I remember back in the day, there were so many KOLs speculating that Monad would airdrop tokens to Wormhole stakers, but the entire MON airdrop never even mentioned it. MON @monad Airdrop: https://blog.monad.xyz/blog/the-mon-airdrop Read it carefully multiple times to confirm ✅ The entire MON airdrop is basically centered around "identity + contribution." MON Airdrop's main theme = Identity Binding 1. Recognized long-term supporters of the Monad community, native developers/builders (manually verified + proven through activities and code). 2. Recognized high-quality on-chain users (consistent capital investment/heavy use of mainstream DeFi, large DEX traders, premium NFT holders, active DAO governance participants). 3. Recognized other high-quality crypto communities and contributors. By using social graphs to verify real identities, combining social graphs + manual tagging + anti-sybil measures, they replace low-value interactions that can be gamed with "hard-to-fake" behavior and identity signals. This seems to be the main idea—binding a group of contributors, people with identity, and potential into Monad's story. That said, this grand feast is almost irrelevant to ordinary retail investors... I understand, there’s no such thing as a perfect airdrop plan. But if a network consistently ignores retail investors, it risks becoming overly elitist in its early stages, losing a broad community foundation. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and BSC in their early days all relied on seemingly insignificant small retail investors. They brought network effects and community vitality. If you only reward top-tier identities from the start, Monad’s community structure might become unbalanced, losing its grassroots foundation. Monad completely cut off all testnet users, leaving no opportunities at all—it feels a bit cold. I think grassroots retail investors should be given a space to grow gradually, even if it’s just a little. That way, more people can truly become part of the MON network’s collective. Underdogs are ordinary people, but they’re also real people. They may not have much money, but they’ve invested their time and attention. They deserve respect, and they deserve rewards.