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A pair of upcoming crypto conferences scheduled in Dubai have been canceled or postponed for the safety of attendees and organizers amid ongoing geopolitical tensions and the Iran war conflict.
Following the Thursday cancelation of The Open Network’s (TON) scheduled Gateway event in Dubai, Token2049 announced Friday that it too would forgo hosting an event in Dubai this year, opting to postpone its planned April event until 2027 instead.
“In collaboration with our partners and stakeholders, an...
Business
Biotech firm Portage Biotech is the latest publicly traded firm to shift its focus to a digital asset treasury, securing around $100 million to build a treasury centered on Toncoin (TON)—the asset linked to popular messaging app Telegram and its digital ecosystem.
As part of the strategy shift, the firm will be renamed AlphaTON Capital Corp. and will shift its ticker from PRTG to ATON on the Nasdaq, effective Thursday.
“At AlphaTON Capital, we see investing in TON as the biggest opportunity for...
Technology
Telegram’s native crypto wallet is beginning its roll out for U.S. residents, allowing them to buy, sell, and send cryptocurrencies directly within the messaging app.
Built by The Open Network (TON) ecosystem developer The Open Platform—which was recently valued at $1 billion following its latest funding round—the TON Wallet is a self-custody wallet that first launched for international users back in September 2023.
"The timing of our U.S. launch was guided by product scaling readiness and mark...
Business
The Open Platform, a developer of Telegram-based protocols and apps built on The Open Network (TON), said Thursday that it has completed its Series A funding round, raising $28.5 million at a valuation of $1 billion.
The round, led by Ribbit Capital, makes The Open Platform (TOP) the first crypto unicorn—or startup with a $1 billion valuation—in the Telegram blockchain ecosystem, the firm claimed. Pantera Capital also participated in the round.
“TOP’s combination of expertise, capital, and our d...
Gaming
Scor on Sweet, a Telegram mini-app ecosystem, has launched a clone of the classic mobile game Flappy Bird—but this time with a tennis twist, featuring stars of the real-world game. Flappy Racquet arrives as the sport’s most prestigious Grand Slam tournament, Wimbledon, is just getting into full swing.
The game appears simple: tap on the screen to hit tennis balls away and avoid drones as your character flies through the sky. Miss a ball, and your progress is reset.
Top players will be rewarded...
DeFi
Holders of TON, the cryptocurrency that undergirds the Telegram-linked blockchain network, The Open Network, will soon be able to earn staking rewards via a new service—one promising “institutional-grade” security, along with ease of use and lower barriers to entry.
P2P.org, a non-custodial staking provider, today announced a collaboration with Ton Whales, a core TON development team, to offer a new staking solution targeted at exchanges and custodians.
The service, accessible as a widget via al...
Gaming
Viral mobile game Flappy Bird still has plans ahead in the crypto world, according to a blog post from the Flappy Bird Foundation, the entity that acquired the smash mobile game’s trademark and brought it back via Telegram last year.
The game’s relaunch on Telegram came with a play-to-earn mining campaign for an eventual FLAP token on The Open Network (TON). However, the future of those plans became uncertain when its Telegram mining phase ended with no token airdrop this spring, and the game’s...
Gaming
Telegram game Notcoin kick-started last year's tap-to-earn revolution that amassed hundreds of millions of players on the messaging app, but enthusiasm for the model has since dwindled following underwhelming token launches tied to increasingly overcomplicated schemes.
Now, a year after Notcoin’s NOT token launch sparked the frenzy, the game’s founders believe that reinventing classic video games via its recently announced Not Games platform will prompt the next Telegram gaming boom.
Sasha Plotv...
Gaming
Popular mobile game Flappy Bird launched in the Epic Games Store for Android this week, but the game’s latest reboot doesn’t contain any crypto elements—despite plans to launch a token tied to the now-shuttered Telegram version.
The tap-to-flap game maintains its classic mode that asks users to navigate a pixelated bird through a continuous field of pipes, as well as introduces a quest mode in the “Web-2 only” release.
“The Flappy Bird app available on Epic Games Store will never have any Web3...
Gaming
The crypto and NFT gaming space is busier than ever lately, what with prominent games starting to release, token airdrops piling up, and a seemingly constant array of other things happening at all times. It’s a lot to take in!
Luckily, Decrypt’s GG is all over it. And if you need a quick way to get caught up on the latest moves around crypto video games, we’re happy to present This Week in Crypto Games.
Our weekend roundup serves up the biggest news from the past week, along with a few other tid...
Gaming
The crypto and NFT gaming space is busier than ever lately, what with prominent games starting to release, token airdrops piling up, and a seemingly constant array of other things happening at all times. It’s a lot to take in!
Luckily, Decrypt’s GG is all over it. And if you need a quick way to get caught up on the latest moves around crypto video games, we’re happy to present This Week in Crypto Games.
Our weekend roundup serves up the biggest news from the past week, along with a few other tid...
Gaming
Popular Telegram game Farm Frens admitted to an error-filled launch of its FREN token on Ethereum layer-2 network Base earlier this week, sharing a number of next moves on the horizon as it aims to regain trust from players and investors.
Due to be claimable by eligible participants pursuant to its January 20 snapshot, the Farm Frens team had technical issues with all major components of the token generation event, or TGE. That includes problems with token allocations, claiming, and staking, plu...
Gaming
Telegram tap-to-earn game TapSwap announced it will launch its upcoming TAPS token on BNB Chain instead of The Open Network (TON), as originally planned.
The game was expected to complete its token airdrop in the second half of January, but recently said it delayed its token launch on the advice of an unnamed “tier-1” decentralized exchange in hopes of finding better market conditions.
Now though, after completing its first season of gameplay on February 6, the project is moving forward with i...
Business
TVM Ventures has launched a $100 million fund to promote the expansion of The Open Network's on-chain offerings — signaling a push to steer the network away from its reliance on L2s.
TVM said the goal of the fund is to equip startups and enterprises with capital and infrastructure to drive mass adoption of TON, a blockchain developed in concert with messaging app Telegram. The fund will do that by promoting development on the TON blockchain's base layer, rather than on its L2s or side chains.
If...
Gaming
Telegram game Farm Frens is delaying its FREN token airdrop on the Base layer-2 network until February, citing important roadmap adjustments as a result of “unreasonable deadlines” from Telegram and The Open Network.
The game sounded off about “heavy-handed restrictions” that stem from the recent announcement that all Telegram mini apps with crypto integrations would need to utilize The Open Network (TON) moving forward.
“Mini app devs (like our team) were given no prior warning, and the heavy...
Gaming
Telegram game W-Coin has introduced an inactivity rule ahead of its upcoming airdrop on The Open Network (TON). While this is standard practice for tap-to-earn games, it is unusually brutal for players.
Anyone who is offline for three days will have 5% of their supply burned each day until they log back in. By comparison X Empire, another tap-to-earn game, allowed players 30 days of inactivity before any tokens were touched.
“This ensures only active players shape the W-Coin ecosystem, increasin...
Gaming
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...
Gaming
Flappy Bird is back! And it's a Telegram crypto game—who’d have thought?
The iconic mobile game took the world by storm in 2014, but went dark after its mysterious creator decided it was gaining too much attention. At its peak, Flappy Bird had attracted 50 million downloads, topped the charts in 100 countries, and was allegedly raking in $50,000 from ads every single day.
When the game was removed, the world went nuts. Devices with the game still installed were offered for sale for upwards of $...
Gaming
As its eagerly awaited airdrop approaches, tap-to-earn game Hamster Kombat has revealed an ambitious roadmap for the year following its token launch on The Open Network (TON). Plans include NFTs and new games—and starting to distance itself from Telegram exclusivity.
Hamster Kombat’s tap-to-earn game has been hugely popular attracting over 300 million players as gamers tapped their screens via a Telegram mini app in an attempt to gain a slice of a future airdrop. Approximately 130 million player...
Gaming
The crypto gaming space is busier than ever lately, what with prominent games starting to release, token airdrops piling up, and a seemingly constant array of other things happening at all times. It’s a lot to take in!
Luckily, Decrypt’s GG is all over it. And if you need a quick way to get caught up on the latest moves around crypto video games, we’re happy to present This Week in Crypto Games.
Our weekend roundup serves up the biggest news from the past week, along with a few other tidbits you...
