Monad Ecosystem Guide: Consumer dApp Part Two
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Monad Ecosystem Guide: Consumer dApp Part Two
This episode introduces consumer projects in the Monad ecosystem, spanning multiple sectors including on-chain trading, gamified social platforms, physical business payments, and NFT issuance and trading.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insights
The Monad ecosystem hosts a diverse and rapidly growing set of consumer-focused dApps that fully leverage Monad's high performance, low gas fees, and high transaction throughput to enhance user experiences within an EVM-compatible environment. This article introduces consumer projects in the Monad ecosystem across multiple domains, including on-chain trading, gamified social platforms, real-world business payments, and NFT issuance and trading, showcasing the breadth and depth of decentralized applications in the Web3 era.
Narrative
@narrativexyz is an innovative DeFi protocol natively built on Monad, designed to simplify how users invest in trending narratives within the crypto market. Instead of requiring traders to manually track and time purchases of individual tokens tied to different themes, Narrative allows users to gain exposure to specific themes through curated asset baskets. This approach reduces the complexity of participating in speculative market trends such as AI Agents, DePIN, and Meme sectors. The protocol introduces data-driven dynamic vaults, enabling users to take long or short positions on entire market narratives. By integrating on-chain and off-chain AI-powered data aggregation, Narrative ensures asset allocations remain aligned with the latest market trends, offering users more representative investment tools.
Example: Evolution of Crypto Industry Narratives from 2008–2022
Core Features
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Gain Exposure to Market Narratives via Thematic Asset Baskets Long & Short Strategies: Users can directly take long or short positions on entire market narratives without needing to pick individual tokens. Leverage Options: Narrative offers leveraged exposure, allowing traders to amplify their positions and improve capital efficiency. Dynamic Rebalancing: The protocol continuously adjusts asset allocations within each vault based on real-time market data, ensuring portfolios stay aligned with current market trends.
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Proprietary Data Aggregation Model On-Chain & Off-Chain Data Analysis: Narrative synthesizes data from multiple sources, including key metrics such as TVL (Total Value Locked), DAU (Daily Active Users), MAU (Monthly Active Users), and token velocity, to optimize asset allocation. Meme Sector Sentiment Analysis: The protocol tracks speculative trends in the Meme sector using social media engagement data (e.g., Twitter mentions, community growth rates) to ensure vault compositions reflect current market热度.
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Efficient Trading on Monad > High Throughput & Execution Efficiency: Monad supports up to 10,000 TPS, eliminating execution bottlenecks. Traders experience near-instant settlement during portfolio rebalancing or leveraged trades, minimizing slippage and market impact costs. > EVM Compatibility & Parallel Execution: Developers and traders can seamlessly integrate EVM ecosystem tools, while Monad’s parallel execution mechanism ensures Narrative’s dynamic vaults can adjust in real time without transaction congestion or delays. > Low Latency & Cost Optimization: Narrative relies on frequent data-driven rebalancing, demanding highly scalable blockchain infrastructure. Monad delivers an ideal execution environment through its optimized virtual machine and parallel transaction processing. Compared to traditional DeFi thematic index funds that often suffer from high gas fees and delayed updates, Monad’s efficient execution layer significantly lowers operational costs, making Narrative accessible to small and mid-sized traders and enhancing overall market liquidity.
Comparable Projects : Offers index products like the DeFi Pulse Index, enabling users to gain exposure to the DeFi sector through a basket of assets.
The launch of Narrative represents an evolution in how traders engage with narrative-based investments in the crypto market. Rather than manually selecting and managing multiple tokens, users can efficiently gain exposure to entire sectors through data-driven vaults. This model improves capital efficiency while reducing risks associated with poor individual token selection. As AI-driven trading strategies and on-chain sentiment analysis grow in influence, Narrative has the potential to become a foundational tool for retail and institutional investors to track market trends and capture opportunities. Leveraging Monad’s high-performance infrastructure, combined with proprietary data aggregation, dynamic vault rebalancing, and an efficient trading environment, Narrative delivers a stronger narrative-trading experience and enhances market efficiency. As the crypto market matures further, tools like Narrative could reshape how speculative capital flows across the ecosystem, leading new market directions.
LootGO
@lootgoapp is a mobile dApp that transforms daily walking into an interactive treasure-hunting game through a "Walk-to-Earn" mechanism. Users collect loot boxes by achieving step goals or exploring specific locations, earning various meme tokens as rewards. By combining familiar gameplay with blockchain incentives, LootGO aims to make cryptocurrency more accessible to the general public, increasing entertainment value and playability.
LootGO received widespread attention during its presentation at the Monad Madness Pitch Competition in Bangkok.
Core Features
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Walk and Earn: Users collect Loot Boxes by completing step goals or visiting designated locations, encouraging physical activity and promoting healthy lifestyles.
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Open Loot Boxes: Opening Loot Boxes yields random meme tokens with no upfront investment required, enhancing surprise and gaming fun.
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Build Your Crypto Portfolio: LootGO provides tools to help users manage and trade earned meme tokens, gradually familiarizing them with crypto asset investment and management.
Through deep integration with native Monad projects, LootGO has become a daily-use dApp within the Monad ecosystem.
Deep Integration with Monad
Monad offers several technical advantages that greatly enhance LootGO’s functionality, elevating interactivity and user experience:
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High Throughput: Monad can process up to 10,000 transactions per second (TPS), ensuring LootGO users enjoy fast, lag-free experiences when collecting and opening loot boxes.
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Low Transaction Fees: With near-zero gas fees, frequent on-chain interactions in LootGO are extremely cost-efficient, removing fee concerns and boosting overall user participation.
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EVM Compatibility: Fully compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), LootGO can seamlessly integrate existing Ethereum ecosystem tools and smart contracts, accelerating development and expanding functional possibilities.
Comparable Projects : A "Move-to-Earn" app where users earn tokens by walking, jogging, or running—sharing similarities with LootGO in gamified fitness rewards.
Backed by Monad’s powerful technical infrastructure, LootGO aims to deliver an efficient, low-cost, and highly interactive user experience, truly merging physical wellness with crypto incentives and making Web3 more accessible and usable for mainstream audiences.
PaperPlane
@paperplaneguide is a native Web3 payment and rewards platform within the Monad ecosystem, dedicated to delivering flexible and secure digital asset payment experiences. Its core mission is to promote the adoption of cryptocurrency payments while enhancing user engagement through instant cashback mechanisms.
PaperPlane is currently live in cities such as Taipei, Hong Kong, and Bangkok, with plans to expand to additional regions and partner with various F&B brands to drive broader real-world usage of crypto payments.
Core Features
1. Hybrid Payments Supporting Fiat and Cryptocurrency: PaperPlane supports credit cards, Apple Pay, and multiple major cryptocurrencies, enabling seamless use of digital assets in traditional payment scenarios and improving crypto usability.
2. In-Person Physical Store Payments: Unlike many crypto payment tools focused on online transactions, PaperPlane primarily enables payments at physical stores, such as Michelin-recommended restaurants and premium merchants, allowing users to easily spend crypto in the real world.
3. Instant Cashback Rewards: > After every transaction, PaperPlane instantly returns rewards in either crypto or fiat currency. > This mechanism not only increases user payment motivation but also expands the platform’s ecosystem reach through reward-sharing features.
4. No-KYC Token Cashback Mechanism: > By partnering with local exchanges, PaperPlane enables Web2 users to receive BTC, ETH, and other major cryptocurrencies as rewards without undergoing complex KYC procedures, and these can be used directly for spending—all while complying with regulatory requirements. > This breakthrough design makes Web3 payments more user-friendly for a broader audience, accelerating mainstream crypto adoption.
5. Minimalist and User-Friendly Experience: > PaperPlane places strong emphasis on UI design, ensuring even crypto beginners can quickly locate PaperPlane-enabled offline stores and learn the payment flow. > With just a few simple steps, users can complete payments or receive funds, significantly lowering the learning curve for Web3 payments and encouraging wider adoption.
Larry, Founder of PaperPlane, shares insights on building within the Monad ecosystem during a session with the Monad Chinese community.
PaperPlane partners with industry resources to collaborate with Asia’s top 50 bars, launching a “Drink-to-Earn” model—“the more you drink, the more you save”—offering consumers a fresh Web3 experience.
Powered by Monad’s high-performance blockchain technology, PaperPlane ensures smooth and cost-effective payment and reward processes, making crypto payments and cashback mechanisms more intuitive and user-friendly, thereby increasing user acceptance and frequency of use, and integrating Web3 experiences into real life.
Bloc.im
Bloc.im is an emerging platform focused on NFT issuance and ecosystem development, aiming to help creators easily launch NFT collections and evolve them into full-fledged tokenized ecosystems. Currently,Bloc.im is preparing for its public testnet launch on Monad, with more details yet to be disclosed. However, available information already highlights several unique features:
Core Features
1. NFT Series Creation and Pricing Mechanism
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Supply and Pricing Configuration: Creators can set the total supply of NFTs and use a "step pricing curve" to align prices with market demand.
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Token Generation Triggered by Sales Thresholds: Specific sales thresholds (e.g., 70% of NFTs sold) trigger automatic generation of corresponding tokens, further empowering NFT holders.
2. Token Generation and Liquidity Provision
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Liquidity Allocation: A portion of NFT sale proceeds is automatically allocated to provide liquidity for the newly created token, ensuring market depth and price stability.
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NFT Holder Token Claims: NFT holders can claim corresponding tokens and choose from various vesting options for flexible asset management.
3. “Diamond Hand” Vesting Mechanism
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Long-Term Holding Incentive: Default linear vesting schedule over one year.
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Early Withdrawal Penalty: For example, if an NFT holder withdraws tokens at month 6, 50% of the remaining unvested tokens are burned, incentivizing long-term holding and maintaining tokenomic stability.
Monad Empowers Bloc.im ’s NFT Ecosystem
Bloc.im is built on the Monad blockchain, leveraging its core strengths to make NFT issuance and management more efficient and cost-effective:
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High Throughput (10,000 TPS) ensures smooth experiences for NFT minting, trading, and token claiming.
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Extremely low gas fees reduce costs for NFT transactions and liquidity provisioning, optimizing user returns.
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EVM compatibility enables seamless integration with Ethereum ecosystem tools, accelerating development.
Bloc.im offers a novel way for users to create NFT series and integrate them with token economies through innovative mechanisms. The platform supports NFT issuance, pricing, token generation, and liquidity configuration, providing creators and investors with a more efficient NFT ecosystem. By leveraging Monad’s technical capabilities, Bloc.im delivers a high-performance, low-cost, and easy-to-manage NFT issuance solution, empowering creators to build NFT economies and enabling NFT holders with richer asset appreciation pathways.
Monad Consumer dApp Ecosystem: Expanding New Frontiers
Beyond the projects highlighted above, the Monad ecosystem continues to grow, with many other promising consumer-facing dApps under development. These projects aim to push the boundaries of blockchain applications by deeply integrating Monad’s high-performance capabilities into everyday life across trading, gaming, payments, and asset ownership.
As more projects launch, the full potential of the Monad consumer dApp ecosystem will gradually emerge, further solidifying its position as a leading infrastructure for next-generation applications.
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Note: This long-form series aims to introduce native projects in the Monad ecosystem. Interested readers can explore different sections via the links below:
Monad Ecosystem Guide: Native DEX/Perp Preview
Monad Ecosystem Guide: Native Liquid Staking / Native DEX Part II
Monad Ecosystem Guide: Consumer dApp (Native Prediction Markets)
We welcome more Chinese-speaking builders to explore Monad’s technological innovations and join our ecosystem. Monad values the Chinese-speaking market and developers. Below are relevant links and communities—feel free to contact us at Gmonad.
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Note: The author is Harveyfrom the Monad Ecosystem team, currently based in Hong Kong/Shenzhen, working with APAC colleagues to drive the growth of the Monad ecosystem in Chinese-speaking regions, actively bringing in Chinese-speaking talent to foster a thriving ecosystem. Ecosystem partners and developers are welcome to DM anytime.
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