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Telegram social gaming brings millions to cryptocurrencies

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Telegram social gaming brings millions to cryptocurrencies

In past lives I have been an urban planner, a crime boss, and the CEO of a thriving cryptocurrency exchange. On Telegram, obviously. Why I like work cosplay is a question for my therapist. But it’s fascinating how many Web3 games explore these roles in real life. And it’s great that the rewards are starting to be more worth the bragging rights among your friends.

I wasted endless amounts of time building my Sims’ town in the early 2000s, where I turned a small village into a bustling metropolis on my underpowered Windows95 desktop. I had to think about energy management and food supply routes and whether or not a stadium was necessary for tax revenue to support some other park.

Fast forward to 2009 and I’m living my best Tony Soprano life with two baseball bats, a Tommy Gun, and enough property to make me one hundred and seven thousand dollars every 54 minutes in virtual currency. What “Mob Wars” had that The Sims didn’t was the network effect power of Facebook’s recommendation feed. The fact that you could see the moves your friends were making made you want to play the game, and the exponential effect just kept going round and round.

Until Facebook put a stop to the category, reducing external notifications, taxing virtual objects and giving priority to its own features over those of third parties.

Telegram has learned some lessons from the original social media platforms and added new ways of gamification that appeal to the insatiable gambler mentality of the cryptocurrency public. Telegram, which has 900 million monthly users, is proving that gaming could become the next big player/customer acquisition platform to help grow a blockchain-based business.

Telegram Messenger has been around for over ten years. Brothers Nikolai and Pavel Durov created the encrypted messaging platform in 2013 and soon after counted one hundred thousand users on the nascent platform.

Today, that number is approaching a billion, and while it’s not fully decentralized, its mix of advanced cryptography and distributed storage security make it a favorite among the crypto community. And that was before Hamster Kombat hit the platform.

There have been numerous Telegram crypto bots to date: services like Meme and Gif creators, GitHub notification bots, Gmail and Spotify integrations. One type of application that the cryptocurrency public is particularly interested in is gamification. From BonkBotwhich allowed the simple and very fast launch of cryptocurrencies during the recent memecoin season from Solana to Notcoin, which has collected a success $1 billion in FDV after 35 million players grind on Telegram-based gaming from January to April. Clear lesson: Utility plus fun, plus encryption, works well on messaging app. A hamster comes calling

The latest competitor to catch fire in this scheme is Hamster Kombat. In just over four weeks, the app has grown to over 8 million players, with more than 3 million playing every day.

The premise of Hamster Kombat is pretty simple. You are the CEO of a cryptocurrency exchange of your choice (Binance, OKX, MEXC and others). At the beginning, all you have to do is tap the hamster on the screen to start earning points. As soon as the available points run out, they start counting again, encouraging you to come back and tap more.

Once you have accumulated enough, you, as the CEO, can start putting your currency to work. You can invest your points in BTC and ETH pairs getting hourly returns. You can spend on CoinTelegraph (or CoinDesk, if you get to level 10) or to improve your KYC or AML security. Each choice returns you more hourly profits so you can now earn passively and put more currency to work growing your imaginary exchange.

From a marketing perspective, the more you share with friends, the more you join connected channels, the more you earn to grow your business, the better. Hence the SocialFi overlay that makes the game so viral. I have seven friends, all of whom play via links I’ve shared with them, which gives me more currency to use to grow my empire.

Hamster Kombat allows partners to purchase “cards” and players to take actions and earn more currency every hour. Joining a partner Telegram channel can cost 15,000 points. But it pays off at 3000 points per hour, making it something that “pays for itself” in 5 hours of active involvement in the game. This partner, a new gaming blockchain, saw its Telegram subscribers increase to over 1.2 million people in just days after launching with Hamster Kombat, incredibly rapid onboarding of new users into an ecosystem where the attention and users are in high demand. That’s when I felt the need to reach out and investigate what their special sauce is.

I contacted Nikita Anufriev, Hamster Kombat marketing consultant and popular host crypto channel on YouTube. Anufriev confirmed that the project was launched on March 25 this year and it took just 11 days to reach 1 million players. Since then, it has surpassed 8 million players and, according to it, 2.8 million users play every day with an average usage time of 52 minutes per day. Pretty disconcerting for a new game tied directly to a social media platform.

When asked about the game’s genesis, Anufriev gave credit to a decade-old game called USA Simulator, an iOS/Android game from the mid-2010s in which you play as a politician with the stated goal of “Developing your country, extend the sphere of influence and lead the country to world domination!.” He said the founders were inspired by the game and reframed it specifically for the cryptocurrency industry and let users put themselves in the shoes of CZ (Binance) or Brian Armstrong (Coinbase).

“The viral effect started from 3 [shares per player] and now we are closer to 15,” Anufriev said. “The mechanics of the game, like a new card, pushes you to invite friends and we have seen this problem in some regions where too many influencers have started promoting it and normal people don’t have enough people to invite.” Anufriev’s team was targeting an audience of influencers for the first few hundred thousand users, but then the network effect took over. “Telegram is very popular among cryptocurrency users and is the number one messaging app for that audience,” he notes.

TON (The Open Network), the Layer-1 blockchain created by Telegram but now operating independently of the social platform, has recently seen serious adoption, and TON the token grew with it. But Anufriev said the project will issue its token on the Binance Smart Chain, with the end of May as the expected release date.

Nikita Anufriev and many other Hamster players will come Consensus 2024 and we’ll see if this reward-seeking community will also unite in real life or if they will prefer to be an anonymous player from behind a screen. For now, Telegram appears to be a place that anyone in the cryptocurrency world looking to build an audience should pay attention to.

UPDATE (05/21/24; 3:55 PM UTC): Telegram is not responsible for creating games on its platform and does not manage or coordinate The Open Network (TON).

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Ether Drops Further After ETF Launch

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Bitcoin Surpasses $66,000 Thanks to Strong ETF Flows

Key points

  • Spot ether ETFs began trading in the U.S. today, with the funds initially having more than $10 billion in collective assets under management.
  • Analysts expect the launch of spot ether ETFs to have a net negative impact on the underlying price of ether in the near term, due to expected outflows from the pre-existing Grayscale Ethereum Trust.
  • Spot Bitcoin ETFs continue to see strong inflows, with BlackRock’s IBIT alone seeing more than $500 million in inflows on Monday.
  • Franklin Templeton, a spot ETF issuer on bitcoin and ether, has invested in a project that intends to bring Ethereum technology to Bitcoin.

Nine-point ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs)) started trading on the stock market on Tuesday, but all the optimism ahead of their approval did not translate into gains for the cryptocurrency markets.

Ether (ETH), the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum blockchain, dropped less than 1% around the $3,400 level as of 1:30 PM ET, while Bitcoin (BTC) fell more than 2% to around $66,000.

Ether ETFs’ Debut Isn’t as Flashy as Bitcoin ETFs’

Spot ether ETFs began trading at just over $10 billion assets under management (AUM)), according to Bloomberg Intelligence analyst James Seyffart, most of that money is in the current Grayscale Ethereum Trust (ETHE) which has now been converted into an ETF.

“In the long term, Grayscale will simultaneously have the highest and lowest fees in the market. The asset manager’s decision to keep its ETHE fee at 2.5% could lead to outflows from the fund,” Kaiko Research said in a note on Monday.

Outflows from ETHE, if they occur, would be similar to those faced by Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) after spot bitcoin ETFs began trading in January of this year, most likely due to high fees for the two original funds. Grayscale’s existing fund charges 2.5% fees, while a new “mini” ether ETF will charge 0.15% and commissions for other ETFs are set at 0.25% or less.

Such outflows could impact the price of ether and market sentiment.

“There could be a pullback shortly after the launch of Ethereum spot ETFs, i.e. outflows from Grayscale Ether Trust could dampen market sentiment in the short term,” Jupiter Zheng, a partner at Hashkey Capital’s liquid fund, told The Block.

But Grayscale remains optimistic.

“Compared to the splashy debut of spot bitcoin ETPs in January, the launch of ethereum ETPs has been relatively muted,” said Zach Pandl, Grayscale’s head of research, adding that investors may be “undervaluing” ether ETFs that are “coming to the U.S. market in tandem with a shift in U.S. cryptocurrency policy and the adoption of tokenization by major financial institutions.”

Bitcoin ETF Inflows Continue to Rise

As for bitcoin, there is clearly no lack of demand for spot ETFs, such as BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBITS) recorded its sixth-largest day of inflows in its short history on Monday, at $526.7 million, according to data from Farside Investors. Daily inflows for the overall spot bitcoin ETF market also hit their highest level since June 5.

In particular, asset manager Franklin Templeton, which has issued both bitcoin and ether ETFs, appears to have decided to cover its back when it comes to Ethereum by investing in Bitlayer, a way to implement Ethereum technology on a second-layer Bitcoin network, according to CoinDesk.

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Spot Ether ETFs Start Trading Today: Here’s What You Need to Know

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Spot Ether ETFs Start Trading Today: Here's What You Need to Know

Key points

  • Spot ether ETFs will begin trading on U.S. exchanges on Tuesday. Nine ETFs will trade on Cboe BZX, Nasdaq and NYSE Arca.
  • Ether ETFs offer investors exposure to the price of their underlying assets.
  • Commissions on these new ETFs generally range from 0.15% to 0.25%.
  • These ETFs do not provide exposure to Ethereum staking.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has officially approved nine ether spots (ETH)exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for trading on U.S. exchanges. Trading for these new cryptocurrency investment vehicles begins today. Here’s everything you need to know.

What new ether ETFs are starting to trade today?

Spot ether ETFs starting trading today can be found at Quotation, NYSE Arkand Cboe BZX. Here’s a breakdown of each ETF you can find on these three exchanges, along with the fund tickers:

Cboe BZX will list the Invesco Galaxy Ethereum ETF (QETH), the 21Shares Core Ethereum ETF (CETH), the Fidelity Ethereum Fund (FETH), the Franklin Ethereum ETF (EZET) and the VanEck Ethereum ETF (ETHV).

Nasdaq will have the iShares Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHA) created by BlackRock, which also operates the largest spot bitcoin ETF under the ticker IBIT.

NYSE Arca will list the Bitwise Ethereum ETF (ETHW) and the Grayscale Ethereum Trust (ETHE). The Grayscale Ethereum Mini Trust (ETH), which will begin trading on the same exchange.

How does an ether ETF work?

Spot ether ETFs are intended to offer exposure to the price of ether held by the funds. Ether is the underlying cryptocurrency of the Ethereal network, the second largest crypto network by market capitalization.

ETF buyers are buying shares of funds that hold ether on behalf of their shareholders. Different spot ether ETFs use different data sources when it comes to setting the price of ether. Grayscale Ethereum Trust, for example, uses the CoinDesk Ether Price Index.

None of the ETFs launching today include pointed etherwhich represents a potential opportunity cost associated with choosing an ETF over other options such as self-custody or a traditional cryptocurrency exchange.

Ether staking currently has an annual return of 3.32%, according to the Compass Staking Yield Reference Index Ethereum. However, it is possible that the SEC will eventually approve Ether staking held by ETFs.

How can I trade Ether ETFs?

ETFs can simplify the trading process for investors. In the case of cryptocurrencies, instead of taking full custody of the ether and taking care of your own private keysSpot ether ETFs allow investors to purchase the cryptocurrency underlying the Ethereum network through traditional brokerage accounts.

Today, not all brokers may offer their clients spot ETFs on cryptocurrencies.

What are the fees for ether ETFs?

The fees associated with each individual spot ether ETF were previously revealed In the S-1 OR S-3 (depending on the specific ETF) deposit associated with the offerings. These fees are 0.25% or less for all but one.

The Grayscale Ethereum Trust, which converts to an ETF, has a fee of 2.5%. The Grayscale Mini Ethereum Trust has the lowest fee at 0.15%. These fees are charged on an annual basis for the provider’s management of the fund and are in line with what was previously seen with spot bitcoin ETFs.

Brokers may also charge their own fees for cryptocurrency trading.

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Kamala Harris Odds Surge Amid $81M Fundraise. What Does It Mean for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies?

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Kamala Harris Odds Surge Amid $81M Fundraise. What Does It Mean for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies?

Market odds and memecoins related to US Vice President Kamala Harris have soared as the latest round of donations tied to the Democratic campaign raised $81 million in 24 hours, bolstering sentiment among some traders.

The odds of Harris being declared the Democratic nominee have risen further to 90% on cryptocurrency betting app Polymarket, up from 80% on Monday and setting a new high.

Previously, in early July, bettors were only betting on 8%, but that changed on Saturday when incumbent President Joe Biden announced he would no longer run in the November election. Biden then approved Harris as a candidate.

Polymarket traders placed $28.6 million in bets in favor of Harris, the data showsThe second favorite is Michelle Obama.

Somewhere else, Memecoin KAMA based on Solanaa political meme token modeled after Harris, has jumped 62% to set a new all-time high of 2 cents at a market cap of $27 million. The token is up a whopping 4,000% from its June 18 low of $0.00061, buoyed primarily by the possibility of Harris becoming president.

As such, Harris has yet to publicly comment on cryptocurrencies or her strategy for the growing market. On the other hand, Republican candidate Donald Trump has expressed support for the cryptocurrency market and is expected to appear at the Bitcoin 2024 conference on Saturday.

However, some expect Harris or the Democratic Party to mention the sector in the coming weeks, which could impact price action.

“While he has not yet received the official nomination, there is consensus that last night’s development is in line with current Democratic strategy,” cryptocurrency trading firm Wintermute said in a Monday note emailed to CoinDesk. “Keep an eye on Democrats’ comments on this issue in the coming days.

“The prevailing assumption is that Harris will win the nomination and any deviation from this expectation could cause market volatility,” the firm added.

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Top 30x Cryptocurrency and Coin Presales Today: Artemis Coin at #1, Others Are: BlockDAG, 99Bitcoin, eTukTuk, and WienerAI

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Top 30x Cryptocurrency and Coin Presales Today: Artemis Coin at #1, Others Are: BlockDAG, 99Bitcoin, eTukTuk, and WienerAI

The cryptocurrency market has seen a lot of growth and imagination lately, with new ventures popping up regularly. A critical pattern in this space is the rise of crypto pre-sales, which give backers the opportunity to get involved with promising projects early on. Artemis is a standout option for crypto investors looking to expand their portfolios amid the many pre-sales currently underway.

Cryptocurrency presales, commonly referred to as initial coin offerings (ICOs), allow blockchain ventures to raise capital by offering their local tokens to early backers before they become available on open exchanges. Investors can take advantage of these presales by purchasing tokens at a lower price. If the project is successful and the token’s value increases, investors stand to receive significant returns.

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The Ultimate List of the Top 5 Cryptocurrency Pre-Sales to Invest In

  1. Artemis: The aim of Artemis (ARTMS) will become the cryptocurrency equivalent of eBay or Amazon. The upcoming Phase 4 will see the launch of the Artemis Framework, which will serve as a stage for digital money exchanges where buyers, sellers, specialized organizations and those seeking administration can participate in coherent exchanges.
  2. DAG Block: uses Directed Acyclic Graph technology to increase blockchain scalability.
  3. 99bitcoin: operates as a crypto learning platform
  4. WienerAI uses AI-powered trading bots for precise market analysis.
  5. eTukTuk focuses on environmentally sustainable transportation options, such as electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

We have determined that Artemis is the best new cryptocurrency presale for investment after conducting extensive research. It presents itself as the unrivaled cryptocurrency presale choice currently open.

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Top 5 Crypto Pre-Sales and Best Cryptocurrencies for Investment Today

Artemis (ARTMS) is attempting to establish itself as the cryptocurrency version of eBay or Amazon. The Artemis Crypto System, which will act as a platform for cryptocurrency transactions, will be launched in Phase 4. Buyers, sellers, service providers, and requesters will all benefit from seamless trading with this system. Customers will be able to purchase things, such as mobile phones using digital money, as well as sell products such as involved bicycles and get paid in cryptocurrency. Additionally, crypto money can be used to pay for administrations such as clinical consultations, legitimate care, and freelance work. Artemis Coin will act as the main currency of the ecosystem, with Bitcoin and other well-known cryptocurrencies from various blockchain networks backing it.

Artemis Coin has increased in price from 0.00055 to 0.00101 from 0.00094. Artemis may be attractive to individuals looking to recoup losses in Bitcoin, as predicted by cryptocurrency analysts. At this point, it seems to present an interesting presale opportunity.

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The world of digital currency pre-sales is an exciting and exciting opportunity that could open the door to game-changing blockchain projects. Projects in this article, like Artemis Coin, offer the opportunity to shape the future of various industries and the potential for significant returns as the industry develops.

However, it is imperative to approach these investments with caution, thorough research, portfolio diversification, and awareness of the risks. You can explore the digital currency pre-sale scene with greater certainty and increase your chances of identifying and profiting from the most promising venture opportunities by following the advice and methods in this article.

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