Monad's MON airdrop is over. The Monad Foundation made 4.73 billion MON claimable to 289,000 eligible accounts, and the claim window ran from October 14 to November 3, 2025. About 3.33 billion, roughly 70 percent, were claimed. Mainnet launched on November 24, 2025, and any site offering a Monad claim today is a scam.
Where it stands
Claimed tokens were deposited into an escrow contract on November 9, 2025 and released to the claimer wallets when mainnet launched. Unclaimed tokens, the foundation said, would be reallocated to future ecosystem development. Monad's blog, checked on October 14, shows nothing newer than the October 5 Robinhood post: no second phase and no reopened claim.
News since our September 7 check concerns listings and design work, not distribution. MON began trading on Robinhood on October 5, Monad said. A September 2 hard fork came with a routine pause on MON deposits and withdrawals at Upbit from 11:00 UTC. On October 6, Category Labs published a design for Monad Private Settlement, an encrypted execution layer that it says is not yet live. CoinGecko showed MON near $0.026 on October 7.
Supply is the larger open question. On August 17 the foundation reported the results of an early investor liquidity program. It had offered to buy locked MON at a discount reflecting the four-year lock-up, capped at $60 million, and nearly all holders declined. Tokens it bought stay locked, and it said it has not sold MON over the counter.
A first scheduled unlock falls on November 24, 2026, one year after mainnet. Tokenomist counted 6.66 billion MON for that day in an August 24 note, while other trackers show different sizes. We found no official figure, so treat any dollar estimate as provisional.
What the payout looked like
Monad's results post, published November 10, 2025, splits the airdrop into five tracks. This table shows where the accounts and the tokens sat.
| Track | Accounts | Allocated (MON) | Claimed (MON) | Share claimed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monad Community | 5,935 | 1.670 billion | 1.665 billion | 99.7% |
| Onchain Users | 229,433 | 1.705 billion | 699 million | 41.0% |
| Crypto Community | 46,017 | 897 million | 635 million | 70.8% |
| Monad Builders | 2,860 | 288 million | 225 million | 78.4% |
| Crypto Contributors and Crypto Curious | 4,431 | 172 million | 107 million | 62.1% |
The headcount and the tokens sat in different places. The Monad Community track had 5,935 accounts and claimed 99.7 percent of its 1.670 billion MON, about 281,000 MON per account. The Onchain Users track, power DeFi users and long-term NFT holders, had 229,433 accounts sharing 1.705 billion MON, about 7,400 each, and only 41.0 percent was claimed. In total, 76,021 unique wallets claimed. The per-account averages are our arithmetic from the official totals.
The post does not say why so much of the Onchain Users allocation went unclaimed, and we do not guess. It does show the arithmetic behind every drop: a fixed pool divided among a large eligible population gives each account a small average. Our tokenomics guide shows how to run that estimate for a drop that is still pending.
Screening was part of the design. The foundation said it checked claimer wallets against sanctions lists, geo-blocked several jurisdictions and excluded team members. Decrypt reported at launch that Monad applied strict anti-sybil measures. Neither source publishes the filter rules, so how any single wallet was scored is unknown.
Why this page stays up
The foundation's stated aim was to put tokens with a broad base of future stakeholders before launch. It called the allocation a balancing act between old and new community members, and between inclusion and sybil resistance.
The ended column is the tracker's memory, and Monad is its best-documented entry. The official numbers give a base rate for the pending drops on our airdrop board: how much of a pool reached which kind of account, and how much was never claimed.
One warning stays attached to a finished drop. Fake "second phase" claims, "unclaimed MON" reminders and recycled claim portals keep circulating. Monad's claim portal was claim.monad.xyz and its window is closed, so treat any other page as hostile.
What to watch:
- November 24, 2026: first scheduled unlock.
- A foundation statement on the reallocated unclaimed tokens.
- More detail on Monad Private Settlement, still a design.
