Odaily Planet Daily News: The news that the popular mobile game Flappy Bird in 2013 will return on Telegram as a GameFi version has been strongly opposed by the gaming community, so much so that the original developer of the game, Dong Nguyen, spoke on social media for the first time in 7 years to distance himself from the project. But the foundation that led the work believes that it is unfair to characterize it as a GameFi scammer, and its mission is to protect and promote the Flappy Bird game and community heritage. The Flappy Bird Foundation is a team of passionate fans of Flappy Bird. "We have been thinking about it since the game was removed from the store in 2014," the organization said in an emailed statement. They explained that the trademark for Flappy Bird was abandoned after the game was removed from the shelves, and the foundation applied to restore the trademark. In 2018, a company called Mobile Media Partners acquired the trademark, which was subsequently acquired by Gametech Holdings, LLC in 2021, and the foundation acquired the trademark from the latter in August 2024. The foundation said its role is "the manager of the Flappy Bird IP and ecosystem." It also said it would bring in Kek, the developer of "Piou Piou vs Cactus (a game similar to Flappy Bird)", and secure the copyright of the game. Flappy Bird is now available as a TON mini-game on Telegram, and is expected to launch a token soon. (CoinDesk) Earlier, last week, the Flappy Bird Foundation announced that the mobile game "Flappy Bird" is about to return. However, Dong Nguyen, the original developer of Flappy Bird, did not say that this was a return, and said that he was not involved in it at all and had no connection with the game. Nguyen posted on X (his first post since 2017) that he did not "sell anything and does not support cryptocurrency."