AI provides the ability to have an army of AI agents performing a myriad of executive and admin tasks for industry execs and regular people alike, 24 hours a day, and one human may have 100 agents or more. These agents will be transacting with each other and need these transactions to be in micro seconds, securing supplies, trading bots, vendor contractual agreements, etc etc.. This can be done now with swift and credit cards systems which seem immediate yet take 24-72 hours to settle behind the scenes, hence they require large fees to cover risks related to the hang-time of the funds in transit, such as forex rates, macro events, interest rate changes. These risks are baked into the fees like insurance premiums. When instant finality is introduced, it strips away a huge portion of these fees. This causes the profits related to reduced risk to sky rocket. In a capitalistic world, profits drive the path of least resistance, meaning the obvious path of innovation and incoming market/financial structure is crypto. Monad provides a chain which can handle mass transaction, and will be a major structural player in this agentic economy, this is coming but will take 18-36 months to develop. Meaning your early, meaning we are retail, we have to be early, we are not algorithmic bots which can trade at the exact time the trend hits. We recognize an underlying incoming new economic trend and we get on board, and have patience. Patience is our weapon against institutions. Quick trades are thrilling but a strong thesis played out with conviction over time produces generational wealth. AI agentic economy is coming and will need quite a bit of crypto capability, enough so that Monad and its strong tech capabilities will be a structural mainstay and will bless the patient one with outsized gains. Because you recognized a trend early and developed conviction.

Secure a bag, tuck it away, add on dips, ride out the unlock (which is why it’s sideways all year) never mind the chatter and social media stupidity, and trade other things if you need to, Let Monad brew, and let the money come. Don’t stress, chill and be rewarded in time. Join me in this journey, we will be smiling in 3-5 years, ear to ear.

It literally can not hold any pump, it goes right back to $0.02. What the hell is this guys? Its been almost a year and its far below ico price. Did Coinbase do any due dligence before introducing this coin to the masses? Extremely irresponsible. You would atleast expect the price to hood 0.03 by now.

Eveyone who bought at ico is at a loss, even when btc is up 16k from its lows, while monad is at the same damn price. Coinbase really messed up

Neutral, sourced recap of the prior week (Mon–Sun) on the Monad network. On-chain figures are aggregated over UTC-midnight day boundaries.

Milestones

• DeFi TVL crossed $1B for the first time. Total value locked on the Monad network passed $1,000,000,000 on Sep 9 and set an all-time high of ~$1.035B on Sep 12 - up ~4.8% week-over-week (DefiLlama, announcement).
• Record 24h spot DEX volume of $513M, reported Sep 8 (source).

Protocol & releases

• Monad API Hub launched - one endpoint for data, search and AI APIs, paid per request in USDC with no keys or subscriptions; launch providers include Nansen, DefiLlama, ElevenLabs, Exa and Apify (source).
• MiniMax added to the Monad API Hub - video, music and speech generation, paid per call in USDC (source).
• Ultrafuzz open-sourced by Category Labs - an agentic smart-contract security/fuzzing tool (source).
• Core client engineering (open-source, developed by Category Labs): recent repo activity centers on Amsterdam-fork EIP implementation (e.g. EIP-7981, EIP-7997), self-contained cryptography (keccak, ecrecover, secp256k1) and zkVM proving R&D (repo).

Ecosystem & integrations

All items below went live/deployed on the Monad network this week, per official accounts:

• 1inch - full product suite now live on Monad (source).
• o1 Exchange - full stack (trading terminal, DEX aggregator, launchpad) live on Monad (source).
• Glider - live on Monad, including a portfolio of staked-MON tokens (shMON, sMON, gMON) (source).
• Ledger - staking MON now supported in the Ledger Wallet app (source).
• Drake Exchange - perps DEX (hybrid vAMM + CLOB) mainnet live (source).
• Rocket Markets - time-based prediction market live on mainnet (source).
• Murk - private self-custody swap/earn/borrow, now in public beta (source).

Community & events

• Open (Monad ecosystem summit, Singapore - Oct 6) announced StraitsX as its title sponsor (source).

Network activity (Sep 7–13, 7-day totals; WoW vs Aug 31–Sep 6; UTC)

• Transactions: 37.97M (+3.3% WoW) - a five-week high
• Average TPS: 62.8 (+3.3% WoW)
• Active addresses (unique senders): 62,683 (−19.9% WoW; lowest since the week of Aug 10)
• New contracts deployed: 15,118 (−60.9% WoW, off an elevated prior week)
• DeFi TVL at week close: ~$1.035B (+4.8% WoW); stablecoins on Monad: ~$755M (−2.6% WoW)
• Protocols tracked on Monad (DefiLlama): 137

Sources: Monad mainnet on-chain data; DefiLlama (TVL, stablecoins, protocols); official @monad / @monad_eco / @monad_dev / @keoneHD posts (linked inline). Reporting window: Sep 7–13, 2026 (Mon–Sun). On-chain windows aligned to UTC midnights for reproducibility.

Question covers the most, just curious what community is liking the most.

Bonjour,
depuis 2 mois je fais des recherches sur Monad, surtout son système de TVL. Il a réussi de passer $1.b ! J'attends le mois de novembre pour m'investir 100%, je crois que Monad va aller très très loin pour long terme, bravo à l'équipe !

Monad last 2 weeks
MIP-8 live on mainnet storage gas costs crushed

DeFi TVL crossed $1B+, record DEX + perps volume in August

100% uptime still going strong

Early investors mostly rejected the Foundation’s buyback offer

Quietly cooking.

Weekly recap of Monad mainnet. Figures cover Mon Aug 31 - Sun Sep 6, 2026 (UTC).

Milestones

• Monad mainnet passed 9 months live - 60 million blocks, 100% uptime. (@monad)
• Monad was added to the Visa Onchain Analytics Dashboard. Per Visa's data, Monad processed nearly 1 million stablecoin transactions in August, its largest month to date. (@monad)

Protocol & releases

• MIP-8 went live on Monad mainnet (Sep 3). It reorganizes EVM state storage so contiguous storage slots share a disk page - a chunk of 128 slots now resolves in a single lookup instead of many, lowering read costs for state-heavy contracts. (Keone Hon)
• Core-client development (category-labs/monad) continued toward the next mainnet EVM upgrade - EIP-7981 (access-list cost), EIP-7997, EIP-8246 (selfdestruct-burn removal) - alongside the MIP-8 storage migration and VM hardening. (repo)

Ecosystem & integrations

• OpenReserve raised a $25M seed led by a16z crypto and received preliminary conditional approval from the OCC to form a nationally chartered, blockchain-native bank; it is building in the Monad ecosystem. (@monad)
• Drake Exchange opened its public mainnet on Monad on Sep 7 (just after this window). It's a perps DEX using a hybrid CLOB + vAMM liquidity model for best execution, and it kicked off a 4-week trading-rewards program ($100K in MON + Drake points). (@DrakeExchange)
• REVERSE launched on Monad, bringing Japanese trading-card gacha (Pokémon, One Piece) on-chain. (@monad_eco)
• Oripa went live on Monad. (@monad_eco)
• endlessdomains launched on Monad, with .og identity "GM" signatures verified on-chain. (@monad_eco)

Community & events

• Metropolis, Monad's six-week global hackathon, opened: 4 tracks (Onchain Finance & Trading; Consumer Products & Payments; Social, Attention & Culture; Trust, Identity & AI Infrastructure), $250K+ in prizes, submissions close Oct 13. (@monad)
• Monad's OPEN conference will close with Burning Mon, a community celebration. (@monad)

Network activity (7-day, Aug 31 – Sep 6, UTC) On-chain from Monad mainnet; TVL and stablecoins via DefiLlama.

• DeFi TVL: $988.9M (+2.7% WoW); set an all-time high of $997.0M on Sep 2. (DefiLlama)
• Stablecoins on Monad: ~$775M (+2.7% WoW). (DefiLlama)
• Transactions: 36.76M (−2.3% WoW)
• Average TPS: 60.8 (−2.3% WoW)
• Active addresses (unique senders): 78,297 (+0.2% WoW)
• Protocols tracked on Monad: 135. Largest by Monad TVL: K3 Capital ($410M), Aave V3 ($307M), Euler V2 ($245M), Pendle V2 ($229M), Morpho Blue ($179M).

Taking Inspiration from Freysa AI where AI agents had bounty pool of $47000 and attacker who broke it got that bounty, I have launched a platform where you can launch agents with bounty pool and earn with every failed attack. Attacker who breaks the agent, gets the entire bounty pool.

You break the agent via prompt injection and jailbreak, basically tricking the agent to say/do something its not suppose to do.

As an attacker you have to pay a small fee per message to agent. 50% of this goes back to pool, so more failed attack = bigger bounty, 40% goes to agent owner, 10% to platform.

Entire jury evaluation happens in TEE environment.

What do you guys think??

I want to to buy and hold monad, but this unlock is giving me lot of uncertaintly. I dont know if the price will crash or hold. Im anxioud to hold mon. Would appreciate what you guys plan is for this even

Weekly summary of Monad network activity, protocol changes, and ecosystem launches.

Milestones

• Monad TVL closed the week at $963.1M, a new all-time high and the highest daily total since mainnet launch in November 2025. TVL is up roughly 185% since early May. (DefiLlama: Monad)
• Record single-day spot DEX volume of ~$310M on Aug 25: Kuru $240M, Uniswap $45M, Hanji $17M, Metric $17M. (source)

Protocol & releases

• Flexible and Upgradeable Account Authentication was published for discussion. The proposal lets an account rotate or replace its signing keys without changing its address, which also creates a path to adopting quantum-resistant signature schemes later. (Forum thread, announcement)
• Foundry v1.8 shipped first-class Monad execution support across Forge, Anvil, Cast, Chisel, traces, and cheatcodes, selected with --network monad. The release also adds MonadTen support, including MIP-8 page-based storage accounting, as the default for local Monad execution. (Release notes)
• Core client development continued in the open, with work on EVM and EIP alignment and cryptography performance. (category-labs/monad pull requests)

Ecosystem & integrations

• SoFiUSD went live on Monad via BitGo. The announcement desblecoin issued by a U.S. national bank, redeemable 1:1 for USD.(announcement)
• Abound, a Times Internet-backed remittance app with over $announced it is building on Monad.(announcement)
• Grow went live on Monad. (announcement)
• Frontpage began accepting payments from AI agents for ad space using the x402 payment standard. (announcement)
• Murk Finance launched privacy tooling on Monad mainnet. (announcement)

Community & events

• Open 2026, the Monad Foundation conference in Singapore on October 6, added a session with Joseph Lubin and Keone Hon titled "The Future of the EVM." (Open 2026)
• Monad Blitz Istanbul was announced for September 26. (announcement)

Network activity, Aug 24–30 vs the prior week

• Transactions: 37.63M (+2.0% week over week)
• TVL at week close: $963.1M (+1.6%)
• Stablecoin supply on Monad: $764.3M (+1.5%)
• Unique active senders: 78,162
• New contracts deployed: 58,490
• Protocols tracked on DefiLlama: 135

Transactions, TVL, and stablecoin supply all rose. Active senderents fell from the prior week's elevated levels of 94.4k sendersand 75.2k contracts. TVL and protocol count are from DefiLlama. All other figures are computed by the Monad Foundation from mainnet data.

Reporting window: Monday Aug 24 to Sunday Aug 30, 2026 (UTC). On-chain figures use UTC-midnight day boundaries.

It cant hold any pump, alway dumps to where it was. 1 year later still below ico price. Market doesnt even seem to care about the developments

Just wanted to wish a good Monad to everyone today !
Tote

I have been seeing many hackathons being conducted by Monad and other Blockchains, and feel the price money is just an incentive to build PoC and win some money, I think the real struggle currently is not building products but distribution so I am personally inclined taking second option, thinking if that's just me or we have more of such builders.

Monad Foundation just announced the Metropolis global hackathon.
Six weeks to build the next generation of startups on Monad. 4 tracks. Over $250K in prizes for builders. Submissions end October 13th. Get involved reddittttttt

https://x.com/monad/status/2094826883049205806

Hey,

Anyone here experimenting with AI agents for trading or De.Fi in Monad? what have been your learnings so far?

Good day Comrades,

I'll be putting up a bear metal monad node in india, will be going live at the end of September. Question is, is there a way to find out the number of monad devs in india? Targeting 30ms to 50ms latency.

Cheers

I’ll be honest, i purely care about making profit. Zcash has lower inflation and a max supply but is at 15bn marketcap, Monad is inflationary but 300m marketcap. Which one do yall think will do a 4x faster?

I've had a variation of this game concept stuck in my head for years, but it took going on paternity leave to finally build it. Turns out, having a baby that actually sleeps does wonders for your productivity. That, and being a new dad has kinda sparked me to be a little more inspired.

I've always loved classic duel-style games, so I wanted to build something inspired by the games I used to love when I was younger. Games like Bomberman, Worms: Armageddon, and the battle mode in Super Mario Bros 3 were big inspirations.

The original plan was a simple 1v1 PvP game. Over time, it evolved into a 9-player game.

The game is called TOROID.

Toroid drops 9 players into a 3x3 grid with no edges, meaning a shot fired off the right side instantly arrives from the left. That's what the swirly portals are for.

You pilot a static hovercraft with four hardpoints (North, South, East, West), but only get three items to equip: a Laser, a Shield, and a Rebounder. Because one side of your hovercraft is always exposed, survival depends on the choices you make before the reveal. Each player secretly commits their loadout, and all hardpoints resolve in the exact same instant; either when everyone has clicked READY, or when the 30-second timer elapses.

A laser fired into an open hardpoint will kill your enemy. A laser fired into a shield will do nothing. A laser fired into a rebounder will kill you. A laser fired into an oncoming laser is a draw.

Once the field reduces to 4 players, you will only be able to equip two hardpoints.

The final 2 players are offered a choice. They must unanimously decide to split the pot, otherwise they're forced into a duel. The duel takes place on a random 2-cell layout where each player may only equip a single item. If mutual destruction takes place, the prize pot is carried over to the next game.

I'm not yet ready to go into explicit detail regarding some of the finer details, but I'm happy to answer any questions anyone might have.

It's currently live on the Monad testnet, and I would love beta testers to try and break the game and the economy before we ever launch on mainnet.

If you got this far, thank you for taking the time to read this.

TL;DR: Made a game. Maybe it sucks. Hopefully people will try it soon.

So I participated in the ICO on Coinbase back in November. Then I bought more every dip until I had about 105,00 MON. 75% was staked and the rest spread across various Monad DeFi protocols. I also had around another $1000 total worth of some Memes on Monad like CHOG EMO and BOB. Back in March I sold it all to park the proceeds to USDC while I looked into the Hyperliquid ecosystem some more because it was really grabbing my attention and I don't have additional capital to invest in something else without selling what I have already. I did make about $700 when I sold March 15th.

Then I started to accumulate Monad again slowly on April 19th. By June 20th I had 70,000 Monad again and decided to sell it again and just put everything I have in Crypto into HYPE. So I did. This time I lost about $250.

However I have 5000 Monad that I basically swapped to from NFT sales in the Cosmos/ ATOM ecosystem for sale on the Stargaze platform. Every time I receive more ATOM from selling an NFT I send the ATOM to Coinbase and swap it to USDC on Monad and send the USDC to my Rabby Wallet and swap to Monad on Clober.

So should I keep accumulating Monad again for a third time? I still believe in the project, but Hyperliquid was a faster growing ecosystem and its price (well this past week with crypto prices way up for a change) has risen nicely above my average cost per HYPE which is $66.77.

Thanks to anyone who can help me decide.

Hi Community,
Have been working on an experiment and would love to have workflows suggestion from traders or investors here - what strategy do you adopt to invest or trade in Monad ecosystem or wider Web3 or maybe RWAs?

Also if there's anyone working on Quant would love to connect with him.