Telegram Game 'Major' Reveals Token Launch Date Amid Airdrop Push

Telegram game Major has finally revealed when its hotly anticipated token will launch on The Open Network (TON). Players have spent months engaging with the mini app in the hopes for a healthy chunk of a future airdrop, which will likely closely follow the token launch.

Major is a simple take on the tap-to-earn genre that has dominated Telegram gaming this year. Rather than hiding the genre’s social tasks behind a clicker game, like other games such as Hamster Kombat have, it pushes this viral mechanic to the forefront—becoming more of an engagement machine than a fully-fledged game.

Still, the Telegram mini app has seen major (pardon the pun) success, with the project claiming in August that it had reached 30 million players. This is because the Major team has repeatedly told players that improving their in-game rating would correlate with how much of the future token they’ll receive.

Now after months of inviting friends, completing the daily “Puzzle Durov” game challenge, and sharing social posts, the big moment is just around the corner.

In a Telegram announcement on Wednesday, Major said that the token will launch on November 28 at 12pm UTC. For now, the only confirmed exchange it’ll launch on is OKX, but the post noted that more exchanges will be announced soon.

While the post doesn’t explicitly mention the time of the airdrop, it is likely that it will closely follow the token launch. In previous cases with the tap-to-earn genre, most projects have required users to select a withdrawal method in advance, then the tokens are sent to the selected wallet or account soon after the token is generated.

With the token launch on the horizon, pre-market trading has opened on OKX. At the time of writing, traders are predicting the token will launch at a price of $1.32. However, pre-market trading is extremely speculative by nature, as people are often guessing based on incomplete data regarding tokenomics and supply. As such, this figure is often inaccurate.

At the start of the month, the project announced that “all farming methods” would be stopped on November 8, as the team prepared for the token launch. Since then, the games have remained playable, but Major is no longer handing out rewards to players.

“Didn’t we say November would be hot?” Major’s announcement added.

Edited by Andrew Hayward