Monad boosts incentives for Agora AUSD to $75K per week
Monad is now paying $75,000 per week to incentivize liquidity for Agora’s AUSD stablecoin on its network. The boosted incentives, visible on Pendle Finance, represent a meaningful escalation in the chain’s effort to become a serious DeFi destination.
Why AUSD, and why now
Agora’s AUSD is backed 1:1 by US dollars, with reserves held in cash and US Treasury bills. VanEck manages those reserves. Agora raised $50 million in a Series A funding round in July 2025, with Paradigm leading the deal.
The AUSD pool on Pendle carries an October 8, 2026 maturity date, giving liquidity providers a defined window to earn yields. Monad allocated $15 million in incentives alongside the launch of Aave V3 on the network around July 2, 2026. That Aave deployment attracted over $75 million in deposits within its first 24 hours.
Monad’s infrastructure play
The network targets 10,000 transactions per second with 400-millisecond block times and 800-millisecond finality. The chain launched its mainnet and native MON token on November 24, 2025. Full EVM compatibility means developers don’t need to learn new tooling or rewrite contracts to deploy on Monad.
What this means for investors
The $75,000 weekly incentive pool creates an obvious opportunity for yield-seekers. The October 2026 expiry on the AUSD Pendle pool creates a natural inflection point. The $75 million that flowed into Aave within 24 hours of its Monad launch is an encouraging data point, but incentive programs are temporary by nature, and the real question is whether AUSD liquidity on Monad remains sticky after the subsidies eventually taper off.
Disclaimer: The content of this article solely reflects the author's opinion and does not represent the platform in any capacity. This article is not intended to serve as a reference for making investment decisions.
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