Elon Musk-Themed Telegram Game ‘X Empire’ Prepares for Airdrop with Pre-Market Trading
X Empire, a Telegram tap-to-earn game, is taking a page out of the Notcoin playbook by launching pre-market trading using NFT vouchers ahead of its upcoming token launch and airdrop.
While other Telegram games have utilized established exchanges for pre-market trading, X Empire, originally known as Musk Empire, is allowing players to redeem an early share of their airdrop by minting an NFT. These NFTs, created on The Open Network (TON), can then be traded on the Getgems marketplace.
Notcoin, a tap-to-earn game released earlier this year, pioneered this approach. It allowed players to cash out their earned coins through NFT vouchers, which were also traded on Getgems, enabling speculation on the future value of the NOT token.
However, there is one key difference between the two approaches. Notcoin solely focused on tap-to-earn gameplay, making it easy to provide a clear conversion rate. On the other hand, X Empire incorporates additional gameplay elements, such as enhancing avatars, betting on stocks, and engaging in rock-paper-scissors negotiations with other players.
As a result, determining airdrop allocations based solely on earned coins may not be feasible for X Empire. The developers have yet to clarify how the airdrop allocations will be handled, which may make it challenging for players to decide whether to claim a voucher.
Minting NFT vouchers in X Empire is optional, as players can choose to wait for the actual airdrop and claim their tokens then. However, minting an NFT incurs network gas fees on TON, with the developers also imposing a 20% royalty fee on all secondary market trades.
In addition to the voucher launch, X Empire revealed that the token will be named X, similar to Elon Musk’s new name on Twitter, and that the planned total supply will be 690 billion tokens on TON.
While the first X Empire voucher NFTs have appeared on the Getgems marketplace, only one has been sold so far, fetching 7 TON, equivalent to approximately $36.
The mining phase of X Empire is set to end on September 30, with the token airdrop scheduled to follow shortly after. To learn more about X Empire and what to expect from the token launch and airdrop, refer to our comprehensive game guide.