Will Telegram’s Tap-to-Earn Gaming Boom Be Able to Dodge Play-to-Earn’s Downfall?

Telegram gaming has been one of crypto’s biggest winners in 2024.
Hamster Kombat
pulled in
300 million players
ahead of this week’s airdrop, and
Notcoin
launched a token that neared a $3 billion market cap—a screen-tapping game yielding one of the 100 biggest coins on the planet.

All of this revolves around the
tap-to-earn
mechanic, a simple concept with a growing list of variations and permutations. But has this model truly evolved upon the fraught play-to-earn gaming craze that dominated the last bull cycle before crashing and burning? Or is tap-to-earn doomed to the same eventual fate of mockery and shrugs from the masses?

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Edited by Andrew Hayward