Is TON the next NOTCOIN? Deciphering the magical chart-topping game Catizen on TON.

Hello everyone, I'm Paul from Coinmanlabs. Today, I want to talk to you about a magical and popular game on TON - Catizen.

Background

Recently, the launch of Notcoin (NOT) on CEX has attracted a lot of attention to the TON ecosystem.

Notcoin is a free and easy-to-use Telegram game where players earn coins by tapping on their phone screens. Since its launch on January 1, 2024, it has gained immense popularity, with over 30 million participants and a daily active user base of 5 million, making it the fifth-ranked channel on Telegram in terms of data.

Notcoin runs entirely on the Telegram application, without the need for an official cryptocurrency wallet, trading account, or transaction fees, making it very user-friendly. The premise of the game is simple: players tap on their phone screens to "mine" and accumulate Notcoin.

The TON ecosystem is currently in its early stages, but with the massive user base of Telegram, its development potential is undeniable. In comparison to the development of TVL in the ecosystem, meme-driven hype is an easier short-term method to boost engagement.

Therefore, with TON's massive user base on Telegram, there is an urgent need to enhance user stickiness. The best way to achieve this is through memes and GameFi, allowing players to quickly see profits while attracting more people to join the community, thus propelling the ecosystem into a positive economic cycle.

Catizen

Project Name: Catizen

Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/CatizenAI

Game bot: https://t.me/CatizenAnn

Official Website: https://catizen.ai/

Project Introduction: Catizen is a cat game built on the TON ecosystem, combining the metaverse, GameFi, and AI. The game introduces a revolutionary play-to-airdrop model, allowing players to earn future airdrops while playing. It was showcased as an official project during the Hong Kong Wanxiang Conference and Token2049, becoming the leading project in the GameFi Bot track of the TON ecosystem. Catizen's third phase plan is to transform Catizen into a Telegram game platform. The Catizen team has already signed contracts with 18 popular WeChat mini-games, leveraging their valuable experience in blockchain and rich deployment experience in the TON ecosystem to gradually launch on the Catizen game platform. Therefore, Catizen will evolve beyond its Gaming Bot positioning in the later stages, transitioning to the third phase of project development - the Game Launchpool, empowering all loyal Catizen players and holders of its governance token.

Achievements: Currently, there are 5.66 million game players; 422k daily active users; 193k on-chain users; and 2.3 million on-chain transactions.

Project Investors: Catizen's seed round received investments from TON, Web3 Ventures, Mask Network, Y2Z, SecondLive, EMURGO Ventures, Moon Capital, and Initiate Capital.

Q: What can we do now?

The official announcement also revealed their economic model. As mentioned earlier, the official introduced a new play-to-airdrop model, which we can now experience.

The total supply of tokens is 1 billion, with 35% allocated for the ecosystem and airdrops. We can now participate in the expected airdrop by spending a little.

Getting Started with the Game

STEP.1 Game Bot

We all have Telegram by default, as this game is built on a Telegram bot. We can start the game using https://t.me/CatizenAnn.

STEP.2 Start Playing

When we first enter, there are 12 cat nests by default. Clicking on Generate in the middle allows us to raise cats.

Cats of the same level can also be combined to upgrade. The higher the level of the cat, the more coins it earns.

We can also use Feed in the bottom right corner to purchase cats of a selected level.

Here, we can see that the first four levels of cats only require coins, but level 5 requires $FISH (we'll discuss how to get it later). However, free cats may appear in the store, and there is also a chance of encountering meme frogs in the game, which can be clicked to obtain cats and $CATI.

STEP.3 Game Acceleration

The official website has also launched the Launchpool. If you hold $FISH, you can directly enter and participate. If you don't, you need to increase your game level, which requires more coins. How can you get more coins to speed up the game? The answer is to use $FISH for acceleration. So, where can we get $FISH now?

1. Obtain through Quest tasks

2. Obtain through fishing

3. Purchase through official channels

Coinmanlabs' Thoughts

According to Catizen's official announcement, the project has passed the user expansion phase of the first stage. 10% of players in the game have become TON wallet users, with over 50% of users becoming paying players. This is also why the TON Foundation strongly recommends it, and we can follow suit.

With the launch of Notcoin on CEX, more ecosystems on TON will be valued by CEX, and Catizen, with its huge user base, is likely to be launched in the future.