{"investigation":{"slug":"taptaptap","entity_name":"Taptaptap","trust_score":50,"severity_base":null,"score_modifier":0,"confidence":0.1,"status":"published","content_type":"investigation","summary":"No verifiable crypto or blockchain entity named 'Taptaptap' could be identified through extensive web research conducted in October 2026. Multiple searches across token databases, regulatory filings, news outlets, social media, and DEX aggregators returned no matching project, token, or company by this exact name. The name overlaps with several unrelated 'Tap'-branded projects in the crypto space, none of which operate under the specific name 'Taptaptap.'","sections":[{"content":"Extensive web searches for \"Taptaptap\" — alone, combined with terms such as \"crypto,\" \"scam,\" \"token,\" \"airdrop,\" \"contract,\" \"pump.fun,\" \"solana,\" \"review,\" and \"complaints,\" and restricted to social platforms — returned no results describing a crypto exchange, token, protocol, decentralized application, or company that actually uses this exact name. Search engines instead surfaced several distinct, differently named projects: TapSwap (a Telegram tap-to-earn game with a TON-based TAPS token), TAPTAP / TAP2 (a self-described crypto-to-fiat payment platform promoted via a promotional press release announcing a listing on LBank), Taptap Send (a remittance app unrelated to crypto), and TapTap (a Chinese mobile game discovery platform). None of these sources identify themselves as, or state a connection to, an entity named \"Taptaptap.\" Decentralized exchange screeners (DexScreener, DexPaprika, Zerion) returned only unrelated tokens with superficially similar names (e.g., \"TAPTAPTAPTAP\" on Base, \"TAP TAP TAP\" on Base, \"TAP\" on Solana pump.fun), none of which carry the exact name under investigation or show meaningful liquidity, trading history, or independent coverage.","heading":"Identification attempt","sources":[{"url":"https://business.sherbrookerecord.com/sherbrookerecord/article/newsfile-2025-7-14-lbank-exchange-has-listed-taptap-tap2","name":"LBank Exchange Has Listed TAPTAP (TAP2) (promotional press release)","type":"other","credibility":3},{"url":"https://decrypt.co/238663/what-is-tapswap-the-telegram-tap-to-earn-game-and-airdrop-details/","name":"What is TapSwap? The Telegram Tap-to-Earn Game and Airdrop Details","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://dexpaprika.com/base/token/0xc3f69470a86a9846a84b584574067f8293c286f8","name":"DexPaprika token listing (Base chain, similarly named token)","type":"on_chain","credibility":2}],"severity":"low"},{"content":"Because \"Taptaptap\" is phonetically close to several unrelated products, readers researching this name may actually be encountering one of the following: (1) TapSwap, a Telegram-based tap-to-earn game whose TAPS token launched on The Open Network (TON) with an airdrop that was delayed multiple times in 2024–2025; generic \"TapSwap scam\" articles exist online but are largely low-quality, templated content without named regulators, court filings, or verified victims, and are not evidence about \"Taptaptap.\" (2) TAPTAP (TAP2), promoted as a PayFi/RWA token with a TAP Credit Card, announced via a paid newswire release about a listing on LBank Exchange; this release is self-published promotional content and was not corroborated by independent financial or crypto-news reporting. (3) Taptap Send, a remittance app that has drawn numerous user complaints on consumer complaint sites regarding unauthorized charges and delayed transfers; this is a money-transfer business, not a cryptocurrency exchange or token, and there is no indication it is related to the subject of this page. None of these projects should be treated as confirmed to be \"Taptaptap\"; they are listed only to document what this research process found adjacent to the search term.","heading":"Adjacent and similarly named projects (not confirmed to be the same entity)","sources":[{"url":"https://decrypt.co/238663/what-is-tapswap-the-telegram-tap-to-earn-game-and-airdrop-details/","name":"What is TapSwap? The Telegram Tap-to-Earn Game and Airdrop Details","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://decrypt.co/296557/telegram-game-tapswap-token-launch-airdrop","name":"Telegram game TapSwap token launch airdrop","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://portaldaqueixa.com/brands/taptap-send/complaints/taptap-send-impossibilidade-de-adicionar-novo-cartao-apos-bloqueio-159667026","name":"Taptap Send consumer complaints (Portal da Queixa)","type":"community_report","credibility":3}],"severity":"low"},{"content":"No regulatory actions, court filings, law-enforcement statements, major news coverage, on-chain contract matching the exact name, or app-store listing could be located for an entity precisely named \"Taptaptap.\" Because no subject could be positively identified, this page cannot responsibly assert that \"Taptaptap\" is a scam, a legitimate project, or anything in between. The trust score is set at a neutral midpoint reflecting the absence of evidence in either direction, and confidence is kept low to reflect that this is fundamentally a non-finding rather than a researched conclusion. If a reader arrived at this page expecting information about a specific product, app, token contract, or website using this name, the name may be misspelled, the project may be too new or too small to have indexed coverage, or it may operate under a slightly different name (see the adjacent-projects section above).","heading":"Assessment limitations","sources":[],"severity":"low"}],"timeline":[],"sources_used":[{"url":"https://mahdif.github.io/taptaptap/","name":"TapTapTap - Open source tapping game built with Javascript (GitHub Pages)","type":"other","archive_url":"http://web.archive.org/web/20260911215216/https://mahdif.github.io/taptaptap/","credibility":3,"archive_timestamp":"2026-09-11T21:52:16+00:00"},{"url":"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/taptaptap-2/id1496393991","name":"TapTapTap 2 - App Store - Apple","type":"other","archive_url":"http://web.archive.org/web/20260912202959/https://apps.apple.com/us/app/taptaptap-2/id1496393991","credibility":2,"archive_timestamp":"2026-09-12T20:29:59+00:00"},{"url":"https://www.coincarp.com/currencies/taptap-2/","name":"TAPTAP price now, Live TAP2 price, marketcap, chart, and info - CoinCarp","type":"other","archive_url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261008013903/https://www.coincarp.com/currencies/taptap-2/","credibility":2,"archive_timestamp":"2026-10-08T01:39:03+00:00"},{"url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tap_Global_Group","name":"Tap Global Group - Wikipedia","type":"other","archive_url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261008045400/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tap_Global_Group","credibility":2,"archive_timestamp":"2026-10-08T04:54:00+00:00"},{"url":"https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/tapswaptoken","name":"TapSwapToken Price - CoinGecko","type":"other","archive_url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261008045828/https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/tapswaptoken","credibility":2,"archive_timestamp":"2026-10-08T04:58:28+00:00"},{"url":"https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/tap-protocol","name":"Tap Protocol Price - CoinGecko","type":"other","archive_url":"http://web.archive.org/web/20260423185425/https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/tap-protocol","credibility":2,"archive_timestamp":"2026-04-23T18:54:25+00:00"},{"url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TapTap","name":"TapTap - Wikipedia","type":"other","archive_url":"http://web.archive.org/web/20260925161912/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TapTap","credibility":2,"archive_timestamp":"2026-09-25T16:19:12+00:00"}],"source_tags":[],"addresses":[],"reviewed":false,"reviewed_by":null,"model_used":"claude-sonnet-4-6","created_at":"2026-09-10T23:03:46.199014+00:00","updated_at":"2026-10-08T05:40:27.069655+00:00"},"source_quality":{"total":12,"tier1":0,"tier2":2,"tier3":0,"unrated":10},"follower_count":null,"content_updated_at":"2026-10-08T03:20:27.014Z","last_fact_checked_at":null,"fact_check_next_allowed_at":null,"update_next_allowed_at":null}