ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands, April 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AlphaTON Capital Corp. (NASDAQ:ATON) ("AlphaTON"), today released GAMEE's unaudited Q1 2026 performance update.The GAMEE acquisition completion is on target for an April close. During this time, GAMEE has demonstrated the potent synergy between hyper-casual gaming and the Telegram ecosystem.

Q1 2026 Financial & Operational Highlights

GAMEE entered 2026 with significant momentum, posting an estimated $926,000 in revenue for the first quarter. This represents a 56% Year-over-Year (YoY) growth compared to Q1 2025 ($593,000), driven by a robust portfolio that attracted over 5.57 million users and 88.5 million gameplays in just three months.

Current Reach: 1.7M MAUs and 150k DAUs across all platforms.
Expansion: Increased footprint within the Telegram Mini App (TMA) ecosystem.

Reflecting on the Azuki Collaboration

In Q1, GAMEE successfully concluded its collaboration with the premier Web3 brand, Azuki. The Alley Escape Telegram mini-app proved the power of brand integration:

Metrics: 315k users and 27M gameplays.
Rankings: Reached the Top 200 Mini Apps on Telegram and hit #1 Arcade Game on PlayToEarn.
Outcome: The partnership successfully drove a sold-out Azuki Sticker mint within 10 minutes.

Strategic Outlook for 2026

AlphaTON continues to support GAMEE as it sharpens its focus for the remainder of the year on three core pillars:

Revenue Scaling: Aggressive monetization across native and Telegram-based channels.
Brand Synergy: Continuing to bridge Tier-1 Web2 and Web3 brands into the Telegram audience.
AI Integration: Deepening the use of AI for internal production and external "agent-centric" gameplay experiences. As AlphaTON scales its AI GPU and Telegram Cocoon infrastructure, GAMEE will be utilizing compute through AlphaTON.

The "Gold Fest" Initiative: A $2M Ecosystem Milestone

In January, GAMEE reached a significant agreement with nGRND and Flashy to launch Gold Fest. This two-phase campaign represents one of the largest gamified distributions of real-world assets within the Telegram ecosystem.

The Deal: A multi-phase campaign distributing $2M in tokenized in-situ gold via Telegram.
Revenue Impact: GAMEE secured $500,000 in development fees and an additional $500,000 marketing budget to execute the initiative.
The Innovation: Phase II (launching Q2/Q3) will introduce a pioneering agentic layer, allowing users to connect or rent AI agents to participate in a dedicated prize pool, accelerating the mass adoption of AI agents in gaming.

"The Q1 results confirm our thesis that the Telegram ecosystem is the premier frontier for gaming growth," said Brittany Kaiser, CEO of AlphaTON. "The success of the Gold Fest deal and the scaling of the agentic layer demonstrates AlphaTON's contributions to GAMEE, pushing it to the forefront of how value and AI interact on Telegram. Martin and the GAMEE team continue to set the benchmark for what is possible in this space and we are proud to support their continued growth."

About AlphaTON Capital Corp. (NASDAQ:ATON)

AlphaTON Capital Corp. (NASDAQ:ATON) is a holding company built to deliver on the promise of AI that is human centric. AlphaTON builds and operates businesses at the intersection of confidential compute, artificial intelligence and its convergence with digital assets. As artificial intelligence reshapes how data is created, stored, and processed, the demand for privacy-preserving computation has become structural. Blockchain-native architectures offer a fundamentally different model for secure processing - one that protects sensitive information through design, not just policy and promises. AlphaTON's portfolio is positioned at this threshold, providing its companies and clients with the technical foundation for next-generation privacy infrastructure. The company pursues and manages strategic treasury positions in digital assets aligned with its core thesis. AlphaTON supports blockchain and decentralized AI ecosystems that provide decentralized privacy and protections to its users. The company provides AI Confidential Compute through decentralized infrastructure and applications that support partners such as Telegram, Gamee, Animoca Brands, Midnight Blockchain, and others.

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About GAMEE

GAMEE was founded in 2015 and has been a subsidiary of Animoca Brands since 2020. GAMEE is a high-engagement mobile gaming platform focused on onboarding a mass gaming audience to Web3. It has over 119 million registered users and has served over 10 billion gameplay sessions across multiple ecosystems. GAMEE's WATCoin airdrop collectively onboarded 4 million user wallets into the TON ecosystem. The company has partnered with over 40 major Web3 communities including Mocaverse, TON, Notcoin, The Sandbox, and Cool Cats. Learn more at www.gamee.com or get updates by following on X.

Forward-Looking Statements

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