What is X Empire: the Elon Musk-inspired tap-to-earn game

If you’re a fan of Elon Musk, you might want to consider adding X Empire to your tap-to-earn gaming collection built on TON. The mini-app features avatars with a likeness to the entrepreneur, alongside other figures from across popular culture that you can buy with your Telegram stars. This includes a muscular DOGE, and a Kardashian-esque character.

The game takes you through the journey of becoming a leader and the trials and tribulations of running your empire. As of early October 2024, the game had reached an impressive 50 million players. It's important to note that X Empire isn’t connected to X or Elon Musk. But, like other tap-to-earn games, it offers a host of challenges and quests as you earn crypto tokens.

Curious? Read on as we explore what X Empire is, how it works, and the tokenomics behind its X token.

TL;DR

• X Empire takes you on a journey to build your empire, offering Musk-themed avatars and personalized AI avatars, built on the TON blockchain.

• Players can tap to earn X coins, upgrade their skills, and level up, but solo players may face limitations compared to those with a bigger social presence.

• Negotiations PvP mode has been disabled from Chill Phase — while players miss it because it was popular during the first phase, the X Empire team are working on new products.

• You can earn X coins by doing daily quests, connecting your TON wallet, solving riddles, or creating social content about X Empire.

• The Chill Phase is a two-week competition. Players compete equally for additional tokens before the official listing.

What is X Empire?

X Empire was originally called Musk Empire. It’s not clear why the name changed, but it could be to separate the mini-app from the Tesla and SpaceX co-founder due to his lack of connection to the project.

The game takes you on a journey to build your empire and become a billionaire CEO. The avatars are built around a likeness of Musk, but you can change them.

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Your taps help you build up your X coins. You can use these coins to help you level up throughout the game by improving your skill set and increasing your coins per hour. It's important to note that if you tap too fast, the game may remind you to slow down or take a break. Some believe this feature is in place to help prevent bot abuse.

If you decide you need to switch off for a bit, you can still earn coins passively for up to three hours after closing the game. You can also upgrade your office and your team, but this will only increase your coin per hour, and not increase your level in the game.

If you want to get more coins per tap, you can choose mining in the improve section. You can increase your bonus and energy level, so you can keep tapping all day. In X Empire, you also benefit by inviting your friends to join the game, and will earn X coins if they accept your invite. You can still play the game as a solo player.

As you level up, some skill sets become locked, requiring you to invite a friend. Meanwhile, some eligible skill sets may be on a time lock for a certain amount of minutes to hours.

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At the time of this writing, the player-vs-player (PvP) function is no longer available. It was called ‘Negotiations’, and invited players to select a contract size to compete for X coins. Those contract sizes were as follows.

• Bronze: 5K to 10K contract

• Silver: 50K to 100K contract

• Gold: 500K to 1M contract

• Platina: 5M to 10M contract

• Diamond: 50M to 100M contract

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After you select your contract size, you’d then choose your strategy. If both players have selected the same strategy, it comes down to who has the highest skill set.

• Aggressive: This strategy could beat flexible, but loses against protective.

• Flexible: This strategy could beat protective but loses against aggressive.

• Protective: This strategy could beat aggressive but loses against flexible.

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Since X Empire is getting ready for an airdrop, it’s not clear if the Negotiations function will return. However, the founder of X Empire, Alex Falcon, has stated that the team is working on new products.

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How to earn coins in X Empire?

If your fingers need a break from tapping, there are other ways to earn coins in X Empire.

Daily reward

You can kick off your day by collecting your daily reward. If you haven’t referred any friends to X Empire, you’ll be limited to day four's reward. However, you can still earn up to 24.8 million coins across the four days.

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If you miss a day, you have to start at the beginning. If the day requires more friends than what you have, you’ll receive the previous day's total.

Daily quests

Once you complete the daily quests, you’ll earn more coins and get access to the daily lucky box, depending on your level. Once you open the box, you’ll get more coins.

• Watch 2x X Empire videos: These videos are short and contain a five-digit code you'll need to look out for. Use the code and be rewarded in coins.

• Hit the daily tap goal: X Empire will set a random number of taps you need to hit to claim your coin reward.

• Five daily improvement skills: Use your coins to level up your skills, which range from body, personal, social, management, and business skills. This will also help you move up in the game and increase your coins per hour.

Other quests

Similar to other tap-to-earn games, there are other quests you can participate in:

• Connecting your TON wallet

• Donating 0.5, 3, or 5 TON to the project

• Joining X Empire Telegram channels

• Following X Empire's social channels

• Figure out the riddle of the day

• Figure out the rebus puzzle

• Invite five friends to the game

• Follow X Empire on CoinMarketCap

• Extra bonus for Telegram premium users

• Share your story on Telegram

• Create your own avatars

• Improve profit per tap

• Improve your sports skill

• Trade six funds in the stock market

X Empire also appears to have collaborated with other TON games in Hrum, Meme Me, and Dogiators. You can earn coins by playing their games, following their social channels, or joining the project Telegram channel.

Investments

If you have Elon’s risk appetite or maybe some Warren Buffet-style trading skills, here’s your chance to put them to the test. In the “City” section, select “Investments” and check out the different types of opportunities.

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The investments feature is broken up into three categories:

Low-risk

• Diamonds

• Oil companies

• Limited-edition watches

• Expensive wine

• Classic cars

• Pharmaceutical companies

• Car rentals in Dubai

• Meme t-shirts

Medium risk

• Real estate in Nigeria

• Hamster breeding

• AI

• Electric vehicle manufacturers

• Gold mining tools

• Game development

High-risk

• Space companies

• Unicorn breeding

• OnlyFans models

• Blockchain projects

Once you select what investments you’d like to put your coins behind, it’ll give you a prediction of whether it’ll lose money or make money. But don’t be fooled, if you’re shown you can make money on the trade, you might end up losing, and vice versa.

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Here, it pays to be savvy and strategic. You get three chances to make a trade, before it goes into a time lock.

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Hype Zone

If you’re a content creator, you can earn coins in the Hype Zone by sharing your content about X Empire on your social channels. You can find the Hype Zone in the 'city' section of X-Empire.The eligible channels are Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok, and they allow you to earn up to 1 billion coins.

At the time of writing, here’s what the current Hype Zone reward tiers offer:

• 100 - 999 views = 2.4M coins

• 1K - 4.9K views = 7.4M coins

• 5k - 9.9k views = 14.9M coins

• 10k - 49.9K views = 22.3M coins

• 50K - 99.9K views = 50M coins

• 100K views - 499.9K views = 100M coins

• 1M+ views = 1B coins

Let’s say you made a YouTube video explaining how investments work on X Empire, and it generated 65,000 views. You can send the link through the Hype Zone. X Empire will give you a special code to add to your description of the video. This process helps to keep things fair, and to make sure the content is yours.

When is the X Empire airdrop?

The first phase airdrop was launched on October 24, 2024, where community members received tokens from both the X Empire first phase and the Chill Phase.

What is the Chill Phase?

The Chill Phase was a short, fun competition that happened during the token distribution process. It was designed to keep the community engaged while they waited for the official Token Generation Event (TGE). The Chill Phase ended on October 16, 2024. Here’s a breakdown:

Token allocation

An additional 34.5 billion X tokens (5% of the total supply) have been allocated specifically for this phase, bringing the total airdrop allocation to 75% for the community.

Timing

This phase is brief, lasting only a couple of weeks. It’s intended to provide a fast-paced and fun experience before the official listing of the X token at the end of October 2024.

Reset for competition

All characters and stats from the first phase have been reset to make the Chill Phase a fresh competition. Players start from scratch, giving everyone — both vets and newbies — an equal opportunity to compete for the additional 5% of tokens.

Participation

Participation in the Chill Phase is optional and won’t impact the results or tokens earned from the first phase, which saw 70% of the total token supply allocated.

Community focus

The Chill Phase was added based on community feedback and is designed to make the wait for the TGE more exciting. It has less competition and a shorter time frame (two weeks) to help players win more tokens.

The X Empire team mentioned that the game will entirely change once the Chill Phase closes towards the end of October 2024.

What are the X Empire tokenomics?

The total supply of X tokens for X Empire is set at 690,000,000,000. Below is a detailed breakdown of how these tokens will be distributed and what this means for the community and future development.

Miners and vouchers

A significant 75% of the total supply, which amounts to 517,500,000,000 X, has been allocated to miners and voucher holders. This allocation highlights X Empire’s commitment to putting the community first. The community will receive most of the tokens issued, with no attached lockups or vesting periods. This means that community members will have immediate access to their tokens, with no waiting period.

New players and future phases

The remaining 25% of tokens, equating to 172,500,000,000 X, is allocated for the platform’s growth and future initiatives.

These tokens are designated for several key purposes, including:

• New community members

• Further platform development

• New projects and features

• Listings on exchanges and liquidity

• Community incentives to encourage user engagement

• Market makers to provide token stability

• Team rewards for contributing to the project’s success

On November 6, 2024, X spiked due to Elon Musk’s participation in the US Presidential elections. $X was the number one token by trading volume among all other tokens on TON. This has caused excitement among the X Empire community.

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What is the X Empire NFT voucher?

From September 9, 2024 to September 13, 2024, players were allowed to create NFT vouchers, with one voucher equal to 69,000 X. Over 570,000 vouchers were created during the timeframe. You can sell your voucher or convert it into X.

If you missed the chance to create a voucher, you can bid or buy them from other players on the TON marketplace, Getgems.io.

What's next for X Empire?

With the mini app game on hiatus and the first phase and chill phase completed, the X Empire team is working on some new features and tools X holders can benefit from. AI avatars are back, which were popular during the mining phase. The tool allows you to make a skin based on your photo, download it, and use it as profile pictures on social media. The team is also working on new apps, such as the following.

• Feed: Does your telegram channel seem like it could be more organized? Feed is a must-have feed for Telegram. It’s a place where you can scroll through all the posts from the channels you’re subscribed to, find any channel by category, and search content using AI, across the entire Telegram platform. $X holders will have access to exclusive features too, which won’t be available for those who don’t hold $X.

• Langs: Would you like to learn a new language? Langs offers over 100 languages to choose from.

• Sleep: Crypto never sleeps, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t. Sleep includes materials and activities to improve your sleep patterns. That includes a built-in tracker to develop healthier sleep habits, leaving you feeling refreshed and ready to trade. There’s exclusive features for $X holders, too, that aren't available to the public.

The team has also confirmed that unique features will be available to $X holders only and not the public, even with premium fees.

The final word

X Empire follows other tap-to-earn games built on the TON blockchain like Hamster Kombat and Catizen that have quickly grabbed the attention of Telegram users. Drawing heavily from popular culture and encouraging participation in various simple yet engaging ways, X Empire has attracted more than 50 million players since its launch, with further developments to come.

Interested in learning more about Telegram Mini Apps and how they work? If so, check out our guide to blockchain gaming today.