Meerkat Coin: take your meerkat for a walk

A fluffy meerkat, daily tasks and a point counter that ticks up while you are away. Meerkat Coin is a Telegram farming game from the TimeSoul project, launched in autumn 2024 when clicker games were everywhere. 🐾

More than 470,000 people have opened the bot over its lifetime. The active audience today is much smaller, around 5,500 players a month.

The game loop

If you have tried any tap-to-earn game, you will recognize it. You send your meerkat out for a walk, it brings back MeerkatCoin points, and you spend them on upgrades so the next walk pays better.

• Walks. The main way to collect points, running on a timer.
• Boosts. Upgrades that speed up farming and raise your haul.
• Daily tasks. A fresh task each day, usually follow, visit or invite.
• Friends. Shared activities and bonuses for people you bring in.
• Events. Limited-time promos and draws for active players.

Who is behind it

TimeSoul presents itself as a Web3 ecosystem built around mindfulness and mental health, with breathing exercises, learn-and-earn lessons and NFT collections. The meerkat is the project's mascot, and Meerkat Coin is its game storefront on Telegram.

For the ecosystem, the game is mostly a way to attract an audience. That is the standard model: a free game gathers people, who are then introduced to tokens and NFTs.

What happened to rewards

The first farming stage ended in December 2024. After that the project ran an exchange of game points into a stablecoin and into the ecosystem's own token, along with draws for holders of its NFTs.

Neither the exchange rate nor the token's future price is guaranteed in advance. Rules for programs like this shift along the way, and hundreds of thousands of players share a limited reward pool. 💸

A reality check before you tap

Token-promising clickers became a mass phenomenon in 2024. For most players the final payouts were tiny, and some projects never got their token onto an exchange at all.

• Never pay to play. If you are asked to buy NFTs or tokens to join, that is an investment you could lose.
• Count your time. Minutes spent tapping rarely pay off in money. Play if you enjoy it.
• Protect your account. Never enter a Telegram login code or wallet seed phrase on outside sites, even if they promise to cash out your points.
• Check the news. Before investing time, see in the project's official channel whether a season is actually running.

Treat Meerkat Coin as a light game with a cute mascot and you lose nothing. Treat it as income and disappointment is almost certain. 🦦