What is Monadic? At its core, Monad represents a new paradigm—a high-performance EVM Layer 1 designed not just for speed, but for enabling entirely new categories of applications. The Monad Momentum program isn’t a typical airdrop initiative. It’s a builder-focused investment in infrastructure, ecosystem, and real economic value creation.
The Proof: Builders Over Hype
When evaluating a blockchain ecosystem, the real metric isn’t subsidy depth but user retention and sustainable value generation. The inaugural cohort of Monad Momentum projects demonstrates this principle across five distinct domains: DeFi trading infrastructure, prediction markets, gaming and social experiences, content protection, and AI-driven automation.
What distinguishes these builders? They iterate on actual demand rather than chase narratives. They measure success by adoption metrics, transaction throughput, and user experience quality—not token price movements.
DeFi: Professional-Grade Trading at Blockchain Speed
Kuru’s Order Book Revolution
Kuru operates as Monad’s flagship DeFi primitive, combining a native central limit order book (CLOB) with an AMM overlay. Since launch, the platform has attracted 120,000 X followers and secured $10 million in funding.
The technical achievement: V3 liquidity mechanisms enabling concentrated liquidity for stablecoins and LSTs, plus a vault system that gamifies meme coin trading. The result is a testbed for whether high-performance chains can sustain genuine high-frequency, low-latency trading without compromising decentralization.
Drake’s Institutional Gradient
As a fully on-chain perpetual contract DEX, Drake targets the institutional trading segment through hybrid liquidity: combining on-chain order books with AMM backstops. The Funding Rate Vault introduces delta-neutral yield opportunities, while gas-free trading and cross-margin functionality address operational friction.
Notably, team members from Google and Sperax bring production-grade execution standards to what typically remains a retail-facing vertical.
Monday Trade: Derivative Roots, DeFi Evolution
Built by SynFuturesDefi veterans, Monday Trade layers AMM and order book liquidity for spot trading, plus multi-asset collateral and cross-margin capabilities. The addition of NFT-based social trading and Farcaster Mini App integration signals how legacy DeFi features port into social-native contexts.
Prediction Markets: Where Information Asymmetry Meets On-Chain Settlement
Levr Bet’s Sports Betting Composability
Levr tokenizes sports betting odds into fungible $0–$1 tokens, enabling 2×–5× leveraged prediction. This transforms traditional betting into composable DeFi primitives while maintaining intuitive UX through a Twitter Bot interface.
The fintech logic: winners receive 1 USDC, losers recover nothing—a straightforward binary outcome model that proved competitive at Monad Madness NYC.
Seer: Information Synthesis as Infrastructure
Seer addresses a core friction point in crypto: fragmented decision-making data. By aggregating Dex Screener, Photon, on-chain tracking, and social sentiment, then layering original tools (DCA heatmaps, Trenchworks) alongside AI-powered prediction modules, Seer functions as a unified analytics gateway.
Kizzy’s Social Entertainment Layer
Enabling users to predict viral outcomes on Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok, Kizzy bridges creator economy mechanics with prediction logic. The PvP mode plus fixed-odds spreads structure converts social entertainment into on-chain behavior, creating a Web3 equivalent to fantasy social platforms.
Gaming and Creator Economy: Entertainment as Behavioral Infrastructure
Bro.fun’s Viral Mechanics
Developed by Rekt Tech (previously behind Death.Fun on Abstract, which achieved 3.1M transactions), Bro.fun combines beer pong gameplay with MON betting and real rewards. The team’s prior success signals execution capability in shipping consumer applications to blockchain.
Community-Driven Gaming Experiments
Omnia, incubated by the Sappy Seals community, enters beta on Monad mainnet under the design thesis that strong communities enable organic user acquisition. Similarly, Telemafia reconstructs Telegram’s “Mafia Wars” as a crypto-native game, with proven engagement in Latin American communities and global expansion potential.
Lumiterra’s Immersive Economy
As a fully on-chain MMORPG with character progression and asset tokenization, Lumiterra received $2M VC funding post-Momentum acceptance. Mature community operations—Kaito leaderboards, airdrop mechanics—signal sustainable ecosystem participation beyond speculation.
Creator Economy: Bridging Web2 and Web3 Infrastructure
Kinetik: IP Protection as a Monad Primitive
With 80,000+ copyrights on-chain and 10,000–20,000 new entries weekly, Kinetik tokenizes Web2 content as ERC-721s while automating infringement detection. YouTube partnerships and multi-platform roadmap position it as the “gold standard for blockchain copyright,” directly serving Web2 creators entering Web3.
Fluffle’s Lifestyle Gamification
Combining productivity mechanics with on-chain dragons and evolution systems, Fluffle represents an emerging category: on-chain lifestyle applications. Launch alongside Monad mainnet signals infrastructure maturity beyond trading and gaming.
AI Agents: The Frontier of Autonomous Execution
Symphony’s Cross-Chain Execution Layer
Symphony (formerly Cadence) embodies why Monad may be optimal for AI agent infrastructure. By providing cross-protocol one-click execution and automation for AI-driven workflows, it signals that what is monadic about Layer 1 design isn’t just throughput—it’s architectural fit for autonomous systems requiring sub-second settlement and deterministic state.
The Builder Thesis
Monad Momentum succeeds because it selects for builders with operational focus over narrative appeal. These teams—spanning trading systems, AI agents, games, and creator tools—share one characteristic: they prioritize code quality, user retention, and value creation over promotional activity.
The ecosystem emerging on Monad demonstrates that high-performance Layer 1s enable entirely new primitives: professional DeFi, composable prediction markets, social entertainment economies, and AI-driven automation. The result isn’t just another chain with subsidies—it’s infrastructure that compels builders to ship.
Monadで未来を築く：AIエージェント、ゲーム、DeFiがLayer 1を再構築する方法
What is Monadic? At its core, Monad represents a new paradigm—a high-performance EVM Layer 1 designed not just for speed, but for enabling entirely new categories of applications. The Monad Momentum program isn’t a typical airdrop initiative. It’s a builder-focused investment in infrastructure, ecosystem, and real economic value creation.
The Proof: Builders Over Hype
When evaluating a blockchain ecosystem, the real metric isn’t subsidy depth but user retention and sustainable value generation. The inaugural cohort of Monad Momentum projects demonstrates this principle across five distinct domains: DeFi trading infrastructure, prediction markets, gaming and social experiences, content protection, and AI-driven automation.
What distinguishes these builders? They iterate on actual demand rather than chase narratives. They measure success by adoption metrics, transaction throughput, and user experience quality—not token price movements.
DeFi: Professional-Grade Trading at Blockchain Speed
Kuru’s Order Book Revolution
Kuru operates as Monad’s flagship DeFi primitive, combining a native central limit order book (CLOB) with an AMM overlay. Since launch, the platform has attracted 120,000 X followers and secured $10 million in funding.
The technical achievement: V3 liquidity mechanisms enabling concentrated liquidity for stablecoins and LSTs, plus a vault system that gamifies meme coin trading. The result is a testbed for whether high-performance chains can sustain genuine high-frequency, low-latency trading without compromising decentralization.
Drake’s Institutional Gradient
As a fully on-chain perpetual contract DEX, Drake targets the institutional trading segment through hybrid liquidity: combining on-chain order books with AMM backstops. The Funding Rate Vault introduces delta-neutral yield opportunities, while gas-free trading and cross-margin functionality address operational friction.
Notably, team members from Google and Sperax bring production-grade execution standards to what typically remains a retail-facing vertical.
Monday Trade: Derivative Roots, DeFi Evolution
Built by SynFuturesDefi veterans, Monday Trade layers AMM and order book liquidity for spot trading, plus multi-asset collateral and cross-margin capabilities. The addition of NFT-based social trading and Farcaster Mini App integration signals how legacy DeFi features port into social-native contexts.
Prediction Markets: Where Information Asymmetry Meets On-Chain Settlement
Levr Bet’s Sports Betting Composability
Levr tokenizes sports betting odds into fungible $0–$1 tokens, enabling 2×–5× leveraged prediction. This transforms traditional betting into composable DeFi primitives while maintaining intuitive UX through a Twitter Bot interface.
The fintech logic: winners receive 1 USDC, losers recover nothing—a straightforward binary outcome model that proved competitive at Monad Madness NYC.
Seer: Information Synthesis as Infrastructure
Seer addresses a core friction point in crypto: fragmented decision-making data. By aggregating Dex Screener, Photon, on-chain tracking, and social sentiment, then layering original tools (DCA heatmaps, Trenchworks) alongside AI-powered prediction modules, Seer functions as a unified analytics gateway.
Kizzy’s Social Entertainment Layer
Enabling users to predict viral outcomes on Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok, Kizzy bridges creator economy mechanics with prediction logic. The PvP mode plus fixed-odds spreads structure converts social entertainment into on-chain behavior, creating a Web3 equivalent to fantasy social platforms.
Gaming and Creator Economy: Entertainment as Behavioral Infrastructure
Bro.fun’s Viral Mechanics
Developed by Rekt Tech (previously behind Death.Fun on Abstract, which achieved 3.1M transactions), Bro.fun combines beer pong gameplay with MON betting and real rewards. The team’s prior success signals execution capability in shipping consumer applications to blockchain.
Community-Driven Gaming Experiments
Omnia, incubated by the Sappy Seals community, enters beta on Monad mainnet under the design thesis that strong communities enable organic user acquisition. Similarly, Telemafia reconstructs Telegram’s “Mafia Wars” as a crypto-native game, with proven engagement in Latin American communities and global expansion potential.
Lumiterra’s Immersive Economy
As a fully on-chain MMORPG with character progression and asset tokenization, Lumiterra received $2M VC funding post-Momentum acceptance. Mature community operations—Kaito leaderboards, airdrop mechanics—signal sustainable ecosystem participation beyond speculation.
Creator Economy: Bridging Web2 and Web3 Infrastructure
Kinetik: IP Protection as a Monad Primitive
With 80,000+ copyrights on-chain and 10,000–20,000 new entries weekly, Kinetik tokenizes Web2 content as ERC-721s while automating infringement detection. YouTube partnerships and multi-platform roadmap position it as the “gold standard for blockchain copyright,” directly serving Web2 creators entering Web3.
Fluffle’s Lifestyle Gamification
Combining productivity mechanics with on-chain dragons and evolution systems, Fluffle represents an emerging category: on-chain lifestyle applications. Launch alongside Monad mainnet signals infrastructure maturity beyond trading and gaming.
AI Agents: The Frontier of Autonomous Execution
Symphony’s Cross-Chain Execution Layer
Symphony (formerly Cadence) embodies why Monad may be optimal for AI agent infrastructure. By providing cross-protocol one-click execution and automation for AI-driven workflows, it signals that what is monadic about Layer 1 design isn’t just throughput—it’s architectural fit for autonomous systems requiring sub-second settlement and deterministic state.
The Builder Thesis
Monad Momentum succeeds because it selects for builders with operational focus over narrative appeal. These teams—spanning trading systems, AI agents, games, and creator tools—share one characteristic: they prioritize code quality, user retention, and value creation over promotional activity.
The ecosystem emerging on Monad demonstrates that high-performance Layer 1s enable entirely new primitives: professional DeFi, composable prediction markets, social entertainment economies, and AI-driven automation. The result isn’t just another chain with subsidies—it’s infrastructure that compels builders to ship.
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