Turning a parallel-EVM thesis into the loudest pre-mainnet movement.
We built the Nads — a 280k+ community of developers, traders, and degens who genuinely believed before a single mainnet block was produced.
Six well-funded competitors were chasing the same parallel-execution narrative. Most had earlier shipping dates and louder VCs.
Monad had real tech but a dangerously quiet founder. We needed culture to outpace press releases.
How we ran it.
Identity engineering
Created the 'Nads' identity, the purple visual system, and a meme economy that the community now self-publishes daily without prompting.
DevRel as marketing
Treated every workshop, RPC tweet, and hackathon as the top of the funnel. 9,200 developers deployed to testnet within 5 months.
Regional anchors
Stood up 11 regional Nads chapters (KR / TR / VN / BR / CN). Each runs its own weekly Spaces in local language.
Earned media discipline
Said no to 80% of inbound press to protect timing. Saved the heavy beats for testnet launch and partnership reveals.
What it shipped.
"They built us a culture, not a campaign. The Nads exist because Growth3 Labs understood that conviction compounds — and refused every shortcut that would have cheapened it."
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