Unveiling the TON Ecosystems Airdrop Frenzy A Guide to Seizing OnceinaLifetime Opportunities

BiJie.com reported:


The widespread application of Web3 has always been a focus of the market’s attention. For example, the Solana chain tries to attract more users through its Blinks module, which is based on social memes. In addition, the TON chain promotes itself through mini-games on Telegram. Currently, the market value of the TON public chain has entered the top ten, and the number of Telegram users has exceeded 900 million, with a flourishing ecosystem. Many TON ecological projects plan to use airdrops for marketing, providing abundant opportunities for community participants.
I. Tonsquare
Tonsquare is the EVM Layer 2 chain of the TON public chain, similar to Neon for Solana (market value of $600 million) and Aurora for Near (market value of $200 million). The token TOS plans to airdrop 75% to holders of node KEY, and the project expects the market value of TOS to exceed $50 million.


KEY is an NFT that represents the operation node of the public chain. After activating the node, it can generate TOS tokens, and the expected yield is about 350%. The future income of KEY also includes cross-chain bridge fees and gas revenue from new public chains. The generated TOS can also be staked, with an expected yield of about 300% starting from the end of June 2024, with a staking period of 6 months.


The auction mode of node KEY is similar to Gala nodes, and the price will continue to rise over time. Currently, it is in the second phase (out of 15 phases), belonging to the early stage. Users who hold more than 3 KEYs can also receive Tonsquare NFT on the testnet, but they need to obtain Gas from the EVM testnet first to execute operations. It should be noted that node KEY currently only supports purchases and does not support sales, which is one of the risks.


II. Hamster Kombat
Hamster Kombat is a Tap-to-Earn game developed by a Russian team, where players can earn coins by clicking on hamsters (playing the role of exchange CEOs) on their mobile screens. The game encourages community interaction to unlock more rewards, and players can increase passive income from mining by purchasing upgrade cards. Similar Telegram clicker games include Notcoin (Russian team with 40 million users), Tapswap (Ukrainian team with 60 million users), Yescoin (Chinese team with 20 million users), and HypeSaints, etc.


Hamster Kombat is very popular in third world countries and has a large number of gold farmers participating domestically, with 200 million existing users. Considering that the market value of Notcoin, the first game leader in the Ton ecosystem, is $1.5 billion, it would be difficult for Hamster Kombat to exceed $500 million in market value, so the airdrop amount per account is expected to be not large.


III. Pixelverse
Pixelverse is a cyberpunk-style battle game where players can cultivate pet robots, engage in battles in PVP and PVE modes, and embark on adventures in different maps in the game center. Similar Telegram battle games include Majyo Treasure (85% airdrop ratio). The founder of the game is a former responsible person for listing coins in the Middle East region of Binance. The token PIXFI plans to airdrop 25%. Interestingly, PIXFI is an ERC20 token, not issued on the TON chain. The future plan is to build a Pixelchain, a game public chain based on Cosmos and EVM. Currently, Pixelverse has over 30 million registered users, with over 5 million daily active users, showing its potential to become a hot favorite.


IV. Pepe Wick
Pepe Wick is a placement shooting game developed by a Chinese team, similar to Plants vs. Zombies. The game requires continuously spending tokens to upgrade characters, with each character having a limited playtime of only half an hour per day. There are also occasional collective boss battles, with TON’s prize pool for winners. However, the token PEW plans to airdrop only 6%, which is not expected to be a significant amount.


V. Mow
Mow is a pixel-style shooting game where players shoot monsters to earn coins and upgrade weapons. The main gameplay is level challenges and PVP battles, with strong replayability. The project is still in the testing phase, and specific airdrop plans have not been disclosed.


VI. Catizen
Catizen is a placement cat-raising game developed by a Chinese team, similar to Match-3 games. Players can run cat cafes, breed pets of different levels, collect their outputs, and continue to cultivate higher-level pets. The game also provides options for purchasing game props to accelerate the pet hatching process. In the future, Catizen plans to develop Launchpool and cooperate with more than 10 WeChat mini-games, moving them to the Catizen gaming platform. Players holding the CATI token will be eligible for participation in new launches.


Catizen currently has 23 million registered users, with over 1.5 million daily active users, and 50% of users choose to become paying users. The game generated $12 million in revenue in just 3 months after its launch, which is an impressive achievement but has also raised some doubts that the data may be overly positive. Although the Ton official foundation is involved in the investment, the market still maintains a cautious attitude towards these data. The CATI token plans to airdrop as high as 42% and has the attribute of a platform token. The official has announced that the airdrop will take place in July.


VII. Chick Coop
Chick Coop is a placement farming game developed by a Chinese team, where players sell eggs daily to upgrade their chicken farm. It currently has 1.5 million users (300,000 daily active users). The token CHICK plans to airdrop 34% and will also have NFT and staking mechanisms.


VIII. Travel Frog
Travel Frog is a pet-raising game developed by a Chinese team, where players control a frog to travel and collect items. This game is the result of the development of the 17-year game “Travel Frog Chain”. The game is currently in the testing phase and already has 20,000 users. The game token FROG plans to conduct airdrops, with an airdrop ratio of 70%, divided into four stages.


Other Ton ecological projects that may conduct airdrops in the future include the exchange Blum, football Fanton, lottery platform Balaton.bet, roulette game WGScoin, fishing game Wowfish, etc. Specific details can be found on the growth rankings on the TGStat website.
In summary, many small game developers in the Ton ecosystem come from the familiar Web2.0 world, mostly led by Chinese teams, with the main purpose of attracting users to participate in the Ton ecosystem. Therefore, before making large-scale investments, it is recommended to conduct detailed research and due diligence to avoid investing in unwise projects.