During the last few weeks crypto markets have been quite stagnant neither pumping nor dumping furthe. Been a very quiet period in the Airdrops front as well, no big airdrops look in the short term horizen as well.
Most of the action thesedays seem to be happening in the TON blockchain due to it’s direct interface with Telegram app. Most people ignored it during the NotCoin airdrop as they dismissed Tap 2 Earn as a silly fad but once NotCoin turned out to be one of the biggest airdrops of the year with 0 investment and little time invested everyone started paying attention to new projects being launched on Ton chain via Telegram.
Crazy Volumes on Ton Blockchain!
For a long time since it’s launch Ton was ignored by the mainstream crypto community but it soon caught up in popularity thanks to ease of use from your phone through the Telegram app. Being easily interfaced with Teleram meant you could open it anytime, share it with all your friends and once the Ton Wallet got linked to Telegram the user base just exploded.
With the success of NotCoin which I talked about in my previous blogs, there was a sudden rush of new projects being launched on NotChain to cash in on the popularity. Most of these were copy paste projects without any clear long term plan. The one that was a bit different was Catizen and that is why I decided to check it out.
Catizen: Lost Opportunity for Greatness!
Catizen started off really well with an engaging gameplay of rasing your kitty levels and forming a platform to launch new games. They wanted to expand their userbase to include more players and so they delayed their airdrop. This created a problem that as the userbase swelled it was obvious the airdrop will be not sufficient to make everyone happy. Specially the OG gang was not too excited as they saw no priority given to them and the overall airdrop value being diluted by considering hundreds of thousands of players who just started playing a few days before the airdrop.
Other factor they could have avoided was not rewarding regular players and rather focusing on players who spent a lot of money on the game. Promoting Pay 2 Earn never ends well long term.
Still I would say it was not a disaster as I ended up with about 50 coins for few minutes spent a day for a few weeks.
BLUM: Why it looks like a GameChanger!
At first I ignored BLUM as it was one of the hundered apps beign launched on TonChain and within days it hit million of users. Currently they have more than 60 million users, ofcourse there will be many cases of people using multiple IDs but still the number is mind blowing. This made me a bit skeptical as such big numbers mean that airdrop will get diluted.
I still decided to try out this app as there was something about it which made it stand out from the competition.
BLUM has the real potential to become the most widely used app by the crypto community. We all that all CEX seemed to be getting into legal complications and DEX suffer from the limitation of not supporting multiple chains.
BLUM plans to solve this ussue by offering a DEX model via P2P trading which offers converting into your local fiat currency without the hassles of KYC.
This powered with the ease of integration with Telegram will make it accessible to literally everyone on the planet.
How to Get the BLUM Airdrop?
At the moment the app is very simple and the only thing you can do to get a bigger slice of the airdrop is to keep using the app regulalry and increase your BLUM points. This can be done by playing their game, checking out their youtube videos and X/Twitter updates.
If you have still not joined the BLUM mania feel free to use my referral- https://t.me/blum/app?startapp=ref_zj7xri2AtV
All you need to get started is a Telegram account. Also create a TON wallet if you already don’t have it so you can collect the future airdrop there.
Cheers,
Sam
