aPriori — is an MEV platform for liquid staking on the Monad blockchain, allowing users to stake MON and earn rewards. The project was launched in 2023 by former quantitative traders and engineers from Coinbase, Jump Trading, and Citadel Securities. It raised $30 million in funding from Pantera Capital, ConsenSys, OKX Ventures, HashKey Capital, and others.
Large holders (Whales)
According to blockchain explorers, the top 10 APR holders control the vast majority of the supply:
Place Quantity of APR Cost (note)
1 481,72M ~$92,3M
2 160M ~$30,7M
3 136,75M ~$26,2M
4 104,5M ~$20M
5 32,84M ~$6,3M
6-10 out of 12,5 to 4,5M from $2,4 to $0,96M
Total number of holders — about 501 on Ethereum and 274 on BSC.
Airdrop scandal and centralization
In November 2025, the analytics platform Bubblemaps found that about 60% of the tokens from the airdrop (12% of the total supply) were received by one organization controlling ~14,000 interconnected wallets.
The scheme looked like this:
1. All wallets received exactly 0,001 BNB from major exchanges
2. At the same time, they submitted applications for the airdrop
3. Immediately after receiving it, they transferred APR to new wallets
One of the final addresses accumulated 1,2M APR (~8% of the entire airdrop). After that, the APR price fell from $0,35 to $0,18, and market capitalization dropped by ~$50M.
The aPriori team initially disappeared from communications, but later stated that it found no evidence of the team or the foundation being involved in this activity.
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📊 Current trading data (APRUSDT)
As of August 12, 2026 (Binance Futures data):
· Price: ~$0,4305
· Growth over 24h: +114,6%
· Maximum per 24h: $0,4478 / minimum: $0,1991
· 24h volume: 1,52B APR ($549M USDT)
· Open interest (Bybit): 10,32M APR
The APRUSDT contract is traded on Binance, Bybit, OKX, Bitget, and KuCoin with a maximum leverage of 50x and a funding rate every 4 hours.
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⚡ Main risks
1. High centralization — the top-4 wallets control ~88% of all APR
2. A scandalous airdrop story — undermines trust in the project
3. High volatility — over a day, the price can change by dozens of percent
4. Token in an innovation zone — exchanges warn of elevated risks
For further analysis, I recommend tracking fund movements from the top wallets via Etherscan (contract 0x5A9610919f5e81183823A2be4Bd1BeB2B4da2a20) and BscScan (0x894a2b36f8c694099146cfaf3285aa2cb13f8396
