Ben Walther

Notcoin Was the Warm-Up. The Real Telegram Gaming Wave Is Just Getting Started.

The tap-to-earn era taught us one thing: Telegram is a huge crypto distribution channel. Hundreds of millions of users, native payments via TON, frictionless onboarding.

But honestly, tap-to-earn was never sustainable. Players tapped for tokens that crashed sooner or later.
No real gameplay. No real economy. No reason to stay.

The next wave on Telegram isn't tap-to-earn imho. It's create-to-earn.

Here's the shift: instead of paying players to tap, the platform rewards players who create: levels, challenges, content — everything others want to play.

When other players spend in their creation, they earn.
Simple and real economic loops.

This is what Roblox built into a $40B business on mobile. What Fortnite Creative pays out hundreds of millions for.

Telegram has every ingredient to do this better than any of them:
- 900M+ users with the app already open
- TON-native payments built into the platform
- Native sharing primitives that make games viral inside groups
- Mini-app infrastructure that loads instantly

The first generation of Telegram games (Notcoin, Hamster Kombat) proved distribution works. They had 50M+ users each.

The second generation has started to ship. Games where the loop is sustainable because every TON earned by a creator was actually paid by a player who got value.

Examples building this thesis right now:
- Nexus Dash (NexusDashGameBot): retro-style level-creator where players design and share levels. Creators earn from plays.
- Puff Pals (PuffPalsBot): bubble-shooter with community-built worlds. Same model.

This is early.
Most builders haven't pivoted from tap-to-earn yet.
The opportunity window is small but the ceiling is enormous.

The next breakout Telegram game won't reward you for tapping.
It'll reward you for creating something other players want.

Watch this space.

#TON $TON #telegrambot

How to Buy CA on Binance — in Under 30 Seconds 🚀

Buying $CA is now easier than ever — directly on Binance DEX using your normal Binance balance.

Here’s how:

1️⃣ Open Binance → go to “Trade” → select “DEX (Beta)”
This brings you to the on-chain trading interface powered by your Binance Wallet.

2️⃣ Paste the CA token address into the search bar
CA on BNB: 0x66Daa21E4A2199f80dBBb6C7e6a4eBB4CA0E46Ce

3️⃣ Acknowledge that you want to trade CA
Binance will show a short info pop-up since there's a similar token name listed on Binance Alpha..
Confirm → you’re good to go.

4️⃣ Enter your amount → buy using your normal Binance funds
Your BNB or USDT balance on Binance can be used immediately.
No external wallet. No bridging. No extra steps.

✅ That’s it.
You now hold a share of one of the most promising on-chain gaming platform projects — before the real growth begins.

Getting early has never been this easy.

Most P2E games died because they printed tokens to pay players.
Nexus Dash takes a different path.

Pay ⭐3 Stars → enter a 24h challenge → clearers split a real pool, paid in $TON

No emissions. No inflation.

Just real Stars in, real TON out.

The first sustainable Play-to-Earn on Telegram.
Feature launching in 48h.

—> NexusDashGameBot

#telegrambot #TON

You don't need to code.
You don't need Unity.
You don't need 6 months of learning.

10 minutes in Nexus Arcade and you've built a playable level.
Other players play it.
You earn $TON when they do.

The barrier to making games just collapsed.
That's the idea of NexusArcadeBot on Telegram.

#TON #telegrambot

Building on TON is different.

It’s the only chain that puts your product one tap away from hundreds of millions of users.

No download.
No signup.
No app store.

And yet almost no serious apps.
Almost no real games.

That’s not a problem.
That’s an opening.

$TON #TonChain #telegrambot

Do you tememebrr Bubble Bobble in the 80s?

Now you can build it. And get paid.

Puff Pals on Telegram: play retro bubble-shooter worlds, or design your own and earn TON every time someone plays them.

Find it inside Nexus Arcade: NexusArcadeBot

The retro era’s coming back. This time, the creators are the players.

$TON #telegrambot #TON

Why I'm Building Create-to-Earn on Telegram (And You Should Pay Attention)

Notcoin proved Telegram can move 35M+ users in weeks.
Hamster Kombat went even further.
Distribution on Telegram can be a beast.

But both collapsed at the token unlock. Players left because there was nothing to come back to. The gameplay loop ended when the farming ended. No utility. No reason to stay.

Meanwhile Roblox paid creators around $923M in 2024. Fortnite Creative pays out hundreds of millions. The pattern is proven: let players become creators, pay them fairly, and the platform compounds.

No one has put these together on Telegram (yet).
This is what we're building.

Nexus Arcade (NexusArcadeBot) is a create-to-earn games platform on Telegram.

Players don't just play.
They build levels, share them, and earn TON when other players engage.

Real gameplay.
Real economic loops.
No token emissions, no airdrop farming.

The first two games are already live. (NexusDash and Puff Pals). More games coming — each one another surface where players become creators and creators get paid.

Tap-to-earn was the proof of distribution.
Create-to-earn is the sustainable model that uses it.
Early days. Watch this space.

$TON $NOT #telegrambot $HMSTR

Most P2E Telegram games: tap a button. Get points. Boring gameplay.

Cronos Army: train soldiers, battle other players, conquer territory, earn real rewards.

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Cronos Army is a P2E strategy game on Cronos and BNB chain. Top 10 on PlayToEarn.

New support established.
Time to tackle ATH and dive into blue skies.

Get some CA on Binance Dex or PancakeSwap.

NFA.

$BNB $USDT

Friction kills Web3 adoption.

Bridging.
Complex setups.
Gas fees just to try something.

We stripped all of that.

Open Telegram. Start Playing.

That's it.

The best onboarding is no onboarding.

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Cronos Army — P2E strategy game on Cronos and BNB Chain. Top 10 on PlayToEarn. Now playable on Telegram > CronosArmyGameBot

Telegram was just the start.

Distribution is everything. We're going everywhere players are.

Cronos Army is now live on Telegram, Cronos, and BNB Chain.
Next stop: Google Play Store — currently in testing.

One game. Every platform. Zero friction.

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Cronos Army — P2E strategy game. Live on Cronos, BNB Chain, and Telegram. $2,000+ paid to players monthly. Top 10 on PlayToEarn.

Once gain, Cronos Army just passed The Sandbox and Illuvium on PlayToEarn.
Ranked 30. Sandbox at 31. Illuvium at 32.

One is backed by Animoca Brands with $93M in funding and 400+ brand partners. One raised millions in VC capital. And one was built by a small developer team with AI and zero funding.

Same rankings. Very different resources.
This is what building in public looks like.
No excuses. Just shipping.

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Cronos Army — P2E strategy game. Live on Cronos, BNB Chain, and Telegram. $2,000+ paid to players monthly. Top 30 on PlayToEarn.

$SAND $ILV #Gaming #PlayToEarn

Since October we've burned 43.7M $CA.

4.3% of total supply. Organically. Nobody forced it. Players just played.

Imagine what this curve looks like when we're on Telegram. Play Store. App Store.

We're just getting started.