Author: Jonas@Foresight Ventures
The large-scale adoption of Web3 has always been the focus of the market. For example, Solana chain wants to go viral through the social meme of the Blinks module, and Ton chain wants to go viral through telegram games. Currently, the market value of Ton public chain has entered the top 10, the number of telegram users has exceeded 900 million, and the ecological projects are thriving. Many TON ecological projects intend to adopt the marketing method of airdrops, providing many opportunities for community participants to make money.
1. Tonsquare:
Tonsquare is the EVM L2 chain of the Ton public chain, similar to Neon (market value of $600 million) to Solana and Aurora (market value of $200 million) to Near. The token TOS plans to airdrop 75% to node KEY holders, and the project party estimates that the market value of TOS is more than $50 million.
KEY is an NFT that represents a public chain operation node. After the node is activated, it can generate TOS tokens with a yield of about 350%. KEY's future income also includes cross-chain bridge fees and the Gas share of the new public chain. The generated TOS can also be pledged. The pledge will last for 6 months starting from the end of June 24, with a yield of about 300%.
The node KEY auction model is similar to the Gala node, which will continue to increase the price. The current price is in the second phase (a total of 15 phases), which is still in the early stages. If you hold more than 3 KEYs, you can also receive Tonsquare NFTs on the test network. You need to receive Gas in the EVM test network in advance before operating. The risk point is that KEY can only be bought but not sold.
二、Hamster Kombat：
Hamster Kombat is a Tap-to-Earn game made by a Russian team. Players can get coins by clicking on the hamster (CEO role of a simulated exchange) on the phone screen. Players are also encouraged to unlock more rewards through community interaction, and to increase passive income from mining by purchasing upgraded cards. Similar telegram click games include Notcoin (Russian team, 40 million users), Tapswap (Ukrainian team, 60 million users), Yescoin (Chinese team, 20 million users), HypeSaints, etc.
Hamster Kombat is very popular in third world countries, and there are also a large number of gold farming studios in China, with 200 million users. Considering that the market value of Notcoin, the first leading game in the Ton ecosystem, is 1.5 billion US dollars, and the market value of Hamster Kombat is unlikely to exceed 500 million US dollars, the airdrop amount for each account is expected to be small.
三、Pixelverse：
Pixelverse is a cyber-style battle game, where users train pet robots, click to fight (PVP and PVE modes), and adventure in different maps in the game center. Similar telegram battle games include Majyo Treasure (85% airdrop ratio). The founder is the former head of Binance Middle East coin listing. The token PIXFI plans to airdrop 25%. Interestingly, PIXFI is an ERC20 token instead of being issued on the TON chain. In the future, it will be a Cosmos-based EVM game public chain Pixelchain. Pixelverse currently has 30 million users (more than 5 million daily active users), which may be a big deal.
4. Pepe Wick:
Pepe Wick is a placement shooting game made by a Chinese team, similar to Plants vs. Zombies. The game requires constant spending of tokens to upgrade characters, and each character has a limited time limit, and can only be played for half an hour a day. There are also occasional collective BOSS battles, and there is a TON bonus pool for winning. However, the planned airdrop ratio of the token PEW is only 6%, which is probably not a big deal.
5. Mow:
Mow is a pixel-style shooting game. You shoot monsters to get coins to upgrade weapons. The main gameplay is to pass levels and PVP battles. It is highly playable. The project is still in the test version, and the specific airdrop plan has not yet been disclosed.
6. Catizen:
Catizen is a cat-raising game developed by a Chinese team. The gameplay is similar to Candy Crush. Users who run cat cafes can breed pets of various levels, collect their output, and then continue to breed higher-level pets. At the same time, they can pay to buy game props to accelerate the hatching of pets. In the future, they also plan to develop Launchpool, and will cooperate with more than 10 WeChat mini-games to launch them on the Catizen game platform. Staking tokens CATI can obtain new listing qualifications.
Catizen currently has 23 million users (more than 1.5 million daily active users), and 50% of them have become paying users. It has generated $12 million in revenue just three months after its launch (many gold-making studios have topped up). Although the Ton official foundation has invested, the data is a bit too good to be true? The token CATI plans to airdrop up to 42%, and it has the attributes of a new platform coin, and announced the airdrop in July.
7. Chick Coop:
Chick Coop is an idle farm game developed by a Chinese team. You can upgrade your chicken farm by selling eggs every day. It currently has 1.5 million users (300,000 daily active users). The token CHICK plans to airdrop 34%, and will also have NFT and staking mechanisms.
八、Travel Frog：
Travel Frog is a pet-raising game developed by a Chinese team. The frog travels and collects items. It is adapted from the game Travel Frog Chain in 2017. There are currently 20,000 users in the testing phase. The token FROG plans to airdrop 70% (Travel to Earn), but it will be carried out in four phases.
Other Ton ecosystems that may have airdrops in the future include the Blum exchange, Fanton football, Balaton.bet lottery, WGScoin turntable, Wowfish fishing, etc. I will not list them all here, but you can find them on the TGStat website growth rankings.
In summary, many small game developers in the Ton ecosystem come from the familiar Web2 world. Most of them are Chinese teams, and their main purpose may be to get rid of Ton users. Therefore, before investing in large-scale money-making, it is recommended to do careful research homework, as sharpening the knife does not delay chopping wood.