MonkeDAO // May in Review 🐵
The market went quiet. MonkeDAO didn't.
Every cycle feels kinda the same but also never quite the same, and honestly it never really gets easier.
Grateful for @MonkeDAO as the one constant.
Things might have been quieter across the ecosystem lately. Red charts, low volume, that familiar feeling where everyone's just sort of waiting around.
But inside MonkeDAO this month, you'd have caught a different energy if you looked.
Across the month of May, our Monkes kept showing up.
Meetups continued to take place all over the world, and over 100 members linked up in Miami around Accelerate, where we ran @MonkeFoundry's first ever Demo Day plus a members only brunch. First Demo Day we've ever done with the right teams, right room, right energy.
We also launched MonkeHotel @ Breakpoint 2026, our flagship members experience.
Validator hit a new high of 170K SOL staked, which we didn't think we'd reach until way later this year.
Banana Stand cleared a big blocker on the road to mobile.
& yes, our MonkeBubu plushies, powered by @NomuStores are finally on the way
The world outside can feel like a lot right now - markets, noise, all of it.
But through every single cycle, MonkeDAO has just stayed - somewhere to come back to, lean on, build from. That's not a small thing & in fact some days it feels like everything.
Grateful for this community, always.
Let's keep showing up for each other, keep building, and keep getting that 1% better every day!
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3.7B cards. 210+ countries. @Mastercard is now expanding card settlement with regulated stablecoins on Solana and other networks, adding $USDC, $PYUSD, $RLUSD, and SoFiUSD as options for issuers and acquirers.
we poured everything into this.
the first boutique, hand-drawn 1/1 collection crafted with personality, originality, and care, finding home on XRPL where we believe it'll receive the most love.
the XRPL hasn't had anything like it. until now.
monx is coming.