Article source: Deep Tide TechFlow
Author: Tofu, Deep Tide TechFlow; Harvey, Monad
As various long-dormant projects begin to issue tokens, the market's interest in airdrops has reignited.
The wealth effect created by major projects like Movement, Magic Eden, and Pudgy Penguins has also fully stimulated the market's expectations for this round of bull market token issuance, with people turning their attention to high-quality projects that will issue tokens soon.
Among the many projects that have yet to issue tokens, the leading L1 public chain Monad, which runs a parallel EVM narrative, is definitely one of the most anticipated star projects, with a whopping $244 million in financing raising market expectations for Monad's mainnet launch.
On December 17, Monad announced the establishment of a foundation, further raising market expectations for Monad's upcoming token issuance actions. Before the official testnet of Monad goes live, paying attention to and participating in projects related to Monad inside and outside the ecosystem may yield benefits when the mainnet goes live.
Currently, there are many officially announced projects that will build on Monad, many of which are cross-chain, and there are also many native ones. Given that there are already many introductions or reviews of Monad ecosystem projects in the market.
This time, the editorial team of Deep Tide TechFlow has organized some Monad Native projects and potential participation methods for readers' reference.
Specifically, we will select some projects for interpretation and maintain long-term updates.
Project Introduction
1. DeFi Facilities
aPriori - Liquidity Staking Platform
aPriori is a liquidity staking platform native to the Monad ecosystem, aiming to optimize Monad's network performance and user experience by developing new MEV and liquidity staking architectures, with its innovative probabilistic verification design significantly reducing latency and maximizing compatibility with Monad's high performance.
After several rounds of financing, aPriori has so far raised $10.7 million.
Team members come from the professional trading field, with founder Ray S. previously working at Jump Crypto and Flow Traders, and also participating as an ecosystem contributor to Pyth Network. Co-Founder Olivia Z was previously a senior software engineer at Coinbase.
Participation Method:
Previously, aPriori officially released the first community task, which is to post creative articles, videos, memes, or research articles related to aPriori on Twitter and tag @aprMEV, sending the link to the official designated Discord channel. Outstanding tweets will be adopted, granting the creators special roles.
Before the project officially launches, you can join the aPriori official Discord to learn about the team's latest developments.
Kintsu - Liquidity Staking Protocol
Kintsu is a liquidity staking protocol native to Monad, attempting to solve liquidity issues in traditional PoS staking, providing users with a more flexible and valuable staking method, allowing them to fully utilize their assets while ensuring the safety of their funds.
Kintsu comes from the Japanese term "金继" (Kintsugi), which is a traditional Japanese art form of repairing broken pottery. Just like Kintsugi repairs broken pottery with golden lines, Kintsu is described as "the golden line that repairs liquidity fractures", aimed at "repairing" the "fractures" in the blockchain ecosystem, implying that the Kintsu protocol can resolve the contradiction between staking and liquidity in PoS blockchains.
Kintsu has announced a $4 million financing round led by Castle Island Ventures.
Participation Method:
Kinstu's project construction is relatively complete, and you can currently participate in the project's galaxy mission: https://t.co/6GwQTptniT
The project also provides ambassador and OG roles for Discord community members, allowing them to earn different ambassador roles by creating memes, analyzing project data, or contributing to project development. Users who are active in the community and reach level 35 can earn the OG role, as detailed in the official documentation.
Kintsu Official Discord:
https://discord.gg/JWRGmVRW
Jigsaw - DeFi Protocol Based on Liquid Collateral
Jigsaw is a DeFi protocol based on the concept of liquid collateral, with its main product being the stablecoin jUSD issued under the CDP mechanism. The core innovation of the protocol lies in the dynamic collateral mechanism, allowing users to continue managing their assets after depositing collateral, including transferring and reallocating collateral among whitelisted protocols.
Hyperplex - Optimize DeFi Liquidity Management
Hyperplex is an innovative project focused on optimizing DeFi liquidity management within the Monad ecosystem, attempting to solve a core issue in DeFi: how to maximize capital efficiency and returns without significantly increasing risk, allowing users' funds to work more intelligently.
Symphony - Chain Abstraction Aggregated Trading Platform
Symphony, formerly known as Cadence Protocol, is a DeFi platform focused on solving cross-chain trading and liquidity aggregation issues, with its unique selling point being cross-chain functionality and simplified user experience.
Symphony applies chain abstraction technology to DeFi trading, based on an intent-driven innovative trading architecture that will allow liquidity to be unified across chains and protocols, providing simplified low-cost on-chain trading execution. Additionally, Symphony utilizes account abstraction smart contract wallets, allowing users to skip the complex and painful multiple on-chain operations.
KuruExchange - Decentralized Exchange
KuruExchange is a decentralized order book exchange native to Monad, whose Central Limit Order Book (CLOB) can provide performance superior to AMM, allowing market makers to actively quote liquidity and provide users with better prices and lower slippage. It is worth mentioning that Monad's CEO Keone Hon has also personally invested in Kuru.
Participation Method:
Currently, Kuru is still in a very early stage, and the official has only announced the official Discord: https://discord.gg/mtq3cXHy, and the Discord role list is temporarily closed. You can join the channel and wait for news of the reopening.
Narwhal - AI-Based Trading Platform
Narwhal is an AI-driven trading platform native to Monad, with its main feature being the gamification and socialization of the trading experience. The platform offers a variety of synthetic asset trading through Pyth, including cryptocurrencies, stocks, indices, and forex, while promising deep liquidity and low slippage.
The platform adopts a self-hosted model, allowing users to trade without depositing funds into the platform before opening positions. To lower the trading threshold, Narwhal has designed a copy trading feature that enables ordinary users to follow the strategies of excellent traders.
Participation Method:
Currently, Narwhal has not officially launched, and the official has called for joining Discord to learn about the latest developments:
https://discord.com/invite/bzTQuxr3ME
Composite Labs - Integrated Trading Leverage Platform
Composite Labs is a decentralized trading infrastructure native to Monad, providing one-stop services for spot, perpetual contracts, and lending. Its biggest feature is the use of a unified central limit order book to achieve fully functional cross-margin mechanisms, allowing users to utilize their capital more efficiently. Regardless of the trading scale, a flat rate is applied. Technically fully decentralized, all code runs on-chain and can be deployed on any EVM-compatible network, and can freely combine with other DApps.
2. GameFi
Sparkball - 4V4 Sports Fighting Game
Sparkball is a 4v4 MOBA-style competitive game native to Monad, developed by Opti Games. The core innovation of the game combines ball sports with fighting elements, requiring players to control the ball and score in the opponent's goal through confrontation. While adopting the MOBA team battle mode of League of Legends, the game integrates sports competition features similar to Rocket League. What sets Sparkball apart is that it does not deliberately emphasize Web3 attributes, but rather focuses on creating a high-quality gaming experience.
Participation Method:
Currently, Sparkball has opened account registration, allowing users to sign up on the official website. The game is expected to launch on Steam in the second quarter of 2025, and you can apply for early participation in Season Zero and pre-download on Steam.
RareBetSports - On-Chain Sports Culture Competitive Entertainment Platform
RareBetSports is a decentralized sports competition platform native to Monad, primarily offering core services such as Daily Fantasy Sports and traditional sports betting. The platform's unique feature, the RareLink system, allows users to select athlete combinations based on their analysis to participate in competitions. In the Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) mode, users need to build a virtual team within budget constraints and earn points and rewards based on the performance of their selected athletes in actual matches.
Participation Method:
Currently, RareBetSports has opened an invitation-only experience, where users can actively interact with the official on Twitter to join the Discord community and obtain invitation codes by actively participating in community activities.
LEVR_bet - Decentralized Leverage Entertainment Platform
LEVR is a decentralized leverage entertainment platform native to Monad, combining sports entertainment with decentralized trading strategies, allowing users to use up to 5x leverage for on-chain investments. It introduces an oracle-driven liquidation engine to ensure the safety and fairness of trading results.
MVP Vault is one of the core components of the LEVR platform and is also LEVR's innovative mechanism, acting as a counterparty automated market maker (Counterparty AMM) in both the buy (collateral) market and redemption market, meaning users are effectively trading with LEVR's vault rather than directly wagering against other users.
Participation Method:
Join LEVR's Discord community to participate in daily activities for a chance to win community rewards.
Breath of Estova - Pixel Style MMORPG Game
Breath of Estova (BoE) is a Monad native pixel-style 2D MMORPG Play-to-Earn betting game. Players can earn the native token $ESTOVA as a reward for their game time. The current project is under development and has announced an upcoming test version for players to experience.
3. Wallet
HaHa Wallet - Monad Native Wallet
HaHa Wallet is an intelligent wallet native to Monad, supporting interaction with DeFi applications within the Monad ecosystem. In July 2024, HaHa Wallet established a strategic partnership with Kintsu, planning to enhance the Monad DeFi ecosystem through the integration of liquidity staking services.
Currently, the project is in the product development and ecological layout stage, continuously updating progress through official Twitter and Discord community channels.
Participation Method:
Currently, HaHa Wallet has launched on the app store, and you can pre-register by entering your email on the official website and download the browser plugin/mobile app through the app store. Join the official Discord to learn more about the latest developments:
https://discord.com/invite/MhPYjRQEa2
Mozi Wallet - DeFi Earnings and Comprehensive Application Wallet
Mozi Yield Wallet is also a Monad native wallet project, with its core feature being the conversion of staking token earnings into directly usable assets. Users can manage their wallets through a Telegram mini-program without needing to download additional applications. This wallet supports using staking rewards for various services, including in-game purchases, Web2 subscription services (like Netflix), and DeFi services.
According to the official tweet, the vision of Mozi Wallet is to bridge cryptocurrency earnings with real payment scenarios, allowing users' staking rewards to be directly converted into disposable assets. In the future, a Mozi debit card will also be launched, making it convenient for users to use these earnings at any time.
Note from Deep Tide: Mozi won the Community Favorite Award in the second Monad Madness roadshow competition. During the roadshow, it participated as a DeFi yield application, and the team's recent focus has shifted to the more comprehensive Mozi Wallet direction.
Participation Method:
Currently, Mozi Yield Wallet is preparing for the testnet phase and will launch when the Monad testnet opens.
Official Discord:
https://discord.gg/6gWK6TKcRk
4. AI Projects
PLAYBACK
Playback is a decentralized AI project native to the Monad ecosystem, focusing on developing large action models (LAM). Its core technology can convert human intentions into specific computer operations, achieving automated control and breaking through the limitations of traditional AI, which can only provide suggestions. The project is building a decentralized training data contribution system, allowing users to earn rewards by providing privacy-processed screen recordings.
Unlike existing LAM, which relies solely on screenshots and pre-trained language models, Playback is dedicated to building dedicated training datasets to advance the substantial development of LAM technology.
Participation Method:
The project emphasizes mystery, with many coded texts in both tweets and observations, speculating that more details will be disclosed after the project goes live. Currently, you can apply for a waiting list through the official website:
https://www.playback.network/
Fortytwo
Fortytwo is a native AI project of Monad. Unlike traditional AI projects that require supercomputers, Fortytwo allows ordinary individuals to participate, enabling AI nodes to be run on personal computers. The project adopts a hive-like network structure, completing complex AI tasks through cooperation among nodes.
Monadata.ai
Monadata is a native AI project developed on the Monad network, primarily focusing on the development of personal AI agents and data annotation. The project adopts a community collaboration model, allowing users to participate in project construction through knowledge contribution and data annotation while receiving corresponding incentives. The project emphasizes user data sovereignty, ensuring users' control over their personal data through blockchain technology.
5. SocialFi
Kizzy - Mobile Social Betting Platform
Kizzy is an innovative social media prediction application built on Monad, where users can predict and bet on social media events, such as the number of views on a YouTube video or the follower count of a Twitter account. Through a decentralized liquidity pool and dynamic odds mechanism, Kizzy ensures transparency and fairness in the betting process. Compared to traditional betting platforms, it offers lower fees and faster transaction speeds. This project gamifies social media activities, allowing users to earn by predicting daily usage on platforms while fostering a highly interactive community ecosystem.
Participation Method:
Currently, Kizzy is still in closed testing, and joining the official Discord and Telegram is temporarily closed. The official will periodically release invitation codes in Twitter announcements. After obtaining an invitation code and activating it in Discord, users can apply for a test code through ticketing in Discord.
Tezza Poker - Poker Social
Tezza Poker is a poker social project native to Monad. Community poker tournaments have already been held through an invitation code admission system, and regular poker nights are organized in the community.
Join the Tezza Poker community to learn more:
https://discord.com/invite/TezzaPoker
Dusted - Tokenized Social Protocol
Dusted is a social platform developed based on Monad, with its core function being to create tokenized chat rooms through the CommunityFi mechanism. The platform uses smart contracts to implement community governance, allowing token holders to participate in rule-making, content review, and feature voting.
Dusted's CommunityFi model quantifies community contributions through tokenization, transforming user behaviors that are difficult to measure in traditional social platforms into on-chain verifiable value proofs.
Participation Method: You can currently register for the whitelist on the Dusted official website, with more information to be announced by the official.
6. Business & DePin (Monad Madness Award-winning Project)
Pulse - Wearable Health Monitoring Device
PULSE (Pulse No Limits) is a DePin project native to the Monad ecosystem, combining blockchain technology with wearable health devices. The core product of the project is the Pulse One wearable device, which has physiological data collection capabilities, including monitoring heart rate, blood oxygen, activity levels, etc., equipped with wireless charging and a battery life of 5 days, while also featuring a built-in digital wallet.
Currently, PULSE has completed $1.8 million in seed funding, with investors including Lemniscap and Collab Currency. The project plans to launch its product in the first quarter of 2025 and is working on establishing a data-sharing ecosystem.
PULSE's application scenarios include personal health management, medical research data collection, clinical data analysis, and the construction of decentralized medical databases. The project uses blockchain technology to address issues such as ownership disputes and sharing limitations faced by traditional medical data, providing new solutions for the collection, storage, sharing, and application of health data.
Plato - Web3 Public Review
Plato gamifies restaurant consumption by collaborating with offline restaurants, providing cashback in the form of their token $FAT to users who consume in partner restaurants.
By combining offline consumption with cryptographic technology, Plato aims to facilitate user consumption and enhance restaurant income, while collecting user-generated data sets (images, reviews) about food to create an on-chain food map.
PaperPlane
The Monad native project PaperPlane combines payment/loyalty programs for dining, accommodation, and entertainment consumption with $Token/Cashback, promoting Web3 adoption through consumer rewards. The platform aims to put real-world transaction data on-chain for cross-industry integration.
Within a year of its launch, PaperPlane has already amassed over 10,000 users and partnered with over 100 top dining establishments, including 50 of Asia's top bars and Michelin recommendations. Client/partner services include Taiwan's largest cryptocurrency exchange MaiCoin, the world's second-largest wine merchant Pernod Ricard, Ford Mustang, and other brands.
EarnOS - Business Platform Based on Chain Abstraction
EarnOS is an advertising platform based on on-chain technology, utilizing chain abstraction technology. Chain abstraction essentially hides complex on-chain operations in the backend. On the user side, login to the platform requires only an email, allowing seamless interaction across all devices. The low entry barrier provided by chain abstraction technology enables EarnOS to advertise in various ways, including social media traffic generation, custom ads, AR immersive experiences, altering the user acquisition, engagement, and reward mechanisms in the digital advertising field.
EarnOS has connected with physical businesses, collaborating with world-renowned companies like The North Face and Uber, directing traffic to offline brands through on-chain entry, with over 200,000 verified users participating in over 1.3 million brand interaction activities.
7. NFT
Lil Chogstar
Lil Chogstar is a distinctive PFP NFT built on the Monad ecosystem. Its biggest feature is that the design inspiration comes directly from the mascot of the Monad ecosystem, "Chog", which makes the Monad community inherently fond of this NFT project.
Participation Method:
Lil Chogstar will officially launch when the Monad mainnet goes live, and current users can pre-register information through Premint to gain whitelist access:
https://www.premint.xyz/chogstar/
Monadverse
Monadverse is one of the most anticipated NFT projects on the Monad chain, with its core product being the Monanimals NFT series. The project is supported by Monad co-founder @keoneHD. Currently, it adopts a whitelist system, with only 100 whitelist spots open for community members to compete for.
Whitelist application form: http://monadverse.land
Monadians
Monadians is a futurist style PFP NFT project led by Monad community members @barrybutterhand and @edenwagmi. The project is currently in the active development stage, with the official website still under construction.
Spiky Nads
Spiky Nads is an early NFT project in the Monad ecosystem built by community members @andlfthegreat, @jakxpixel, and @0xkaya_. Currently, Spiky Nads is in the pre-release stage, distributing whitelist spots through community interaction.
How to participate beyond ecosystem projects?
Deeply engage with the community, be a good person
Previously, many quality projects have airdropped to Monad community members, and Monad's focus on community development is also one of its well-known aspects.
Monad welcomes positive dialogue within the community and encourages community members to actively exchange ideas and participate in project construction, so actively joining the community for discussions is a good way to strive for Monad token rights. Active participation in discussions can earn you a DC group identity.
Every week, the Monad community holds various activities, including AMA on Twitter, community poker entertainment, brainstorming, etc.
The community also encourages users to introduce Monad to others in their own ways, including but not limited to creating meme images, writing introduction articles, etc.
For more details, please refer to: Monad: How to Join the Community and Contribute?
Hold NFT & stake tokens - some speculation on the network
In addition to participating in the community, Twitter user @FabianoSolana has summarized some intriguing speculations about Monad's potential airdrop eligibility:
Backpack wallet users & Madlads holders
Because Monad invested in Backpack and announced that the Monad testnet will integrate Backpack wallet on the first day; furthermore, holders of the Solana NFT leader Mad Lads have maintained a supportive and collaborative relationship with Monad.
Wassieverse NFT holders
The founder of the Wassieverse project is an angel investor in Monad, and the current floor price of Wassieverse is 20 SOL.
Wormhole-related users
Previously, Wormhole had already allocated a considerable amount of $W airdrop shares to the Monad community, and Wormhole's co-founder Robinson Burkey is also an angel investor in Monad. Therefore, $W stakers are likely to receive Monad airdrops as well.
Pyth-related users
The co-founder of Monad is also a maintainer of Pyth and has previously released Pythenians NFT. Meanwhile, Pyth will serve as Monad's official oracle. Users holding approximately 4,000 $Pyth will be eligible for airdrops among the first 10,000.
Original link:
https://x.com/FabianoSolana/status/1870474174789251100
Image: Source Twitter user @FabianoSolana
Rumor has it that Monad will launch its testnet in Q1 2025. The above is just a partial introduction to Native projects, and there will theoretically be more projects launched or supporting Monad in the future, so stay tuned.
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