TapSwapToken wallet

What is TapSwapToken (TAPS)?

TAPS came out of the tap-to-earn wave on Telegram, where the game lives inside a chat mini app and the token settles on TON. The part that matters for a wallet is the settlement layer, not the tapping.

On TON, TAPS is a jetton, and jettons do not sit in your main account the way TON itself does. Each holder gets a small jetton wallet contract of their own, deployed the first time tokens arrive, and transfers move between those contracts. Practical consequences: the first receipt costs a little more in fees than later ones, every transfer needs TON in the same wallet to pay network and forward fees, and a balance of TAPS on its own leaves you stuck. TON addresses also come in bounceable and non-bounceable forms, and services usually ask for a memo or comment alongside the address. A deposit sent without that tag is the classic way people lose track of TON-based tokens.

Game tokens tend to move in small amounts and often: a claim, a transfer to a friend, a swap. Tangem handles that as a tap of the card against the phone, with the TON you need for fees held in the same wallet as the jetton, so there is nothing to charge or plug in before signing. For a token you touch in short bursts rather than park for years, that removes the friction that usually pushes people back onto an app they do not control.

Supported networks in Tangem (1): TON.