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Monad opens MON airdrop claims ahead of mainnet launch

Monad, the upcoming L1 chain, opened the claims for the long-awaited MON ￰0￱ eligible wallets are linked to several high-profile crypto ￰1￱ Monad airdrop for MON tokens may enjoy increased interest, as the project just opened its claims ￰2￱ MON token airdrop will precede the chain’s main net ￰3￱ airdrop will allocate MON tokens to 5,500 members of the Monad community, as well as nearly 225K eligible members of the wider crypto ￰4￱ will use Trusta AI to sift out Sybill addresses and allocate MON to its core power ￰5￱ to reward multiple crypto communities The focus of the Monad airdrop will be on power users from other ￰6￱ airdrop will also reward high-volume traders on Hyperliquid, Phantom Wallet, as well as ￰7￱ trenches traders, Virtuals Protocol users, and other memecoin ￰8￱ will be the airdrop for ‘trenches’ traders that have so far received limited recognition and ￰9￱ snapshot for all communities was taken as of September ￰10￱ some criteria, activity was tracked over a multi-month ￰11￱ with other airdrops, Monad has been attacked with malicious links for fake token claim ￰12￱ MON recipients include the users of Aave, Euler, Morpho, Pendle, Lighter, Curve, PancakeSwap, and ￰13￱ users with major DAO activity and DeFi protocol usage will also be ￰14￱ of the Backpack perpetual futures DEX will also receive MON tokens.

A MON allocation will go to the owners of NFT collections, including CryptoPunks, Milady Maker, Moonbirds, Pudgy Penguins, and ￰15￱ long-term activity suggests Monad was wary of point farming and non-organic ￰16￱ Monad Cards initiative, which relied on social media identities, pointed out another group of MON recipients based on their real on-chain ￰17￱ will also reward specific crypto contributors, including ZachXBT, members of SEAL 911, Cantina auditors with significant findings, and members of the Protocol ￰18￱ has additional VC backers, with $244M raised from OKX Ventures and other funds back in ￰19￱ signals at prices above $1 MON tokens are currently in pre-market trading on ￰20￱ tokens are hovering around $0.94, with short-term spikes as high as $39.

MON may start with trading anomalies, including potential liquidations for aggressive short ￰21￱ has a small-scale pre-launch market on Mexc, hovering under $1, with occasional trading anomalies and spikes to $39. |

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