Baboon: batteries, quests and BOON

Baboon rode the 2024 wave of Telegram tap games and grew fast. The team says it hit three million players in its first week. The hype has cooled since, but the bot still runs and people still stack BOON tokens in it 🐒

Behind the game is the Baboon web3 platform, which aims to give game developers blockchain tools such as NFT skins and in-game marketplaces. The Telegram bot exists to build a community ahead of the token launch.

How BOON gets mined

Instead of tapping a coin, you work a battery. Charge it, discharge it, collect tokens, and repair it now and then.

• Daily rewards: check in every day for a bonus.
• Quests and life events: tasks like subscriptions and in-game events add more.
• Daily combo: in the Mine section, three batteries shift their charge levels and you guess the right combination. A correct guess pays 25,000 BOON.
• Giveaways and airdrops: the team runs periodic drops for active players.

Guilds and referrals

Friends you invite join your guild, and referrals earn bonuses. In late 2024 the project announced an affiliate program paying 30% of the Telegram Stars your referrals spend, for life, with payouts handled by Telegram.

Around the same time it added TON wallet support with a dedicated airdrop for people who connected one. The /uid command sets your identifier in the bot.

What is known about the token

• Supply: ICO trackers list 50 million BOON, described as a utility token.
• Sale: an IDO ran in summer 2024 with a hard cap of about 100,000 dollars.
• Roadmap: launch on a blockchain network, a DEX listing, an in-house game and expansion to other chains.
• Status: major crypto platforms still list the token as not launched. The project channel has announced listing and TGE plans, so verify them against actual trading.

A reality check

Mining in a Telegram game is not money. Until the token trades, BOON in the bot is just points. Even after listing, the price may be tiny because hundreds of thousands of players would sell at once 📉

The audience has shrunk a lot: fewer than two thousand people open the bot monthly, and the official channel keeps losing subscribers. For a project whose value rests on community, that is a reason to take it slow.

Playing it safe

1. Spend nothing on boosts in hopes of a future token.
2. Use a separate TON wallet with no savings.
3. Never enter a seed phrase in a bot, website or airdrop form.
4. Trust announcements only from the official channel. Fake giveaways in the name of famous tap games are everywhere in Telegram.
5. Cap your time at a couple of minutes a day for the combo and bonus.

Treat Baboon as a light battery puzzle and it can be fun. Treat it as an investment and disappointment is the likelier outcome.