When Uncle Zhang first clicked on @The Notcoin Official , he was purely attracted by the screenshots in the community WeChat group: 'Click once to earn 0.5 yuan, you can earn enough for breakfast in a day.'
In that winter of early 2024, he sat on the sofa every day, clicking on the golden icon bouncing in the Telegram mini-program hundreds of times, watching his points slowly increase, like saving coins in a piggy bank.
At that time, no one expected that this 'click the screen game' could drive 40 million people crazy.
Uncle Zhang got his partner to play along and even taught the old buddies in the square dance team. Someone calculated that just the early click rewards added up to over 220 million dollars, and the few hundred $NOT that Uncle Zhang earned later turned into his grandson's tutoring fees when exchanged on the exchange.
More than a year has passed, and Notcoin has changed. Clicking is no longer the only way to play; Uncle Zhang now follows the task prompts to 'browse around' unfamiliar DApps, and he can earn more tokens when he comes back. He doesn't understand what 'on-chain behavior' means; he just knows it's more interesting than simply clicking on the screen, like upgrading from a whack-a-mole game to a level-based game.
Recently in the community chat, someone mentioned that the price of NOT has dropped significantly, but Uncle Zhang didn’t mind. 'It was money earned from playing, and now I can learn to handle a digital wallet, so it’s not a loss.'
Perhaps the best part of Notcoin is not how much money people made, but that ordinary people like Uncle Zhang were able to smile as they crossed the threshold of Web3.