Common Telegram tap-to-earn recreation TapSwap revealed it’s going to 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 turn out to be a essential useful resource within the TapSwap ecosystem, the builders mentioned, granting holders entry to tournaments, staking rewards, and governance participation.
Whether or not or not a participant receives the TAPS airdrop will probably be decided by the participant’s total 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 developed. In August, the sport added a metropolis builder mode known as “Tappy Town,” and achievements accrued by means 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 traditional pay-to-win models behind,” a consultant for the sport advised 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 yr, led by well-liked mini apps and video games like Hamster Kombat and Notcoin. Notcoin famously dropped greater than 35 million gamers over 80 billion tokens earlier this yr, 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 undertaking in 2020 beneath regulatory scrutiny, main a group of exterior builders to proceed constructing the ecosystem.
Its native token, Toncoin (TON), has risen practically 200% within the final yr, pushing it to greater than a $16 billion market cap. That’s made it the Sixteenth-largest crypto asset by market capitalization, in line with CoinGecko.
Edited by Andrew Hayward