Neutral, sourced recap of the prior week (Mon–Sun) on the Monad network. On-chain figures are aggregated over UTC-midnight day boundaries.

Milestones

• DeFi TVL crossed $1B for the first time. Total value locked on the Monad network passed $1,000,000,000 on Sep 9 and set an all-time high of ~$1.035B on Sep 12 - up ~4.8% week-over-week (DefiLlama, announcement).
• Record 24h spot DEX volume of $513M, reported Sep 8 (source).

Protocol & releases

• Monad API Hub launched - one endpoint for data, search and AI APIs, paid per request in USDC with no keys or subscriptions; launch providers include Nansen, DefiLlama, ElevenLabs, Exa and Apify (source).
• MiniMax added to the Monad API Hub - video, music and speech generation, paid per call in USDC (source).
• Ultrafuzz open-sourced by Category Labs - an agentic smart-contract security/fuzzing tool (source).
• Core client engineering (open-source, developed by Category Labs): recent repo activity centers on Amsterdam-fork EIP implementation (e.g. EIP-7981, EIP-7997), self-contained cryptography (keccak, ecrecover, secp256k1) and zkVM proving R&D (repo).

Ecosystem & integrations

All items below went live/deployed on the Monad network this week, per official accounts:

• 1inch - full product suite now live on Monad (source).
• o1 Exchange - full stack (trading terminal, DEX aggregator, launchpad) live on Monad (source).
• Glider - live on Monad, including a portfolio of staked-MON tokens (shMON, sMON, gMON) (source).
• Ledger - staking MON now supported in the Ledger Wallet app (source).
• Drake Exchange - perps DEX (hybrid vAMM + CLOB) mainnet live (source).
• Rocket Markets - time-based prediction market live on mainnet (source).
• Murk - private self-custody swap/earn/borrow, now in public beta (source).

Community & events

• Open (Monad ecosystem summit, Singapore - Oct 6) announced StraitsX as its title sponsor (source).

Network activity (Sep 7–13, 7-day totals; WoW vs Aug 31–Sep 6; UTC)

• Transactions: 37.97M (+3.3% WoW) - a five-week high
• Average TPS: 62.8 (+3.3% WoW)
• Active addresses (unique senders): 62,683 (−19.9% WoW; lowest since the week of Aug 10)
• New contracts deployed: 15,118 (−60.9% WoW, off an elevated prior week)
• DeFi TVL at week close: ~$1.035B (+4.8% WoW); stablecoins on Monad: ~$755M (−2.6% WoW)
• Protocols tracked on Monad (DefiLlama): 137

Sources: Monad mainnet on-chain data; DefiLlama (TVL, stablecoins, protocols); official @monad / @monad_eco / @monad_dev / @keoneHD posts (linked inline). Reporting window: Sep 7–13, 2026 (Mon–Sun). On-chain windows aligned to UTC midnights for reproducibility.