‘Tomarket’ Telegram Game Dumps TON for Aptos Ahead of Token Launch and Airdrop

Tomarket, a preferred Telegram recreation playable on the messaging platform as a mini app, is ditching its unique plan to launch its token on The Open Community (TON) and can as an alternative deploy TOMA on rival layer-1 community Aptos.

With 50 million whole customers and 6 million every day energetic customers, Tomarket will launch its TOMA token on December 20, with an airdrop to gamers who met sure standards throughout the recreation.

Tomarket has handed out allocations of tokens throughout a number of airdrop waves, however gamers have been unable to withdraw or commerce the token. The app’s builders beforehand stated that the TOMA token was generated, however clarified afterwards that the time period was used to explain token allocations throughout the app. And now, Tomarket received’t in the end deploy to TON.

“Aptos’ excessive velocity and dependable infrastructure supplies the scalability Tomarket must assist its rising consumer base whereas delivering easy, environment friendly blockchain experiences,” a Tomarket core crew member who goes by Miles instructed Decrypt.

Following subsequent week’s token launch, Tomarket plans to develop its choices, together with introducing extra video games, enhancing its FarmingPool rewards program, and launching an aggregator of decentralized exchanges, or DEXs.

Most Telegram-based crypto video games, together with heavyweights like Hamster Kombat and Notcoin, have opted to deploy on TON, serving to to drive adoption of the chain this yr. TON is now the sixteenth most precious cryptocurrency by market cap, per knowledge from CoinGecko, rising in worth by about 190% over the previous yr.

Tomarket isn’t the primary recreation to decide on another path, nevertheless: tap-to-earn fight recreation MemeFi just lately launched its token on Sui, after pivoting from its unique chain of Ethereum layer-2 community Linea.

Edited by Andrew Hayward