Wormhole Bridged WETH (Monad) wallet

What is Wormhole Bridged WETH (Monad) (WETH)?

On most EVM chains, WETH means the local wrapper around that chain's own ether. On Monad it means something else, and the difference is worth holding in your head.

This token is ether that Wormhole carried across. The real ETH sits locked in the bridge's contract on Ethereum, and what circulates on Monad is an ERC-20 minted against it. The ticker is borrowed, the accounting is a bridge's. Your claim on ether therefore runs through Wormhole, and the only way back to ether on Ethereum is through that same bridge - sending this token to an Ethereum address does nothing useful, even though the address format is identical.

While it stays on Monad it behaves like any token there: transferable, usable by contracts, and moved with transactions paid in MON, the chain's native coin. Nothing about holding ether in this form lets you pay fees with it.

One naming caution. If a wrapper around some native gas coin also appears on Monad, or a second bridge issues its own ether token, they will all be called WETH in a list. The issuer, not the symbol, tells you what you have.

Supported networks in Tangem (1): Monad.

Because every move needs MON, the gas coin and the bridged ether belong in the same wallet, which is how Tangem keeps them - and signing is a tap of the card against the phone, so there is no device to charge before you can spend a few cents of gas. For a token on a chain you will be transacting on rather than parking, that is a practical way to keep it.