Monad is a high-performance EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain that targets 10,000 transactions per second, 400ms block frequency, and 800ms finality while preserving full EVM bytecode compatibility and Ethereum RPC API compatibility. Monad's Twitter Score is 691 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #119 (top 0.1%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Monad was founded by James Hunsaker as CEO. The project is backed by Paradigm, which led a $225 million fundraise announced in April 2024, alongside Electric Capital, Castle Island Ventures, Greenoaks, and Coinbase Ventures. The account is operated by the Monad Foundation, an independent organization dedicated to encouraging development and adoption of the Monad blockchain protocol.
Monad's public mainnet launched on November 24, 2025, with MON as the native token powering the protocol for transaction fees and staking. At mainnet launch, the total initial supply of MON was 100 billion tokens. A MON airdrop claim process ran from October 14 to November 3, 2025, allocating tokens to 5,500 Monad community members and nearly 225,000 members of the wider crypto community. Monad is also affiliated with Category Labs.
Monad acquired Portal in July 2025, adding stablecoin infrastructure for payments on the network. In June 2026, the Monad Foundation joined the x402 Foundation, contributing to an open standard for autonomous agents to discover, authorize, and settle payments natively over HTTP. Monad's account has published 3,132 posts and has 1,194,141 followers as of July 2026. Monad has been mentioned by 1,716 accounts, with 5,397 total mentions.
Monad's portfolio includes ContributionDAO, Portal and Kizzy.io.
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The accounts that follow Monad include 2,340 founders, 510 angel investors, 2,153 influencers and 81 VCs. Among them are Cobie, Toly, Ansem, Coinbase, Solana and Erik Voorhees.