Widespread messaging app Telegram is within the midst of a crypto gaming phenomenon, spurred by tap-to-earn video games like Notcoin and Hamster Kombat which have pulled in thousands and thousands upon thousands and thousands of gamers to their “mini apps.” And now Telegram has made it simpler for gamers to hop between a number of such video games through its iOS and Android apps.
On Tuesday, Telegram introduced that it has launched a “mini app bar” characteristic for its cellular apps, enabling multitasking by letting customers quickly swap between a number of open mini apps. This is applicable to all varieties of apps constructed for the platform, together with the Telegram Pockets bot and quite a few video games.
The characteristic lets customers collapse Telegram mini apps right into a helpful bar on the backside of the display, so customers can bounce between chats, apps, and video games.
“The current Telegram replace revolutionizes how folks work together with mini apps,” Telegram co-founder and CEO Pavel Durov wrote in his private channel. “Now folks can collapse apps and swap between them. Sooner or later, this new backside bar can even retailer internet pages and different content material for later studying.”
Telegram says that greater than 500 million customers at the moment are interacting with mini apps, which embrace a rising mountain of video games tied to present or upcoming crypto tokens. The service beforehand claimed some 900 million whole customers, suggesting that over half of customers have tapped and swiped by means of apps constructed with the native Telegram framework.
A lot of that surge seems to be pushed by viral crypto video games, together with Notcoin, which kicked off the tap-to-earn development on the messaging platform earlier this 12 months—and Hamster Kombat, which claims to have greater than 200 million customers because it sees fast development and adoption forward of plans to debut a token on The Open Community (TON).
With the brand new characteristic, Telegram customers can extra simply bounce between a number of video games to faucet away at their screens, declare day by day login rewards, and extra. Different notable Telegram video games on the rise embrace Yescoin, Catizen, PixelTap, TapSwap, W-Coin, and Gemz.
Hamster Kombat’s official Telegram channel seen that Durov’s posted picture consists of the buzzy crypto sport.
“Seems like Pavel Durov was busy with new updates and simply began enjoying Hamster Kombat!” the channel wrote. “Pavel, please, take into account that upgrading your playing cards and growing revenue per hour is extra essential than the coin steadiness!”
Edited by Ryan Ozawa.