Pavel Durov called Notcoin an “amazing success story” and received $7 million in NOT.

But this is not payment for mentioning 😄. These are the same 1,030,383,291.36 NOT that were presented to Durov by the players. February promotion, in which 552,586 players sent him 1,030,383,291,362 game coins. At the same time, as stated, 203,303 players donated all their coins. The team eventually said they would return the coins to all those who donated, doubling them.

Durov noted in his post that the project had collected more than 35 million active users in a few months and separately emphasized the successes on the day of listings:

“... Notcoin instantly entered the top 10 cryptocurrencies by trading volume, and its market capitalization reached almost $700 million. Imagine - hundreds of millions of dollars in value were created for Telegram users in this mini-app out of nowhere in a matter of months. This amazing success story shows how powerful the Telegram/TON ecosystems are for app developers... We are now seeing a big wave of new mini-apps being built on top of Telegram and TON. Notcoin, the leader of the group, has used its mighty paws to pave the way for many future applications.»

Of course, nothing is said about the negative experience in the drop and listing (freezing custodial crypto wallet, returning funds from Binance back to the gaming application, crashes in the gaming application even after a day). But if in the end everyone gets their coins and can sell them at the desired price, all this is not fatal. The drop and the project, whatever one may say, is unprecedented.