The Catizen mini-game for Telegram earned $16 million in in-game purchases and donated 1% of them to rescue stray cats. This was told by the founder of the messenger Pavel Durov.
According to him, the game has attracted more than 26 million users. Through the use of TON-based smart contracts to receive in-game rewards, Catizen introduced them to the blockchain.
Durov also mentioned that the project team has created tools for other developers to easily launch games in Telegram and TON.
The Catizen game won the App Battle competition as part of the third season of The Open League program. In it, you need to breed cats and complete tasks for farming points.
Earlier it became known that The Open Platform company and the venture division of the Binance crypto exchange invested unnamed amounts in Pluto Studio, the publisher of Catizen.