The Aptos blockchain team concluded a three-day campaign during which 63,198 unique addresses joined the Tapos clicker game.
Fasinating + fair questions from @mrJackLevin, let we address these concerns:
Each time user tickles the cat, a transaction is generated. This transaction does two things — updates a global counter of the total number of tickles and a per-user counter. https://t.co/KXDzZA7OJo
— Tapos ?? (@taposcat) May 28, 2024
Users clicked on the cat to earn HEART tokens. Each click generated a separate transaction, resulting in Aptos processing 323,477,428 transactions over three days. More than 83% of all network activity was attributed to the game.
According to Aptoscan, on May 24, Aptos recorded over 90 million transactions, and the following day, over 115 million.
At its peak, the team recorded over 2000 TPS being executed concurrently.
“The new aggregator technology pushes the boundaries of what Aptos can achieve at scale. These are not just fake account creation or token transfer transactions, but transactions that a blockchain-based game would send,” the developers wrote.
The increase in TPS did not lead to a significant rise in the number of blockchain users.
? This week, transactions on @Aptos have skyrocketed by 2k% compared to last week, largely driven by the @taposcat Mainnet launch!
Nearly 250M transactions occurred this week, making up 29% of the total transactions. ? https://t.co/FzptM6CCVF pic.twitter.com/9XQShoByJ5
— Cristinatinto (@nft_pokeworld) May 27, 2024
Following the conclusion of the game’s first phase on May 26, there was a sharp decline in user activity on the network.
Aptos plans to launch the second phase of the game, with announcements to be made through official channels.
Helius CEO and Solana developer Mert Mumtaz expressed skepticism about the emergence of “yet another clicker for earning shitcoins.”
“[Creators of such games] do literally everything to boost gaming metrics in this industry instead of creating anything involving real users or demand,” he wrote on X.
Following Notcoin’s Path
Tapos was undoubtedly inspired by the success of the Web3 gaming project Notcoin on The Open Network (TON) blockchain. During its active mining phase, the clicker attracted over 30 million participants. However, Notcoin did not add in-game clicks to the blockchain.
According to TON Stat, the maximum number of daily transactions on the TON network was 15.1 million. On October 31, 2023, during public testing, the blockchain set a world record by executing 104,715 transactions per second, surpassing Solana.
Analysts at CryptoQuant noted that 69.59% of the NOT tokens distributed were withdrawn by users to various exchanges and wallets, while 22.87% were donated to developers.
Over 1 trillion NOT ($6.8 million at the time of the transaction) was given by the Notcoin team to Telegram founder Pavel Durov as a token of gratitude. Durov promised to hold the coins “until their price rises to $680 million.”
On May 16, after NOT was listed on major centralized exchanges, the token’s price momentarily dropped by 65%. However, on May 27-28, it rose by 40%, nearly returning to the $0.01 level. At its peak, the asset was among the top 100 projects by market capitalization, with a value of $997.6 million.
Previously, ForkLog analyzed the reasons behind such price movements with experts.
According to CoinGecko, at the time of writing, NOT is trading at $0.008813.
In April, Aptos Labs, a blockchain infrastructure developer, partnered with major technology and financial companies to create the institutional platform Aptos Ascend.