Monad Testnet is about to launch. How can you participate in the ecological construction in advance?

With various projects issuing tokens one after another, the market's interest in obtaining airdrops has once again surged.

The inclusive effects of projects like Movement, Magic Eden, and Pudgy Penguins have stimulated the market's expectations for this round of bull market token issuance, leading people to pay attention to high-quality projects that are about to issue tokens.

Among the unissued token projects, Monad, a leading L1 public chain with parallel EVM narratives, is one of the most anticipated star projects in the market. The $244 million financing has led to high expectations for Monad's mainnet launch.

On December 17, Monad announced the establishment of a foundation, which has increased market anticipation for Monad's upcoming token issuance actions. With the Monad official Testnet yet to be launched, paying early attention to and participating in projects related to Monad both inside and outside the ecosystem may yield returns when the mainnet goes live.

Currently, there are many officially announced projects that are set to be built on Monad, including cross-chain and native projects. Given that there are already quite a few introductions or overviews of Monad ecosystem projects on the market, this article will organize some native Monad projects and potential participation methods for readers' reference.

The specifics are as follows: we will select some projects for interpretation and maintain updates over the long term.

Project Introduction

1. DeFi facilities

aPriori - Liquidity Staking Platform

aPriori is a MEV-driven liquid staking platform native to the Monad ecosystem, aimed at optimizing Monad's network performance and user experience by developing new MEV and liquid staking architectures. Its innovative probabilistic verification design significantly reduces latency and maximally adapts to Monad's high performance.

After multiple rounds of financing, aPriori's total funding amount reached 10.7 million dollars.

The team members come from the professional trading field. Founder Ray S. has worked at a crypto investment company and a high-frequency trading firm, and has also participated as an ecosystem contributor in the construction of a price oracle network. Co-founder Olivia Z. previously served as a senior software engineer at a large exchange.

Participation Method:

Previously, aPriori officially released its first community task, which is to post creative articles, videos, memes, or research papers related to aPriori on Twitter, tagging @aprMEV, and sending the link to the officially designated Discord channel. Outstanding tweets will be adopted and the creators will be granted a special role.

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 native liquidity staking protocol of Monad, aiming to solve the liquidity issues in traditional PoS staking, providing users with a more flexible and valuable staking method that allows them to make full use of their assets while ensuring the safety of their funds.

The term Kintsu originates from the Japanese word "金继" (Kintsugi), which is a traditional Japanese art form of repairing broken pottery. Just as Kintsugi repairs shattered pottery, Kintsu is described as "repairing the golden threads of liquidity fractures," aiming to "repair" the "fractures" in the blockchain ecosystem, suggesting that the Kintsu protocol can resolve the conflict between staking and liquidity in PoS blockchains.

Kintsu has announced a funding of 4 million dollars, led by a venture capital firm.

Participation method:

The project development of Kinstu is relatively complete, and currently, you can participate in the Galactic mission of the project.

At the same time, the project provides ambassador and OG roles for Discord community members, which can be obtained by creating memes, analyzing project data, or contributing to project development. Users who are active in the community in a normal way and reach level 35 can obtain the OG role, see official documentation for details.

Jigsaw - A 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, which is issued based on 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 - Optimizing DeFi Liquidity Management

Hyperplex is an innovative project focused on optimizing DeFi liquidity management within the Monad ecosystem. It attempts to address a core issue in DeFi: how to maximize capital efficiency and returns without significantly increasing risk, allowing users' funds to work more intelligently through a Liquidity Re-Provisioning mechanism.

Symphony - Chain Abstraction Aggregation Trading Platform

Symphony was formerly known as Cadence Protocol, a DeFi platform focused on solving cross-chain trading and liquidity aggregation issues, with its unique selling points being cross-chain functionality and a simplified user experience.

Symphony applies chain abstraction technology to DeFi trading, and the intent-based innovative trading architecture will allow for unified liquidity between chains and protocols, providing simplified and low-cost on-chain transaction execution. At the same time, Symphony uses account abstraction smart contract wallets to help users skip the complicated and painful multiple on-chain operations.

KuruExchange - Decentralized Exchange

KuruExchange is Monad's native decentralized order book exchange, and its Central Limit Order Book (CLOB) can provide better performance than AMM, allowing market makers to actively quote liquidity, offering users better prices and lower slippage. It is worth mentioning that Monad's CEO Keone Hon also personally invested in Kuru.

Participation Method:

Currently, Kuru is still in a very early stage. The official Discord has only been announced, and the role list on Discord is temporarily closed. You can join the channel and wait for the news about the reopening.

Narwhal - AI-based Trading Platform

Narwhal is Monad's native AI-driven trading platform, characterized primarily by gamifying and socializing the trading experience. The platform offers a diverse range of synthetic asset trading through a certain oracle, including cryptocurrencies, stocks, indices, and foreign exchange, and promises to provide deep liquidity and lower slippage.

The platform adopts a self-custody model, allowing users to open positions without depositing funds into the platform beforehand. To lower the trading threshold, Narwhal has designed a copy trading feature that enables ordinary users to follow the strategies of excellent traders for investment.

Participation method:

Currently, Narwhal has not officially launched yet, and the official team is also calling for joining Discord to learn about the latest developments.

Composite Labs - Integrated Trading Leverage Platform

Composite Labs is the native decentralized trading infrastructure of Monad, providing one-stop services for spot trading, perpetual contracts, and lending. Its biggest feature is the use of a unified central limit order book, achieving a fully functional cross-margin mechanism, allowing users to utilize their funds more efficiently. Regardless of the trading scale, a flat fee rate is applied uniformly. Technically fully decentralized, all code runs on-chain, can be deployed on any EVM-compatible network, and can freely integrate 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 is the combination of ball sports and fighting elements, where players need to control the ball, engage in confrontations, and score in the opponent's goal. While adopting the MOBA team battle mode of "League of Legends," the game also incorporates sports competition features similar to "Rocket League." What makes Sparkball special is that it does not deliberately emphasize Web3 attributes, but rather focuses on creating a high-quality gaming experience.

Participation method:

Currently, Sprakball has opened account registration, accessible through the official website. The game is expected to launch on Steam in the second quarter of 2025. You can currently 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 performances of the selected athletes in actual matches.

Participation method:

Currently, RareBetSports is open for invitation-only experience. You can actively interact with the official account on Twitter to join the Discord community and obtain an invitation code by actively participating in community activities.

LEVR_bet - Decentralized Leverage Entertainment Platform

LEVR is the native decentralized leverage entertainment platform of Monad, combining sports entertainment with decentralized trading strategies, allowing users to invest on-chain with up to 5x leverage. It introduces an oracle-driven liquidation engine to ensure the security and fairness of trading outcomes.

MVP Vault is one of the core components of the LEVR platform and an innovative mechanism of LEVR. It acts as a Counterparty AMM in the buy (collateral) market and the redemption market, meaning that users are actually trading with LEVR's vault rather than directly betting against other users.

Participation method:

Join the LEVR 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 through their game time. The current project is under continuous development, and a test version has been announced for players to experience soon.

3. Wallet

HaHa Wallet - Monad Native Wallet

HaHa Wallet is the native smart wallet of Monad, supporting interaction with DeFi applications in 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 liquid staking services.

Currently, the project is in the product development and ecological layout stage, with continuous updates on progress through official Twitter and Discord community channels.

Participation Method:

The HaHa Wallet is now available on the app store, and you can pre-register by entering your email on the official website and download the browser extension/mobile APP from the app store. Join the official Discord to learn more about the latest developments.

Mozi Wallet - DeFi Yield and Comprehensive Application Wallet

Mozi Yield Wallet is also a Monad native wallet project, with the core feature of converting the earnings generated from staked tokens into directly usable assets. Users can manage the wallet through a Telegram mini-program without the need to download additional applications. This wallet supports using staking rewards to pay for various services.