The Monad Foundation announced that the long-awaited MON airdrop is now available for claiming. A total of 5,500 Monad community members and approximately 225,000 members of the broader cryptocurrency community will be able to receive MON tokens from this distribution. The airdrop claim period will run until November 3, 2025. The MON airdrop, divided into five categories, is designed to target users with significant on-chain and off-chain activity. The distribution includes Monad Card holders, active Farcaster users, security researchers (e.g., ZachXBT and SEAL 911 members), local development teams within the Monad ecosystem, and users active in DeFi protocols. The Monad Foundation stated that the goal of this airdrop was to “turn genuine crypto users and active members of the Monad community into the network's first users.” The foundation designed this process to combat fake accounts and bots. To this end, it partnered with a third-party organization called Trusta AI to eliminate sybil (bot) addresses. The Monad Foundation advises that there is no advantage to claiming early, so users should proceed with caution. *This is not investment advice.