9 straight days down, now there is some life..

Truly curious to know how is Monad, how is life, how is crypto. I have been very disconnected. But I am fully recharged. Lets ride

Monad has been down for over a week, and many retail investers are panicking right now. Just a reminder that my dad is not a a hype coin, it is all about real world utility. The ecosystem is young and year number 1 will be very volatile. This dip is in line with the entire crypto ecosystem right now, primarily because of high energy prices, and the war with Iran. Also, an extreme amount of short leverage positions are pushing the price down. Now is the time to buy the dip, increase the leverage leverage positions, stake more, get involved in defi on Monad. A monad is a long-term investment, and you're number one on such an ecosystem is a unique and rare experience that a lot of people will wish they did not miss. They're an incredible amount of rewards out there, provided by Monad, to encourage early ecosystem growth. Go check out Merkl.

Stay patient, stop watching the price, and have fun with your monad!

9 straight days down, back to ICO price soon

We're approaching 10 days down, when does it end? My staking rewards are dwindling, my monies is dwindling. Is monad scam coin? Why this coin so suck?

Monday Trade Brings Top NASDAQ Stocks On-Chain, Launching First Tokenized Stock Trading on Monad Network, Powered by Anchored
PR NEWSWIRE -  7:00 AM ET 4/18/2026
TECHNOLOGY
   

Monday Trade enables 24/5 trading of several major U.S. stocks with 1:1 backing and on-chain settlement

HONG KONG, April 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Monday Trade, a decentralized trading platform built on Monad, launched trading today for ten top tokenized stocks, becoming the first platform to give users exposure to these instruments on Monad's high-performance Layer 1 network. The tokenized stocks are issued and backed through Anchored's end-to-end tokenization infrastructure, with each token backed 1:1 by the underlying U.S. asset held in regulated custody.

The launch enables traders to access tokenized stocks of several major companies through their Web3 wallets, settling trades in USDC with full on-chain custody. Unlike traditional brokerage accounts, users can trade 24/5 with real-time settlement while maintaining complete ownership of their assets.
This expansion marks a strategic evolution for Monday Trade from a crypto-native DEX into a comprehensive trading house bridging traditional finance and decentralized finance. The platform already offers spot and perpetual futures trading, and now positions itself as the liquidity hub for real-world assets on the Monad network.

Institutional Infrastructure Meets DeFi Accessibility

The tokenized stocks listed on Monday Trade are issued through Anchored's institutional-grade infrastructure. Each tokenized stock on Monday Trade is backed 1:1 by underlying securities held through licensed institutional broker partnerships. The platform seamlessly converts USDC stablecoins to tokenized stocks, eliminating the friction of traditional brokerage onboarding while preserving the security of self-custodial wallets.
Built on Monad's architecture, which delivers 10,000 transactions per second with sub-second finality, Monday Trade executes trades in milliseconds, enabling traders to capitalize on market movements in real-time. The platform supports both market and limit orders with professional-grade charting powered by TradingView, real-time market data, and comprehensive portfolio tracking.
"Bringing tokenized stocks to Monad represents a fundamental shift in how traders can access traditional financial markets," said Mark Lee, Core Contributor at Monday Trade. "
By combining Anchored's tokenization infrastructure with the speed and transparency of Monad, we're eliminating the barriers that have kept everyday traders from accessing global stocks with the same efficiency as institutional players. This launch is just the beginning of our vision to make all asset classes accessible on the Monad network."

The launch comes as real-world asset tokenization emerges as one of crypto's fastest-growing sectors. On-chain real-world assets now exceed $21 billion in total value excluding stablecoins, with tokenized U.S. Treasuries alone accounting for over $9 billion, demonstrating institutional appetite for blockchain-based traditional assets.

"Monday Trade's integration is exactly the kind of distribution partnership Anchored was built for: giving DeFi-native users seamless access to institutional-grade, fully backed tokenized stocks without leaving their on-chain environment," said Wenny Cai, Co-Founder & CEO of Anchored. "This is the first step in a broader rollout across the Monad ecosystem, with more tokenized stocks on the roadmap."
"Monday Trade's launch of tokenized stock trading showcases Monad's capability to handle complex financial applications at scale," said Keone Hon, Co-Founder and GM at Monad Foundation. "With 10,000 TPS and sub-second finality, Monad provides the infrastructure needed for real-world financial markets to operate seamlessly on-chain. We're excited to see Monday Trade pioneering this new category on the network and demonstrating the future of high-frequency finance."

Bridging TradFi and DeFi

The tokenized stock offering is part of Monday Trade's Q2 2026 roadmap focused on capital efficiency and expanding asset class availability. By combining Anchored's full-lifecycle tokenization infrastructure with Monday Trade's trading platform and Monad's performance layer, the partnership creates a vertically integrated stack where tokenized stocks can be traded with the same speed, transparency, and self-custody that defines Web3.
Traders can access Monday Trade's tokenized stock markets at monday.trade beginning April 16, 2026. The platform integrates with major Web3 wallets including MetaMask, Coinbase Wallet, and WalletConnect.

About Monday Trade
Monday Trade is an all-in-one DEX for on-chain trading on Monad that offers the best of CEX and DEX trading experience. Built on Monad's high-performance Layer 1 blockchain, Monday Trade offers millisecond execution for spot trading, perpetual futures, and now tokenized equities. Learn more at monday.trade.

About Monad
Monad is a Layer 1 blockchain built to enable high-frequency finance by delivering 10,000 transactions per second, single-slot finality, and 0.5-second block times. Powered by consumer-grade hardware and full EVM compatibility, Monad provides the performance infrastructure for the next generation of decentralizedapplications on-chain. Learn more at monad.xyz.

About Anchored
Anchored is the global digital operating system for real-world assets, providing end-to-end infrastructure for the compliant tokenization, distribution, and trading of RWAs. The platform supports the full asset lifecycle: origination, compliance, issuance, distribution across DeFi and CeFi venues, secondary market liquidity, and redemption. Anchored currently offers two product verticals: tokenized stocks and tokenized fund products.
Operating under a compliance-first, multi-jurisdictional architecture, Anchored serves institutional investors, centralized exchanges, market makers, and DeFi protocols seeking regulated on-chain access to traditional financial instruments.
Learn more at anchored.finance.

Media Contact:
Tracy Giap
Monday Trade
tracy@monday.trade
Toni Morales
Anchored
toni@anchored.finance
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SOURCE Anchored Capital Ltd

Hey, this is the general discussion on r/Monad

You can use this thread to discuss ideas, suggestions, directions, what you'd like to see more (or less) of, and anything else your heart desires.

Be constructive, and keep the AI slop out.(I mean this - write your own thoughts. We can all tell GPT)

Last discussion thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Monad/comments/1s82rya/weekly_general_discussion_march_30_2026/
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We have a real-world business and we plan to use Monad to expand and scale up. Our website has already integrated a token. Also, we heavily depend on Microsoft Ads for running our ads.

Here is how the process will work: People can buy our token. I can then sell those tokens for USD to pay for our Microsoft Ads budget. After a 7-day cycle, we will take the profits from the website sales and use that money to buy the token back. We will keep repeating this cycle endlessly.

Does anyone have any good suggestions or better ideas?

I sold all my stack, this coin is heavely manipulating pump and dump, everytime it pumps it dumps back what a joke

Are any of you building agents for agentic work on Monad? All of the hype around Base and Virtuals is grossly inflated in my opinion. Not saying they don't have some solid projects coming out. But when hype around something is so high you're bound to attract garbage trying to ride on the coattails of other people's success.

I'm building a few tools for people building out agentic infrastructure and would love to maybe collaborate with some of you. If anything, just to bounce ideas off of each other. Building in a vacuum leads to stagnation and I think the community would benefit greatly from more peer-to-peer networking.

My repo is https://github.com/aurous37-lang/Monad-Node-Experiment

some critics within the monad community believe the ecosystem reflects a broader sexism problem that persists throughout crypto culture. the criticism grew after “monanimal” memecoins received heavy community support, engagement, and visibility, while a memecoin ($GROOL) launched by a female developer struggled to gain similar recognition.

while there is no public evidence that the monad foundation intentionally discriminated against anyone, critics argue that women in crypto are often treated differently than male founders. projects tied to male-dominated social circles frequently receive more reposts, attention, and legitimacy, and green candles, while female developers/creators may be ignored, dismissed, or held to higher standards.

supporters of this criticism say the issue is not only about $GROOL, but about a culture where women have to work harder to receive the same level of trust and visibility. whether intentional or not, they argue these patterns make web3 feel less welcoming to female builders and creators.

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VanEck (aSMH) - 0x74110fb3858d91418227007851362672514925ef

Direxeion (aSOXL) - 0x6910acdc21a86dad4fde233764fdac4f4ce187e8

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Technology Select Sector SPDR aStock (aXLK)- 0xf63ad58f1d4d1276ea0de2490689942303d2d446

Along with a few other goodies.

Enjoy fellas.

The NFT Layer of New Ecosystems

One thing I have been watching on Monad is how NFT culture develops around a new chain.

In many new ecosystems, NFTs usually do not become the main focus immediately. At first, most attention goes to infra, DeFi, bridges, trading, and liquidity. But once users become more familiar with the chain, NFT communities often start to form their own wave.

I am not saying this will happen in the exact same way on Monad, and I do not know how long it would last if it does. But I do think the NFT side of Monad is worth watching closely, especially while the ecosystem is still early.

Current Attention Around Monad NFTs

So far, the two collections I see mentioned most often are Skrumpeys and r3tards.

Both have strong community energy, and both were started by people who are already well known inside the Monad community, Dreiki and Melo. That part matters to me because early NFT ecosystems are usually shaped by people who already understand the culture of the chain.

Since those collections have already launched, I started looking around for other Monad NFT projects that might also have a strong cultural connection to the ecosystem.

That is how I started paying more attention to Monshape.

What Is Monshape?

Monshape is a 3,500 supply NFT collection on Monad created by u/zhangliu, an artist and designer who has been around the Monad community for a long time.

From what I know, she has also contributed design work to several projects in the ecosystem, including Chog, and has worked on other external design projects as well.

That makes Monshape interesting to me because it does not feel like a project that appeared suddenly just to catch a trend. It feels more like something built by someone who has been part of the community culture for a while.

Art Direction

The first thing that stands out to me is the visual style.

Monshape looks different from many NFT collections I have seen. It is cute, but not childish. Clean, but not generic. Fashion-focused, but not overly complicated.

The collection is drawn in vector, and you can feel the creator’s design background through the color choices, outfits, proportions, and overall visual consistency.

For me, this is important because a good PFP collection is not only about whether one image looks nice. It is also about whether the full collection works well together visually.

Monshape seems to have a clear art direction instead of just being a random mix of traits.

There are a total of 6 different tribes in Monshape.

Trait System

Another part I find interesting is the trait system.

A lot of NFT collections are built by stacking PNG layers in a fairly simple way. Monshape seems to have a more controlled structure.

According to what the founder has shared, the collection uses 14 layers and around 59 rules to control how traits are combined.

That kind of system can make a collection feel more polished because traits are not just randomly placed together. They are adjusted based on character type, tribe, and compatibility.

For example, a hairstyle such as “Red Wild Curtains” may not look exactly the same across every tribe. A Draconis character may have horns integrated into the hair, while another tribe may not. This makes the same trait feel more naturally adapted to the character instead of being copied across every NFT in the exact same way.

Small details like that are what make me feel the collection had real design time behind it.

The rules help display the same hairstyle with unique identifying features depending on each tribe.

Credibility

Another reason I am watching Monshape is the project history.

From what I understand, Monshape has been in development for around two years. The founder has a visible identity in the Monad community, and the project has also been publicly mentioned before by Monad founder Keone.

Of course, none of that guarantees success. NFT projects are risky, and community, timing, liquidity, and execution all matter.

But compared to anonymous projects that appear right before launch, I personally feel more comfortable researching a project with a longer history and a founder who is already known in the ecosystem.

Why I Think It Is Worth Watching

I am not trying to say Monshape is guaranteed to become a major collection.

What I find interesting is the combination of a few things:

Clear art direction, a founder with history in the Monad community, a more thoughtful trait system, full-body character design, and a long build period before launch.

For an early NFT ecosystem, those are the kinds of signals I usually like to study.

Final Thoughts

Monad NFTs are still very early, and it is hard to know which collections will matter over time.

But if the NFT side of Monad starts getting more attention, I think projects with real community history and a distinct identity are worth watching.

Monshape is one of the projects on my radar for that reason.

Curious to hear what others think about the early NFT scene on Monad.

Do we have anymore information on Aave coming to the ecosystem? I saw in March/April that Aave published a technical analysis on the suitability of deployment for v3.6.

The response I've seen has been pretty positive but nothing concrete. MegaETH had Aave deployed with $744 million in TVL overnight from its integration. FYI, MegaETH's total TVL is $796 million currently. So out of 53 DApps deployed in it's ecosystem Aave makes up almost all of it.

I love using Aave on Ethereum; and I want to use it here.