MUST-WATCH DAPPS AFTER MONAD MAINNET LAUNCH

Summary from the TLDR Crypto newsletter

Monad launched its airdrop claim portal on October 14 ahead of mainnet, with 293 dApps in its ecosystem directory leveraging technical features like MonadBFT, parallel execution, and MonadDB for onchain order books and high-performance applications impossible on other EVMs. Top-funded projects include liquid staking protocol aPriori, spot DEX Kuru, and perp DEX Perpl. The ecosystem shows strong clustering around CLOB-based DEXs, prediction markets, and AI infrastructure, though analysis notes a lack of stablecoin and RWA projects despite the Monad Foundation's July acquisition of Portal.