According to ChainCatcher news reported by The Defiant, Hyperliquid has sparked controversy for unilaterally changing the Token symbol. The gaming project Pixelmon purchased the MON Token symbol for nearly $500,000 earlier this year through Hyperliquid's permissionless auction feature, but the symbol has now been replaced by Monad's MON Token. In the Hyperliquid front-end interface, Pixelmon's MON has been changed to MONPRO, while Monad has become the default MON as a token deployed by the leading tokenization layer Unit. Although the block explorer shows that Pixelmon technically still holds the MON symbol (Monad as UMON), Hyperliquid.