Catizen: Opening a New Era of Telegram Mini Games

In the Telegram and TON ecosystem, the gaming sector has attracted widespread attention due to its large user base and traffic. Especially, The Open League (TOL) launched by the TON Foundation provides a showcase for outstanding projects, among which Catizen has impressively won the championship for three consecutive sessions with its strong technical prowess.

Catizen is a Web3.0 social entertainment platform based on Telegram, designed to create a decentralized consumption application that integrates mini-games, short dramas, and e-commerce. Its core is the cat game built on the TON ecosystem, combining metaverse, GameFi, and AI technology, and introducing the innovative Play2Airdrop model.

Since the beta version went live in March 2024, Catizen has achieved remarkable results: the total number of players exceeds 22.5 million, on-chain users are nearly 1.3 million, daily active users have broken through 3.5 million at their peak, and the number of paying users has reached 500,000. These figures make Catizen one of the top blockchain game projects in the Telegram x TON ecosystem.

The success of Catizen stems from its solid technical foundation. Unlike competitors that rely on third-party game engines, Catizen has built its own proprietary game engine, the Catizen Game Engine, specifically designed for Telegram mini-programs, supporting high-performance millisecond-level multi-threaded loading, data tracking, and globally distributed loading technology.

Catizen's game engine design focuses on lightweight performance, ensuring smooth operation on various devices, especially excelling on mobile devices. It supports multiple operating systems, allowing players to seamlessly switch game progress through Telegram.

Catizen also offers a powerful SDK, providing one-stop service for H5 game developers to achieve one-click publishing on Telegram. The SDK supports multi-platform development, offers a simple yet powerful API, and comes with professional technical support.

Compared to other Telegram mini-programs, Catizen relies on but does not depend on the Telegram ecosystem. Its proprietary game engine and SDK create technical barriers, building a complete and sustainable game ecosystem. Multi-threaded asynchronous loading technology addresses the issue of a large number of players being online simultaneously, while a global content delivery network ensures a stable and smooth gaming experience.

Catizen has released a 12-month development roadmap, which includes six phases: launching the game and incentivizing users to create cryptocurrency wallets, launching the Launchpool, releasing the game center, launching a short video platform, attracting TON ecosystem projects through an open task platform, and launching an e-commerce platform to expand token application scenarios.

With strong technical strength and a clear development plan, Catizen is not just a game but also a community and movement. It opens up new development directions for the Telegram mini-game ecosystem and is expected to lead the next wave of innovation in this field.