😈 Trouble on Telegram's new marketplace came from where no one expected

Remember a month ago I wrote about mass refunds? 🔜 POST

It seemed reasonable to expect that Telegram’s built-in marketplace would protect users from things like that. But turns out, there are already cases where a refund happens, and the buyer ends up with no stars and no gift. And there are even reports of purchases going through at three times the listed price due to a Telegram glitch.

So yeah, right now it’s all pretty raw, and clunky. Personally, I won’t be buying anything there yet, let alone selling with a 20% fee.

Also, telegram released an update for desktops, so now you can access TG Marketplace from PC version too 👀

Fun fact: Tonnel has already integrated this marketplace. There’s a separate filter where you can select TG Marketplace and buy gifts with TON instead of stars.
But I won’t be using that either — for now. Let Telegram fix their stuff first...

🪙 Blum is shutting down the Drop game

You’ve got less than three days left to use your tickets.

Until May 13, the Drop game gives double points, then it’ll be closed and all remaining tickets will be burned.

As for me — no way I’m clicking through all those tickets. That activity is way too boring. My mood after just one round is perfectly summed up by that video — not even considering grinding through the whole pile.

How about you? Used your tickets already? 😢

TGE is getting closer, so now’s a great time to refresh your memory on the drop criteria 🔜 POST
Guide on farming Meme Points 🔜 READ

🪙 Launch Blum 🪙

🖼 The marketplace by Sticker Store hasn't launched again

But they did share a link to an approved third-party platform with the following message:

The first approved 3rd party market is @palacenftbot . Their team worked closely with us and integrated our API for a safe and compliant userflow.

The bot features a solid referral system — you earn a cut of your referrals’ trading fees and 30 points per invited user, which can be exchanged for sticker raffle tickets.
Additionally, you can earn up to 1,100 extra points through task-based invites.

🏰 Launch PalaceNFT 🏰

The app still has a small user base (under 30K MAU), so conversion to referrals through Starfall should be high — at least for now.

🚀 Get PalaceNFT referrals 🚀

🛒 MRKT sets official launch date and time

Launching on May 13 at 13:00 UTC — the countdown is already live inside the app.

This is another Telegram gift marketplace. @mrkt has been running an aggressive marketing campaign.

Personally, I’m curious to see how much market share they’ll be able to carve out and whether their product will actually compete. A big chunk of their promo strategy involved throwing shade at Tonnel. which kind of sets the bar high — as if they’ll be offering something miles ahead from day one. I have my doubts, but let’s see 🍷

Speaking of Tonnel, there's definitely a piece of the pie to go after — yesterday alone, over 82% of all gift trades happened there, with another ~9% split between Getgems and Fragment.

Also worth noting: MRKT promises a reward for connecting your wallet as an early user.

🛒 Launch MRKT 🛒

🕊 Since today seems to be announcement day for May 13 (Blum, MRKT), here’s one more event to keep on your radar

📦 ZarGates x 🦆 MemHustle

Reach level 30 in MemHustle and you’ll receive the legendary “Egg of Power” artifact in ZarGates — it gives a +400% bonus to gold earned from MemHustle daily quests.

The event runs until May 13, 2:00 UTC

To get the artifact, repost this tweet [click], with a screenshot showing you’ve hit level 30 in MemHustle, tag 3 friends, and include your Telegram ID.
You can get your TG ID here: @myidbot

🦆 Launch MemHustle 🦆

💫 Starfall can help you reach level 30 faster. You get gems for referrals, and gems = high-level memes, which speed things up a lot. I explained the referral system in this post [click].

⚛️ Get MemHustle referrals ⚛️

💰 TinyVerse — How to Get Started?

Official beginner's guide is still mostly relevant, though missions have been added since.
You can read more about them here:
⭐️ Post about missions
⭐️ Post about mission rewards

More about TinyVerse:
📚 About Population Debuff
🏆 Tired, but Holding on!
🏆 Other Achievements
🌌 What’s next
🧮 How to calculate your stardust mining duration

TinyVerse ref system. How does it work?

What’s in it for you?
- Boosters
- Progress toward an achievement that increases your stardust mining speed

Where to find your ref link?
Alien > Lightning > Refer friends

💰 Launch TinyVerse 💸

✨ I got +20% stardust mining speed for 60 hours and 60 hours of auto-harvest for 20 referrals.
My conversion rate through Starfall was around 20%, meaning I got 20 referrals from 100⚛️.
Note: not all referrals are counted immediately — they need to create a galaxy first.

❗️ No guarantees you’ll get the same numbers, I just sharing my experience.

⚛️ Get referrals for TinyVerse ⚛️

🌌 Less than an hour left until the 16th Spring Drop in Starfall!

Make sure everything’s set: got your tickets registered? Then you’re in for the ⭐️star, ⚛️click, and 🎟ticket drop!

To get the most out of your ⚛️clicks, check out the trick from this post — it’s packed with tips, including a few sneaky mechanics that most people miss 😉

💫 Jump into Starfall and don’t miss the drop 💫

😻 Digest (May 4 — May 11)

Catch up on recent updates: TinyVerse farming changes, nearly $1M in Catizen rewards, new marketplaces, and more in this week’s digest.

❓ "How does it work?" series
💰 TinyVerse ref system 🔜 POST

🪙 Not Pixel officially launched PX staking — 24% APY for 90 days, with special terms promised for loyal holders 🔜 POST

👏 The pengu app is live (with limited features for now) 🔜 POST

💰 TinyVerse increased the maximum stardust mining time! 🔜 CHECK IT

😺 Catizen finished the Season 2 AirDrop Pass distribution — nearly $1M in $CATI given out. Withdrawal requests accepted for two weeks 🔜 POST

⭐️ Three new limited-edition gifts are out (still time to grab them!) 🔜 POST

🥚 Telegram launched a gift marketplace — you can now buy and sell gifts for stars 🔜 READ

🪙 Blum’s Drop game ends on May 13 — unused tickets will expire, so use them while you can 🔜 POST + MEME

🗼 Sticker Store’s marketplace didn’t launch, but a third-party one did — PalaceNFT, where you can earn through referrals and join raffles for points 🔜 POST

🛒 MRKT launches on May 13 at 13:00 UTC — promising rewards for early users and clearly aiming to challenge Tonnel in the gift market. Will it succeed? 🔜 POST

🕊 Don’t miss the event 📦 ZarGates x 🦆 MemHustle — earn the legendary “Egg of Power” (+400% gold from MemHustle dailies) 🔜 POST

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🎟 Your ticket to your growing referral tree — Starfall!
😻 List of mini-apps we play
😻 "How does it work?" series

🪙 Not Pixel testing Season 2

The team has shared some details about how the tournament prize pool will be distributed — and it’ll grow based on players activity. To kick things off, they’ve seeded the pool with 1,000,000 PX (~$78,400 at current rates).

Here are the categories where the most active players will split the rewards:
- Top Squads – by total pixels owned
- First Pixel Degens – top First Pixel buyers (for 1 PX)
- Pixel Hoarders – top holders by total pixels owned
- Final Pixel Snipers – top by last-minute buys
- Top Pixel Flex – whoever owns the most expensive Pixel

Curious to see how exactly the prize pool scaling will work — so far, the prize pool looks a bit underwhelming. What’s your take?

🪙 Launch Not Pixel 🪙

🛒 MRKT has launched

Well, technically it launched 50 minutes ago, but for me it's been barely functioning. Buttons respond inconsistently, subscriptions in giveaways don’t register, and the verification button is often unclickable.
Still, some trading activity is happening — the profile @mrktbank already holds over 62,000 gifts. For comparison, Tonnel’s @giftrelayer as over 225,000 gifts.

By the way, I still haven’t figured out what exactly the wallet connection reward is. Maybe a lower trading fee? I’m seeing 8% on my end — what about you?

🛒 Launch MRKT 🛒

🗼 Stickers Giveaway on PalaceNFT

A few days ago, I wrote about the first approved third-party sticker marketplace.

Right now, they’re running a giveaway with 25 sticker packs up for grabs:
♥ 5 Pengu Valentines packs — floor 19.7 TON ($64.37)
🐶 20 DOGS OG King packs — floor 3.45 TON ($11.57)

One giveaway ticket costs 50 points.You can earn points by completing tasks and inviting friends.

If you invite 50 friends, you’ll get 2,600 points (1,100 from tasks), which gives you 52 tickets.

There are 100,000 tickets, so with 52 you’ve got a 1.3% chance to win (much better odds than some 🦺 Treasury giveaways🍷)

🗼 Launch PalaceNFT 🗼

I got my referrals using Starfall. The conversion rate is still solid — I got ~86%, meaning I needed just 58⚛️ to get 50 referrals.
Competition for this app is fierce, so I recommend checking out these Starfall tips [click].

There are still 42,000 tickets left, so you’ve got time to stack some points. And if you need more clicks — don’t forget to join the Starfall 🌌drop, with results coming tomorrow!

⭐️ Get referrals for PalaceNFT ⭐️

🪙 Prize Pool Breakdown for Not Pixel

Another post about the second season of Not Pixel was released today on the project’s channel. They've added some extra details to what we already knew:

Prize Bank 🏦— this is where the rewards come from (1,000,000 PX to start, with the amount increasing as the tournament progresses).

🏆1% — for owners of the most expensive pixels
If you own a pixel purchased at a very high price, you will get at least 10,000 PX (or share this amount if there are multiple pixels with the same price). → This is a small but "elite" category.

🐇 10% — among the last 512 buyers of pixels at the end of the tournament
So, if you buy pixels just before the tournament ends, you’ll be added to this group and share in the 10% of the prize pool. → If you manage to buy all 512 of the last pixels yourself, you’ll get at least 100,000 PX. But no one knows exactly when the tournament ends — that’s the catch.

🏦 20% — among the 512 players with the most pixels at the end of the tournament
→ The more pixels you own by the end of the tournament, the higher your chances of getting a share of the 20% pool.

🐸 30% — among the 512 players who bought the most pixels at 1 PX each
→ This is the reward for buying cheap pixels (at 1 PX). The more you buy, the more you’ll get from the 30% pool.

🐥 39% — divided among the top 16 squads (groups of 64 players) with the most pixels
→ This is a team competition. The top 16 teams with the most total pixels share 39% of the pool.

They also mentioned a Burn Bank🔥 — more details will come later.

You can win in several categories.

The post ends with the following:

There could be hundreds of thousands of winners. Just buy the right pixel at the right time.

I didn’t quite understand this part. Or rather, I didn’t understand it at all. If you read everything as it’s written, it seems that each category will have no more than 512 winners, except for the squad pool, which has 1024 winners, and the most expensive pixel pool, where there could be multiple winners.
If my math is correct, that would be 2,561 winners, assuming each winner only competes in one category.

Even if we assume that they mean "512 spots" rather than "512 winners", implying that each spot could have multiple players, the math still doesn’t add up for me.

Well, okay, let's assume that multiple players share the same spot — even if it’s 10 people per spot. But if we’re talking about hundreds of thousands of winners (let’s take at least 200,000), that would mean, on average, 78 people per spot. And that’s counting it very roughly. If we think about it a bit more logically, it would actually be more than 78 people per spot (in the squads — fewer).

In this scenario, we could reach hundreds of thousands of winners (spoiler: the rewards will get very diluted), but then the information in the post doesn’t make sense...

Either I misunderstood something, or it’s all a bit strange. At first, I thought "this is a cool activity for those who will flood it with pixels. Most winners will likely break even", but the last part crushed that thought. What are your thoughts? Let’s break it down 🔍

By the way, if you really wanted to stake PX for 90 days with a 24% APY, the pool has been expanded again 😢

🪙 Launch Not Pixel 🪙

🛒 Tried using @mrkt for a few days — so far, impressions are good. The sweep floor is top-notch (hello Blur), and stickers clearly belong in the same marketplace as gifts, which is something MRKT is planning. Giveaways are well done and pleasant for all parties.

If you want to start a channel from scratch now — about crypto / gifts / whatever — for just 0.8 TON, you can still get a decent, non-bot starter audience. Around 500 real users.

🥺 If I compare it with Tonnel — I’ll choose MRKT.
Simply because I don’t like the founder Freeman’s policy where he can suddenly seize someone’s assets.
There was a precedent. And just recently he wrote in his channel that for influencers promoting MRKT, he’ll cut their Tonnel referral rewards by 50%.
Honestly, he should focus on fixing how his referral system works — it’s the only one where the link switches owners. Instead of punishing users, he should first fix that.

Still, respect to Tonnel as a pioneer. But the founder’s eccentricity puts user assets at risk, and that’s unacceptable in crypto.

🎁 Meanwhile, the floor price of the Plush Pepe gift has exceeded 1000 TON.

💎 Notcoin Listing — One Year Later

Let’s take a walk down memory lane, see what’s happened since, and take stock of where we are now.

It’s hard to estimate just how many people first touched crypto thanks to NOT. According to Sasha from the Notcoin team, over 2 million withdrawal requests to exchanges were submitted on May 16. (I’d love to know how many new users Notcoin brought to those exchanges.) And as for how many joined crypto with the launch of Notcoin’s TMA era — well, that number’s probably impossible to guess.

At TGE prices, Notcoin airdroped $560 million worth of tokens — making it one of the biggest airdrops of 2024 (top 10). What really set it apart, though, is that users didn’t need to invest anything to participate. And around 80% of the tokens were distributed to the community. (Notcoin wrote about 96%, but I’m more inclined to believe sources like cryptorank and icodrops).

Some numbers worth highlighting:
— 11.5 million people earned NOT
— $202 average bag (not sure if they mean airdropped or total holdings)
— 2.5 weeks after listing, NOT hit an ATH with price $0.0233 and a market cap of $2.39B. It stayed above listing price until August 26, with a few brief bumps above afterward — last time in early December. Current market cap is $278.7M
— $220M worth of NOT was distributed to users after TGE

After the listing, subscription tiers were introduced — paid in NOT — and those affected farming speed in pools. Pools, at first, were launching like crazy and getting drained fast.

But eventually... the pools just stopped coming. What happened there? No one really knows.

Personally, I didn’t buy any subscriptions. So I’m curious — did it pay off for those who did? I remember people getting extra airdrops like DOGS and others — maybe that helped recover the cost. But if someone bought, say, Platinum six months ago, I’m not sure they’d even have made half of it back.

Still, for me — and probably for many others — Notcoin brings mostly good memories. After all, it was the starting point for the whole TMA movement. It’s the reason we’re here in this channel now, still exploring new projects together. Sure, TMA isn't in its prime right now, but I’m hopeful for a comeback. Tap-to-earn games had to die eventually — and now the market’s evolving, with real games starting to appear on Telegram.

Curious to see what’s next for Notcoin. Seems like they’re cooking something up (hopefully more than just Not Pixel Season 2 😢).
On their official TG channel, they wrote:

we gonna celebrate our birthday with you probably for a couple of weeks

gifts, stickers, games and all kinds of other stuff

So — what did you get out of the project? Or what did you give? Still waiting on something? Did your subscription pay off, if you bought one? Would love to hear your stories. As for me, my Notcoin story pretty much ended about five weeks after the listing. I was hoping it would pump higher after the ATH — it didn’t, so I sold 🍷

💎 Launch Notcoin 💎

🔥 Since the legend is asking...

Let’s grab that dropped HOT

1. Join the village
2. Follow the link to claim your HOT

You’ll need some NEAR for gas to use HOT. To find the cheapest way to withdraw any token, check out @TopRadar_bot

📣 Bombie x Top Tap TGE AMA (in Russian)

For our Russian-speaking friends:

Друзья, в этот понедельник в нашем русскоязычном канале состоится эксклюзивная официальная АМА с Bombie. Если вы читаете контент тут и не знаете о том, что у нас есть канал на русском — самое время подписаться!

@toptaptap
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🍺 Remember Swisstronik mining event in Pixel Wallet?

The network is back in the wallet, and you can now apply for the airdrop.

Details on eligibility, distribution criteria, and the full list of participants will be announced later.

For now, you’ve got 14 days to hit that registration button.

🚀 Register for the Swisstronik airdrop in Pixel Wallet 🚀

💎 The first Notcoin Birthday activity begins

If you hold some NOT — you can take part in it

How to participate:

💎 Connect wallet to @notcoin_bot to confirm Notcoin hold.

🏴 Play @VoidNotHereBot (for free) and compete with other players

They wrote that the more you hold & play = the better drops you have, there are 2 weeks & over 10,000 gift boxes with golden Telegram gifts, rare Stickers and other valuable rewards.