Season 2 of Gold Fest finished on 1 November. This time the event ran as Gold Fest: The Game, a standalone mining game on Telegram. The claim window for Season 2 opened on 5 November, so players holding Gold Points can begin their claim inside the Gold Fest app.
The first season of Gold Fest took place inside the GAMEE app. For the second, GAMEE made a custom mining game and launched it on 20 August as a separate Telegram mini-app, with a mascot named Nuggy as its face. Players tunnelled through an underground mine, finished tasks, reached distance milestones, opened reward boxes and progressed through a Season Pass. Each of those activities increased their slice of the season’s prize pool.
How the pool grew to $1.5 million
At launch the pool stood at $1 million, and it climbed to $1.25 million as the season went on. The final $250,000 hinged on one weekend event, the Digathon.
Gold Fest sponsor nGRND promised to put in the $250,000 if players dug 25 million metres between them within 48 hours. For that weekend, depth tasks paid out 100x rewards. The community hit the goal, which pushed the pool to $1.5 million, triple the Season 1 pool. Reaching the target also kicked off The Golden Shower, a week of bonus giveaways and rewards.
Prizes on top of Gold
Draws and giveaways during the season gave away physical and digital items as well:
- Nine Gold Telegram Gifts
- A Play Solana Gen 1
- An iPhone 17
- AirPods Pro 3
- A Plush Pepe worth $10,000
According to GAMEE, 5,195 players took at least one draw prize across the Season 2 draws and giveaways.
How to claim Season 2 rewards
Claiming requires an nGRND Digital Soul-Bound Token (DSBT), which players can get in the Gold Fest app. Gold Points are converted to $NUGS in a separate app, Dig It. From there, $NUGS converts to $GOLD, and $GOLD can be turned into staked NGRND in the nGRND Gold Protocol Staking & Rewards Ecosystem. Players must claim their $NUGS through Dig It before it converts to $GOLD.
No value for $NUGS, $GOLD or NGRND appears in the announcement, and token prices can change. GAMEE says token details will come from nGRND. GAMEE has also teased another project, though it has not named a game, set a date or confirmed a Season 3.