NOT ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH
CONTENT:
1) Everything new is well forgotten old - VK Coin
2) From nothing, everything begins. – why TON?
3) Probably nothing, but that’s where the adventure begins - NOT CLICKER.
4) Why play the old Notcoin now?
5) NOT SQUADS - what are they?
6) NOT GAMES – official projects from notcoin?
8) NOTPIXEL
9) NOTPIXEL: Telegram Pixel Battle
12) Sticker Store
13) Notcoin philosophy - what are they aiming for?
Notcoin is a mini-app inside telegram, where you have to “tap” a coin “NOT‘’ in the center of the screen.
Ok, we have met Notcoin, you don't have to read this article any further. Is anyone really still interested? I haven't even told you anything. Hmm, nothing, that's where it all started.
Sit back, make some tea and cookies. We're going into space, to the NOT universe, the Probably nothing galaxy.
The universe didn't exist once, did it? Or has it always existed? Humans wouldn't be human if they didn't delve with curiosity into the history of their existence.
“With a big bang” you will say, and it will be true, for notcoin a kind of big bang was VK COIN.
Everything new is well forgotten old - VK Coin
The VK Coin project was created at an internal VKontakte hackathon by the Happy Santa team. Initially it was conceived as an internal project, but later it was adapted for all users for April 1.
So why did everyone like VK coin so much?
The competitive element between users and communities did not give rest to many, because all of us, one way or another, wanted to be on top, to show ourselves, to become famous for the whole world. The hype around getting to the top was endless, giving the participants fame and coverage. This generated a huge amount of support from publishers and groups, which motivated subscribers to mine koins. After 10 days, on April 10, the VK Coin mining was stopped.
During those 10 days, VK Coin attracted 10 million users: about 5 million unique VKontakte users logged into the game every day, and the peak number of players online exceeded 1.1 million, think for a couple seconds: 14,000 years of total time in the app... The total number of “coins” mined has reached 2.8 trillion.
From nothing, everything begins. – why TON?
Blockchain used to be the domain of technically advanced enthusiasts; there were no simple projects for everyone to understand. Inside a messenger, you could store and manage your assets, communicate with friends, and participate in gaming and social activities, earning rewards for doing so. TON, thanks to its integration with telegram, can turn cryptocurrency from a highly specialized technology into a tool that can be easily integrated into everyday life.
Imagine: in your area of the city only industrial plants and business centers are built. You take a bold step: you open a coffee shop in the center of this neighborhood. You are the only available place to grab a quick bite and buy coffee. Naturally, your establishment becomes popular with the employees of nearby businesses because of the fact that they don't have far to walk to your coffee shop.
Alexander Plotvinov and the Openbuilders team came up with a similar idea to open their own “coffee shop” in TON. Notcoin was presented on November 11, 2023 at The Gateway conference in Dubai. In his presentation, Alexander demonstrated the low involvement in blockchain, and presented a tool with which you need to press just one button - and make money from it. This is Notcoin. At the end of the presentation, a QR code appeared, by which one could get into the “beta-version” of notcoin and appreciate its qualities.
Probably nothing, but that’s where the adventure begins.
Notcoin game mechanics during the 'Mining phase':
Right away we would like to clarify that the project has three phases:
Mining phase - > Mint phase - > Open phase
Mining phase – time period of notcoin's history when it was a telegram clicker:
@notcoin_bot – official notcoin bot.
Let's see what it looked like before, to make it more interesting for you - our team tried to make clicker bot:
1. Go to the link in the bot: @pastnotcoin_bot
You will get 2,500 coins or 50,000 if you have Telegram Premium.
2. When the application is fully loaded, we see the main screen, in the center is a coin - this coin is the “Not a coin”. For each tap you will receive one coin to your virtual balance.
How to increase your balance quickly?
1) Boosters:
The game has several boosts that will multiply the amount of coins you can mine:
1. 🔋 Energy Limit — increases your maximum energy reserve.
2. ⚡️ Recharging speed — decreases energy recovery time.
3. 👆 Multitap — increases the number of mined coins per tap.
4. 🤖 Tap bot — mines coins when the player is offline.
Free bonuses can be activated daily:
1. 🚀 x3 - Turbo — launches a rocket that appears in a random place on the main screen, after its activation no energy is spent, also increases the number of mined coins per click, one boost lasts 15 seconds.
2. ⚡x3 Full energy — replenishes energy to the maximum.
Once your balance has reached a certain level of coins, you will move to a new league and get an additional reward - coins on your balance. The more coins you have, the higher league you are in. There are five different leagues in total:
1. Bronze League - this league is given to all players when they enter the game.
2. Silver League - you need to gain at least 5000 coins to move to the Silver League.
3. Gold League - you need to gain 200,000 coins to advance to the Gold League.
4. Platinum League - you need to accumulate 2 000 000 coins to move to the Platinum League.
5. Diamond League - 10,000,000 coins are required to advance.
2) Frens:
In this section of TMA (telegram mini-app) we are greeted by a referral link unique to each user. The user can copy their referral link by clicking 'Invite a fren' and send it to their friends. Bonuses can be earned for inviting friends:
1. User without Telegram Premium: both get a bonus of 2,500 Notcoin.
2. User with Telegram Premium: both get 50,000 Notcoin each.
You also get extra coins for referrals, for taking them to the next league level:
1 - Silver +12,500 (regular) or +125,000 (premium)
2 - Gold +25,000 (regular) or +250,000 (premium)
3 - Platinum +50,000 (regular) or +500,000 (premium)
4 - Diamond +100,000 (regular) or +1,000,000 (premium)
3) EARN - tasks:
The quests are divided into in-game and unique quests.
1. Invite 5 friends
2. Accumulate 100k coins
3. Accumulate 1 million coins
1. Subscribe to Not Researchers Community
2. Subscribe to Notcoin Community
3. Subscribe to the developer channel - CageId
League Rewards (Reward for reaching a new league):
1. Achievement of silver rank 2. Achievement of gold rank 3. Achievement of platinum rank 4. Achieve diamond rank
Why play the old Notcoin now?
3. With our application we want to clearly show people who came to other projects, where the whole era of twa games on ton began. You don't have to play at all, because this bot was created for evaluation purposes only for this article.
NOT Squads – what are they?
Not Squads is an association of people who are members of Not Games projects (notcoin included), formed into a real community or interest group. Any public chat in Telegram can be a Not Squad.
When you invite new users to your Not Squad - it will automatically become your referral. Also, he will benefit not only you, but also your group - every coin of a member of the association is added to the total balance of your community.
NOT SQUADS is an important element of notcoin and its ecosystem, it fulfills one of the main roles - uniting the community, creating cohesion and friendly atmosphere. Looking ahead, I'll say that it worked out great!
NOT GAMES – official projects from notcoin?
NOT GAMES – at the moment this is a section of notcoin application, where all projects with NOT participation are presented.
LOST DOGS
- Lost Dogs — Lost Dogs is a generative NFT collection of hundreds of unique dogs with 5 attributes and multiple properties (11-23 variants). Each doggie has a “Generation” attribute.
- The first 2,222 doggies were sold on the Getgems Marketplace for 1 TON per piece (maximum 10 per wallet).
- Players can crossbreed the dogs to get rarer offspring with a combination of the parents' attributes.
LOST DOGS: THE WAY
The game lasted 42 days, during which participants mined the $WOOF token.
The game is an interactive story where each day a new chapter of the story is published in the official Lost Dogs Co ( Eng / Ru ) channel.
Players choose 1 of 3 options for story progression. The task can be of one of three types: you need to determine either the most popular option, or the middle one, or the least popular one. The voting results are determined by the number of BONES given for each option.
The outcome of the game is a book co-written with the community.
BONES (voting unit) are used for voting.
BONES annot be saved: they must be spent every day or they will be burned.
The number of BONES depends on owning NFT Lost Dogs, completing quests, inviting friends, or buying $NOT.
Each person who votes gets some $WOOF.
Voting winners share the daily pot, which is made up of BONES purchases for $NOT.
If your squad has ≥50% of the members picking the same option (and ≥20 total votes), the winners get double the $WOOF.
You could create a new Squad, or join an existing one from Notcoin.
Ideally, you can get up to x3 WOOF for a single choice, if it turns out to be correct.
Otherwise - a small consolation prize of $WOOF awaits you.
In 42 days, 11 million players have created a unique world that has become a reality. It's a collective dream filled with vivid sensations: jungle rain, radioactive dust, Gafkus fireworks. The team combined this journey into a cartoon that tells the story of Dogtown. Check it out here: https://t.me/lostdogscoru/144
NOTPIXEL
NotPixel is a massively multiplayer online game (MMO) from Not Games on Telegram, created to play in the style of Pixel Battle. It offers users the opportunity to participate in creating art on a 1000x1000 digital canvas, similar to the famous Reddit Place project launched in 2017.
Every pixel has a meaning. Once placed, it becomes part of the canvas's permanent history. Your contribution isn't just creative. It has real value. Each pixel earns you a crypto coin $PX. And remember, even one pixel can change the history of the entire canvas, like in the butterfly effect
How to start playing:
1. Find the bot @notpixel on Telegram.
You are greeted by a digital plateau where you can create art! In this application there was a standard pumping system, which has already been described in this article for notcoin clicker.
Paid boosts:
1) Restoring
Instantly replenishes energy
2) Paint Can
Paints a 3x3 area in a color of your choice.
3) TNT Paints a selected 5x5 area with gray color
4) Pixanos
Discolors half of the world.
5) Pipette
Copies the selected pixel
6) Fast Mode Instantly places a pixel, without confirmation. Team play - Not Squads system succeeds here too: Players can join new groups, or join an existing one. Not Squads played an important role in a key event - the Tournament...
Preparing for the tournament: In notpixel there was an option to create your own 32x32 template, and submit it for a tournament entry. Multiple templates could be submitted, and all of them could participate in the grand tournament. But you needed 128 referrals to create your template, this is to ensure that you have formed at least your own small community that you will use to promote your template to the top of the leaderboards.
Tournament:
On November 30, Telegram launched a massive pixel tournament with a prize pool of $50,000,000,000,000 $PX (before conversion) for over 500,000 players. Participants had to go through 10 rounds where the patterns would decrease and the stakes would increase.
Doesn't anyone like rules? Then I'll tell you about them quite briefly:
A pattern must be selected before the round starts, and cannot be changed after the start. You can't change the template during rounds - only between rounds. Template creators cannot color their templates, only other people's templates.
Every pixel counts: correct repaints in the template colors bring +1 point, mistakes are penalized -1 point. Recoloring outside the template does not earn points. The template ranking is determined by the activity of the top 300 artists, and the top participants by the number of correct repaints. Rankings are updated each round and counted for the entire tournament.
Rounds, along with a break, last a minimum of 12 hours. Participation in the tournament is optional, but $PX rewards are only available within the tournament. Purchases do not affect rankings and all participants have an equal chance.
Each round, the number of participating templates is halved until there is one template left, the winner.
The competition was very intense, tens of thousands of people were supporting their favorite templates every day, teaming up and coming up with a strategy on how to score the most points. It's very hard to single out the best, in all teams guys tried very hard, didn't sleep, donated - did everything possible to make the template pass to the next round.
Two strongest templates remained in the final: DictatorCrypto and NotWinner.
At first, the fight was tight, but then NotWinner took the lead so that they couldn't catch up with him... And he became the first ever winner of Telegram Pixel Battle!
By the way, here is their final template:
The template has a lot of Easter hints (references), because many templates that didn't make it to the finals began to support others, and that's great! People were not upset about the defeat, and were eager to fight again! That's what it means, the power of community!
NotPixel became popular because of its simplicity and social aspect, allowing users to express themselves through pixel art and interact with other players while playing the game. If you like creative and competitive games, NotPixel can be great fun, especially as the second season starts in April with new modes, check out the official channel for more details.
DOGS – unexpected hype
DOGS is a unique Telegram bot inspired by the legendary VK mascot, Spotty, created by Pavel Durov. It appeared very unexpectedly - on July 9, at that moment nobody understood what it was and where it came from. The bot awards points solely for the age of your Telegram account and the presence of a premium subscription. No taps or additional actions - only your Telegram experience!
Absolutely explosive mechanics led to a huge hype: in 3 days, more than 10 million users entered the application! Incredible result! Later, tasks for Notcoin Levels users were released, and others.
What role did Notcoin play here?
It played the role of adviser (advisor) - someone who helps to launch his own product, then popularizes it and supports it, being the main consultant of the project. By all measures, DOGS outperformed most of the projects on TON, so NOT did a great job!
A few days after the launch of the application, the Exchanges began to announce the listing of $DOGS, there was a real intrigue and interest, the project is not two days old, and there are already announcements about its listing... August 14 was the last day until which you can farm coins in the application. Listing DOGS successfully, many players received the final airdrop of more than $ 40, as well as unforgettable emotions from this phenomenon.
Development of the mysterious project. Even more mysteries - DOGS TREASURE HUNT.
This event started on October 26, 2024, it was necessary to solve riddles and during the solution of each riddle participants received 1 word from seedphrase. The prize was $13,000,000 $DOGS (~$10,000), which was on a wallet whose seedphrase was chosen by the contestants.
People got into teams, came up with tactics, shared solutions, and it worked out much better than everyone expected. Here's an example of a riddle:
And here's the community's solution:
Interesting, isn't it? And there was money to be won! So people were happily spending their leisure time solving these puzzles with friends.
This gave an impetus to the development of the ecosystem, a strong growth of the DOGS community, thanks to which, among other things, it became possible to enter the Kraken exchange, or to pay with cryptocurrency for travel and hotel reservations.
Sticker Store
As always, already as you realized in the best traditions of notcoin and its ecosystem, suddenly, on December 24, everyone starts to spread some kind of sticker store.
What is it ? Let's figure it out.
Sticker Store - An application inside telegram to buy stickers that will soon become NFT thanks to an API that telegram is working hard on (according to Pavel Durov on token 2049) .
“It's an ordinary and boring store.” - you might say.
No, you are wrong, since its existence there have been more than 5 major collaborations: flappy bird, bored ape, pudgy penguins, baby doge, and many others, which unites not only the TON ecosystem, but also other blockchains.
Very soon to connect the ability to transfer their stickerpack, OTC trading will give a big boost to the ecosystem, attracting investment from other projects, from other blockchains.
The most interesting thing is that Pudgy Penguins took the initiative, and even decided to create some part of their brand in telegram. We will find out what exactly - later, so far there are only hints that RWA assets (toys probably) and stickers will be somehow connected.
Notcoin philosophy - what are they aiming for?
You're probably asking me “why did you elaborate on the mechanics of the projects when we already know that?”.
For your own analysis of what an insurmountable job notcoin is doing to this day.
Questioning is the right thing to do, it's the way of smart, thinking people. Naturally, as smart people, you may ask me, “so they just take the old stuff and redesign it, why is it popular?”.
I guess I'll answer that with a quote from the great founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov:
“There's always room for a new app in Telegram - as long as you have a deep understanding of the features that made its predecessors popular. The key is to borrow only what works, while innovating and standing out elsewhere.
That's exactly how Telegram became popular. We didn't invent messaging, but in 2013 we took only what was needed from existing apps. Then, by constantly listening to users and innovating, we introduced hundreds of useful new features over 12 years. This has not only made Telegram hugely popular, but also helped create a new genre of messaging”
Notcoin Ecosystem does the same thing: constantly trying new things, sometimes it works out right away (lost dogs, dogs), sometimes it doesn't, or it hasn't worked out yet, but there's nothing wrong or terrible about it, there's no need to consider the whole ecosystem bad if something once didn't work out. Everything goes forward, if you see that the project does not stand still, develops, comes up with new mechanics, develops the ecosystem - you should not be upset because of past mistakes, it is better to focus on helping the ecosystem.
In conclusion, I would like to say that Notcoin is not just a coin, it stopped being one on the first day. It's more than that - it's a community.
I like the fact that they are constantly experimenting, making some novelty, uniqueness, and not standing in one place. I wish them to make their projects even better, even bigger, even more unique!