I still remember the exact moment I refreshed the Monad claim page and saw “ineligible.” After months of running nodes, spamming the testnet faucet to a dozen wallets just to keep the transactions flowing, bridging fake ETH back and forth, and posting those cringy “gm Monad cult” tweets, nothing. Zero tokens. I laughed at first, then checked Discord and realized half the people I’d been grinding with for a year got the same red banner. Turns out sending faucet funds to your own alts was apparently the fastest way to get flagged as a sybil. Who knew? A week later, I’m seeing screenshots of Azuki whales and Farcaster power users pulling 15–20k $MON each without ever touching the testnet. Feels bad, man.
Bitget just dropped their listing announcement, and suddenly I’m curious again. Part of me wants to watch the price get obliterated on open just for the schadenfreude, still another part remembers how clean the testnet actually felt, like, 500 ms finality with full EVM tooling is legitimately insane. The numbers are brutal, though: 100 billion total supply, roughly 10.8 billion tokens hitting the market tomorrow between the public sale and airdrop, and a lot of those airdropped wallets are people who never cared about the chain in the first place. My gut says we open somewhere around 4-6 cents, then the “thank you, next” crowd starts dumping, and we see 2-3 cents pretty quick. Wouldn’t shock me to wick below the $0.025 sale price in the first hour.
Still going to watch the charts with coffee tomorrow, though. There’s something weirdly entertaining about seeing a project you bled for finally trade while you sit on the sidelines with nothing but screenshots of your old testnet transactions. If it somehow holds $0.05 and rips from there, I’ll tip my hat. If it face-plants to a billion-dollar FDV in a bear market, well… at least I’ll know my faucet-spamming wasn’t completely pointless; it kept me out of the exit liquidity.
Now
[https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/monad/](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/monad/)
