Monad Monthly: July Recap

Ecosystem Recap

At least 12 of the following projects were announced to be built on Monad this month:

• Backpack: Extension Wallet / Mobile Wallet
• aPriori: Liquid Staking
• Universal: Wrapped Asset Protocol
• Kuru: CLOB Orderbook
• Hyperplex: Yield Optimizer
• WOOFi: CrossChain DEX / Perpetual Market
• Narrative: Leverage Market
• Castora: Prediction Market
• SupaDao: AMM DEX
• MonadStarter: IDO Launchpad
• Portal: Game Station
• monai: AI
• MonsterKeeper: NFT

The Monad ecosystem is on fire with 5 recent fundraises this month:

• Monad Pad | $0.945M | Seed | July 5 | CMS Holdings, CSP DAO, Zephyrus Capitalv, Vv Ventures, FOMO Ventures, Exnetwork Capital, Cogitent Ventures, Purechain Capital, Sneaky Ventures, Legion Ventures
• aPriori | $8M | Seed | July 25 | Pantera Capital, Consensys, OKX Ventures, CMS Holdings, Hashed, Arrington Capital, Flow Traders, Manifold Trading, Mask Network, Nomura’s Laser Digital
• Kintsu | $4M | Seed | July 25 | Castle Island Ventures, Brevan Howard Digital, CMT Digital, Spartan Group, Breed VC, CMS Holdings, Animoca Ventures, Robinson (Wormhole Cofounder), Marin (Lido Head)
• Kuru | $2M | Seed | July 25 | Electric Capital, Brevan Howard Digital, CMS Holdings, Pivot Global, Velocity Capital, Keone Hon (Monad Cofounder)
• aPriori | Non-disclosure | Strategic | July 30 | Binance Labs

Community Recap

• Monad India community meetup - Bangalore | July 9

• Monad community EthCC meetup - Brussels | July 12

• Monad Korea community meetup - Seoul | July 13

• Monad China community meetup - Hong Kong | July 20

• Monad’s first dev meetup - Bangalore | July 28

• Nads are making their life-changing choices using the sorting hat in Monad Discord.

Monad ⨀ on Twitter / X

Are you a Molandak, Chog, or Moyaki?Consult the sorting hat in Discord to be placed in a house 💜 pic.twitter.com/c3gQa6p7TE— Monad ⨀ (@monad_xyz) July 22, 2024

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• The first round of Tri-House Cup game has ended.

Monad ⨀ on Twitter / X

Deep in the shadows, twelve words intertwined,Horcruxes hidden, a seed phrase designed.Whispered secrets, each fragment’s plight,Crack for glory, your house’s delight. pic.twitter.com/yP6Iu3szzg— Monad ⨀ (@monad_xyz) July 24, 2024

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Team Recap

• @thisisfin_ join Monad team as APAC Community Manager.
• @be_kindplss join Monad team as Community Manager and Ecosystem Specialist.
• Multichain Day at EthCC 2024 featuring Keone, Topic: Finding Cross-Chain DeFi Opportunities

• Keone × @GrowRexx CEO Sujal Jethwani in Dubai, Topic: about fundraising, Crypto future, memecoins, Crypto Community etc.

• Check out Keone talk with Anna Tutova about Monad.

• Jacquelyn Melinek and Keone talk about why he co-founded Monad, how to compete in a competitive L1 landscape, why it’s focused on scaling the EVM, the importance of community and more.

• Juhyuk Bak chat with our intern, the intern, Kevi.