The makers of Hamster Kombat, the viral Telegram-based tap-to-earn sport, stated Tuesday that the sport has attracted 300 million gamers thus far. That’s almost one-third of the 950 million energetic customers on the favored messaging app, per a current announcement.
Hamster Kombat’s nameless workforce shared the stat in a brand new whitepaper launched Tuesday, which particulars plans for the allocation of the sport’s upcoming token launch on The Open Community (TON). The launch was deliberate for July, however earlier bulletins on Monday prompt that the airdrop is nonetheless within the planning levels.
Hamster Kombat has seen monumental development in current weeks. Telegram CEO Pavel Durov stated on July 5 that the sport had attracted 239 million gamers by that time, and the sport’s workforce put the sum at 250 million simply days later.
The 300 million participant tally is an unbelievable quantity for any sport.
Main free-to-play video games like Fortnite and Roblox are estimated to every have greater than 200 million month-to-month energetic gamers, for instance. Hamster Kombat’s complete is an all-time mark, nonetheless, plus it solely takes a number of seconds to hop into the Telegram mini app to begin taking part in.
The easy tap-to-earn crypto trade simulator has racked up that giant participant complete forward of the deliberate HMSTR token launch on TON. The builders are following the mould from Notcoin, the unique Telegram tap-to-earn sport that launched its NOT token to thousands and thousands of gamers earlier this yr, reaching a peak market cap of almost $3 billion.
Whereas the whitepaper doesn’t element a launch date for the token, it does supply some particulars about how the token provide will probably be allotted. In contrast to Notcoin, nonetheless, Hamster Kombat’s workforce received’t be releasing all the tokens without delay—or providing all of them as much as gamers.
In accordance with the workforce, 60% of the HMSTR tokens will probably be allotted to gamers within the airdrop, with the remaining tally “reserved for offering market liquidity, ecosystem partnerships and grants, rewarding squads, and different objects.”
As famous in that assertion, Hamster Kombat plans to broaden its ecosystem in time and onboard different builders, together with by way of grants. The sport will even launch a “squads” characteristic to encourage gamers to collaborate, and also will debut “time-limited occasions” with particular rewards. There will even be a “Season 2” marketing campaign with additional crypto rewards.
Edited by Stacy Elliott
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