The protocol already locked the pool.
Nobody locked your cap table.
Two things are true on Monad. nad.fun locks the LP itself at graduation, so a graduate never holds LP tokens and the usual “lock your liquidity” advice simply does not apply to them. And Monad is a treasury chain, not a memecoin chain — $957.23M of TVL sitting in Aave V3, K3 Capital, Euler V2, Pendle and Morpho Blue, with a central-limit orderbook carrying most of the DEX volume. The locks that matter here are team allocations, vesting and payroll.
Two facts decide what you actually need on Monad. nad.fun locks the protocol-provided liquidity itself at graduation — the creator never receives LP tokens, so there is nothing there to lock. And the chain’s real weight is institutional, not memetic: nearly a billion dollars of TVL in lending and yield venues, and a central-limit orderbook — not an AMM — carrying most of the volume. What stays unlocked is the cap table. Full story below ↓
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When a token graduates on nad.fun, the protocol-provided liquidity is locked through its LP tokens and the fees it earns stay in the pool. The creator never holds those LP tokens. Anyone selling a graduate an LP lock is selling a transaction that cannot happen. What’s already locked →
Locked pool liquidity proves one thing only: the pool can’t be pulled. It says nothing about the team allocation, the treasury, the advisor grants or the payroll schedule — and on a chain whose TVL is $957.23M of lending and yield capital, that is precisely what counterparties diligence. That’s the work this hub covers.
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After nad.fun graduation: what’s already locked and what isn’t
The pool is handled — you aren’t →Start here — TeamsTeam token locks on Monad
The allocation buyers watch →Start here — TreasuriesHow to set up token vesting on Monad
Unlock discipline, on-chain →Start here — CounterpartiesHow to verify a lock on Monad
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Most chains sell founders a liquidity lock. Monad sells them the wrong one. Here’s what the money actually buys — no jargon required.
What Monad is. A high-throughput EVM-compatible layer-1, live on mainnet since 24 November 2025. Gas is paid in MON and contracts are read on MonadVision. If you have deployed on any EVM chain, the mechanics carry across — the wallets, the standards and the tooling are the ones you already know.
Where the money actually is. Chain-wide TVL is $957.23M and it sits in Aave V3, K3 Capital, Euler V2, Pendle and Morpho Blue — lending, yield and structured products. Stablecoins account for $757.41M of it. Kuru, a central-limit orderbook rather than an AMM, carries 71.7% of DEX volume at $98.16M a day. This is a chain where funded protocols run treasuries, not one where the median user is aping a bonding curve. All figures as of September 2026.
Why the standard advice fails here. A liquidity lock parks LP tokens in a vault until a date you choose. On nad.fun there are no LP tokens in your wallet to park: the protocol-provided liquidity is locked through its LP tokens at graduation and its fees stay in the pool. A graduate who goes shopping for an LP lock is shopping for a transaction that cannot execute. Read what is and isn’t already handled before you pay anyone for anything. The venue mix reinforces the point — orderbook trading on Kuru and Hanji produces no LP tokens in the AMM sense at all, and Alloca runs IDO-style fundraising rather than bonding curves.
What still needs doing. The team allocation, the treasury, advisor grants and contributor payroll — none of which any protocol locks for you. Team token locks make an allocation immovable on a public schedule. Vesting releases it gradually instead of in one cliff, and the schedule you choose is the document counterparties actually read. Multisender and payroll move tokens to contributors without a thousand manual transactions. And if you seeded an AMM pool by hand rather than through a launcher, that LP position is genuinely yours to lock.
The float argument, made neutrally. Monad’s own token is a live illustration of why unlock discipline matters: roughly 11.83B MON circulates against a 100.68B total supply — about a 12% float — with a fully diluted valuation near $2.6B (CoinGecko, September 2026; single source, treat as indicative). That gap is ordinary market structure for a young network, not a criticism. It is also exactly the gap every counterparty models when they read your vesting schedule, which is why publishing one on-chain is worth more than any promise in a deck.
Who else covers this chain. Nobody, yet. As of September 2026 no established locker lists Monad — PinkSale doesn’t, Streamflow is Solana-only, Unilocker covers four chains and none of them is this one. The template farms that are here ship minting and multisender tools without a locker at all. We would rather tell you that plainly than pretend the field is crowded. The launch checklist is where all of it comes together.
Deploy the token. Free on Monad with MintPlus — you pay MON gas only.
On nad.fun the token trades up a bonding curve until the milestone: around 225,000 MON gathered and roughly 80% of supply sold.
Remaining supply and gathered funds move to an on-chain pool. The protocol-provided LP is locked by the protocol. You never hold it.
Team allocation, treasury and advisor grants go under a team lock or a vesting schedule. This is the step nearly everyone skips.
Payroll and multisender move tokens to contributors and holders; free staking pools give them a reason to stay. Then prove all of it on-chain.
- graduation /ˌɡrædʒuˈeɪʃən/ · noun
- The moment a bonding-curve token collects enough to be moved into a real on-chain pool. On nad.fun that milestone is around 225,000 MON gathered with roughly 80% of supply sold. It is also the moment the protocol-provided liquidity is locked through its LP tokens — which is why a graduate has no liquidity left to lock. What to do next →
- protocol-locked liquidity /ˈprəʊtəkɒl lɒkt/ · noun
- LP tokens held under lock by the launch protocol itself rather than by the creator. Different from a burn: the tokens still exist, and the fees the locked liquidity earns stay in the pool and deepen it over time. Different from a lock you buy: you are not the one who arranged it, and you cannot extend, split or point to it as your own commitment. How locking works here →
- “lock your LP” /lɒk jɔː ˌel ˈpiː/ · myth
- Wrong advice for a nad.fun graduate. The protocol locked the pool liquidity at graduation and you never received the LP tokens, so there is nothing to send to a locker. The advice is imported from chains where graduation LP lands in the creator’s wallet. An AMM position you seeded yourself is the genuine exception — check which one you have before you pay for anything →
Asked constantly.
1Do I need to lock liquidity on Monad?
Not if your token graduated through nad.fun. The protocol-provided liquidity is locked through its LP tokens at graduation and the creator never receives them, so there is nothing to send to a locker. Locking applies to AMM positions you created yourself, outside a launch protocol.
2What does nad.fun actually lock at graduation?
The initial protocol-provided liquidity, through its LP tokens — and the LP fees earned by that locked liquidity stay in the pool and deepen it over time. That is the protocol’s own description of the mechanism, and it means the pool cannot be pulled by the creator. The full post-graduation sequence →
3Is protocol-locked liquidity the same as burned liquidity?
No. Burning destroys the LP tokens outright; protocol-locking keeps them in existence under the protocol’s control, which is why the fees that liquidity earns can keep flowing back into the pool. Both outcomes stop the creator withdrawing the pool, but they are different mechanisms with different long-run consequences.
4My token just graduated. What should I actually lock?
Lock the cap table. The team allocation, the treasury, advisor grants and anything earmarked for contributors are what counterparties can still see moving, and a team token lock or a vesting schedule is what makes them provably immovable. Team token locks on Monad →
5What does Team Finance cost on Monad?
As of September 2026: token creation and staking pools are free, multisender is $50, vesting, airdrops and payroll are $100 each, and locks are $150. Fees are fixed in USD terms and charged in MON, the chain’s native token.
6Can I lock a Kuru position?
No, because there is nothing of that shape to lock. Kuru is a central-limit orderbook rather than an automated market maker, and orderbook market-making does not mint LP tokens the way an AMM pool does. Locks apply to AMM LP tokens, team allocations and vesting contracts. How LP token locking works here →
7What is the difference between a team lock and vesting?
A lock is a single promise — everything releases on one date. Vesting is a payroll — a gradual release on a schedule, per recipient, usually with a cliff. Funded teams generally use both, and on a treasury-heavy chain the vesting schedule is the document counterparties read first. Vesting schedules for Monad projects →
8How do I verify a lock on Monad rather than take someone’s word for it?
Read it on MonadVision. A genuine lock shows the tokens held by a locker contract with a published unlock date, and a genuine vesting schedule shows the release curve encoded in the contract rather than described in a document. Step by step →
9Is there an established liquidity locker for Monad?
Not among the usual names as of September 2026. PinkSale does not list Monad, Streamflow is Solana-only, Unilocker covers four other chains, and the token-template sites that are on Monad ship minting and multisender tools without a locker. Team Finance is the tier-1 option here, which is a statement about coverage rather than a claim about quality.
10How do I apply to the TrustSwap Launchpad?
Through the contact form — tell us what you are building on Monad and where you are in the launch cycle. Curated launches ship with vesting and verifiable team locks from day one. Apply for review →
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