party links;
• Cost control: Interaction with the testnet requires ETH mainnet Gas fees (such as Morkie ID minting), and input-output evaluation is necessary.

##Conclusion: Seize the window period and focus on official channels The core value of the Monad Airdrop lies in capturing the early dividends of high-performance public chains at zero Token cost. As the Moonbirds collaboration project is implemented and the mainnet approaches, interactions on the testnet and contributions to the ecosystem remain the most feasible ways to participate. Users need to continuously follow official channels to dynamically adjust their strategies, mitigating risks while maximizing potential returns.