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Monad momentum: traders claim MON is 'up 20%' and 'slept on' as Aave proposes deploying V4 on the chain

fadedmonad
Peak / day14tracked accounts
Peak dayThuOct 1 · busiest day in the panel
Rest of X / peak day—not measured outside the panel
Cited claims122 dropped by automated checks
Market—no token attached

Attention

Who was talking, day by day

Sep 28 – Oct 4 UTC
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What happened

Monad chatter ran Sept 28–Oct 4, first posted by @fomoebdao at 10:13 UTC on Sept 28 and peaking Oct 1 with 14 tracked accounts posting (23 tracked accounts and 9 other accounts across the week). The trading side drove it: @massouss said monad:native was 'up 20%' in an 'Uptober' post, @richardnhsu called Monad 'worth a look and being slept on', and @massouss followed up on Oct 2 arguing the Monad memecoin $MONIGGA — 'day-one Monad', 'almost a year of memes + lore', which 'survived the dev leaving' and 'the dead months' — was mispriced while liquidity rotated back into Monad. The one hard build event was Aave announcing a proposal to deploy Aave V4 on @monad with three risk-tiered markets and USDC and USDT0 as borrowable assets. @darklord_gr noted Aave V3 already holds about $306M on Monad and asked whether V4 pulls that liquidity over or V3 keeps it.

Why it matters

Monad is being discussed on two levels at once — a trading narrative (claimed +20% on MON, $MONIGGA lore, 'slept on' calls) and DeFi infrastructure (Aave's V4 proposal, sitting next to Aave V3's roughly $306M already on the chain) — which gives hooks for both the perps/trading and ETH-DeFi audiences in this story's tracked communities. The burst faded after Oct 1: distinct tracked accounts dropped to 3–4 per day on Oct 3 and Oct 4, so this is an explainer/post-mortem frame rather than a live spike. Only the Aave proposal is concrete and sourced to an official project account; the MON numbers are claims by individual accounts, and this story's market block is empty ('none'), so nothing here can be priced or predicted.

Observed reaction

Split between bullish-to-promotional and mockery. Bullish side: @massouss ('up 20%' on monad:native, then a long $MONIGGA 'lore' pitch), @richardnhsu ('Monad is also worth a look and being slept on'), @wisecharts (@monad 'continues on its path' and 'keeps building'). Mocking side: @iwantlambo joking 'monad? the private, quantum proof money?' while tagging @DonAlt, and @pooorad's crude candle joke. No visible post is bearish on Monad itself; the friction is over whether the move is real or narrated, and the chatter had cooled to 3–4 tracked accounts per day by Oct 3–4.

Spread

Where it started and who carried it

First seen
Sep 28, 10:13 UTC by @fomoebdao
Accounts
23 tracked · 9 elsewhere on X
Communities
perps trading (6), general ct (6), eth defi (4), airdrops farming (2)
Key accounts
@near_intents, @thegreatest_sv, @cryptunez, @thedefinvestor, @ourcryptotalk

Explainability

Evidence register

Every claim links to the posts behind it
01

@massouss said on Oct 1 that monad:native was 'up 20%' and framed the day as 'Uptober'.

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02

@richardnhsu said Monad is 'also worth a look and being slept on' while arguing the Robinhood ecosystem is his top bet into the bull market.

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03

@wisecharts said @monad 'continues on its path' and 'keeps building', and posted $0.05 as a 'clear target for 2027' for monad:native.

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04

@massouss argued the Monad memecoin $MONIGGA is mispriced, describing it as 'day-one Monad' with 'almost a year of memes + lore', a purple durag as its symbol, having 'survived the dev leaving' and 'the dead months', and said liquidity is 'rotating back into Monad' with 'a real Monad season' possible.

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05

Aave announced a proposal to deploy Aave V4 on @monad, including three risk-tiered markets with USDC and USDT0 as borrowable assets.

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06

@darklord_gr noted that Aave V3 already holds about $306M on Monad, so the V4 proposal is an expansion rather than Aave's first step there, and asked whether V4 pulls that money over or V3 keeps it.

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07

@vasdie said 'the usual will come back after kbw and monad open', expecting activity to return in a couple of weeks.

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08

@iwantlambo mocked Monad as 'the private, quantum proof money' while tagging @DonAlt.

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09

@9xvenom promoted a SpiceNet 'Flow x Pare' campaign: three trades of $5+ on Pare through Spice Flow (trading from ETH, Arb, Base, Polygon, BSC, Monad, Citrea or Robinhood) for 5,000 Spice Points, ending Oct 5, with points counting toward a 5% community allocation for future $SPICE rewards, signed 'NFA. DYOR.'

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10

@_mlnbro reported that NEAR Intents stopped services after a bug in the Omni deposit and withdrawal interaction with the Intents smart contract, with preliminary losses of about $3.8M, and that deposits and withdrawals were paused for roughly 12 hours on 11 chains including Monad.

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11

@pooorad posted a crude joke chart post about Monad.

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12

@em3rald4u posted about Primus Labs' zkTLS/FHE privacy stack (used by Unitas for proof of reserves and by BNB Chain for confidential vaults) and about B2B versus B2C narratives; neither visible post names Monad.

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Angles

  • Aave V4-on-Monad explainer: three risk-tiered markets, USDC and USDT0 borrowable, Aave V3 already holding ~$306M on Monad — quote @aave's proposal post and close on @darklord_gr's question of whether V4 moves that TVL or V3 keeps it.
  • Number-check post on the two circulating figures: 'monad:native up 20%' (@massouss) and @wisecharts' $0.05-by-2027 target — no MON market data exists for this week ('market: none'), so present both strictly as unverified account claims with no price talk of our own.
  • Meme-lore teardown: how $MONIGGA got branded 'day-one Monad', survived 'the dev leaving' and 'the dead months', and expanded via 'Durag Society' — frame as community history with a promotion flag, not a buy call.

Formats in use

  • Quote-tweets of official announcements (@aave's V4-on-Monad proposal via @darklord_gr; @near_intents' incident notice via @_mlnbro)
  • Chart/price screenshots and 'Gm' morning posts (@massouss, @wisecharts)
  • Long-form memecoin 'lore' bullish post on $MONIGGA (@massouss)
  • Step-by-step points-farm / quest guide (Spice Flow x Pare by @9xvenom)
  • Short joke and crude meme chart posts (@iwantlambo, @pooorad)

Risks

  • The story's market block is empty ('none'), so @massouss' '+20%' and @wisecharts' '$0.05 target for 2027' are unverified account claims — do not repeat as fact and do not publish price predictions or investment framing.
  • @massouss' long $MONIGGA post reads as promotion of a small Monad memecoin (price framing, 'most memes at this size are still trying to become recognizable') — treat as potential shilling, never as an endorsement.
  • @9xvenom's Spice Flow x Pare post is a referral-style quest ('Follow @9Xvenom', 5,000 Spice Points for 3 trades of $5+, '5% community allocation for future $SPICE rewards', 'NFA. DYOR.'); it is likely affiliate/paid promo and lists Monad as only one of nine chains — flag it if used.
  • The NEAR Intents incident is a separate security event, not part of the Monad momentum story: preliminary loss of about $3.8M from an Omni deposit/withdrawal bug, with deposits and withdrawals paused about 12 hours on 11 chains including Monad — report the figure as preliminary and mark the incident as reported/unconfirmed in detail.
  • Two posts in this set (@em3rald4u on Primus Labs and on B2B vs B2C narratives) never name Monad in their visible text — do not use them as Monad evidence or as proof of breadth.
  • Crude wording in @pooorad's post and the jab at @DonAlt by @iwantlambo: don't repost crude language and don't pile on a named individual.

Observed content

Most-engaged posts

6 posts on X
Gm just woke up in Uptober The feeling is amazing monad:native is up 20% btw https://t.co/ufSgw6XyXY
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The market is pricing $MONIGGA like a random dead microcap It really isn’t A name you remember instantly A character you recognize instantly The purple durag became its own symbol Almost a year of memes + lore Basically day-one Monad Survived the dev leaving Survived the dead m
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Just did this one. @spicenetio Flow x Pare campaign is live. Make 3 trades on Pare through Spice Flow, each $5+, and get 5,000 Spice Points. 1. Go to https://t.co/BZTJJl42sY 2. Connect wallet 3. Trade from any chain (ETH, Arb, Base, Polygon, BSC, Monad, Citrea, Robinhood) 4
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Robinhood eco is probably the highest r/r bet into the bull imo. My money is on robinhood:0x39dbed3a2bd333467115de45665cc57f813c4571, robinhood:0xe8ffd7e24187f72afb08d75b1bb13088a989a791, and up-2:native. Monad is also worth a look and being slept on.
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the usual will come back after kbw and monad open see you in a couple of weeks, no space today @ChaosWalk3r
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Primus Labs as a privacy layer that plugs into existing chains does not run its own blockchain. Its stack has two parts: - zkTLS that proves web or API data is real without revealing it. - FHE that lets apps compute on encrypted data. Meanwhile it is already in use by differe
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History

Weeks this story made the report

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  1. μ13fadedMonad momentum: traders claim MON is 'up 20%' and 'slept on' as Aave proposes deploying V4 on the chain