NOT has undoubtedly been a focal point in the recent crypto market. After its listing on Binance and a ten-day downtrend, NOT entered a "frenzied pump" mode, achieving a maximum surge of over 400% within a week. Recently, NOT’s 24-hour trading volume reached $4.646 billion, ranking fourth in global trading volume, only behind Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDT.
The explosive growth of NOT is fueled by the crypto market’s expectations for the TON ecosystem. After NOT’s surge, other projects within the TON ecosystem have also garnered significant attention. Last month, the TON Foundation announced a list of 14 funded projects approved between March and April, covering areas such as social media, gaming, and DeFi. However, after NOT’s substantial increase, some projects on this list have ceased updating.
Which projects in the TON ecosystem are still active? This article by BlockBeats introduces nine noteworthy projects.
Games
Catizen
Catizen is a product of Pluto Studio. Known for its unique gameplay and extensive user participation, Catizen tops the leaderboard in the TON ecosystem’s official app store, Telegram Apps Center (TApps Center). Additionally, Catizen has launched a Launchpool mode, allowing players to earn in-game points ($wCATI) by staking game assets.
Pluto Studio specializes in publishing mini-games for Web 3.0 and began its involvement in the Telegram x TON blockchain ecosystem over a year ago. As an early developer and contributor within the ecosystem, Pluto has received significant financial and resource support from the TON Foundation. Catizen is a new mini-game hub platform developed based on the experience of their previous TON ecosystem GameFi project, Tap Fantasy. Drawing on their experience from Tap Fantasy, the project team optimized processes, resulting in an improved economic model and better user experience for Catizen’s community.
Notably, on May 18, Catizen announced support for Notcoin (NOT) as a payment method within the game, allowing users to choose between TON or NOT for transactions. Catizen will also introduce a new social feature called SPIN on June 5, where users can earn Fish Coins and xZEN with help from friends or new players. xZEN is a social score in Catizen, similar to $wCATI, both of which influence the distribution of Catizen governance token $CATI airdrops.
As of writing, Catizen’s Twitter account has 1.25 million followers, and its Telegram channel has over 2.8 million subscribers.
Hamster Kombat
Hamster Kombat is a Telegram-based clicker game where players earn tokens through clicks, doubling as a crypto trading simulator. In the game, players act as the CEO of a cryptocurrency exchange, earning tokens by clicking and using these tokens to upgrade the exchange and expand their empire. Since its launch in March, Hamster Kombat has amassed over 60 million users. Matching the popularity of Catizen, Hamster Kombat is another hit crypto game following Notcoin.
Hamster Kombat has announced a token airdrop on the TON blockchain to reward players who accumulate in-game tokens. The game emphasizes community engagement, with its YouTube channel releasing over 20 videos in less than two weeks, each garnering over 250,000 views. The content features hamster avatars reporting on significant blockchain news and market trends.
As of writing, Hamster Kombat’s Twitter account has 5 million followers, and its Telegram channel has over 25 million subscribers.
TON Punks
TON Punks is an NFT collection project on the TON blockchain consisting of 5,149 unique NFTs. The project aims to establish a Play2Earn ecosystem based on Telegram bots and the TON blockchain. TON Punks’ ecosystem comprises three main pillars: Punk Token, DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization), and Chatbots.
Punk Token, a fungible token on the TON blockchain, aims to be the best solution for P2E and community projects, allowing staking alongside TON PUNKS NFTs. The DAO uses $PUNK tokens for fund management, with access granted through TON PUNK NFTs. The Chatbots feature Play2Earn mechanisms based on Telegram bots, promoting the $PUNK token.
The project’s roadmap includes several phases such as NFT minting, game releases, token economy vision and launch, staking initiation, DAO and treasury establishment, and the funding and release of the first game through DAO voting. Team members include Krokodealer (full-time engineer), George Lozovsky (crypto enthusiast since 2014, with over five years of experience launching projects in the Telegram ecosystem), Kusok Pesok (artist), and Paket (bot enthusiast).
As of writing, TON Punks’ Twitter account has over 210,000 followers.
Tapswap
Tapswap is a Tap2Earn mining game similar to Notcoin, where users can earn game coins by tapping the screen in the game bot. Notcoin’s success has brought significant attention to Tapswap. A week ago, the official announcement reported that the game had surpassed 28 million users, and now it has reached 40 million users, with 17.9 million daily active users.
Recently, Tapswap announced a delay in the release of its liquidity pool to July 1. This decision was due to the discovery of bots exploiting system vulnerabilities to gain an unusually high share. To ensure fairness for all participants, the TapSwap team decided to postpone the launch to address these issues.
As of writing, Tapswap’s Twitter account has 4.8 million followers, and its Telegram channel has over 18 million subscribers.
Yescoin Following Notcoin’s success, other clicker interaction games in the TON ecosystem have gained attention. Yescoin is a casual interaction game based on Telegram, where players earn coin rewards by swiping the screen in its "Swipe-To-Earn" model. Additionally, players can form teams and invite friends to join the game, earning on-chain and off-chain rewards through elements like YesPac and Yesbox.
Notably, Yescoin won an award in the TON ecosystem’s third season public league and received multiple interactions from TON and Telegram officials. According to the Yescoin team, the game surpassed 11 million users within a month of launch, covering over 200 countries and regions. Following the launch of its wallet linking event, over 200,000 users completed the link within an hour.
As of writing, Yescoin’s Twitter account has 2.2 million followers, and its Telegram channel has over 4.58 million subscribers.
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Ston.fi
Ston.fi is a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) platform built on the TON blockchain, offering near-zero fees and low slippage trading services, integrated directly with TON wallets. Developed by TOP Labs, the platform claims to have partnered with leading Ethereum-based exchange 1inch.
As of writing, Ston.fi’s Twitter account has 100,000 followers, and its Telegram channel has over 300,000 subscribers.
Moons.so Moons.so is a SocialFi platform built on the TON blockchain, designed for Telegram users. It offers 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, which users can earn by participating in community activities such as joining communities, discussing topics, and completing tasks.
Additionally, Moons.so provides a portal for other mini-games, where users can also earn MOON tokens and tokens from 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 and has won the TONHackHouse championship. XPLUS aims to provide a platform for Web2 users to learn Web3 concepts through entertaining means. XPLUS is currently conducting bounty competitions.
As of writing, XPLUS’s Twitter account has 70,000 followers.
TonGifts
TonGifts is a social red packet application in the TON ecosystem. According to search results, TonGifts allows users to send unique NFTs generated by the TON blockchain as gifts within the Telegram app. Users can send gifts through the TonGifts bot in a few simple steps, and each time a friend accepts a gift, the sender automatically enters a draw for a chance to win back the TON coins sent. Additionally, TonGifts supports sending USDT red packets.
As of writing, TonGifts’s Twitter account has 270,000 followers.
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