In this guide we dive into Telegram and the opportunities it offers to farm crypto airdrops. We will explore ways to find new games and dapps on Telegram, which may offer opportunities for Web3 users to acquire free crypto when the token launches. Some of these may be easy airdrop farming campaigns, while others may be a lot more elaborate. Let’s go!
In 2024, Telegram has been one of the fastest growing social media platforms for crypto games. Driven by the success of Notcoin, Hamster Kombat and Catizen, a flood of new projects launched clicker games. These games often offer passive gameplay, or very repetitive clicking action. It’s not without reason these games introduced the concept of tap-to-earn. However, as the trend grew, more sophisticated gaming projects hit the market.
Before you dive in, it’s important to know that a game on Telegram can utilize any blockchain thanks to API integrations. Obviously various games built on TON launched on Telegram, but the famous social platform also hosts games built on Mantle, BNB Chain and Solana. Therefore, you should know that Telegram is not exclusive to TON, or one particular blockchain. It’s an open platform where any developer can launch a game, service, tool and other type of software.
Finding airdrops to farm on Telegram
Finding airdrop opportunities comes isn’t easy. You will need to jump to various hoops to discover new potential prospects. However, being early could be worth it. Below we have listed 3 ways you can discover interesting apps on Telegram that could offer an airdrop.
Top grossing apps on Telegram
Of course you will need a Telegram account, make sure you have one. Once you are logged in, use the following steps to find all kinds of ‘mini apps’.
- Click on the ‘search bar’ at the top of your screen
- Now a top bar menu shows up, click the button ‘apps’
Here you will find some of the most successful apps on Telegram. Not all these games will have airdrops, or some may have already had that airdrop. But even if the airdrop has already taken place, these mini apps will offer earning opportunities with their tap-to-earn mechanics.
Find Telegram games on DappRadar
Through the DappRadar Rankings you can find all kinds of dapps, including games or other apps that run on Telegram. You will be able to find data on projects like Yescoin, Catizen or MemeFi. However, no matter how you filter through the Rankings, you won’t be able to filter based on the platform these games run on. Therefore, finding Telegram games with a potential airdrop would require users to do the following:
- Go to the Games Rankings
- Apply a filter with a UAW range of at least 1,000 and less than 100,000.
- Now scroll through the Rankings and find projects without a token
- When you find one, open its project page and read the description to find our whether it runs on Telegram
- When you found one, press “Open dapp” to go to the official website
Of course, you can also filter through the newly listed gaming apps. Just go to the Rankings, filter by “new”, and perhaps filter per chain.
Set an Alert for new dapps
DappRadar also offers its users the opportunity to receive an alert when a new dapp gets listed in a certain product category, or on a certain blockchain. Below you can find the steps on how to create your own alert.
- Make sure you are logged in to DappRadar
- Press your account in the right corner of the top menu
- In the opened module, press “Alerts”
- Now press “Create Alert”
- And then press “New Dapps”
Now you need to follow the steps, and decide which product categories or blockchain ecosystems you want to filter out. You will receive these alerts on DappRadar, but as a PRO member you can also have them sent to your Telegram or Discord account.
Best tap-to-earn and airdrop opportunities on Telegram
Telegram already offers a wide variety of earning opportunities for casual gamers and airdrop farmers alike. Below we have listed a couple of these gaming projects:
- Play and use the mini-app center of Catizen, and earn CATI
- Swipe and earn with Yescoin, built on the TON blockchain
- Tap-and-earn with MemeFi, which also features PVE and PVP gameplay and a variety of mechanics. MEMEFI airdrop soon!
- Crypto parody game Boinkers currently has its airdrop farming campaign live to get BOINK
- Anomaly Games Inc is making an AI-powered gaming app chain, and they’ve got their own Telegram app with quests and daily challenges
More airdrops for you to farm
DappRadar offers various ways for users to earn from their activity on the blockchain. It’s difficult to find interesting opportunities through platforms like Medium and X, because these are filled with scams. Through DappRadar we only list the most interesting airdrops, while also offering our users Quests to explore new and exciting dapps, tools and platforms.
If you are looking for airdrops and earning opportunities on DappRadar, please take a look at the following tools:
- Quests – Every week we deploy new quests in collaboration with industry partners. Through these Quests users can level up their account and compete for seasonal prizes, while the quest itself often also come with prizes.
- Airdrops Explorer – Farming airdrops often isn’t simple, because you need to complete various tasks over a period of time. Therefore we have created the Airdrops Explorer, allowing users to use this tool as a guide as they farm for airdrops for industry leading and upcoming ecosystems.
- Play to Earn Games of the Month – On a monthly basis we update this article to highlight which games have interesting earning opportunities, either through airdrop campaigns or newly launched earning opportunities. You may want to bookmark this article for future reference.
- PRO Membership – As a PRO member you not only have access to more data and tools here on DappRadar, but you also benefit from marketing partnerships. The DappRadar team works hard to create interesting discovery opportunities for our PRO community, where they receive crypto tokens through our PRO Airdrops to help them explore new ecosystems.
In my personal opinion, I’d try out the Airdrops Explorer if I were you. Just saying.
