Telegram Narratives – But Who’s Going to Pay?!

Here are the key points I noted at the TG conference – Part 2:

About Advertising:
🟢 By the numbers: There are currently 230-240K channels with over 1,000 subscribers available in Telegram Ads, and this number will continue to grow.

🟢 Throughout 2024, the use of emoji in ad creatives has been rising, boosting CTR.

🟢 Women on TG interact with ads 53.4% more than men. The dominant age group: 25-34.

🟢 40% of ad clicks happen within the first hour of publication. Don’t overshadow your ad post with organic content. Waiting at least 2 hours boosts profits by an average of 30%.

🟢 The economically active population is the main demographic engaging with ads in Telegram channels.

🟢 Post length: The highest CTR (0.25%) comes from posts with less than 200 characters, while the optimal length is up to 400 characters.

🟢 Best time to publish: Ads posted in the morning have the highest click-through rates, 20%+ higher than other times of day.

🟢 By gender: 73% of the audience trusts specific public creator channels, while news channels (27%) and impersonal channels (7%) see less trust.

🟢 63% of Telegram users have donated at least once, and 48% are willing to pay for access to exclusive content (debatable, but okay!).

🟢 84% of users view ads on Android. Surprising 🤔.

Conclusion: We're witnessing the emergence of a trend—a significant increase in activities surrounding the Telegram super app. ✉️

My R&D teams are also busy preparing some exciting products for you. I hope to surprise you soon 😎

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⚡️ GN, friends! Here's a digest of key events over the past week:

🪙 Cryptocurrency:

💰 MicroStrategy has bought another 7,420 $BTC for $458 million, bringing their total to 252,220 BTC

⚡ BlackRock called Bitcoin a "unique diversification tool" in its report

🪙 The SEC has approved spot Bitcoin options from BlackRock.

🔻 Justin Sun from Tron has reduced network fees by 50%

💎 Bitget and Foresight Ventures bought $30 million worth of TON from "whales"

💸 Financial News:

🇺🇸 The U.S. Federal Reserve lowered the interest rate by 0.5% for the first time in 4 years, bringing it to 4.75-5%

🇨🇳 China's economy is slowing down, with retail sales and production declining.

🇺🇦 The EU is providing Ukraine with €35 billion as part of its G7 commitments. The Bank of England has maintained its interest rate at 5%.

🔐 Regulation:

🇧🇾 Belarus has banned trading cryptocurrency on foreign platforms

🏛 Louisiana has begun accepting cryptocurrency for government services payments

🇩🇪 Germany has blocked 47 servers of illegal crypto exchanges

☠️ Hacks:

😎 BingX was hacked for $43 million

🤡 A user mistakenly sent $649k to scammers

🫡 Hackers stole $7 million by getting a job at Delta Prime protocol

🔥 Weekly Wrap-up:
Crypto continues to surprise—from massive $BTC purchases to unexpected moves by governments and large companies. New technologies are evolving rapidly, and hacks remind us to stay vigilant. Keep your eyes on the market, friends, this is just the beginning! 🚀

Stay informed, and may your investments bring you nothing but profit! 🙌

Yours, @DAOPilot 😉

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Tears of Hamsters $HMSTR 😭

Part One of the Marlezon Hamster Ballet

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Finally, the hamster has delivered the long-awaited airdrop, which 300 million players had been waiting for.

📌 So, what did Hamster Kombat players actually get?

Words can't describe it—just pure emotions. The average account received around $13, which likely didn’t meet the expectations of many.

⚫️More than 300 million players—including bots.
⚫️113+ million players (43%) will receive the airdrop.
⚫️2.3 million players were banned as cheaters—though I suspect it’s much more!
⚫️Out of 1 billion $HMSTR tokens, 75% will go to players. 60% will be distributed in Season 1, and 15% in Season 2.
⚫️89% of the airdrop will be paid out immediately, while the remaining 11% will be unlocked 10 months after listing.

Where can you spend your $HMSTR riches? ⭐

There will be an option to stake them (similar to a bank deposit), but given the community's mood, the hunger from people who’ve been grinding for six months, the hamsters will likely dump on day one just to stop stressing and finally buy a Lambo. Just think back to the Notcoin chart.

The pre-market for $HMSTR has already been running for a while.

ℹ️ Let me explain pre-market:

🔴Pre-market on crypto exchanges is a trading phase where participants can place buy orders for tokens before the official listing.

Looking at the chart attached to the post, the pre-market price has dropped 35x already, and recently it was down 64xfrom the start of the pre-market. Large volumes have been poured in lately, seemingly to stop the price from falling further before the listing.

What will happen on listing day? 🕯

A bit of history (behind-the-scenes insights):

Hamster Kombat emerged when many were already playing or at least hearing about Notcoin.

The Hamster Kombat team needed promotion, so they reached out to “Headliners”(Nikita) with an offer to help in exchange for 25% of the project's revenue.

At the time, the project was valued at $10 million. Ed (the owner of Hamster) didn’t have funds for listing and marketing, but the tokenomics included a KOL round. Nikita brought in influencers who raised $300K and started promoting the project on their channels.

The project gained popularity, but when its valuation jumped to $120 million, conflicts arose. Nikita demanded $25 million for his work, but Ed refused. The conflict deepened, and the tokenomics changed: influencers received only 0.4%instead of the expected profits.
Although Ed offered a 10x return in tokens, it didn’t satisfy anyone, and the scandal only intensified.
The controversy surrounding Hamster Kombat turned out to be more complicated than it seemed.

🟢Pavel Durov himself promoted the project on his channel back in July:

The Hamster team will soon release their token on TON, bringing the benefits of blockchain to hundreds of millions of people. A new era is dawning, and we are witnessing its arrival in real-time.

Clearly, $TON (via Durov) promised to help the project and allocated resources for it. The fact that TON Core head Anatoly Makosov specifically wrote a new smart contract — TON Mintless Jettons — for this, and passionately urged all TON infrastructure projects to support this contract, speaks volumes.
In short, this is a token that can be distributed to hundreds of millions of users on the TON network without crashing the blockchain, as happened with Notcoin listings throughout the summer.

⚫️Top exchanges (Binance, OKX, Bybit) welcomed the project with open arms, eager to secure the fuel (millions of hamsters) for the next bull run.

I’m convinced that exchanges contributed marketing funds themselves, which is usually the project’s responsibility. For instance, Binance is launching a Launchpool, where they’ll give away 3 billion $HMSTR — 3% of the total supply.

The listing is set for September 26 on all major exchanges.
I think I'll stay on the sidelines for now... 😏

What about you Pump - 👍 or Dump - 🤯?

Yours, @PilotDAO 😉

⚡ Hey, Folks! Here’s our roundup of key #Crypto and #Finance events for the past week:

🪙 Cryptocurrencies:

🤑 BTC has been growing for the third consecutive week, up 3.5% over the last 7 days

🟠 CZ has been released from prison and announced that he will not be returning to work at Binance

💰 PayPal has enabled cryptocurrency purchases for business clients

🐹 Hamster Kombat listed on September 26 and then fell by 41% after a brief surge🔪

🇺🇸 Kamala Harris stated that the U.S. aims to become a dominant force in the blockchain space

🔻 Meme token platform SunPump launched the NFT trading platform NFTPump on TRON

🇩🇪 The German parliament formed a Bitcoin association

💰 Exchanges:

☝️ ByBit launched the world’s first Islamic crypto account

🟠 Binance started a pre-market trading program featuring “real tokens"

💸 Financial News:

🇨🇳 China announced its largest economic stimulus package since 2020

🤨 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang completed a $700 million stock sale

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia is considering dropping its oil production limitations to regain market share

🔐 Regulation:

✈️ Telegram will share user IP addresses and phone numbers with law enforcement upon request

⛓ Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison was sentenced to 2 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $11 billion

🇱🇺 The Dutch Authority for Financial Markets (AFM) will start targeting pump-and-dump schemes in the crypto market

🇧🇾 BNY received SEC approval to offer crypto custody services

🔥 Weekly Recap:
Old man $BTC spent last week climbing towards the upper resistance line around ~$68,000 but didn’t manage to break through. The Fear and Greed Index overheated to 61, leading to today’s local correction.
I’ll share more about the Fear and Greed Index and my thoughts on $BTC and the altcoins I trade in upcoming posts.

Subscribe so you don’t miss out on the excitement. We’re in for a hot 🔥 autumn ahead!

Yours,
@PilotDAO 😉

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💪 One Month with @DaoPilot - Flight Status: Smooth ⚡️

Folks, exactly one month ago, on September 1st, I launched two channels— @DaoPilot for 🇷🇺 Russian-speaking and @PilotDao for 🇬🇧 English-speaking audiences. So, it’s time to recap the month!

During this time, I’ve published 48 posts (excluding giveaways).

Top-5 posts of September:
— Telegram Narratives for 2024 - Part 1 “Where’s the Money?” ⭐️ and Part 2
— Tears of Hamsters $HMSTR 😭
— Hamster Syndrome or End of the Tap-to-Earn Season? 📣
— Ads in TG and Telegram Mini Apps 🫵
— What is TOL (Ton Open League) and TON Foundation?

Takeaways:
I noticed you enjoy reading more about specific topics and Crypto-Games rather than general crypto news 🤤
Stay tuned — I’ll soon launch a poll to find out which topics or project reviews you’d like to see more of on the channel.

Thank you for your interest in #Crypto and for finding my insights on #web3 helpful. I’ll continue to bring you the best and most exclusive content, so don’t forget to give me a “social pat on the back” for my efforts 😘

P.S. To celebrate, let’s spam the comments under this post with this emoji - 🎂
If Rose, our bot, allows it, of course! 😉

Yours,
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$BTC - Rotate to Uptober 🛫

September 2024 turned out to be the greenest September in Bitcoin’s history, with $BTC gaining 7.3% over the past month.

Ethereum also saw a 3.6% increase in September.

Historically, whenever $BTC closes September in the green, it tends to deliver positive returns over the next three months.

In aviation, “Rotate” is a term used by pilots during takeoff when the aircraft lifts off the runway. It’s the moment when the pilot pulls back on the control yoke.

Guys, Rotate to Uptober! 😉

GM, guys! ☕️

Uptober (October) has kicked off with a “spectacular” dump. October is traditionally a strong month during a bull run. But as I mentioned earlier, the crowd won't be taken to profit-land.

I don’t want to get into politics. You can read about Iran’s strikes with fattah-2 hypersonic missiles in the mainstream news. I believe the news will still align with the charts.

Altcoins and memecoins will roll back to the initial growth channel, nothing will save them, and no one is drawing reversal patterns at all 😦 $DOT got slammed to $4.05 in an instant. My gosh...

Interestingly, gaming tokens ($CATI, $DOGS, $NOT, etc.) took the hardest hit. Looks like we’ll be playing war games rather than web3 games for the time being 🧐

I’ve set Long limit orders on Alts and Memes as a speculation.

Wishing everyone profits, harmony, and remember: NFA DYOR* ✨
*Not Financial Advice Do Your Own Research

Yours, @DAOPilot 😉

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