Key Takeaways:
- Claim portal is live at claim.monad.xyz until Nov. 3, 2025; no benefit to claiming early, and users should beware of impostor sites.
- ~230,000 recipients eligible across five tracks (including 5,500 Monad community members) with stackable allocations for people who qualify in multiple subtracks.
- Anti-sybil screening involved manual labeling, community tools (Community Recognizer, Monad Cards), and Trusta AI to remove bot farms and duplicate farmers.
Monad has opened the MON Airdrop Claim Portal as it moves toward public mainnet. The Monad Foundation says the drop is designed to make crypto power users, on and off chai, the network’s initial stakeholders. Authentication runs through Privy, with wallet signing and optional links to verified social accounts.
Monad’s Claim Window: Live Now, No Rush
The only valid website is https://claim.monad.xyz. The Foundation stresses there’s no advantage to claiming immediately; the portal stays open through Nov. 3, 2025, giving users time to verify eligibility carefully.
Privy takes care of authentication. Claimants may put a signature on a message by EVM or Solana wallet and may also connect Twitter, Discord, Telegram, Farcaster, or email to enhance identity matching. All sign-ins occur via Privy.
Security advice is simple: The rest of the sites claiming to be something are phishing attacks. Users are recommended to be extra cautious about URLs, educate them to read signing prompts prior to acceptance, and not to share seed phrases or personal keys.
Who’s Eligible: Five Tracks, Stackable Allocations
The airdrop spans five tracks with multiple subtracks. If someone qualifies in more than one, allocations stack.
The Five Tracks at a Glance
- Monad Community – The largest component. Recognizes long-term contributors and culture carriers who helped shape Monad’s trajectory through consistent support, community leadership, and public evangelism. Identification relied on exhaustive manual review, social-graph analysis, and input via the Monad Community Recognizer and Monad Cards.
- Onchain Users – Targets power users across major mainnets based on measurable, capital-intensive behaviors (not trivial, bottable actions).
- Crypto Community – Finds actual crypto users by social-graph discovery and the Monad Cards program (wave, and even unclaimed cards too). Other cohorts included in this inclusion list were Backpack users, MetaDAO holders, ARC Community, LobsterDAO participants, high-profile Farcaster users, and others.
- Crypto Contributors & Crypto Curious – Rewards anyone who advanced the ecosystem by doing security research, building protocols, and educating others, such as ZachXBT, some SEAL 911 members, some Cantina auditors, and Protocol Guild contributors. It also consists of learners and mentors by the programs like RareSkills and SheFi.
- Monad Builders – Credits teams and individuals building natively on Monad, plus contributors via hackathons (e.g., Monad Blitzes, Dev Missions) and IRL participation. Foundation and Category Labs full-time staff are excluded.
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Methodology: Anti-Sybil by Design
The Foundation framed the drop around hard-to-fake behaviors, avoiding criteria that bots can easily spam (like low-value, repetitive transactions). To counter bot farms and sybil clusters, Monad combined:
- Manual labeling by the Foundation’s Quant and Engineering teams;
- Community input via Monad Community Recognizer and Monad Cards;
- Trusta AI for on-chain analysis and sybil removal;
- Off-chain signals (verified socials, participation in reputable communities, public goods contributions).
The goal is to align the initial stakeholder set with high-signal crypto users who have demonstrated meaningful, sustained engagement, both on chain and across reputable communities.
Claim Process: What Users Should Do Now
- Navigate only to claim.monad.xyz. Bookmark it; ignore look-alikes.
- Authenticate via Privy: sign a message with your EVM or Solana wallet. Optionally link verified Twitter/Discord/Telegram/Farcaster/email to unify identity.
- Review eligibility: if you qualified in multiple subtracks, allocations combine.
- Take your time: the portal is open until Nov. 3, 2025. There’s no speed bonus, so verify carefully and follow wallet-security best practices.
- Wait for mainnet/TGE: the claim phase establishes eligibility. Distribution aligns with token generation and public mainnet launch. (Timing to be announced by the Foundation.)
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