Monad Mainnet Countdown — Memes, Community, and DeFi Ready to Go Live

Issue #86 of the Just Followed Digest

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Welcome to a new issue of Just Followed Digest - your go-to source for trending projects and standout accounts in the crypto space.

In today’s issue: Solana’s bridge, a community meme, the largest DEX, and the biggest NFT collection — all on Monad. So without further ado, let’s dive in. 🚀

Top Trending Today*👀

  1. Sunrise DeFi — Wormhole’s New Liquidity Gateway for Solana

  2. Gmonad — The Community Meme Token Riding Monad’s Mainnet Wave

  3. Kuru Exchange Launches with Monad Mainnet

  4. ChogNFT — Monad’s Community Mascot Goes Mainnet

*this is a curated list of accounts and projects, and it may differ from the list of top accounts on leak.me

Sunrise DeFi — Wormhole’s New Liquidity Gateway for Solana

Sunrise DeFi is a new liquidity gateway from Wormhole Labs that brings external assets onto Solana with instant, deep liquidity on day one. Instead of relying on wrapped tokens or fragmented bridge liquidity, Sunrise provides a canonical entry route using Wormhole’s Native Token Transfers (NTTs), enabling secure, programmable, non-wrapped transfers.

Announced on November 23, 2025, Sunrise is debuting with Monad’s $MON as its first asset, going live for trading on Solana DeFi on November 24. This lets $MON tap into Solana’s high-speed trading and deep liquidity immediately—often before major CEX listings—marking a new model for cross-chain token launches. A teaser video from the team quickly gained traction, driving buzz across the ecosystem.

Gmonad — The Community Meme Token Riding Monad’s Mainnet Wave

Gmonad ($GMONAD) is the community-driven meme token of the Monad ecosystem, launched in March 2024. It serves as the cultural “mascot” for Monad’s fast-growing community (“Nads”), reflecting the playful side of the high-performance, EVM-compatible Monad Layer 1—built for ~10,000 TPS, 0.8s finality, and 0.4s block times. Rather than aiming for utility, $GMONAD leans into memes, community incentives, and integrations like airdrops and NFTs.

$GMONAD is trending today thanks to perfect timing with Monad’s mainnet and $MON token launch across Solana and major exchanges. As excitement peaks, $GMONAD has become the de facto meme of the moment—flooding replies to Monad and Solana posts with “GMONAD mode activated,” sparking pre-buy buzz, and pulling in users bridging assets to join the hype.

Kuru Exchange Launches with Monad Mainnet

Kuru Exchange is a fully on-chain order book DEX and smart liquidity aggregator built on Monad, a high-performance EVM-compatible Layer 1 boasting 10,000+ TPS and low-latency execution. Positioned as the “trading hub” of the Monad ecosystem, Kuru aims to combine CEX-level speed and depth with the transparency and composability of DeFi.

Kuru is exploding across crypto today (November 24, 2025) thanks to its synchronized debut with Monad’s mainnet rollout, kicking off the broader “Monad Momentum” wave of ecosystem launches. With Monad positioning itself as a Solana-speed alternative to Ethereum, Kuru is being billed as its flagship DEX—addressing early-chain issues like fragmented liquidity, shallow books, and high slippage on new L1s.

ChogNFT — Monad’s Community Mascot Goes Mainnet

ChogNFT is a community-driven NFT project and the official mascot of the Monad ecosystem. Originally created by Monad influencers @1stBenjaNAD and @Toadster69, it blends meme culture, IP development, and community activations to form what its creators call the “Chog World Order” (CWO). With 91k+ followers and verified organization status, ChogNFT has become one of Monad’s most recognizable cultural brands—embodying the playful, chaos-loving “monanimal” spirit of the early community.

Chog originated in early 2025 as an AI-generated meme quickly evolving into a beloved mascot with spin-off ideas like a “Chogverse” and in-person mascot concepts. It’s exploding on CT today thanks to perfect timing with Monad’s public mainnet launch on November 24, 2025—bringing real tokens, trading, and ecosystem activity that give ChogNFT a major visibility boost.

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