George Tsagkarakis
Gold Fest (official site) Season 2 ended on 1 November. This season the event was a standalone mining game on Telegram called Gold Fest: The Game. Claims for Season 2 opened on 5 November, and players who collected Gold Points can now start their claim in the Gold Fest app.
Season 1 of Gold Fest was an event inside the GAMEE app. For Season 2, GAMEE built a custom mining game and released it as its own Telegram mini-app on 20 August. The game is fronted by a mascot called Nuggy. Players dug through an underground mine, completed tasks, hit distance milestones, opened reward boxes and worked through a Season Pass. All of that raised their share of the season’s prize pool.
How the prize pool reached $1.5 million
The pool was $1 million at launch and rose to $1.25 million over the season. The last $250,000 depended on a single weekend event called the Digathon.
nGRND, the Gold Fest sponsor, said it would add that $250,000 if players dug a combined 25 million metres in 48 hours. Depth tasks paid 100x rewards during the weekend. Players reached the target, and the pool hit $1.5 million, three times the size of the Season 1 pool. Hitting the target also started The Golden Shower, a week of extra giveaways and rewards.
Prizes beyond Gold
The season’s draws and giveaways also handed out physical and digital prizes:
- Nine Gold Telegram Gifts
- A Play Solana Gen 1
- An iPhone 17
- AirPods Pro 3
- A Plush Pepe worth $10,000
GAMEE says 5,195 players won at least one draw prize across the Season 2 draws and giveaways.
How the Season 2 claim works
To claim, players need an nGRND Digital Soul-Bound Token (DSBT), which is available in the Gold Fest app. Gold Points convert to $NUGS in a separate app called Dig It (official site). $NUGS then converts to $GOLD, and $GOLD can be converted to staked NGRND in the nGRND Gold Protocol Staking & Rewards Ecosystem. Players have to go through Dig It to claim their $NUGS before it converts to $GOLD.
The announcement does not give a value for $NUGS, $GOLD or NGRND, and token prices can move. GAMEE says nGRND will publish the token details. GAMEE has also hinted at another project but has not announced a game, a date or a Season 3.
