X Empire, an Elon Musk-themed tap-to-earn game, has attracted more than 50 million players in the past few months. On Friday, the project announced that it will launch its X token on The Open Network and airdrop it to players on October 24.
The token launch was briefly delayed, as X Empire ended its “mining phase” on September 30 before the airdrop took place. Two days later, the developers announced that they had encountered some unexpected delays and would be holding a short “chill phase” to retain users.
The “chill phase” season will reset player progress to zero, and the X Empire team has decided to allocate an additional 5% of the token supply to reward those who continue to participate throughout this season.
In total, between the two phases, 75% of the total supply of X tokens will be distributed to players, equivalent to 517.5 billion tokens out of a total of 690 billion tokens. The remaining tokens will be reserved for new users and subsequent phases after the airdrop, highlighting the plan to sustain the game after the token launch.
X Empire was originally launched as “Musk Empire,” where players would tap the screen to earn coins, which they could then use to upgrade the attributes of their Elon Musk-like cartoon character. The game was renamed after a few weeks and gradually introduced characters based on other famous crypto icons, such as Telegram CEO Pavel Durov and Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin.
