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In Major, players collect Stars and climb a rating. Stars come from completing daily tasks, inviting friends and receiving votes from other users on their profile, and a player's position in the rating rises as their Stars grow. This is how Bitget's listing announcement describes the game. The game launched in early July 2024, and CoinMarketCap Academy dates the start to July 3, 2024. A project press release dated July 10, 2024 says Major reached 7 million users in its first five days.

A sponsored press release names Roxman as the person behind Major. It was distributed through Chainwire and published on Decrypt on July 10, 2024. The release lists him as CEO and presents him as co-owner of the Fintopio crypto wallet. It is sponsored promotional material rather than independent reporting. The same release credits Roxman with a second Telegram game, Friends Factory (@Fabrika). Its mention of Pavel Durov concerns that game: it says Durov bought the @Fabrika username and gave it to the project. The release also said a MAJOR token on TON was planned.

MAJOR launched on TON through an airdrop to eligible players. The token generation event took place at 12:00 UTC on Thursday, November 28, 2024. Before the launch, players could choose OKX, Bitget or Telegram's Wallet app to receive their tokens, and claims to self-custody TON wallets opened on November 27. Decrypt reported a total supply of 100 million MAJOR. The developers said more than 30 million people had played before the token launch. According to a post on the project's Telegram channel, eligibility depended on a player's own activity rather than on inactive invited accounts. The creators also announced a plan to airdrop 1% of the supply, 1 million MAJOR, to Pavel Durov, and Decrypt reported it as a stated plan.

Several centralised exchanges listed MAJOR when the token launched. Bitget placed the MAJOR/USDT pair in its Innovation and TON Ecosystem Zone. Trading opened at 12:00 UTC on November 28, 2024, and withdrawals followed at 13:00 UTC on November 29. On November 14, 2024, OKX announced pre-market futures for MAJOR together with a planned MAJOR/USDT spot listing, and called MAJOR the native token of Major of Telegram. Its update of November 29, 2024 confirmed the listing. KuCoin's own guide set MAJOR's launch on KuCoin for November 28, 2024 at 12:00 UTC.

Before the launch, the developers said they planned a gaming hub. They also planned NFTs minted from in-game achievements that could affect rankings in other games. Decrypt reported these plans on November 27, 2024. STON.fi's token page says Major has grown from a rating game into a wider platform, with NFT phone-number rentals and an on-chain market for digital gifts. By STON.fi's account, MAJOR can pay for Telegram Stars and Premium and can be used to trade NFT numbers and usernames. It can also unlock channel or profile verification through a Major Business Card.