Riding on the momentum surrounding Hamster Kombat, Catizen, and other tappy games on Telegram, TON Foundation and partner companies have kicked off the largest game hackathon on TON.
Called GameOn TON, the hackathon aims to accelerate the development of web3 games built on TON, while also drive adoption of the AEON payment protocol.
Running from 19th September to 13th December 2024, it contains a total prize pool of $4 million, offering a variation of grants, direct investments and other rewards. AEON and TON will contribute $2 million in total. Alibaba brings $1 million in grants and cloud server benefits, while Gate.io adds $1 million towards investments and grants.
20 teams will share a total pool of $900,000 in prizes, with larger rewards for the top three.
The event is hosted by AEON, TON Foundation, Nomad Capital and TOP, with co-hosts including OKX Wallet, Alibaba Cloud, Gate.io, Draper Associates, Gam3Girl Ventures, and Winking Studios. Together these will host virtual sessions in combination with offline events in major cities like Singapore, Sydney, and Dubai.
A preliminary schedule has been released, with the last date for registration being 14th November, followed by the last day of submissions being 18th November.Â
As for other key events, on
- 30th October there will be a developer bootcamp in Dubai,
- 23rd November 1200 semi-finalists will be announced in Sydney,
- 10th December 20 finalist will be announced, and
- 13th December is the closing event in Dubai where the winner will be revealed.
Among other requirements, teams looking to take part must build their games on Telegram Mini Apps and integrate AEON’s crypto-payment protocol.
So far, most mini apps on Telegram with TON-integration have had simple tapping features and generated traction for their rewards-based systems. Although clearly a model that’s turned out well for the ecosystem in the short turn, it will be interesting to see if the outcome of the hackathon will add more diversity to the genre of games deploying on TON.
Find out more details on how to participate here >>
