The Solana ecosystem is preparing for a major moment. Monad’s long-awaited token MON will begin trading tomorrow, and Solana has confirmed that users will be able to buy and trade it on Solana from day one.
This development is possible through Sunrise, a new gateway launched by Wormhole to bring external assets into Solana with immediate liquidity.
For Solana users, it marks a shift in how new tokens arrive on the network and signals Solana’s intention to position itself as a home for all forms of onchain finance, regardless of where an asset originates.
MON on Solana from Day One
The confirmation that MON will trade on Solana as soon as the token generation event begins has raised significant interest. Solana’s official channels stated that MON will be available simultaneously on Solana and potentially even earlier than on several major exchanges.
Jupiter added further clarity, telling users they will be able to buy MON directly on Solana tomorrow through decentralised trading rather than waiting for listings on centralised venues.
This forms an early test of Sunrise, which is designed to give Solana users access to new tokens at the same time as their origin networks.
MON arrives at a time when Solana has been one of the most active environments for decentralised trading. Since late 2024, Solana has consistently led combined DEX trading volume across all chains.
Its total value locked and stablecoin supply reached new highs throughout 2025. Yet Solana has struggled to capture activity when a token launches outside its own ecosystem.
Traders often leave Solana to chase early liquidity elsewhere, especially when new assets originate on chains such as Ethereum or emerging high-throughput networks. This is the gap that Sunrise intends to close.
Sunrise acts as a gateway for new listings, allowing tokens from other chains to enter the Solana market with the same timing as their original network. MON is the first asset to use this system publicly.
According to Wormhole Labs, Sunrise uses the Native Token Transfers framework, which gives tokens a standard representation across Solana DEXs, wallets and explorers as soon as they arrive. Users can move MON directly from Monad to Solana once the token goes live.
Once transferred, MON becomes immediately usable across integrated Solana protocols, including Jupiter for trading and lending markets for collateral use.
The emphasis is on making all liquidity visible and tradable through a unified pathway rather than relying on separate bridges or wrapped asset formats.
Sunrise also aims to solve fragmentation by ensuring MON appears consistently across the Solana stack, rather than launching with multiple representations that confuse users and dilute liquidity.
Wormhole representatives noted that Portal, their existing general bridge, is not designed for this purpose.
Portal moves established assets such as wETH or wBTC, while Sunrise focuses specifically on new listings and provides the single canonical route for those assets to enter Solana.
This launch also takes place in a competitive environment. Throughout 2025, several non-Solana networks attracted early trading for Solana-related tokens.
The most notable case was the launch of PUMP in July, where pre-market activity took place on a rival network, drawing liquidity away from Solana’s markets.
Even today, trading for PUMP remains more active on some non-Solana venues than on Solana itself. Sunrise aims to prevent a repeat of this pattern by ensuring Solana does not lose out on early activity when tokens originate elsewhere.
The release of MON provides a strong test because it is one of the most anticipated token launches of the year. Monad, supported by major backers and known for its high-performance infrastructure, has gathered significant attention. Price discovery for MON is expected to be intense.
By allowing Solana users to participate from the beginning, Sunrise ensures that the network remains part of this activity.
If MON trading volume on Solana is strong, it may signal that Sunrise has succeeded in its first major trial and that Solana can meaningfully compete for day one trading in future TGEs.
The Role of Sunrise
Sunrise is central to this development and represents a wider shift in Solana’s strategy. Solana’s vision of hosting all onchain finance requires the ability to support assets that do not originate within its own ecosystem.
Previously, Solana users relied on independent bridges or wrapped representations that took time to gain traction. These methods often carried fragmented liquidity, poor user experience and uncertainty around token legitimacy. Sunrise replaces these issues with a standard route that asset issuers, liquidity providers and users can rely on.
By using the Native Token Transfers framework, Sunrise allows tokens to move across chains without traditional liquidity pools.
This reduces slippage and avoids the vulnerabilities often associated with multi-chain bridging systems. More importantly, it ensures that a token launched elsewhere can be treated as a first-class asset on Solana as soon as it becomes available.
For MON, this means price discovery can take place immediately on Solana with consistent liquidity across the entire ecosystem.
Sunrise also aligns with a broader race between networks to become the primary home for onchain markets. Hyperliquid and Unit Protocol have attracted professional traders by offering low-latency central order books.
Meanwhile, Solana has grown through its high-throughput system and advanced automated market makers, which in some cases process more volume in SOL pairs than Binance.
Each environment has its advantages, and the competition centres on attracting early trading flows for major token launches.
Wormhole’s strategy is to secure the flow of new assets entering Solana before liquidity moves elsewhere.
By positioning Sunrise as the default gateway, Wormhole hopes to embed itself into Solana’s market structure and become the essential path for any new token that wants access to Solana’s trading activity. Sunrise will not be limited to crypto assets.
According to materials shared publicly, it plans to support tokenised commodities, stocks and real-world assets from institutional networks.
The timing is important. Interoperability protocols have grown rapidly as users increasingly move assets across high-throughput blockchains.
Capturing early liquidity can influence where users remain active. By ensuring MON arrives on Solana immediately, Sunrise aims to demonstrate that Solana can be part of the initial trading phase of major launches rather than a secondary venue.
Users can visit the Sunrise platform today to explore how the interface works and prepare ahead of MON going live tomorrow. Developers and liquidity providers can also review documentation for deeper integration.
The MON TGE serves as the first stress test of the system. Its success or failure will influence how widely Sunrise is adopted in the coming months.
Conclusion
The arrival of MON on Solana from the first day of trading is a notable step for the ecosystem and a significant test of Sunrise. Solana has long aimed to host a complete onchain market environment, and gaining access to external tokens at launch is an important part of that ambition.
By offering a unified route for MON to enter the network tomorrow, Sunrise provides a clearer way for Solana users to participate in early trading without leaving the ecosystem.
If trading activity is strong, it may mark the beginning of a more connected future for Solana as it works to host all forms of onchain finance under one roof.