Tower wallet

What is Tower (TOWER)?

The TOWER that Tangem holds is the game token of the Tower ecosystem run by Animoca Brands: the tower defense titles Crazy Defense Heroes and Crazy Kings. Inside the games it buys chests and other in-game items and is handed out to players through in-game events; outside them it is a plain fungible token with no rebase, no interest and no balance changes on its own, so what you deposit is what you see.

There is a second project called Tower that has nothing to do with this token: a decentralized exchange on the Babylon network for Bitcoin based finance. It shares the name and nothing else. If you arrived here from BTCfi material, check that the asset you are buying is the Animoca game token, because this page is about that one.

One token, several chains

TOWER started as an ERC-20 on Ethereum and was moved to Polygon early on for in-game distributions, which now run on Base. Since then it has been issued on BNB Smart Chain and later on Solana, TON and Base, each being a version of the same token rather than a new one. Every chain wants its own gas coin: ETH on Ethereum and Base, POL on Polygon, BNB on BNB Smart Chain, SOL on Solana, Toncoin on TON. On Solana the balance sits in a token account that needs a small SOL rent deposit before the first receive, and on TON a jetton wallet is created for you on first receipt.

Tangem's app treats each of those copies as its own line with its own balance, and before the card signs a transfer it names the network the coins will leave on, so you can compare that with what the recipient actually gave you. The same address serves all the EVM copies, which is exactly why that network line deserves a look. Supported networks in Tangem (6): Base, Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, Solana, TON, Polygon POS.

Moving TOWER between chains goes through third-party bridges; the wallet signs the transactions but does not do the conversion itself. With one ticker duplicated across that many chains, seeing every copy labelled by network before you tap the card is what lets you check the destination yourself, and that check is the whole point of keeping TOWER on Tangem.