As expected, X Empire—a Telegram tap-to-earn game that has amassed more than 50 million players—has completed its latest mining phase, shutting down the game ahead of next week’s X token launch on The Open Network (TON).
The brief “Chill Phase” of X Empire lasted just over two weeks, giving players a last chance to earn a larger share of tokens ahead of the planned airdrop on October 24.
This isn’t the first time that X Empire has gone through this process. The game completed its original, monthslong mining phase on September 30, with plans for the X token launch to take place soon thereafter.
But two days later, the developers said that an unexpected delay meant that they would bring back the game and allocate another 5% of the total token supply as rewards for players who engaged with the “Chill Phase.” The mini-season reset every player’s progress back to zero, turning the tap-to-earn game into a short sprint for bonus token rewards.
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Hit Telegram tap-to-earn game Hamster Kombat is set to launch a new full season later this month, following September’s token launch and airdrop, and now we know about the significant shift coming with the game’s next major phase. While the first season of Hamster Kombat was focused on running a fictional crypto exchange, the second season will focus on building out a video game platform and developing games for it. Hamster Kombat’s developers released a short teaser video Thursday that showed...
This time around, however, X Empire appears primed to follow through on its plans. The game plans to open up a claim window on Friday, presumably letting players choose if they’d like their airdrop allocations to be sent to a participating exchange. X Empire has said that OKX, Bybit, Bitget, KuCoin, Gate.io, and MEXC will list its X token upon launch.
“Very soon, we'll share more about the future of the X token—where you can use it and how it fits into our growing ecosystem,” the team wrote in a Thursday post on Telegram.
The Elon Musk-themed X Empire, first launched as “Musk Empire,” is one of several popular Telegram crypto games that emerged over the past few months following the early-year success of Telegram tap-to-earn pioneer, Notcoin.
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Robby Yung, the CEO of crypto investment firm Animoca Brands, predicts that every Web3 project will soon have a Telegram experience. This is the result of Telegram gaming exploding this year with crypto projects like Hamster Kombat attracting over 300 million users. Yung believes this represents the start of mass adoption. “Anybody with a Web3 app will have a Telegram strategy for user onboarding because it represents a distribution, advertising, and marketing vector. It represents the top of th...
Games like Hamster Kombat and Catizen have since launched their respective tokens, leaving X Empire as one of the most prominent Telegram games that’s still on the verge of taking that step, alongside Tomarket and Major.
A new wave of Telegram games—including Captain Tsubasa: Rivals, Flappy Bird, PiP World’s Gold Rush, and CryptoKitties: All the Zen—has started to take root while games that have launched their tokens are starting to plot their next steps. Hamster Kombat, for example, will launch a new full season focused on building a thriving video game studio and platform.
