Mini apps · Crypto
Bots in the Crypto niche running main-app mini-apps, ranked by approximate active users. Cross-link to all niches via the parent leaderboard.
The top-ranked Crypto Telegram mini-app currently tracked by Telegram Ads Spy is @send with 1,640,561 active users. Top 3 by monthly active users: @send, @CryptoBot, @cryptobot. 100 total Crypto mini-apps indexed in this niche. Ranking is by botActiveUsers (Telegram-reported MAU) with popularBotsRank as a secondary sort.
Bots with botHasMainApp=true and a non-null botNiche are eligible. The classifier runs the bot's public profile description, recent messages and category metadata through a regex-based niche detector — the same logic used for advertiser classification. Manual overrides for edge cases. See https://tgadsspy.com/info/niche for the full decision rules.
Yes — https://tgadsspy.com/api/v1/miniapps?niche=crypto returns this leaderboard as JSON; https://tgadsspy.com/api/v1/miniapps.csv?niche=crypto for flat CSV (10 columns: username, title, niche, mau, stars_level, popular_bots_rank, sponsored_enabled, avatar_url, last_enriched_at, profile_url). Researcher-friendly for academic mini-app ecosystem studies. CC-BY-4.0 license. X-Api-Key required for higher rate limits.
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