This platform lets developers easily create, launch, and make money from games on Telegram.
Decentralized applications (DApps) and Web3 technology are changing how we interact digitally, bringing new possibilities for innovation. However, building these apps on platforms like Telegram has its own set of challenges, especially when it comes to integrating blockchain technology and handling payments.
Challenges before the challengers of Telegram
Cooperation between Telegram and the Open Network (TON) provides a strong foundation for developers, thanks to the blockchain of DApps and fast transactions. However, the complexity of onchain integration requires special skills and resources that most developers do not have.
For those new to TON, building a smooth, high-performance gaming system from scratch can be intimidating. They have to design complex game systems, manage everything efficiently, and make sure users have a great experience. These hurdles often pull developers away from their creative work, leading to missed opportunities in the growing ecosystem and delays in launching new products.
Telegram’s Mini Apps: Opportunities and threats
In 2023, Telegram introduced its Mini Apps, which pointed at the platform’s possibilities yet exposed several weaknesses. Challenges like the enhancement of the HTML5 platform (which is a key system used to organize and display content on the internet), enhanced advertising and more effective ways of placing applications are still there. These gaps suggest the possibility of developers making platforms similar to Steam for distributing applications for Telegram to support app distribution for this growing niche’s main needs.
Further, the base protocol layer for handling onchain payments also remains primitive, and developers either have to create their payment systems from scratch, or opt for pay services, which often adds to the complexity and can be highly buggy. These challenges are worst in the context of the accelerated development of the Web3 sector where keeping an up-to-date eye on the newest developments is crucial, but might be extremely time-consuming and daunting for small teams.
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Making Web3 Game Development Easy on Telegram
As a result, Catizen, a Telegram-based gaming bot, has recently become popular for easing the development of HTML5 (H5) games for Telegram. As a result of its prior preparation and prior involvement in the TON ecosystem, Catizen provides a sophisticated software development kit (SDK) and game engine, all of which will greatly ease the process for the developers.
It also plays the role of SDK for the Catizen developers to help them in designing, developing, and even deploying games. It has modern API, real time processing, cross application compatibility and it helps the developers to think creatively while Catizen deals with the tough part of developing. This integration allows the users to deploy the games through click of a button with a ready market of approximately millions of people.
Catizen’s Approach: Three Simple Steps
- Design and Build: Markets warm games with tools of their individual preferences and advances in game improvement.
- Connect and Enhance: Through setting their code within the Catizen SDK and game engine, developers get such advantages as APIs and analysis.
- Deploy and Reach: This saves so much time and effort and with just one click, the games are published on Telegram that has 900 million of monthly active users, so high visibility, more rewards.
Catizen’s game engine, tailored for Telegram Mini Apps, has loading technology located across the globe, data analysis toolkit and millisecond multi-threaded loading. These features guarantee high performance and at the same time, scalability that defines the nature of most modern H5 games.
It is the case of recognition in the TON ecosystem.
Regarding the application, Catizen currently has more than 20 hit mini-games developed using Catizen’s SDK and the company’s game engine with such successful games as Zen Triple 3D, Hero Wars, Idle Magic School and others.
Catizen left its mark on the fact that it became a three-time season winner of The Open League competition of the TON ecosystem. The Open League is designed to determine the most promising, the most used and the most convertible applications within the ecosystem by the number of users, active number of users, the ability to detect active on-chain users and how often the application interacts on-chain.
Based on the accumulating ranking of Catizen within The Open League, its technical framework is solid and integrated with wide users, which further proves that Catizen has the advantage of resolving lots of technical issues that many mini-apps and gaming bots encounter.
Building on experience
The foundation of Catizen’s success is based on the authenticity of real user data, which can be seen as a precious and organic advantage compared to competitors. It also provides extensive data for Catizen to optimize and improve the performance of products : As for the users and developers, superior services can be guaranteed. Applying the gained knowledge Catizen is to optimize its services to make the presence of services simple and interesting for the new users of the platform.
Due to the size of real user data, Catizen has possessions to incrementally update and evolve the engine, SDK and API. This data-oriented action has helped Catizen to solve a number of issues to develop on TON for other subsequent developers. Thus, addressing these challenges, Catizen simplifies the processes of development in the TON ecosystem and promotes innovation.
Increasing the variety of games with production of the games.
In the future, it is hoped that Catizen is going to launch more than two hundred mini-games in the next few months, and transform from a single mini-game to a game center. The expansion encompass such key aspects as the profitable game monetization model, consisting of the gameplay and effective money-making schemes.
Just like Catizen, further plans to introduce Web3 advertising include the Catizen Task Platform. Specifically, the feature will increase user interaction and contribution; this feature will enable projects to pay users in Catizen’s native token called CATI.
The next thematic directions of the platform’s work are the introduction of an e-Shop, transactions with CATI, and the attraction of merchants to cooperate. CATI is the digital currency that Catizen plans to launch for the internationalization of the e-commerce platform.
Furthermore, Catizen also aims to invest some amount of its profit to repurchase and burn CATI tokens, which in return, enhances the tokens’ value. Such strategies reflect Catizen’s commitment to fostering a healthy and prosperous environment for not only the developers but also for the users.
Opening the web for the development of Web3
In so doing, with Catizen’s further enhancements and application of these aforementioned progressive innovations, the project serves to standard for all projects in the Web3 and app realms. Catizen also tackles the technical problems and unbundles the development process, allowing both developers and users to expand on Web3 technology on Telegram.
Initiatives such as Catizen are indeed significant to the determination of the future of DApps. They show how it is possible to use one of the largest platforms, such as Telegram, to develop an interesting and easy-to-use application that will adapt people to Web3. Therefore, with the growing number of developers and end-users’ participation in these ecosystems, the overall industry is also set to reap developmental gains as well as enhanced accessibility and a stronger digital economy.