{"id":15425,"date":"2024-07-23T10:14:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T07:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/telegram-nears-1-billion-users-amid-crypto-game-craze\/"},"modified":"2024-07-23T10:14:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T07:14:35","slug":"telegram-nears-1-billion-users-amid-crypto-game-craze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/telegram-nears-1-billion-users-amid-crypto-game-craze\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram Nears 1 Billion Users Amid Crypto Game Craze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the frenzy surrounding crypto games, Telegram&#8217;s popularity continues to surge. Pavel Durov announced that the messenger&#8217;s active user count has surpassed 950 million monthly.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/js\/telegram-widget.js?22\" data-telegram-post=\"durov\/337\" data-width=\"100%\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;This is compared to 900 million in the spring. On the way to one billion!&#8221; he wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This trend is attributed to clicker games that offer cryptocurrency earnings by &#8220;tapping&#8221; the screen. It all began with the Notcoin project, which attracted users through an airdrop.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In mid-May, the coin finally <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/notcoin-debuts-at-0-012-as-trading-commences\">appeared<\/a> on centralized exchanges, and by June, the app&#8217;s user base exceeded 40 million people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The highest demand for Notcoin was observed in Russia, Uzbekistan, Nigeria, the USA, Germany, and Iran. However, users from the latter were not given the option to withdraw funds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Riding on Notcoin&#8217;s popularity, another game with similar mechanics emerged \u2014 Hamster Kombat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Durov supported the &#8220;tapper,&#8221; announcing the release of its token HMSTR on the TON blockchain. The Bybit exchange opened a pre-market for the coin, and developers promised a second airdrop.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By June, Hamster Kombat&#8217;s user base reached 100 million. According to Durov, 4-5 million new players join the project daily, making it &#8220;the fastest-growing digital service in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These clickers were followed by other imitators, including Yescoin, TapSwap, Catizen, PixelTap, W-Coin, and Musk Empire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some of these games even began collaborating with each other. For instance, PixelTap and Musk Empire offered benefits for Notcoin holders.<\/p>\n<p>Back in July, Notcoin developers partnered with the DeFi platform 1inch and the Sequoia-backed attestation protocol Sign to create a startup accelerator for Telegram and TON.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the frenzy surrounding crypto games, Telegram&#8217;s popularity continues to surge. Pavel Durov announced that the messenger&#8217;s active user count has surpassed 950 million monthly. &#8220;This is compared to 900 million in the spring. On the way to one billion!&#8221; he wrote.\u00a0 This trend is attributed to clicker games that offer cryptocurrency earnings by &#8220;tapping&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1618,1586,1441,723],"class_list":["post-15425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-clickers","tag-hamster-kombat","tag-notcoin","tag-telegram"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"34","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}