PiP World launches Gold Rush tap-to-earn game on Telegram

PiP World, a Web3 gaming and edtech ecosystem, has launched a tapping game called Gold Rush on Telegram.

The “tap-to-earn” Web3 game is aimed at capitalizing on the viral nature of mini-games on Telegram, the crytpo-friendly messenger platform with more than 950 million users. Simple games such as Hamster Kombat have taking off in the past few months, getting hundreds of millions of players.

PiP World has been building its PiP Trader game in Unity for the past 2.5 years using WebGL tech, meaning it can display decent graphics without requiring the user to do a download. In that sense, the company hopes to level up its PiP Trader to a “triple-A” quality level. The Gold Rush game is a companion game aimed at tapping the virality on Telegram, and the company says its gameplay is far better than existing games on the market. In August, PiP World acquired StockRise, a popular stock trading game on Roblox.

Gold Rush gameplay

The game boasts a FlashDrop feature with players battling for a prize pool over $100,000.

Backed by Exinity, a global wealth management and fintech firm, PiP World leverages distribution vectors of Exinity’s five million user base from retail trading brands, Alpari and FXTM. That will help distinguish Gold Rush from other clicker-style Telegram games like Hamster Kombat, Catizen and Notcoin that launched in stealth, the company said.

PiP World breaks new ground as the first Web3 gaming ecosystem to launch a Telegram companion game as a precursor of its main game, PiP Trader, slated for the fourth quarter of 2024.

Gold Rush promises more depth than existing casual games on Telegram. The game offers players meaningful financial education wrapped in a fun and addictive gameplay experience that simulates the thrills of crypto trading whilst creating the strategic building blocks to trade in crypto markets for real.

“Enabling people across the world’s largest platforms to make the best possible financial decisions earlier in life, with all they have at their disposal (leisure time, money and skills) — in a familiar low-pressure environment — will have a compound effect on their future,” said Saad Naja, PiP World CEO, in a statement.

PiP World’s Gold Rush puts players into the high-stakes world of investing where all players have to do is tap their way to earn in-game currency.

Players advance through different ranks, from interns to hedge fund owners by tapping an evolving array of promotions to upgrade their office and make strategic inventory moves that ultimately grows their passive income, measured in profit-per-hour.

Players can strategically amass their passive income via tap-promotions, buying boosts, unlocking items, completing social quests and referring friends. PiP World’s unique game design and characters, at the nexus of geek culture, nostalgic Microsoft tropes with voxel twists, delivers a fun and additive tap-to-earn experience and tangible rewards.

Value beyond gaming through financial rewards

Gold Rush provides opportunities for players to earn real crypto rewards participating in taps for USDT or TON and extra in-game currency.

One of the most anticipated features is expected to be FlashDrop, a race where the first players each day complete tasks to receive up to USDT or TON daily, directly in their TON wallet, from a prize pool over $100,000.

While much of the details of $PiPS Token Generation Event and skill-based Airdrop remain under wraps, PiP World is expected to convert some of the in-game currency from the Telegram Gold Rush into $PiPS skill-based Airdrop, giving early Telegram players the first opportunity to gain a leaderboard advantage within PiP’s Web3 games ecosystem. The exact points conversion from Telegram to the $PiPs Airdrop and TGE have yet to be disclosed.

“Our mission is to transform how people learn about financial markets into a fun, rewarding and engaging daily habit,” said Naja. “With PiP Gold Rush we are giving Telegram gamers a first taste of what’s to come with our flagship game launching in Q4 of 2024.This is not just about building a community – it is about creating a foundation where rewards grow exponentially in both knowledge and earnings.”

Financial education in future updates

In the coming weeks, PiP World is adding new features aimed at improving financial education into Gold Rush that are coming in its main game, PiP Trader.

AI-powered Scenario Calendar generates random financial events — such as an oil spill in the Gulf or the Federal Reserve raising interest rates.

Players are required to understand the impact of news on the financial markets and react to improve their profit-per-hour. Additionally, the Trade Wars feature will function as a direct market simulator, allowing players to trade on live market pricing and experience the excitement of opening and closing positions of crypto and stocks.

By offering a realistic trading simulator, PiP World is bridging the gap between gaming and actual trading, giving users a hands-on approach to learning about the markets, PiP World said.

PiP Trader targets midcore game market

Gold Rush is aimed at the estimated 300 million MAUs flocking to Telegram mini-games like Hamster Kombat.

The expansion of PiP World’s games empire follows its recent Roblox acquisition of StockRise in August, bridging 7.1 million+, considered future traders-in-training.

On a mission to gamify the path to financial freedom and revolutionize the trading experience for users of all levels, the launch of ‘Gold Rush’ on Telegram accelerates PiP World’s stake in the midcore market. Midcore games are strategy-driven and more complicated than casual games like Hamster Kombat, but don’t require the same level of focus required for most console games.

Assembling gaming, trading and Web3 talent

The main game PiP Trader has been in development for two and a half years. Unlike the launch playbooks of existing Telegram games like Hamster Kombat, their team is fully doxxed, not anonymous.

PiP World is the brainchild of Naja, a serial entrepreneur with a proven track record of scaling ventures. Naja led product development at Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Betfair and played a key role in scaling Kraken.

Under Naja’s leadership, PiP World has assembled a team of gaming and product luminaries including creative lead Benjamin Paquette, who was previously in creative roles at Room8, Monopoly Tycoon and Magic the Gathering.

PiP Gold Rush is for anyone that wants to earn passive income and level-up their trading. Players must be at least 16 years old and over to play and 18 years old to earn rewards.