Monad Day 1 DeFi Guide

Monad's DeFi ecosystem on day 1 of public mainnet spans lending, yield products and liquid staking, with app.monad.xyz listing the full landscape. Monad is presented as capable of 10,000 transactions per second, with 400ms block times and deterministic finality. Lending protocols Curvance and TownSquare let users borrow against liquid staking tokens or build leveraged MON exposure, while the MON Vault (built by Mellow, curated by Steakhouse) and the earnAUSD vault (built by Agora and Upshift) offer managed yield. Users can also stake MON directly or use liquid staking protocols Fastlane, Kintsu and Magma.