The Heart of the Clickstorm: Tapos Cat & Beyond

4 min readJun 24, 2024

Tapos burst onto the Aptos scene with a simple yet addictive premise: click, earn, and unleash your inner cat lover. This seemingly straightforward clicker game became a phenomenon, generating a surge in Aptos transactions. The numbers speak for themselves:

Unprecedented Surge in Transactions: By the end of May, the 7-day moving average of user transactions on Aptos had surged to 47 million, up from under 1 million at the month’s start. On one remarkable day, transactions peaked at 156 million. Daily transactions on the Aptos network during this 3-day event also skyrocketed by 1,466%.
HEART of the Matter: Players clicked their way to receive 10M HEART tokens in total, enjoying a fun and rewarding experience with zero gas fees.
Community Growth: Active addresses on Aptos skyrocketed, jumping from 61,000 in early May to over 150,000 by month’s end concurrent with the game’s launch. This surge highlights the power of engaging gameplay to attract new users to the Aptos ecosystem.

A Memorable Campaign:

The Tapos campaign concluded on May 26th, leaving a lasting pawprint on Aptos history. In just a few days, the game amassed:

+323 million transactions: A testament to the addictive nature of the clicker game mechanism and cat-loving heart.
+63,000 users: A fantastic Aptos community of players joined the fun.
+2,200 TPS on average during the last day of the Event

Learning from Every Click:

Tapos Game #1 has passed, leaving behind a wealth of valuable insights for the future. This isn’t just a moment of reflection — it’s a chance to sharpen our claws and prepare for an even more explosive Game #2!

Security First: We can’t stress this enough. We’ll be implementing even more ways to educate users on proper wallet security.

Testing & Community Support: We’re doubling down on our testing efforts to identify and fix any bugs before launch. Additionally, we’ll be ramping up community support to ensure everyone has a positive experience.

Streamlining the Experience: We’re aware that the Telegram-based app was slower in generating tickles for some users, which resulted in fewer transactions made. This should be made better in upcoming games.

Another issue is the auto-click mode stayed on after the 3-day event’s official end, generating transactions that didn’t count toward the score. Rest assured, we’re implementing safeguards, and better notification to ensure gameplay concludes precisely when intended.

Origin of the idea:

We came up with the idea of Tapos when reading the paper that Aptos released on aggregator and how this enables tens of thousands or more transactions to be executed every second in parallel on Aptos while modifying the same data. This is a crucial technology that truly enables games to be built on Aptos without having to sacrifice fun aspects due to constraints on what can be done on a blockchain. We designed Tapos to be simple, fun, and transcending boundaries.

The Future is Feline

While the initial campaign might have concluded, Tapos serves as a perfect example of what’s possible on Aptos. With its scalable infrastructure, low gas fees, and most importantly — the ability to handle such a large transaction volume — Aptos is positioned as a prime platform for the next generation of blockchain games that want to grow at scale. Moreover, more major upgrades are coming to Aptos in the next few months that will power more fun yet clever games from Tapos!

Get ready for Game #2 and beyond — we’re just scratching the surface of what Aptos can achieve in the gaming realm!