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- X Empire’s NFT voucher system adds complexity to pre-market trading, causing player confusion.
- X Empire’s airdrop allocation and in-game coin conversion remain unclear, sparking uncertainty.
- X Empire’s approach deviates from traditional games, using NFTs on TON for speculative trading.
X Empire, a new tap-to-earn game on Telegram with a theme centered around Elon Musk, has initiated pre-market trading ahead of its upcoming token launch and airdrop.
Following the model set by the earlier game Notcoin, X Empire introduces NFT vouchers as a means for players to trade their pre-market tokens. This approach allows players to mint NFT vouchers, which can be traded on the Getgems marketplace before the token officially launches.
Unlike other Telegram-based games such as Hamster Kombat and Catizen, which utilized established exchanges for pre-market trading, X Empire is taking a different route by allowing its players to mint NFTs on The Open Network (TON).
These NFTs represent a portion of the player’s future airdrop allocation and can be traded, creating an early speculative market.
While the model mirrors Notcoin’s strategy, there are significant differences in gameplay that might affect how the airdrop allocation is managed. Notcoin’s straightforward tap-to-earn structure made it easy for developers to establish a clear conversion rate—1,000 in-game coins for one on-chain NOT token.
However, X Empire’s gameplay includes more complex elements such as avatar enhancements, betting on fictional stocks, and rock-paper-scissors style negotiations, all of which utilize in-game coins.
This complexity adds uncertainty to the process, as the developers have not yet disclosed how the airdrop allocation will be determined. Players currently face challenges in understanding the value of their in-game coins in relation to the NFT vouchers they can mint.
A high-level X Empire account currently offers the opportunity to mint two NFT vouchers, each said to represent 69,000 on-chain tokens.
However, it is not clear whether these vouchers are the final possible tokens that the player will be able to get. This situation has created a lot of confusion among the players, and they are not sure whether to go ahead and mint the NFT vouchers.
