‘Flappy Fowl’ Is Making a Crypto Gaming Push After All

Viral cellular recreation Flappy Fowl nonetheless has plans forward within the crypto world, in accordance with a weblog publish from the Flappy Fowl Basis, the entity that acquired the smash cellular recreation’s trademark and introduced it again by way of Telegram final 12 months. 

The sport’s relaunch on Telegram got here with a play-to-earn mining marketing campaign for an eventual FLAP token on The Open Community (TON). Nonetheless, the way forward for these plans grew to become unsure when its Telegram mining part ended with no token airdrop this spring, and the sport’s Android relaunch in April got here with out a crypto connection. 

Now although, the Flappy Fowl Basis says that Flappy Fowl will once more “take flight in Web3.” 

“Flappy Fowl Basis will proceed its mandate to discover and innovate on the planet of Web3 IP and gaming,” the Basis wrote.

“Our final imaginative and prescient is to construct an ecosystem housing the perfect components of the normal gaming house, IP licensing, and all the advantages of Web3 to create a world Flappy Fowl model for the neighborhood of followers and gamers.” 

For Flappy Fowl, meaning a brand new Web3 model of the sport with aggressive gameplay, whereas additionally letting gamers earn rewards—although no particular point out of a token is made within the newest announcement. A consultant for the Flappy Fowl Basis didn’t instantly reply to Decrypt’s request for remark.

Following the announcement, the official X account of Base—Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 community—replied with a screenshot of the “Web3 IP protocol launches, bringing the model on-chain” bit from the sport’s roadmap, full with emoji eyes. Flappy Fowl then shared that X publish with its Telegram neighborhood, maybe signaling collaborative plans forward… or at the very least stoking hypothesis from curious followers.

The Basis additionally mentions the launch of an IP protocol, bringing Flappy Fowl property on-chain, however specifics on which blockchain or property weren’t supplied.



The sport, which asks customers to navigate a flying chicken by a collection of scrolling pipes or tubes, first launched and went viral in early 2014. Quickly after, the sport’s creator Dong Nguyen abruptly pulled the sport from app shops, expressing guilt over its addictive maintain on gamers.

When it returned final 12 months, Nguyen notably broke a seven-year X hiatus to sentence the sport’s crypto launch.

Others have been crucial of the sport’s connection to blockchain too, main the Flappy Fowl Basis and its subsidiary Flappy Fowl Publishing to make very clear that its latest Epic Video games Retailer for Android launch wouldn’t have any crypto connections. 

“The Flappy Fowl app out there on Epic Video games Retailer won’t ever have any Web3 parts, and is supported solely by advertisements and in-app purchases,” a assertion in regards to the recreation’s launch learn. 

And whereas the sport will discover Web3 crossovers, followers who don’t want to use the blockchain elements don’t must.

“We additionally acknowledge that there are a lot of Flappy Fowl followers new and O.G. that simply wish to flap on with out partaking in Web3. We hear you,” the publish reads. “Should you choose to not have interaction with Web3 options, Flappy Fowl Publishing, the muse’s licensee and Web2 gaming writer, will all the time offer you conventional Web2 video games and experiences.”

A timeline for Flappy Fowl’s new Web3 initiatives was not supplied.

Edited by Andrew Hayward