MonadMomentum

Accelerating Ecosystem Growth

The Monad Foundation announces Monad Momentum: an incentives matching program to accelerate growth of exceptional applications in the Monad ecosystem.

What is Monad Momentum?

Monad Momentum aims to supercharge outstanding applications during their first live months on Monad Mainnet, anchored by team-led incentive programs.

Purposefully designed

Incentive programs remain an unsolved challenge across the industry. Despite numerous experiments, no universal formula has emerged for converting capital into lasting ecosystem growth.

Monad Momentum addresses this through two key design choices:

Matching Model

An incentives-driven matching model means program recipients have skin in the game. Teams are firstly investing their own resources, with Monad Momentum acting as a complement.

Phased Approach

Monad Momentum will be rolled out in discrete waves, rather than as a single deployment. This allows for the incorporation of improvements in a quick and iterative manner, resulting in program refinement over time.

Strong teams understand their product, their market, and their users. Rather than prescribe how growth should happen, Monad Momentum empowers teams to execute on their own strategies.

Mindfully Curated


Monad Momentum will select for teams with the strongest fundamentals and the greatest propensity for success.

Successful applicants:

Have a functional product and live application deployed on Monad Testnet, with imminent plans for deployment on Mainnet
Have completed a security audit before their planned program launch
Demonstrate runway through funding and/or sustainable operations (if bootstrapped)
Desire to make Monad their home ecosystem, and are focusing team resources and efforts accordingly

Further, applicants will need to demonstrate evidence of efficient user acquisition and sustainable business practices with a focus on:

Retention

not just acquisition

Revenue generation

not just volume

Organic user behavior

not vanity metrics

Selected teams will be expected to share progress throughout the program as it relates to baseline tracking and iterative improvements to their program strategy. Realized performance and demonstrated effort are reviewed at regular intervals.

Apply Now

Craft a detailed proposal outlining your team's approach to user acquisition during Monad mainnet's early months, and share it with us as part of your application. Review the application form for additional resources on:

Wave 1:

Applications will be open between Sep. 18-28. Accepted teams will be notified by Oct. 10.

Future Waves:

Wave 2 will open in Q4 2025. Teams applying after Wave 1 must demonstrate live Monad mainnet deployment with verifiable metrics.