The mining game with a real economy.

Abstract

Most "tap-to-earn" games collapse because their tokens have infinite supply, no real backing, and no sinks — value depends entirely on new players arriving. Rignite is built to survive that trap.

Rignite is a mining-themed idle/clicker game that runs entirely inside Telegram as a Mini App. Players tap to mine, buy hardware to earn passive income, build a colony, climb leagues, and recruit teams. The in-game currency, Gold (RGT), is unlimited and off-chain — a score. Its on-chain counterpart, RGNT, is a fixed-supply TON jetton that players withdraw to their own wallets at a fixed rate of 3,000 RGT → 1 RGNT.

The defining property of Rignite's economy is that reward value is a fraction of real external revenue (advertising and Telegram Stars), captured in a transparent pool. The internal price of Gold is pool ÷ circulating supply. Because rewards are always a share of money already earned from outside the game, the operator cannot mathematically run at a loss, and the system is not a Ponzi: there is no presale, no deposit, and no promise of returns.

The Telegram & TON opportunity

Telegram's ~1 billion users and its native Mini App platform created the largest distribution channel in crypto's history. Games like Notcoin and Hamster Kombat onboarded tens of millions of wallets to The Open Network (TON) in months — proving a simple, tap-based game can bootstrap a token economy at web-scale, with zero install friction and built-in social virality.

But the same wave exposed a structural weakness. The overwhelming majority of these games share one flaw: the token is a pure faucet with no tap. Supply inflates without limit, there is no external revenue backing the reward, and the price holds only while new users keep arriving. When growth slows, the token — and the game — collapses.

Rignite keeps the frictionless, viral front end that works, but puts a sustainable, revenue-backed economy and a fixed-supply token underneath it.

Why tap-to-earn tokens die

Rignite: the product

A polished, mining-themed idle game — playable today at @RigniteBot in eight languages, on any phone, with no wallet required to play.

Core loop — tap to mine

Players tap a live mining circuit to earn Gold. Tapping consumes energy (base 1,000, regenerating over time), which caps grind sessions and creates natural return visits. A server-side rhythm multiplier rewards sustained, human-like tapping (×1.0 up to ×3.0 at peak "overload") — adding skill and feel without letting bots run away with rewards.

Hardware & passive income

Gold buys mining hardware along a single 40-tier ladder — CPU → GPU → ASIC → … → Quantum → Cosmic — across six unlockable districts. Each purchase raises passive income per hour, turning active play into an idle economy. Passive output accrues into a Shift Bucket (4–14 h capacity) that stops when full — converting idle income into a scheduled "come back and collect" mechanic rather than uncapped offline farming.

Meta-game & social systems

Every faucet is balanced and capped, and multiple coin sinks (hardware upgrades, bucket upgrades, cosmetic flair badges) permanently burn Gold — pulling supply down and supporting the internal price.

The revenue-backed economy

This is the heart of Rignite. Reward value is not invented — it is a transparent share of money the game has already earned from advertisers.

The price formula

The reward pool is funded by a fixed share of real advertising revenue. Watching ads grows the pool and raises price; mining more Gold raises supply and softens price; burning Gold in sinks lowers supply and lifts price. Cashing out does not move the price — it is paid from the pool at the current rate.

Why it cannot run at a loss

Only a share of revenue — the pool share — ever enters the reward pool; the remainder is a permanent margin and buffer. At launch the project runs a 100% pool share to maximise player value and bootstrap trust; roughly two months in, it settles to 60% pool / 40% operator margin. Because the pool is always a fraction of revenue already received, payouts can never exceed income. This is the structural opposite of a Ponzi.

Two currencies, one clear value system

The bridge between the two is a fixed conversion: 3,000 Gold = 1 RGNT, withdrawable to any TON wallet (minimum 1 RGNT). Play converts effort into a real, tradeable asset.

The RGNT token

RGNT is live on TON mainnet today — a standard jetton with a fixed supply and revoked mint authority.

The jetton's mint authority is set to the zero address, meaning no new RGNT can ever be created — the 100 billion supply is permanent and verifiable on-chain. Contract metadata (name, symbol, image) is embedded on-chain, and the token already trades against TON on the STON.fi decentralized exchange.

Utility. RGNT is the settlement layer of the Rignite economy: the asset players withdraw their mining effort into, trade on-chain, and — on the roadmap — hold for future in-game utility, governance, and ecosystem rewards.

Tokenomics & distribution

Of the fixed 100 billion RGNT, a strict 60 billion (60%) is reserved as the play-to-earn emission pool — the only source from which player withdrawals are paid. The remaining 40% underwrites liquidity, future listings, the team, and the ecosystem.

Emission & the conversion rate

Players do not receive tokens in a single airdrop event. Instead, RGNT is emitted continuously as players convert earned Gold at the fixed rate of 3,000 Gold → 1 RGNT, up to the 60B cap. Because in-game Gold is uncapped but the on-chain conversion is hard-capped, the token supply released to players is bounded and predictable while the game economy stays flexible.

Vesting & anti-dump schedule

Value accrual: buyback & burn

A share of advertising revenue funds ongoing buyback & burn: RGNT is purchased from the open market and permanently destroyed, reducing supply and providing genuine price support. This is a treasury operation — not a promise of returns — keeping it clear of "guaranteed yield" legal risk.

Anti-dump & anti-bot design

The failure modes that kill tap-to-earn projects are addressed explicitly, in code and in tokenomics:

Architecture

The codebase has passed an internal security review (130+ checks) covering distribution caps, per-user write locks, residual-balance protection, real transaction-hash verification, gas alarms, and timing-safe admin authentication. A third-party smart-contract & infrastructure audit is planned as the project scales.

Revenue model

Rignite earns real, recurring revenue independent of the token — the engine that funds the reward pool and buybacks:

• Rewarded advertising — a rotating waterfall of multiple ad networks (to preserve CPM across the same users), plus banner and interstitial placements. Watching ads funds the pool and grants in-game boosts.
• Telegram Stars — players buy time-limited passive-mining boosts (1.5× to 10×, 30 days) directly with Telegram's native currency.
• Treasury operations — the treasury tranche funds market-making and exchange listings as the project grows.

Because both revenue streams are off-chain purchases of convenience — never withdrawable financial products — they are sustainable and carry low regulatory risk.

Roadmap

Roadmap items are directional, not commitments, and are sequenced by real growth rather than fixed dates. Verification and listings are third-party decisions and are not guaranteed.

Team & governance

Rignite is developed and operated by Rignite Labs, an independent studio building consumer crypto games on The Open Network. The core team is intentionally pseudonymous — a common and accepted practice across the TON and wider crypto ecosystem — and spans game design, full-stack and blockchain engineering, token-economy design, and growth.

The team's RGNT allocation is fully vested (12-month cliff + 24-month linear) to align long-term incentives and prevent dumping. The project treasury is held in a transparent, on-chain-visible wallet. A formal legal structure — for example, an offshore foundation — will be established with qualified crypto-legal counsel ahead of any formal token offering or centralized-exchange listing.

Risks & disclaimers