Monday mornings hit different.
TradFi markets reopen. Volatility surges. Capital moves.
In DeFi, every day feels like a Monday. Fast, volatile, and always on.
Until now, no DEX matched that energy.
It’s like Monday with its blues. Always slow. No amount of coffee could make a Monday feel perfect.
That changes today.
It’s time to try the new, blazing-fast Monday in crypto trading that’ll make you feel alive just like your morning cup of coffee on a weekend.
Monday Trade is live on Monad testnet, and it’ll change your onchain trading experience forever.
Monday Trade is a Monad-native spot DEX offering the best of CEX and DEX trading experience. Monad’s low latency enables Monday Trade to execute trades within milliseconds. This ensures traders can make the most of market moves, without giving up their asset ownership to centralized exchanges.
Monday Trade combines the precision of a fully onchain order book with the simplicity of AMMs into one sleek UI. It thus delivers gas-efficient, high-performance onchain trades with optional advanced trading tools.
With our testnet launch, we aim to gather earnest feedback from our community of traders, fine-tune the trading experience, and create the most efficient onchain trading platform.
To use Monday, you’ll need an access code from our Discord or one of our launch partners. Read on to learn more.
The current onchain trading experience is limited by two things:
Most live EVM chains have a block time in multiple seconds and take even longer to attain finality.
The resulting latency restricts DEXs from creating an experience as seamless and fast as centralized exchanges.
In a market where prices move extremely fast, a few seconds delay can be the difference between a winning and a losing trade.
Most spot DEXs today use an automated market maker (AMMs). Although they’re simple, permissionless, and cost-efficient, they have their tradeoffs, like:
— Higher slippage
— Less precise price execution
— Limited control for active users.
On the other hand, orderbooks offer great precision for traders of all sizes. However, they require active market making and are not suited for chains with high latency.
This is where Monday Trade comes in.
Monday Trade uses a hybrid model that combines AMMs and onchain orderbooks on Monad. Traders can seamlessly leverage the combined liquidity of the two and the trades get executed depending on which side offers better price discovery for the order.
For Monday Trade users, this means:
1. Better liquidity: Enjoy CEX-level liquidity for major pairs and boosted liquidity by combining two markets for long tails.
2. Tighter spreads: Professional market makers on orderbooks ensure smooth order execution.
3. More control: Orderbooks open room for both market and limit orders and advanced strategies.
4. Liquidity provision: Users with idle funds can still add liquidity on the AMM side and earn passive yields.
5. Institution-ready: With deep liquidity, fast execution, low slippage, and ability to execute advanced strategies, institutional players can trade smoothly onchain.
Monday Trade leverages Monad’s millisecond block time and one-second block finality.
Here’s what makes Monad stand out:
Monad is one of the only EVM chains that can offer such lightning-fast speeds.
Additionally, Monday Trade is built on the battle-tested DeFi infrastructure of SynFutures, one of the top onchain perps platform with over $275 billion in trading volume.
Monday Trade on Monad thus creates a DEX experience that’s similar to trading on a centralized exchange, but without compromising the benefits of a truly decentralized ecosystem.
Here are the benefits of trading on Monday Trade:
No KYC or permission needed. Just connect and trade on the most performant and efficient DEX on Monad.
On testnet, you’ll need an access code to link your wallet and trade on Monday.
To get the access code, you can either join our Discord or find it on the X feed of one of our launch partners:
NFT Communities: @RealNadsClub, @NadDomains, @Moyaking_xyz, @llamao_, @monks_xyz
Monad OGs: @0xChine, @0x_xifeng, @0xtunad
We’re going live with six major non-custodial wallets:
You can get started with any of these wallets and an access code to trade the listed pairs.
Or, you can also use your email, phone, or a social profile to sign up.
At launch, Monday Trade supports market and limit orders but does not support liquidity provision. We’ll add this feature and more as we progress toward mainnet launch.
You can also trade assets listed on Monday Trade using Blinks by Dialect.
Blinks are dynamic DeFi interface links that allow you to trade Monday Trade pairs on any platform or from a social media post. You can find Blinks integrated on Monday.Trade homepage and share it on your X to trade from X directly.
To learn how to set up up your Monad wallet, get testnet MON, and trade on Monday Trade, check these guides out:
We’re planning many exciting things for our community and users. Some of those include:
To start, we’re offering OG roles (MoLegend) and a reward of up to 1000 MON to our community.
To be eligible, you must be the first 100 people to
We’re working to forever change how trading on DEXs feels. Monday Trade’s testnet launch marks the beginning of that.
Trade now to experience the difference.
Get started: monday.trade
To stay updated, follow us on X (Twitter).
By MondayTrade on May 19, 2025.
Exported from Medium on November 5, 2025.
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