The crypto and Luckily, Our weekend roundup serves up the biggest news from the past week, along with a few other tidbits you might have missed. We also showcase a few of our original stories from the week. Telegram-based clicker game Notcoin (NOT) reached a The viral clicker game had tens of millions of users fervently tapping a digital gold coin to earn crypto ahead of its token launch. When NOT launched on The Open Network, it immediately became the Hamster Kombat token: Another Telegram-based game that closely mirrors Notcoin’s approach, Hamster Kombat, announced Friday that it will launch its own token on The Open Network. No timeline has been set for the launch or the planned airdrop to players.While built around the same kind of tap-to-earn premise, Hamster Kombat takes the theme of putting players in charge of a crypto exchange, letting you grow your empire by investing in upgrades, marketing, and more over time. And all of those earned coins should convert into a token airdrop in time. Aptos, a layer-1 blockchain network, logged two consecutive days of huge daily transaction tally gains—totaling over 115 million transactions in one day—all thanks to a “tickle-to-earn” cat game.Tapos Ethereum-based metaverse gaming platform The rollout will happen in three phases, starting with DAO members being able to vote on Sandbox Improvement Proposals (SIPs) submitted by the community via email. In the second phase, the DAO will gain more power before becoming fully independent in the third phase. It’s launching with $11 million worth of SAND for the first-year budget.Here are a few of our original stories from this past week that we think are well worth a weekend read:Edited by Andrew Hayward
