Catizen (CATI) 2024 Report: Game Revenues Plummet Post-Airdrop, Bombie Picks up the Slack

• Catizen has pulled over 55 million players; Bombie is approaching 10 million.
• Bombie accounts for almost half of all Catizen app center revenue following the Catizen airdrop.
• The success of Telegram’s Web3 gaming ecosystem appears dependent on airdrops.

One of last year’s hottest airdrop offerings, Telegram’s Catizen (CATI), has just published its 2024 report, revealing sturdy revenues and impressive player counts throughout 2025.

However, following the Catizen airdrop and token generation event (TGE), there appears to be an “airdrop hop” effect as paying players move to the next title that offers crypto rewards.

Catizen 2024

According to Catizen’s 2024  report , the flagship Catizen game earned over $23 million in revenue between March and December 2025.

The Catizen Mini App Center, which includes other airdrop games such as Bombie and Cattea and the decentralized finance (DeFi) trading platform Vanilla Finance, garnered roughly $19.7 million.

Catizen’s 2024 game & App Center revenues. Source: Catizen

Following the contentious September Catizen airdrop and TGE , paying players seemingly abandoned the game, with revenues averaging $500,000 in the months after. However, its ecosystem offerings retained high revenues, though not as many players.

Catizen launched its App Center in August 2024, just ahead of its first airdrop. As the name suggests, it’s a gateway to its broader ecosystem, which also rewards players with airdrop allocation points for completing in-game tasks.

It recently concluded its Season 1 Airdrop Pass, which lasted 90 days, distributing 10 million CATI in its second distribution event. Its second is already underway.

The mini App Center features plenty of free-to-play (F2P) games that aren’t tied to crypto. These non-airdrop titles have so far pulled between 12,000 to 350,000 players, but they don’t compare to the airdrop titles.

Catizen has so far drawn over 55 million players, and Bombie is nearing 10 million.

As the report notes, their games have drawn 1.2 million paying players, and it would appear that the airdrop hop is in full swing as Bombie rises to prominence as the next hot ticket .

Bombie Revenue

The report highlights that Bombie is the main driver behind the App Center’s post-CATI TGE growth.

Launched in August 2024, it pulled barely $500 thousand in its first month but then went on to rake in $1.69 million in September, $2.67 million in October, and $2.01 million in November.

Bombie revenues soar. Source: Catizen

The game accounts for around half of all of the revenue pouring into the Catizen ecosystem. This is interesting as, so far, Bombie has pulled just under a fifth of Catizen’s 55 million players.

The report notes that the entire Catizen ecosystem has 1.2 million paying players, suggesting that a disproportionate number of paying players have jumped ship to Bombie’s long-awaited and still pending airdrop.

The Hop

With two CATI airdrops under its belt, an overdue airdrop by way of Bombie, and a new flagship airdrop title called Cattea, it will be interesting to see how 2025 plays out for Telegram’s budding Web3 star.

As the report shows, players are airdrop-hopping from one title to the next, but It’s unclear how many people are still regularly playing Catizen.

But judging by the huge decline in its revenues, the shift towards Bombie and, most likely, Cattea, the ecosystem’s finances may be at risk of becoming dependent on airdrop offerings.

While paying players await the Bombie airdrop, they remain caught in the  sunk cost of gaming center rewards and incentives. Following the Bombie airdrop, time will tell whether Cattea and other titles will be able to pull similar numbers.