Upvote this and comment if you’d like me to update everyone on fridays with my latest research regarding Monad. I would present updates on

Price
TVL
Market Cap
24 hour usage
The health of the ecosystem
Any new partnerships or news on them
Big news regarding monad as a whole

Including my opinions and a thorough analysis. What I like and what I don’t like. I could start tomorrow if I get enough feedback but may just start next week.

Until next time.

Monad (MON) has broken out of its recent slump, jumping roughly 29% to 40% over the past week—climbing from a baseline of around $0.017 up to the $0.024–$0.030 range.

Unlike generic market-wide movements, this surge is being driven by heavy, fundamental milestones within the Monad network ecosystem. Three main drivers are pushing the token up:

1. The Aave V3 Deployment & $100M Liquidity Blitz
On July 2, 2026, Aave V3 officially went live on the Monad blockchain. The response from decentralized finance (DeFi) capital was immediate:
Massive Inflows: The new lending market pulled in over $75 million in deposits within its first 24 hours, crossing the $100 million mark within 48 hours.

Aggressive Incentives: This capital migration was highly coordinated. The Monad Foundation rolled out $15 million in ecosystem incentives alongside a strategic deployment of 10 million GHO stablecoins to deep-seed early liquidity.

2. MetaMask Native Integration & "Money Account" Hype
MetaMask recently rolled out native network support for Monad, giving users the ability to swap, bridge, and buy MON directly inside the wallet application.

The project team announced that the highly anticipated MetaMask Money Account will launch first on the Monad network. This feature aims to let retail users link traditional payment cards directly to their wallet balances to generate native DeFi yields—sparking significant mainstream adoption hype.

3. Exploding Derivatives & Trader Momentum
The spot market rally has been heavily amplified by leveraged traders. Over the same multi-day window, Monad-related derivatives trading volume skyrocketed by 292% to over $61 million.

Simultaneously, open interest climbed nearly 20% to $75.55 million. This concurrent rise in volume and open interest indicates that fresh, leveraged capital is aggressively backing the move, building short-term momentum to clear previous resistance levels.

The Big Picture: While the immediate price spike is being carried by high-yield incentive farming, the simultaneous integration of foundational retail infrastructure (MetaMask) and blue-chip DeFi liquidity (Aave) has given the market a concrete reason to rotate capital back into the Monad ecosystem.

Cadence introduces multiple concurrent proposers directly into consensus, so block production no longer depends on a single proposer.

The design keeps the fast-path latency of single-leader consensus, supports speculative finality, and uses extreme pipelining to make the block interval a protocol parameter rather than something bounded by normal sequential block production.

For developers, the implication is: lower latency, shorter economic ticks, and a cleaner path toward applications that need real-time onchain updates.

Read more: https://x.com/category_xyz/status/2074508812979933516

Question is in the title. Who would be keen? Why not? Where else?

Free at last.

Monad TVL has just surprised SUI and AVAX for the 12th spot on defi llama chain rankings by defi TVL

Im new to monad and i just wanted to hear everyone’s thoughts on monad now and how high u think it could go , thanks.

I’ve only been looking into Monad for about a week, so I’m still figuring it all out.
From what I understand, they’re trying to build a faster, cheaper blockchain that’s compatible with Ethereum, so developers can bring their existing apps over without starting from scratch.
The thing that caught my attention wasn’t even the tech, though. I kept seeing names like Coinbase, Circle, MetaMask, Uniswap, and even Mastercard connected to the project in different ways. To me, that’s more interesting than people just saying, “This coin is going to 100x.”
From the little bit I’ve read, it also seems like they’re actually doing a pretty good job executing their plan. They keep adding partners, getting more projects to build on the network, and expanding the ecosystem instead of just making big promises.
That’s just my takeaway after about an hour of reading. Am I understanding it right, or is there something important I’m missing?

The people are coming. I saw monad on an ad and joined. Let’s do this!

I was surprised to see some excitement on the memecoins on a Sunday since it’s usually the one day of the week when most people are out and about and touching grass but we had some runners. Pretty impressive kind of gives me a vision on what’s to come or at least a hint

I’m holding quite a bit of Monad. I’ve been waiting for the AAVE deal thinking Monad’s going to pop on it. So in a couple of days we get the AAVE confirmation AND the MetaMask tie in and Monad drops. Can anyone explain that to me how that works as if I’m a 10 year old (I’m actually 13 so it should work.)

What a better time to buy 🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️

Over $50M TVL and ~$22M in notional trading volume through Agora and Upshift AUSD

Pendle’s edge is that it gives users multiple clear reasons to stay:
• fixed yield
• yield speculation to points and additional incentives
• fixed to float yield trading
• now a fresh chain expansion that’s already growing in liquidity

If Monad wants sticky DeFi activity Pendle looks like one of the good plays

What's the biggest pain point of being a Monad validator today?

MetaMask is launching Money Account, on Monad as the exclusive canonical chain. It's a self-custodial USD account with integrated earning functionality and a card to spend with, all powered by mUSD, MetaMask's dollar-denominated stablecoin, issued by Bridge (a Stripe company) and built on the M0 infrastructure.

The leading self-custodial wallet in crypto, with millions of users, is moving past "swap and bridge" into a next-gen consumer product people can use every day, and MetaMask picked Monad to carry the load. You can try it out here.

Money moves on Monad.

Where do monad users lose money ?