Our Story
Our Story
“Once upon a time, two brothers looked at the sky and saw more than just clouds.”
In 2022, a small group of Web3 builders came together with a shared vision: effectively removing the limitations of scalability, interoperability and security to expand capabilities and use-cases of Web3 applications. To accomplish this goal, we formed a team of devs and content creators who shared our vision and called the protocol/project Muon, the most basic building blocks of the universe. The name implies Muon protocol aims to be the basic building block of the Web3 Ecosystem.
Development History
To achieve this goal, a POA network was established in 2022, which led to the launch of a Testnet – aka ALICE – in January 2023, with over 1,500 uniquely verified nodes. After nine months of successful operation, passing an audit with a high score of 9.4/10, we launched Pion – our Canary network – with a tradable token and 1,000+ nodes. It ran smoothly for nearly a year and a half until the launch of Muon/$MUON in April 2025.
On April 9, 2025 Muon protocol and its native token -MUON - were launched. To determine the conditions and metrics of migration from Pion to Muon, a snapshot vote was held for the community prior to the launch. The results of the vote defined how the migration would take place including the vesting/staking plan and metrics.
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