Telegram Game ‘TapSwap’ Sets Token Launch and Airdrop for January
Well-liked Telegram tap-to-earn recreation TapSwap revealed it’ll launch its TAPS token on The Open Community (TON) alongside an airdrop of rewards for gamers within the second half of January 2025.
TAPS will grow to be a essential useful resource within the TapSwap ecosystem, the builders stated, granting holders entry to tournaments, staking rewards, and governance participation.
Whether or not or not a participant receives the TAPS airdrop will likely be decided by the participant’s general engagement inside TapSwap—in different phrases, how usually a participant interacted inside TapSwap or performed the sport. Customers might want to join their pockets to obtain the airdrop.
What began as a tap-to-earn recreation on Telegram, by which customers repeatedly faucet a button on the display screen to earn in-game cash, has since advanced. In August, the sport added a metropolis builder mode referred to as “Tappy City,” and achievements accrued by way of that have will even have an effect on the chance of receiving a TAPS airdrop.
Alongside the airdrop, the sport’s evolution is predicted to proceed. TapSwap is transitioning right into a skill-based platform, providing aggressive tournaments to gamers and “leaving conventional pay-to-win fashions behind,” a consultant for the sport informed Decrypt.
The platform has amassed greater than 50 million customers globally since its launch in February.
Telegram gaming and participation on The Open Community has blossomed this 12 months, led by in style mini apps and video games like Hamster Kombat and Notcoin. Notcoin famously dropped greater than 35 million gamers over 80 billion tokens earlier this 12 months, gaining listings from Binance and OKX within the course of.
The Open Community is a layer-1 community created by Nikolai and Pavel Durov, the co-founders of messaging app Telegram. Whereas improvement started internally, the corporate dropped the mission in 2020 beneath regulatory scrutiny, main a group of exterior builders to proceed constructing the ecosystem.
Its native token, Toncoin (TON), has risen almost 200% within the final 12 months, pushing it to greater than a $16 billion market cap. That’s made it the Sixteenth-largest crypto asset by market capitalization, based on CoinGecko.
Edited by Andrew Hayward
