Helika CEO Umnov rebuts claims that Telegram gamers are simply bots

Though the 2024 buzz round Telegram mini-games has primarily been pushed by airdrops, as web3 analytics firm Helika lately identified in its report on Telegram gaming, this development is more likely to change as we head in direction of 2025. 

Crunching a few of its numbers exhibits the Telegram platform is shortly gaining momentum for causes past easy clickers, with the addition of genres like shooters, platformers, and simulation.

Helika founder and CEO Anton Umnov has highlighted 5 factors gathered from the report in addition to the Telegram Gaming Accelerator, which is co-designed with Notcoin to assist sport builders scale on the platform.

In accordance with Umnov, one of many video games in this system confirmed robust retention with 45% of its month-to-month energetic customers taking part in day-after-day. 

Umnov additionally rebuts the frequent declare that Telegram solely attracts bots versus actual gamers, mentioning that 400,000 DAUWs had transferred an NFT.

“That is the proper metric to evaluate actual customers amidst extreme botting and likewise demonstrates how TON players are extremely energetic,” he commented.

Certainly, throughout Q3 2024 the variety of wallets on Telegram interacting in some kind with NFTs rose from 200,000 to over 1 million. 

“We all know web3 is rife with bots, however to see information of 1M distinctive wallets transferring objects day by day precisely shows actual customers.”

As emphasised by the Helika report, Telegram and its adjoining TON blockchain offers a fundamental alternative for video games not solely to spice up consumer numbers by means of airdrops, but additionally funnel gamers to fundamental experiences deployed on different platforms and ecosystems.

Because the Q3 Massive Blockchain Recreation report identified, “With Telegram now claiming round one billion accounts, many commentators are satisfied that is simply the beginning of blockchain sport builders’ makes an attempt to leverage what they imagine is an enormous new alternative.”

With many of the web3 sport sector dealing with vital challenges throughout Q2 and Q3, the proof pointing in direction of a continued momentum for Telegram and TON is barely rising stronger.

*Anton Umnov’s feedback had been first revealed on his LinkedIn profile, however has since been eliminated for unknown causes.