What major projects are scheduled to launch their tokens later this year?

During the past National Day holiday, the meme coin market on the BSC chain was booming. With such lively market activity even during the long holiday, it’s no wonder everyone is eager for the next market moves. So, which upcoming token launches can we look forward to, allowing us to participate with more capital in the subsequent market trends?

BlockBeats has compiled a list of upcoming token launches for you.

Meteora

On September 30, the Solana ecosystem liquidity protocol Meteora announced on social media that the project will conduct its TGE on October 23, with the token named MET.

On October 8, Meteora released the MET tokenomics, stating that 48% of the total supply will be in circulation at TGE. According to Meteora’s plan, 20% of the tokens will be allocated to Mercurial stakers, 15% to Meteora users (via the LP incentive program), 3% to Launchpads and Launchpool ecosystem, 2% to off-chain contributors, 3% to the Jupiter staking incentive program, 3% to centralized exchanges and market makers, and 2% to M3M3 stakers. Of the remaining portion, 18% will go to the team with a 6-year linear vesting, and 34% to Meteora reserves, also with a 6-year linear vesting.

Monad

On October 9, Monad tweeted that the airdrop claim portal will open on October 14 (Tuesday).

Currently, the Monad token $MON is priced at about $0.13 in Hyperliquid’s pre-market contracts. On September 11, Monad co-founder Keone Hon stated on X that “the initial total supply of Monad’s native on-chain gas token is 100 billion.”

On April 9, 2024, according to Fortune magazine, Layer 1 blockchain Monad Labs completed a $225 million funding round, led by Paradigm, with participation from IOSG Ventures, SevenX Ventures, Electric Capital, and Greenoaks, among others.

Abstract

In May this year, Pudgy Penguins CEO Luca Netz hinted during a livestream that the Layer 2 network Abstract Chain might conduct its TGE before the end of the year. “Before the end of the year means September, October, November, December, so users still have at least three months.”

Abstract was formerly known as Flame. After being acquired by Pudgy Penguins’ parent company Igloo, and following the great success of Pudgy Penguins’ token $PENGU, NFT players and the broader market have been eagerly anticipating this new chain.

Pharos

In an early October community AMA, Pharos officials revealed plans to conduct TGE in the first quarter of next year.

Pharos is an RWA Layer 1 public chain with an “Ant Group” background. CEO Alex Zhang was previously CEO of Ant Group’s Web3 technology company @zan_team, and also served as CTO of AntChain. CTO Wish Wu was previously CSO (Chief Security Officer) of Ant Group’s Web3 technology company @zan_team.

On November 9, 2024, Pharos announced the completion of an $8 million seed round, with participation from Faction, Hack VC, SNZ Holding, Reforge, Dispersion Capital, Hash Global, Generative Ventures, Legend Star, MH Ventures, Zion, and Chorus One Ventures.

On September 1 this year, Yunfeng Financial Group announced a strategic cooperation agreement with Ant Digital Technologies; at the same time, the group made a strategic investment in Pharos. Both parties will use the high-performance Pharos public chain platform to jointly and compliantly expand into real-world asset (RWA) tokenization and Web3 frontier areas.

OpenSea

As the former king of the NFT marketplace, OpenSea is finally launching its token.

On September 9, OpenSea CMO Adam Hollander revealed in an article on Twitter that the OpenSea Foundation will announce specific details of the TGE in early October.

MetaMask

Like OpenSea, MetaMask, once the king of the wallet track, is also finally launching its token.

On October 9, MetaMask announced the launch of perpetual contract trading, and the MetaMask rewards program will start at the end of October. MetaMask is introducing a points system and tiered rewards to incentivize on-chain trading activity. Users can earn points for each token swap and perpetual contract trade, and can also earn points by referring others. In the future, users will also be able to earn points by spending with the MetaMask card or holding mUSD, expanding rewards across the entire ecosystem. The rewards program will run in three-month seasons, offering over $30 million in LINEA tokens, perpetual contract fee discounts, points multipliers, and other rewards.

The first season offers bonuses for swaps on the Linea network, as well as swaps and bridging via MetaMask Mobile. Points can be accumulated for future seasons, which will offer more exclusive benefits, including the upcoming MetaMask token.

Rainbow

On September 23, according to official sources, the Web3 mobile wallet Rainbow announced it will issue the RNBW token in Q4, with specific airdrop and allocation details to be announced later on the official Twitter account.

Football.Fun

On October 9, according to official news from the Base chain sports prediction app Football.Fun, its parent company Sport.Fun will launch the $FUN token in Q4 and is expected to conduct an airdrop in Q4. The token will enjoy a share of the company’s prediction market revenue.

Additionally, the platform plans to expand its products to basketball and rugby markets.

Limitless

On July 1, according to Cointelegraph, the Base chain prediction market Limitless completed a $4 million strategic round, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, 1confirmation, Maelstrom, Collider, Node Capital, Paper Ventures, Public Works, Punk DAO, and WAGMI Ventures.

Limitless previously completed a $3 million seed round, bringing total funding to $7 million. The new funds are intended to prepare for the upcoming TGE.

The project’s latest points campaign will end in January next year, and there is a chance that TGE will take place in the first quarter of next year.

Lighter

On October 2, according to official news, Perp DEX Lighter announced the official launch of its mainnet based on Ethereum L2, fully opening after eight months of private testing. The first season points program has ended, and the second season will continue until the end of 2025.

Currently, on Polymarket, the probability that “Lighter will issue a token before 11:59 PM EST on December 31, 2025” is 84%.

Grvt

On October 8, the decentralized perpetual contract trading platform Grvt stated on social media that the first season airdrop check is now live, and users can view the allocation ratio of the airdrop. Early users and active contributors in the first season were especially rewarded.

The second season airdrop campaign is still ongoing, and TGE is expected to launch in the first quarter of 2026.

On September 19, Grvt announced the completion of a $19 million Series A round, led by ZKsync and Further Ventures, with participation from EigenCloud and 500 Global.