Coinbase Launches Token Sale Platform for Investors Ahead of MON Launch

Coinbase has announced the launch of a new token sales platform that will let everyday investors buy digital tokens even before they are officially listed on its exchange. 

The move is designed to make token launches more fair, transparent, and accessible. 

Read on to know more about the details.

Monthly Token Sales Open to All

Under this initiative, Coinbase will host roughly one token sale per month, where investors can submit purchase requests during a one-week window. The token sales prioritizes broad participation over large holders. Smaller orders are filled first, and users who sell within 30 days may get reduced allocations in future sales, rewarding long-term supporters. Payments will be made in USDC. 

The first token to launch on the platform will be MON, the native token of the Monad blockchain. 

The token sale runs from November 17–22, 2025. It will offer up to 7.5 billion tokens, about 7.5% of the total supply, priced at $0.025 each, with an implied valuation of the project at roughly $2.5 billion.

To participate, users should have verified Coinbase accounts and meet the platform requirements.

Strict Rules in Place

Coinbase’s framework introduces strong transparency requirements. Issuers must provide clear disclosures about their project, team, and tokenomics. Founders and affiliates are restricted from selling tokens for six months after the sale. 

Issuers pay a fee based on funds raised – investors, however, won’t pay for participation. 

How MON Tokens Will Be Distributed

The MON token’s total supply is capped at 100 billion MON tokens, with 49.4B (49.4%) unlocked at mainnet launch. The token distribution is as follows:

• Ecosystem development: 38.5%
• Team: 27%
• Investors: 19.7%
• Public sale: 7.5%
• Category Labs Treasury: 4%
• Airdrop: 3.3%

Monad remains focused on growth and community participation. 

Token Sale Brings More Transparency

The MON token sale reveals a new level of transparency for a crypto launch. It’s the first large-scale issuance to fully disclose its market makers, loan sizes, and execution periods.

The issuer, MF Services (BVI) Ltd., has signed token loan agreements with top market makers like Auros and Wintermute. A third-party monitor, Coinwatch, will track how these tokens are used, including checking for idle balances.

The issuer also plans to use a small portion of the total MON supply, about 0.2%, to provide initial liquidity on decentralized exchanges (DEXs). This is a small, short-term measure to make it easier for people to buy and sell MON and help keep prices stable.

A Strong Comeback for Public Token Sales

Coinbase notes that this initiative is meant to solve a common problem for new crypto projects, which is getting tokens into the hands of real users while still building market liquidity. 

This marks the first time since 2018 that U.S. investors can easily join public token sales, after years of regulatory uncertainty around ICOs.

Coinbase is clearly setting a new standard for how projects go to market, by creating a balanced and transparent token sales platform for both issuers and users.