Author: Weizhi, BlockBeats
NOT is undoubtedly the focus of the recent crypto market. After being listed on Binance and falling for more than ten days, NOT started the "violent pull-up" mode. In just one week, NOT's highest increase exceeded 400%. The day before yesterday, NOT's 24-hour total network transaction volume reached 4.646 billion US dollars, ranking fourth in the total network transaction volume after Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDT.
The outbreak of NOT is inseparable from the crypto market's expectations for the TON ecosystem. After NOT, other projects in the TON ecosystem have also received a lot of overflow attention. Last month, the TON Foundation announced on its official blog a list of 14 funded projects approved from March to April, covering areas such as social networking, games, and DeFi. However, after NOT soared several times, some of the projects on this list were no longer updated.
What are the projects still active in the TON ecosystem? BlockBeats will introduce 9 projects worth paying attention to and interacting with in this article.
Games
Catizen
Catizen is a product of Pluto Studio. Catizen ranks first in Telegram Apps Center (T Apps Center), the official app store of TON ecosystem, with its unique game mode and wide user participation. In addition, Catizen has also opened the Launchpool mode, allowing players to obtain in-game points $wCATI by staking game assets.
Pluto is a studio focusing on publishing Web 3.0 mini-games. It started to lay out in the Telegram x TON blockchain ecosystem as early as a year ago. As an early development team and co-builder in the ecosystem, the Pluto team has received multiple financial and resource support from the TON Foundation. Catizen is a new mini-game center platform created by Pluto Studio based on the experience of Tap Fantasy, a TON ecosystem GameFi project previously incubated. The project team drew on the experience of developing Tap Fantasy and optimized the relevant processes, so that Catizen has a more complete economic model and high-quality community user experience.
It is worth noting that Catizen announced on May 18 that it supports the Notcoin (NOT) payment method in the game, and users can choose TON or NOT when paying. Catizen will also launch a new social gameplay - SPIN on June 5, where users can get fish coins and xZEN with the help of friends or new players. xZEN is the social score in Catizen, similar to wCATI points, and is a reference factor affecting the airdrop of Catizen's governance token $CATI.
As of writing, Catizen's Twitter account has 1.25 million followers and the tg channel has over 2.8 million subscribers.
Hamster Kombat
Hamster Kombat is a Telegram-based clicker game that allows players to earn tokens by clicking, and also functions as a crypto trading simulator. In the game, players play the role of a CEO of a cryptocurrency exchange, earn tokens by clicking, and then use these tokens to buy upgrades for the exchange to expand their exchange empire. Since its launch in March, the game has accumulated more than 60 million users. Hamster Kombat is comparable to Catizen in terms of attention and is another popular crypto game after Notcoin.
Hamster Kombat has announced that it will airdrop tokens on the TON blockchain to reward players who accumulate in-game tokens. It is worth noting that Hamster Kombat pays great attention to community operations. Its YouTube channel has been established for less than two weeks and has released more than 20 videos, each of which has been played more than 250,000 times. The content is all about hamsters broadcasting important blockchain news and market trends.
As of writing, Hamster Kombat's Twitter account has 5 million followers, and the tg channel has over 25 million followers.
TON Punks
TON Punks is an NFT collection project based on the TON blockchain, consisting of 5149 unique NFTs. The project aims to create a Play2 Earn ecosystem based on Telegram robots and the TON blockchain. The TON Punks ecosystem consists of three main pillars: Punk Token, DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) and Chatbots.
Punk Token is a fungible token on the TON blockchain, designed to be the best solution for P2E (Play2Earn) and community projects. It will allow staking with TON PUNK S NFTs. The DAO is designed to manage funds using $PUNK tokens. The ticket to enter the DAO is the TON PUNK NFT. Chatbots are a Play2Earn mechanism based on Telegram robots, designed to promote $PUNK tokens.
The project's roadmap includes several phases, such as the minting of NFTs, game releases, token economy vision and token launch, staking launch, DAO and treasury establishment, and the first game funded and released through DAO voting. Team members include Krokodealer (full-time engineer), George Lozovsky (crypto enthusiast since 2014, with 5+ years of experience in launching projects in the Telegram ecosystem), Kusok Pesok (artist), and Paket (robot enthusiast).
As of writing, TON Punks’ Twitter account has over 210,000 followers.
Tapswap
Tapswap is a mining game similar to Notcoin, which is similar to Tap2 Earn. You can enter the game bot and click on the screen to get game coins. The popularity of NOT has also brought a lot of heat to Tapswap. A week ago, the official announced that the total number of its players exceeded 28 million. However, according to the game interface today, the total number of Tapswap players has reached 40 million, and the number of daily users is 17.9 million.
Recently, Tapswap announced that the original launch of the liquidity pool will be postponed to July 1. This decision was made because the team found that some robots took advantage of system loopholes to obtain abnormally high shares during the preparation process. In order to ensure fairness for all participants, the TapSwap team decided to postpone the launch to allow enough time to resolve this issue.
As of writing, Tapswap’s Twitter account has 4.8 million followers, and its tg channel has over 18 million followers.
Yescoin
After Notcoin became popular, other interactive games in the TON ecosystem also received a lot of attention. Yescoin is a casual interactive game based on Telegram. Its interactive mode is "Swipe-To-Earn". Players can get gold coins by sliding the screen. In addition, players can also form a team to invite more friends to participate in the game, and obtain on-chain and off-chain incentives through YesPac, Yesbox and other game elements.
It is worth noting that the Yescoin project won an award in the TON Ecosystem Season 3 Open League and received multiple interactions from TON and Telegram officials. According to the Yescoin team, the total number of players exceeded 11 million one month after the game was launched, covering more than 200 countries and regions. After the wallet linking activity was launched, more than 200,000 users completed the link within an hour.
As of writing, Yescoin’s Twitter account has 2.2 million followers, and its tg channel has over 4.58 million followers.
other categories
Ston.fi
Ston.fi is a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) platform built on the TON blockchain. It provides trading services with almost zero fees, low slippage, and direct integration with the TON wallet. The platform was developed by TOP Labs and is said to have reached a partnership with 1inch, a major exchange on Ethereum.
As of writing, Ston.fi's Twitter account has 100,000 followers, and its tg channel has over 300,000 followers.
Moons.so
Moons.so is a SocialFi platform built on the TON blockchain. Designed for Telegram users, it provides a social platform where users can join different organizations and communities, freely discuss topics and news, and play games. Moons.so will launch the platform token MOON, and users can obtain MOON tokens by participating in community activities, such as joining communities, discussing topics, and completing tasks.
In addition, Moons.so provides a portal to other small games, and users who participate in these games can also receive MOON tokens and tokens of other projects as rewards.
As of writing, Moons . so's Twitter account has 70,000 followers.
XPLUS
XPLUS is the first TradingGameFi in the TON ecosystem. It has won the TON HackHouse championship. XPLUS aims to provide a platform for Web2 users to learn Web3 concepts in an entertaining way. XPLUS is currently conducting a bounty competition.
As of writing, XPLUS’ Twitter account has 70,000 followers.
TonGifts
TonGifts is a social red envelope application in the TON ecosystem. According to the search results, TonGifts allows users to send unique NFTs (non-fungible tokens) generated by the TON blockchain as gifts within the Telegram application. Users can send gifts in a few simple steps in Telegram through the TonGifts bot, and every time a friend accepts a gift, the giver will automatically participate in a lottery and have a chance to win back the TON coins sent. In addition, TonGifts also supports sending USDT red envelopes.
As of writing, TonGifts’ Twitter account has 270,000 followers.
