Telegram Game 'Major' Opens Token Claims Ahead of Airdrop

Telegram game and engagement platform Major will launch its token and begin airdropping MAJOR to players Thursday while Americans are celebrating Thanksgiving, and now on-chain claims are open for eligible players.

Players who met the criteria to be eligible for the MAJOR token, which will launch on The Open Network (TON), can now connect a TON wallet ahead of the token generation event at 12pm UTC on Thursday.

Major previously let players select a centralized exchange to claim to, including OKX and Bitget, as well as selecting to have the airdrop go directly to the Wallet app on Telegram. Today’s option opens up the field to additional self-custody TON wallets. MAJOR will have a total supply of 100 million tokens.

The game launched earlier this year and pulled in more than 30 million players, according to the developers, with the Telegram mini app letting users earn stars by playing games, networking, and completing other engagement-style tasks.

It’s the latest Telegram mini app to gain substantial traction around a promise of a token airdrop to players, following big hits such as Notcoin, Hamster Kombat, Catizen, and X Empire. Such games have drawn tens of millions of players, but most of the tokens are down substantially from their respective all-time high prices.

Major’s developers have shared some details about how they plan to keep the mini app and its community going after the token drops, including with the launch of a gaming hub, plus the ability to mint in-game achievements as NFTs that can impact rankings in other games.

The creators of Major also plan to airdrop 1% of the token supply—that is, 1 million MAJOR—to Telegram co-founder and CEO Pavel Durov, “the person who has built such an amazing ecosystem,” per a post.