‘Tickle-to-Earn’ Cat Game Prompts Massive Spike in Aptos Transactions

‘Tickle-to-Earn’ Cat Game Prompts Massive Spike in Aptos Transactions

The blockchain tracks each and every time you tickle the digital cat.AptosOn Friday, Why has this all happened? Because a What is Tapos?Tapos is a viral clicker game where you earn $HEART by tapping the screen to tickle the cat & completing tasks.The more tickles you make → the more transactions you send —> the more $HEART you get Join us at https://t.co/CSCKhjgFPa or https://t.co/6Pz3oCUj9G pic.twitter.com/okdrimfD1t— Tapos (@taposcat) May 20, 2024Tapos“We had 2,000+ transactions per second modifying [the] global counter for days, and they were all executed in parallel!” the Tapos Twitter account proudly This week, transactions on @Aptos have skyrocketed by 2k% compared to last week, largely driven by the @taposcat Mainnet launch! Nearly 250M transactions occurred this week, making up 29% of the total transactions. https://t.co/FzptM6CCVF pic.twitter.com/9XQShoByJ5— Cristinatinto (@nft_pokeworld) May 27, 2024The clicker game claims to have garnered 63,000 users that broadcast over 323 million transactions This explains why we aren’t seeing a significant increase in users on Aptos. In fact, there were more active accounts on Aptos on Monday, despite logging only 960,000 total transactions, than on Saturday when the transaction tally peaked at over 115 million. And the boasts by some Aptos builders of massive transaction gains on their chain didn’t sit well with everyone who dug into the details behind the spike.”Looked into this. It’s from a game where you earn a shitcoin by clicking on a screen fast,” tweeted Helius CEO Mert Mumtaz, an outspoken Solana builder. “The clicks are counted as [transactions per second]. We will do literally anything to game metrics in this industry rather than build anything with real users or demand LMAO.”Tapos follows in the footsteps of the widely popular Telegram-based clicker game Under the That’s escalated too quickly on @Aptos The campaign is officially ended! Tapos cat is fully and wholeheartedly loved – Thank you each and every ticklers with all our Ps: We will update you on the next step of the game, stay safe and follow what’s next here pic.twitter.com/EY6AXf6Zh7— Tapos (@taposcat) May 26, 2024But Tapos is yet to reach anywhere near the kind of player base that Notcoin has. Now that its three-day campaign is over, those keen to tickle a digital kitten must wait for the developers to set her free.“We will update you on the next step of the game,” the official Twitter account Edited by Andrew Hayward