Monad Testnet is即将 going live—here’s a guide to participating in its native projects
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Monad Testnet is即将 going live—here’s a guide to participating in its native projects
With token launch expectations at an all-time high, the ecosystem is stirring with activity.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsAuthors: Tofu, TechFlow; Harvey, Monad
As various long-dormant projects陆续 launch their tokens, market interest in airdrop farming has reignited.
Large-scale projects such as Movement, Magic Eden, and Pudgy Penguins have demonstrated inclusive wealth creation effects, significantly boosting market expectations for the current bull cycle’s token launches. Attention is now turning to high-potential projects expected to issue tokens soon.
Among the major projects yet to launch a token, Monad—championing the parallel EVM narrative—stands out as one of the most anticipated Layer 1 blockchains. Its massive $244 million fundraising round has further amplified market anticipation for its mainnet launch.
On December 17, Monad announced the establishment of a foundation, increasing speculation around an imminent token launch. With the official testnet not yet live, early engagement with projects connected to Monad—both within and outside its ecosystem—could position participants to benefit when the mainnet goes live.
There are already many projects officially announcing they will build on Monad, including cross-chain and native initiatives. Given the abundance of existing overviews covering Monad's broader ecosystem,
TechFlow’s editorial team has curated a selection of Monad-native projects and potential participation methods for readers’ reference.
Below, we highlight select projects with detailed insights and will maintain ongoing updates.
Project Overview
1. DeFi Infrastructure
aPriori – MEV-Driven Liquid Staking Platform
aPriori is a native liquid staking platform in the Monad ecosystem, powered by MEV optimization. It aims to enhance network performance and user experience through innovative MEV and liquid staking architectures. Its novel probabilistic validator design significantly reduces latency, making it highly compatible with Monad’s high-performance infrastructure.
The project has raised $10.7 million across multiple funding rounds.
The team hails from professional trading backgrounds. Founder Ray S. previously worked at Jump Crypto and Flow Traders, and contributed to Pyth Network’s development. Co-founder Olivia Z. was a senior software engineer at Coinbase.
How to Participate:
aPriori previously launched its first community task: publish creative content (articles, videos, memes, or research) about aPriori on Twitter, tag @aprMEV, and submit the link to the designated Discord channel. Outstanding posts are recognized with special roles.
Prior to the official launch, join the aPriori Discord to stay updated on developments.
Kintsu – Native Liquid Staking Protocol
Kintsu is a Monad-native liquid staking protocol addressing liquidity constraints in traditional PoS staking. It enables users to maintain capital security while unlocking greater utility and flexibility from their staked assets.
The name "Kintsu" draws from the Japanese art of “Kintsugi,” where broken pottery is repaired with gold. Similarly, Kintsu acts as the “golden thread” mending liquidity fragmentation in blockchain ecosystems, resolving the inherent trade-off between staking and liquidity in PoS networks.
Kintsu has secured $4 million in funding led by Castle Island Ventures.
How to Participate:
Kintsu’s development is relatively advanced. Users can currently participate in its Galaxy Quest: https://t.co/6GwQTptniT
The project offers ambassador and OG roles within its Discord community. Contributors can earn these by creating memes, analyzing data, or contributing code. Active community members who reach level 35 in Discord automatically receive the OG role—details available in the official document.
Kintsu Official Discord:
Jigsaw – DeFi Protocol Based on Liquid Collateral
Jigsaw is a DeFi protocol built on the concept of liquid collateral, with its flagship product being jUSD—a stablecoin issued via a CDP mechanism. Its core innovation lies in a dynamic collateral system: users retain management rights over their deposited assets, enabling transfers and reallocations among whitelisted protocols.
Hyperplex – Optimizing DeFi Liquidity Management
Hyperplex is an innovative project focused on optimizing liquidity management in Monad’s DeFi ecosystem. Using a Liquidity Re-Provisioning mechanism, it tackles a core DeFi challenge: maximizing capital efficiency and yield without significantly increasing risk—enabling funds to work smarter.
Symphony – Chain-Abstracted Aggregation Trading Platform
Formerly Cadence Protocol, Symphony is a DeFi platform solving cross-chain transaction and liquidity aggregation issues. Its key differentiator is cross-chain interoperability and streamlined UX.
Symphony applies chain abstraction technology to DeFi trading. Its intent-based architecture unifies liquidity across chains and protocols, enabling simplified, low-cost on-chain execution. Using account-abstraction-powered smart contract wallets, Symphony eliminates complex multi-step transactions for users.
KuruExchange – Decentralized Exchange
KuruExchange is a native decentralized orderbook exchange on Monad. Its Central Limit Order Book (CLOB) delivers superior performance compared to AMMs, allowing market makers to actively quote liquidity and providing users with better prices and lower slippage. Notably, Monad CEO Keone Hon has personally invested in Kuru.
How to Participate:
Kuru is still in very early stages. Currently, only the official Discord is public: https://discord.gg/mtq3cXHy. Role assignments are temporarily closed, but joining the server allows you to await future openings.
Narwhal – AI-Powered Trading Platform
Narwhal is a Monad-native, AI-driven trading platform that gamifies and socializes the trading experience. Leveraging Pyth for diverse synthetic assets—including cryptocurrencies, stocks, indices, and forex—the platform promises deep liquidity and low slippage.
It uses a self-custodial model: users do not need to deposit funds before opening positions. To lower entry barriers, Narwhal includes a copy-trading feature, enabling novice traders to mirror strategies from top performers.
How to Participate:
Narwhal is not yet live. The team encourages joining their Discord for updates:
https://discord.com/invite/bzTQuxr3ME
Composite Labs – Unified Trading & Leverage Platform Composite Labs is a native decentralized trading infrastructure on Monad, offering integrated spot, perpetual futures, and lending services. Its standout feature is a unified central limit order book enabling full cross-margin functionality, allowing more efficient capital use. It charges a flat fee regardless of trade size. Technically fully decentralized, all code runs on-chain, deployable on any EVM-compatible network, and composable with other DApps.
2. GameFi
Sparkball – 4v4 Sports Combat Game
Sparkball is a 4v4 MOBA-style competitive game developed by Opti Games, natively built on Monad. Its core innovation blends sports mechanics with combat gameplay—players must control a ball and score in the opponent’s goal. Combining League of Legends-style team battles with Rocket League-inspired sports dynamics, Sparkball emphasizes gameplay quality over overt Web3 features.
How to Participate:
Sparkball has opened account registration via its website. The game is expected to launch on Steam in Q2 2025. Users can currently apply for early access to Season Zero and pre-download via Steam.
RareBetSports – On-Chain Sports & Culture Entertainment Platform
RareBetSports is a decentralized sports betting platform on Monad, offering Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) and traditional sports wagering. Its unique RareLink system lets users create athlete combinations based on personal analysis. In DFS mode, users build virtual teams under budget constraints, earning points and rewards based on real-world athlete performance.
How to Participate:
RareBetSports currently operates via invite-only access. Engage with the team on Twitter to join the Discord and participate in community activities to earn invitation codes.
LEVR_bet – Decentralized Leverage Entertainment Platform
LEVR is a Monad-native decentralized leverage entertainment platform combining sports entertainment with DeFi trading strategies. It allows up to 5x leverage on-chain investments. An oracle-driven liquidation engine ensures secure and fair outcomes.
The MVP Vault is a core component and key innovation of LEVR. Acting as a counterparty automated market maker (AMM), it facilitates trades between buy (collateral) and redemption markets—meaning users trade against LEVR’s vault rather than peer-to-peer.
How to Participate:
Join LEVR’s Discord to participate in daily events and win community rewards.
Breath of Estova – Pixel-Art MMORPG Game
Breath of Estova (BoE) is a pixel-art 2D MMORPG Play-to-Earn prediction game native to Monad. Players earn the native token $ESTOVA based on gameplay time. The project is under active development, with a test version expected soon.
3. Wallets
HaHa Wallet – Monad-Native Wallet
HaHa Wallet is a smart wallet native to Monad, supporting interactions with DeFi applications in the ecosystem. In July 2024, HaHa Wallet formed a strategic partnership with Kintsu to integrate liquid staking services and strengthen the Monad DeFi ecosystem.
The project is currently in product development and ecosystem expansion phases, regularly updating progress via Twitter and Discord.
How to Participate:
HaHa Wallet is now available on app stores. Pre-register via email on the official website and download the browser extension or mobile app. Join the official Discord for latest updates:
https://discord.com/invite/MhPYjRQEa2
Mozi Wallet – DeFi Yield & Multi-Function Wallet
Mozi Yield Wallet is another Monad-native wallet project, distinguished by converting staking yields into immediately usable assets. Users can manage their wallets via Telegram mini-apps without downloading standalone apps. The wallet supports using yield earnings to pay for services like in-game purchases, Web2 subscriptions (e.g., Netflix), and DeFi fees.
According to official tweets, Mozi Wallet aims to bridge crypto yields with real-world payments, transforming passive income into spendable value. A Mozi debit card is planned for the future, enabling seamless spending of earned yields.
TechFlow Note: Mozi won the Community Favorite Award in the second season of Monad Madness. Initially presented as a DeFi yield application, the team has recently shifted focus toward the broader Mozi Wallet vision.
How to Participate:
Mozi Yield Wallet is preparing for testnet launch and will go live once the Monad testnet is operational.
Official Discord:
4. AI Projects
Playback is a decentralized AI project native to the Monad ecosystem, specializing in Large Action Models (LAM). Its core technology transforms human intent into executable computer actions, enabling true automation beyond conventional AI’s advisory role. The project is building a decentralized training data contribution system, rewarding users for submitting privacy-preserved screen recordings.
Unlike existing LAMs relying solely on screenshots and pre-trained language models, Playback is developing dedicated datasets to drive substantive advancements in LAM technology.
How to Participate:
The project maintains an air of mystery, with many redacted texts in its communications. Full details are expected upon launch. For now, users can join the waitlist via the website:
Fortytwo is a Monad-native AI project. Unlike traditional AI systems requiring supercomputers, Fortytwo enables ordinary individuals to participate using home computers as AI nodes. It employs a hive-like network structure where nodes collaborate to execute complex AI tasks.
Monadata is a native AI project on Monad, focusing on personal AI agents and data labeling. It adopts a community collaboration model: users contribute knowledge and perform data annotation to help build the project and earn incentives. The project emphasizes user data sovereignty, leveraging blockchain to ensure individuals retain control over their personal data.
5. SocialFi
Kizzy – Mobile Social Prediction Platform
Kizzy is an innovative social prediction app built natively on Monad. Users can predict and bet on social media events, such as YouTube video views or Twitter follower counts. Through decentralized liquidity pools and dynamic odds mechanisms, Kizzy ensures transparency and fairness. Compared to traditional platforms, it offers lower fees and faster transactions. By gamifying social activity, Kizzy allows users to earn from predicting everyday online behavior, fostering a highly interactive community ecosystem.
How to Participate:
Kizzy is currently in closed beta. Access to Discord and Telegram is temporarily restricted. The team occasionally releases invite codes via Twitter. After obtaining a code and activating your Discord role, submit a ticket in Discord to request a testnet access code.
Tezza Poker – Poker Social Platform
Tezza Poker is a poker social project native to Monad. It has hosted community poker tournaments via invite-only access and regularly organizes “Poker Night” events.
Join the Tezza Poker community for more info:
https://discord.com/invite/TezzaPoker
Dusted – Tokenized Social Protocol
Dusted is a social platform built on Monad, featuring tokenized chat rooms powered by a CommunityFi mechanism. It uses smart contracts for governance, allowing token holders to vote on rules, content moderation, and feature development.
Dusted’s CommunityFi model quantifies contributions through tokenization, transforming intangible user behaviors on traditional social platforms into verifiable on-chain value.
How to Participate: You can currently register for the whitelist on the Dusted website. More details will be announced later.
6. Commerce & DePin (Monad Madness Award Winners)
Pulse – Wearable Health Monitoring Device
PULSE (Pulse No Limits) is a DePin project native to the Monad ecosystem, integrating blockchain with wearable health tech. Its flagship hardware, Pulse One, captures physiological data including heart rate, blood oxygen, and activity levels. It features wireless charging, five-day battery life, and an embedded digital wallet.
PULSE has completed an $1.8 million seed round from investors including Lemniscap and Collab Currency. The product is set to launch in Q1 2025, alongside plans to build a data-sharing ecosystem.
Use cases include personal health management, medical research data collection, clinical analytics, and decentralized medical databases. By leveraging blockchain, PULSE addresses ownership disputes and sharing limitations in traditional healthcare data, offering a new solution for health data acquisition, storage, sharing, and application.
Plato – Web3 Yelp
Plato partners with physical restaurants to gamify dining experiences, offering cashback rewards in its token $FAT for customers who dine at partner locations.
By bridging offline consumption with crypto technology, Plato aims to boost consumer spending and restaurant revenues, while collecting food-related datasets (photos, reviews) to build an on-chain food map.
Monad-native project PaperPlane integrates real-world dining, lodging, and entertainment payments with loyalty programs using $Token/Cashback, driving Web3 adoption through consumer rewards. It brings real-world transaction data on-chain to enable cross-domain integration.
Within one year of launch, PaperPlane has attracted over 10,000 users and 100+ premium dining partners, including Asia’s Top 50 Bars and Michelin-recommended venues. Clients and partners include Taiwan’s largest crypto exchange MaiCoin, global spirits giant Pernod Ricard, and Ford Mustang.
EarnOS – Chain-Abstracted Commercial Platform
EarnOS is an advertising platform powered by blockchain and chain abstraction technology. Chain abstraction hides complex on-chain operations behind the scenes. For users, logging in requires only an email, with seamless cross-device interaction. This low barrier enables EarnOS to run creative ad campaigns via social media traffic, customized ads, and AR immersive experiences—transforming user acquisition, engagement, and reward mechanisms in digital advertising.
EarnOS has integrated with real-world businesses, partnering with global brands like The North Face and Uber to drive foot traffic from on-chain channels to physical stores. Over 200,000 verified users have participated in more than 1.3 million brand engagement activities.
7. NFTs
Lil Chogstar is a distinctive PFP NFT built on the Monad ecosystem. Its design is directly inspired by "Chog," Monad’s official mascot, giving it instant appeal within the Monad community.
How to Participate:
Lil Chogstar will officially mint upon Monad mainnet launch. Users can currently pre-register via Premint to secure a whitelist spot:
https://www.premint.xyz/chogstar/
Monadverse is one of the most anticipated NFT projects on Monad, centered around the Monanimals NFT series. It has received support from Monad co-founder @keoneHD. Currently operating under a whitelist system, only 100 whitelist spots are open for competition among community members.
Whitelist Application: http://monadverse.land
Monadians is a futuristic PFP NFT project initiated by community members @barrybutterhand and @edenwagmi. The project is actively under development, with the official website still being built.
Spiky Nads is an early-stage NFT project in the Monad ecosystem, built by community members @andalfthegreat, @jakxpixel, and @0xkaya_. Currently in pre-launch phase, whitelists are distributed through community engagement.
Beyond Ecosystem Projects: How Else Can You Participate?
Deep Community Engagement: Be a Good Man
Several high-quality projects have previously airdropped to Monad community members, reflecting Monad’s strong emphasis on community growth.
Monad welcomes constructive dialogue and encourages active participation in discussions and development. Engaging in community conversations is a solid strategy to gain eligibility for future token allocations. Active contributors often earn special roles in Discord.
Monad hosts weekly events including Twitter AMAs, community poker games, and brainstorming sessions.
The community also encourages members to introduce Monad in their own way—by creating memes, writing articles, or producing educational content.
For more, see: Monad: How to Join and Contribute to the Community?
Holding NFTs & Staking Tokens – Speculative Theories
Besides direct community involvement, Twitter user @FabianoSolana has shared some imaginative theories about potential Monad airdrop eligibility:
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Backpack Wallet Users & Madlads Holders
Reason: Monad has invested in Backpack and announced Backpack integration on Day 1 of its testnet. Additionally, Solana’s flagship NFT collection Mad Lads has maintained strong support and collaboration with Monad.
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Wassieverse NFT Holders
Reason: The founder of Wassieverse is an angel investor in Monad. The current floor price of Wassieverse is 20 SOL.
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Wormhole-Related Users
Reason: Wormhole previously awarded a significant $W airdrop to the Monad community. Robinson Burkey, co-founder of Wormhole, is also an angel investor in Monad. Therefore, $W stakers may also qualify for a Monad airdrop.
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Pyth-Related Users
Reason: A Monad co-founder is also a maintainer of Pyth and previously launched the Pythenian NFT. Pyth is set to serve as Monad’s official oracle. Approximately 4,000 $Pyth tokens are needed to rank in the top 10,000 holders—an assumed threshold for airdrop eligibility.
Original Post:
https://x.com/FabianoSolana/status/1870474174789251100
Image: Source from Twitter user @FabianoSolana
Rumors suggest Monad’s testnet will launch in Q1 2025. The above covers only select native projects—many more are expected to emerge or announce Monad support. Stay tuned.
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