‘Catizen’ Studio Secures Funding as Telegram Game Hits 25 Million Players
The Open Platform (TOP), a distinguished developer in The Open Community (TON) blockchain ecosystem, introduced at the moment that it has made a strategic funding in Pluto Studio, the developer behind the rising Telegram-based crypto sport, Catizen.
Catizen has seen surging development alongside different main Telegram crypto video games, with Pluto additionally asserting on Monday that the sport has now attracted some 25 million gamers. Pluto declined to reveal the quantity of the funding.
The sport is constructed round easy puzzle matching mechanics, letting gamers merge and improve felines in a cat cafe, all within the hopes of incomes a bigger share of the upcoming token airdrop. Pluto additionally introduced Monday that it’s going to provide up 43% of the overall token provide through an airdrop to gamers, with the token set to launch on TON.
TOP is the developer behind the favored Pockets bot on Telegram, and likewise co-built Notcoin, the unique Telegram-based crypto sport that kick-started the development earlier this 12 months.
25 million meows and counting! 🎉 Cat Kingdom is in constructing!👑
Some progress of Catizen:
– 🌐 1.4 million on-chain gamers
– 🖇️ 19 million on-chain transactions
– ⭐️ 1.8 million Telegram Premium gamers
– 🏆 300K High League gamers ( Platinum League ~ Royal League)
– 💖… pic.twitter.com/s2wKKcM2kK— Catizen (@CatizenAI) July 15, 2024
“The Catizen group has launched probably the most profitable social video games within the Telegram mini apps ecosystem so far. Their modern strategy is setting a brand new commonplace for 1000’s of builders,” stated The Open Platform founder and CEO Andrew Rogozov, in a launch. He added that “they’re shaping the way forward for gaming on Telegram.”
Pluto Studio goals to develop Catizen into an consideration economic system hub, constantly releasing extra mini-games by way of its ecosystem platform. That is much like how Notcoin plans to develop following its Could token launch, with Notcoin co-creator Sasha Plotvinov telling Decrypt’s GG that they need to create the “Netflix of social, viral video games.”
TOP additionally introduced a separate funding on Monday into Akedo Video games, a studio that features builders who’ve labored on such video games as League of Legends and PUBG Cellular. Akedo Video games is engaged on a digital pet sport for Telegram that can let gamers accumulate, nurture, and battle an “AkeDog.”
Editor’s be aware: This text was written with the help of AI. Edited and fact-checked by Andrew Hayward.
