What other hidden opportunities are there in the TON ecosystem after NOT?

Author: Wei Zhi, BlockBeats

NOT has undoubtedly become the focus of the crypto market recently. After being listed on Binance and experiencing a continuous decline for more than ten days, NOT entered a "frenzied pump" mode, with a maximum increase of over 400% in just one week. The day before yesterday, NOT's 24-hour trading volume reached $4.646 billion, ranking fourth in total trading volume, only behind Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDT.

The explosion of NOT is closely related to the crypto market's expectations for the TON ecosystem. Following NOT, other projects in the TON ecosystem have also gained significant attention. Last month, the TON Foundation announced a list of 14 funded projects approved from March to April on its official blog, covering areas such as social, gaming, and DeFi. However, after NOT surged several times, some projects on this list have not updated their dynamics.

What other active projects are there in the TON ecosystem? This article will introduce 9 projects worth paying attention to and interacting with.

Gaming

Catizen

Catizen is a product under Pluto Studio. With its unique gaming model and extensive user participation, Catizen ranks first in the TON ecosystem's official app store, the Telegram Apps Center (T Apps Center). Additionally, Catizen has launched a Launchpool mode, allowing players to earn in-game points $wCATI by staking game assets.

Pluto is a studio focused on the distribution of Web 3.0 mini-games, having started its layout in the Telegram x TON blockchain ecosystem over a year ago. As an early development team and co-builder in the ecosystem, the Pluto team has received multiple economic and resource supports from the TON Foundation. Catizen is a brand new mini-game center platform built based on the experience of the previously incubated TON ecosystem GameFi project Tap Fantasy. The project team has optimized relevant processes by drawing on the experience of developing Tap Fantasy, resulting in a more refined economic model and high-quality community user experience.

Notably, Catizen announced on May 18 that it supports Notcoin (NOT) as a payment method in the game, allowing users to choose between TON or NOT during payment. Catizen will also launch a new social gameplay called SPIN on June 5, where users can earn fish coins and xZEN with the help of friends or new players. xZEN is a social score in Catizen, similar to the wCATI points, both of which are reference factors affecting the governance token $CATI airdrop.

As of the time of writing, Catizen's Twitter account has 1.25 million followers, and its TG channel has over 2.8 million subscribers.

Hamster Kombat

Hamster Kombat is a click-based game on Telegram, where players earn tokens by clicking, while also serving as a cryptocurrency trading simulator. In the game, players take on the role of a CEO of a cryptocurrency exchange, earning tokens through clicks and then using those tokens to purchase upgrades for their exchange empire. Since its launch in March, the game has accumulated over 60 million users. Hamster Kombat's popularity is on par with Catizen and is another hit crypto game following Notcoin.

Hamster Kombat has announced that it will conduct a token airdrop on the TON blockchain to reward players who accumulate in-game tokens. Notably, Hamster Kombat places great emphasis on community operations; its YouTube channel, established less than two weeks ago, has already released over 20 videos, each with more than 250,000 views, featuring a hamster character reporting important blockchain news and market dynamics.

As of the time of writing, Hamster Kombat's Twitter account has 5 million followers, and its TG channel has over 25 million subscribers.

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 Play2Earn ecosystem based on Telegram bots and the TON blockchain. The TON Punks ecosystem is built on 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 alongside TON Punks NFTs. The DAO aims to manage funds using the $PUNK token, with entry tickets being TON PUNK NFTs. Chatbots are based on Telegram bots and are designed to promote the $PUNK token through a Play2Earn mechanism.

The project's roadmap includes several phases, such as NFT minting, game releases, token economic vision and launch, staking initiation, DAO and treasury establishment, and funding and releasing the first game through DAO voting. Team members include Krokodealer (full-time engineer), George Lozovsky (a crypto enthusiast since 2014, reportedly with over 5 years of experience launching projects in the Telegram ecosystem), Kusok Pesok (artist), and Paket (bot enthusiast).

As of the time of writing, TON Punks' Twitter account has over 210,000 followers.

Tapswap

Tapswap is a Tap2Earn-style mining game similar to Notcoin, where players enter the game bot and click the screen to earn game coins. The popularity of NOT has also brought a lot of heat to Tapswap. A week ago, the official announcement stated that the total number of players had surpassed 28 million, but today, according to the game interface, Tapswap's total player count has reached 40 million, with daily users at 17.9 million.

Recently, Tapswap announced that the originally scheduled liquidity pool launch date will be postponed to July 1. This decision was made because the team discovered that some bots were exploiting system vulnerabilities to gain abnormally high shares during preparation. To ensure fairness for all participants, the TapSwap team decided to delay the launch to have enough time to address this issue.

As of the time of writing, Tapswap's Twitter account has 4.8 million followers, and its TG channel has over 18 million subscribers.

Yescoin

After the explosive rise of Notcoin, other click-interactive games in the TON ecosystem have also gained significant attention. Yescoin is a casual interactive mini-game based on Telegram, with an interaction mode called "Swipe-To-Earn," where players swipe the screen to earn coin rewards. Additionally, players can form teams to invite more friends to participate in the game, obtaining on-chain and off-chain incentives through YesPac, Yesbox, and other game elements.

Notably, the Yescoin project won an award in the TON ecosystem's third season public league and has received multiple interactions from TON and Telegram officials. According to the Yescoin team, the total number of users surpassed 11 million one month after the game's launch, covering over 200 countries and regions. After the wallet linking activity was launched, over 200,000 users completed the linking within an hour.

As of the time of writing, Yescoin's Twitter account has 2.2 million followers, and its TG channel has over 4.58 million subscribers.

Other Categories

Ston.fi

Ston.fi is a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) platform built on the TON blockchain. It offers trading services with almost zero fees and low slippage, and is directly integrated with the TON wallet. The platform is developed by TOP Labs and reportedly has a partnership with the mainstream exchange 1inch on Ethereum.

As of the time of writing, Ston.fi's Twitter account has 100,000 followers, and its TG channel has over 300,000 subscribers.

Moons.so

Moons.so is a SocialFi platform built on the TON blockchain. It is designed for Telegram users, providing a social platform where users can join different organizations and communities, freely discuss topics and news, and play games. Moons.so will launch a platform token, MOON, which users can earn by participating in community activities such as joining groups, discussing topics, and completing tasks.

Additionally, Moons.so provides a portal for other small games, where users can also earn MOON tokens and tokens from other projects as rewards.

As of the time of writing, Moons.so's Twitter account has 70,000 followers.

XPLUS

XPLUS is the first TradingGameFi in the TON ecosystem and was the champion of the TON HackHouse. XPLUS aims to provide a platform for Web2 users to learn Web3 concepts in an entertaining way. XPLUS is currently running a bounty competition.

As of the time of writing, XPLUS's Twitter account has 70,000 followers.

TonGifts

TonGifts is a social red envelope application in the TON ecosystem. According to search results, TonGifts allows users to send unique NFTs (non-fungible tokens) generated by the TON blockchain as gifts within the Telegram app. Users can easily send gifts through the TonGifts bot in Telegram, and every time a friend accepts a gift, the giver automatically enters a lottery for a chance to win back the TON coins sent. Additionally, TonGifts supports sending USDT red envelopes.

As of the time of writing, TonGifts' Twitter account has 270,000 followers.