Monad set to launch mainnet on September 30, according to Coinmarketcap

CoinMarketCap recently displayed September 30, 2025 as the “launch date” for Monad, prompting social media claims that the high-performance Layer 1 blockchain would go live on that date. Posts on X by community members and influencers argued that the CoinMarketCap entry, combined with earlier teaser imagery from Monad showing a late‑September date and a 100 billion token supply, “confirmed” a September 30 mainnet launch and a 100 billion MON supply. These claims circulated despite the absence of an official launch-date announcement from Monad Labs at the time, and commentators themselves acknowledged they were inferring the date from third‑party listings and teasers rather than from a primary source. Subsequent information shows that the actual public mainnet launch occurred later, on November 24, 2025, together with the MON token going live following a token sale on Coinbase’s Token Sales platform. Monad is positioned as an EVM‑compatible Layer 1 designed for high throughput and low-latency execution using parallelized transaction processing, targeting up to roughly 10,000 transactions per second on consumer-grade hardware. The episode around the September 30 date illustrates how provisional or placeholder data on aggregators like CoinMarketCap, combined with community speculation, can be misread as confirmation, underscoring the need to distinguish between unofficial inference and on-chain or protocol-team announcements when tracking network launch timelines.

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