Telegram’s tap-to-earn video games have taken the crypto world by storm, bringing lots of of tens of millions of potential new customers to The Open Community (TON). However a flood of Hamster Kombat and Catizen gamers making an attempt to assert their reward tokens later this month might not be all excellent news for the community, TON builders warned this week.
TON will “undoubtedly face extra technical pressures and presumably some unexpected points,” the TON Core workforce wrote Tuesday in an official Telegram channel. The warning comes because the community contends with current service outages precipitated by an explosion in tap-to-earn gaming and mini app exercise tied to messaging app Telegram.
Day by day energetic consumer addresses have hit 1.1 million a number of occasions on TON throughout the previous two weeks, with single-day transactions peaking at 14.4 million forward of upcoming airdrops for in style tap-to-earn video games corresponding to Hamster Kombat and Catizen, in keeping with builders.
Catizen, which has attracted roughly 35 million gamers to its Telegram app and will supply claimable tokens to a minimum of 15 million of them based mostly on the most recent estimate, will launch its CATI token on September 20.
Hamster Kombat, in the meantime, has attracted a vastly bigger variety of gamers: Over 300 million as of late July, the builders claimed, with Telegram in-app information exhibiting almost 86 million energetic customers within the final month alone. The workforce has mentioned that every one gamers shall be eligible for the HMSTR token airdrop on TON when it arrives on September 26.
“These ranges of consumer engagement had been unimaginable in Web3 earlier than,” TON Core builders wrote within the Telegram channel put up.
TON’s surge in consumer exercise fueled by the Telegram gaming craze just lately created outages on the layer-1 community. Final month, block processing on the community stopped for a number of hours two occasions in a single week.
The crux of the problem, in keeping with TON builders, was a surge in consumer demand tied to distributions of DOGS, a meme coin undertaking impressed by a canine drawing from Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov. The DOGS token is held by 4.5M distinctive wallets on TON, they mentioned.
Service disruptions on TON might intensify once more forward of these and different upcoming game-related airdrops on the platform. Each occasions will possible result in a spike in exercise on TON as recipients attempt to declare their rewards.
However within the lead as much as these airdrops, TON builders have promised to remain on prime of any community points, and try to beat any roadblocks.
“We’re unwavering in our dedication to constructing and addressing these challenges as we transfer towards mass adoption,” they wrote within the Telegram put up.
Edited by Andrew Hayward