TONxDAO is a telegram tap-to-earn that has in recent times shown some negative signs that cast doubt as to whether it is truly legitimate or just another scam project out there to milk users. Honestly, the project started off on a promising note, giving the fact that they were initially reposted or informally endorsed by Notcoin.
Regardless of the prolonged timeline we’ve had to deal with as we’ve been mining the Dao tokens for almost a year now, they’ve recently broken some established principles that has personally raised my eyebrows concerning the legitimacy of the project. Therefore, in this article, we will be having a look at some of the recent developments in the project that could potentially mean they are not as legit as we had earlier imagined.
TONxDAO Earlier Claims
The TONxDAO project officially started on Telegram in September, 2024 and initially, they claimed the project wasn’t going to last so long before Token Generation event — a claim that was debunked later on as users started asking questions.
The team also claimed sometime in January that the project mining phase was going to end in less than two weeks, I even published an article on How to Connect your TON address to be well positioned for the upcoming airdrop. However, weeks and even months after this their X tweet, the vibing phase still continued.
Users still continued to mine and accumulate the DAO token which, in all honesty surprised me given that, they themselves tweeted it on their official handle. Was it just a ploy to get users to take the project more seriously? Who knows?
Unfortunately, if there’s nothing I have come to realize while engaging with most telegram tap-to-earn projects, it’s that, projects that don’t stand firm on their policies and claims often underperform in the long run. Underperform in this case, being listing at a terrible price or not making the community happy enough and a community driven project that fails to satisfy the community can be regarded as a failed project.
Additionally, TONxDAO stated and maintained towards the ending of last year that, their DAO token will be listed in the first quarter of 2025. All replies to questions about TGE were “TGE is Q1 of 2025.
Lo and Behold, the First Quarter of 2025 ends on this day and yet, they’ve not even ended the mining phase entirely. Meaning that, they reneged on their promises, yet, AGAIN.
The most unfortunate aspect however, is they’ve not yet come up with another date for tGE or Listing. I mean, a project that failed to meet up with their timeline should have come up with another date or likely period for listing. The administrators on Telegram now play deaf ears to questions about Token Generation Event or listing and that’s even worse than just giving an unconfirmed date or period. Reason, people deserve to know when they will be rewarded for supporting your project for so many months.
Recent Negative Developments
The truth is, I was bullish on TONxDAO at the inception due to the fact that they were posted and even welcomed to TON Blockchain by the progenitor of tap-to-earn projects, Notcoin.
As time went on, I even became more bullish with their unique mining style and also, for the fact that they didn’t copy the tap-to-earn projects at the time in terms of asking users to pay a verification fee or spend stars or TON for boost or double of their tokens.
However in recent times, they’ve introduced something very similar to what we all frowned against during the trendy era of tap-to-earn. The issue of spending money in stars or TON to purchase boosts or gain unfair advantage in the mining process.
In the case of TONxDAO, users are being asked to unlock additional limits. They claim the mining phase has ended but users are being asked to spend money in stars to unlock additional mining limits — which to me and most concerned users is another version of what we all frown against.
This new development casts doubt as to whether the project is legit or simply another “potentially fraudulent tap-to-earn project”. The worst part is, it’s coming at a time alot of users have given up on telegram crypto mining airdrops with no one willing to spend a dime on them.
Additionally, the fact that they have not provided a new date for listing or TGE is also negative. The project now gives a clueless energy and that’s not good enough for the time and effort put in vibing and accumulating the tokens. For nearly 7 months, we’ve channeled much energy and time into accumulating the DAO token only to be met with uncertainties like this?
To me that’s not positive sign and if you’ve been bullish on the project, I think it’s time to lower your expectations. Reason is, the project is giving some negative indications that it might end up disappointing the users.
Final Verdict
At first, the uniqueness of TONxDAO and the reputation of the project that endorsed them were exciting to all of us but as it stands now, the project has taken a new leaf. Some of the key red flags being;
1. The Introduction of In-app purchases – users who are interested in boosting their overall DAO tokens can now pay for limit increase using stars and this defies the initial idea behind an airdrop and creates an unfair advantage for people who have money to spare and those who don’t.
It’s never a positive sign for a crypto project to introduce a form of boosting fee for users as it points to a possibility that, the project may end up failing to meet up to expectations.
2. TONxDAO Seems to be clueless – at first, they claimed TGE and listing was going to happen in the first quarter of 2025 but as it stands now, the possibility is non-existent. Worse still, they have not even started making any visible arrangements towards token listing. Instead they seem to be more focused on luring users to pay money for boosts and limit increases; which are all negative signs when it comes to airdrops.
3. Not keeping to their words – the issue of listing date and now, the fact that they are doing exactly all the things they once antagonized points to the fact that they may have lost track. The chances of making community members happy is very slim at this point because people who don’t purchase the boost may end up getting less token allocation than other users.
Conclusion
While they have not yet done anything “extreme“, the fact that they have not been keeping to their words and the introduction of In-app purchases are two key factors that should be considered while dealing with a potentially illegitimate project. The entire point of this article is for you to lower your expectations as much as possible, the indications are not in our favour as users.
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