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 679 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #127 (top 0.1%) among 484,207 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 3,200 posts and has 1,180,721 followers as of August 2026. Monad has been mentioned by 2,217 accounts, with 6,871 total mentions.
Monad's portfolio includes ContributionDAO, Portal and Kizzy.io.
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The accounts that follow Monad include 2,400 founders, 616 angel investors, 1,704 influencers and 79 VCs. Among them are Cobie, Toly, Erik Voorhees, Ansem, Coinbase and Solana.