‘Hamster Kombat’ Telegram Game Hits 100 Million Players—Here’s When the Token Is Coming

On Wednesday, the Hamster Kombat staff introduced that it has drawn 100 million gamers into the Telegram mini app so far, blasting upwards from a claimed mark of 60 million gamers final Friday.

That’s an unlimited quantity of gamers for any sport, not to mention one that’s set to have a crypto token within the close to future. There’s little or no friction to start out enjoying, to make sure, and the sport itself is constructed round a easy clicking mechanism.

It’s not troublesome to get individuals to hop in and begin enjoying Hamster Kombat, although whether or not they stick round is one other story. For now, screenshots of knowledge shared by Hamster Kombat level to one thing within the vary of 40-45 million each day lively customers (DAU), although a big chunk of which may be individuals enjoying for the very first time given the inflow of latest customers.

Hamster Kombat can be seeing important social media consideration, giving some credence to the claimed participant base stats.

The sport now has the one largest Telegram channel on the messaging app with over 27 million subscribers, or greater than thrice that of the official Notcoin bulletins channel, for instance. It has additionally racked up practically 17 million YouTube subscribers, and has nearly six million Twitter followers as properly.

Why are individuals tapping their screens incessantly and working a hamster-led fictional crypto trade? Most gamers are seemingly in it for the eventual token airdrop, given how properly Notcoin—its religious predecessor—landed for gamers just lately. And now we now have a goal for when the token would possibly drop.

In a Twitter Areas held with the TON Basis earlier this week, a Hamster Kombat staff member who glided by “Hamster Lady” mentioned that the present token itemizing goal is in July—although that might change based mostly on numerous elements. A TON Basis consultant individually confirmed to Decrypt’s GG on Thursday that the sport’s staff is aiming for July.

“It may be a bit of bit sooner, it may be a bit of bit later, as a result of there’s clearly totally different shifting elements concerned together with compliance [and] negotiations,” Hamster Lady mentioned on the Twitter Areas.

Notcoin’s token itemizing, for instance, was delayed for a few month. It was initially scheduled to occur in parallel with the Bitcoin halving on April 20, however simply days earlier than the deliberate drop, developer Open Builders pushed again the NOT launch. It then missed an end-of-April goal earlier than lastly launching on Could 16.

However the NOT launch proved to be properly well worth the watch for gamers, notably those that held onto their tokens—it’s up 350% within the final two weeks and is now one of many high 60 cryptocurrencies general by market cap at $2.15 billion.

Hamster Kombat gamers are undoubtedly hoping for comparable buzz as soon as their token is accessible. And Toncoin, the native token of The Open Community, could also be benefitting from the Hamster Kombat buzz too. Now the tenth most-valuable cryptocurrency by market cap, TON hit a brand new all-time excessive value of $7.76 early Wednesday.

And for gamers who benefit from the tapping gameplay, worry not: In contrast to Notcoin, Hamster Kombat apparently doesn’t plan to pause the gameplay as soon as the token launch nears.

“Clearly, the sport won’t ever cease,” mentioned Hamster Lady. “It is not going to cease after the itemizing. It’s going to preserve rolling, and much more mechanics are coming, much more playing cards […] and much more incentive to ask much more buddies and play together with one another.”