Telegram Sport ‘Hamster Kombat’ Claims Explosive Development, Topping 150 Million Gamers

Telegram-based crypto gaming sensation Hamster Kombat claimed on Friday that it now has a participant base bigger than the inhabitants of Russia—over 150 million gamers. 

That progress constitutes a 50% surge from simply final week, when the sport’s builders mentioned they crossed the 100 million consumer mark. For some context, that may imply that nearly one in 5 Telegram customers have signed up for the sport, which incentivizes gamers to develop a hamster’s imaginary crypto change by dangling actual crypto rewards.

These rewards will come within the type of an eventual token airdrop to gamers who’ve accrued factors throughout the sport—which exists as a mini-app inside Telegram, the favored messaging app, and doesn’t require any further downloads. Final week, a Hamster Kombat crew member hinted that the airdrop is at present deliberate for July. 

It’s simple that the sport is attracting enormous quantities of curiosity inside Telegram. Hamster Kombat’s bulletins channel in Telegram is way and away the app’s hottest channel, with over 35 million subscribers.

The sport’s YouTube channel at present boasts some 23 million subscribers, and its Twitter account has 7.7 million followers. Every account’s following has grown considerably even throughout the final week. 

Hamster Kombat’s success has largely been fueled by that of its non secular predecessor, Notcoin, one other crypto-backed in-app Telegram sport that received loyal devotees with a profitable token airdrop to gamers. 

Notcoin’s airdrop launched on Might 16 to a lot fanfare; the token, NOT, has solely grown in worth since then, breaking previous a $2 billion market capitalization final week. NOT is at present one of many high 60 cryptocurrencies by market cap, in line with CoinGecko.

Toncoin, the native token of The Open Community (TON), Telegram’s favored blockchain, seems to have benefited from Hamster Kombat’s success as nicely. The token hit an all-time excessive worth of $8.13 on Friday. It’s up over 26% within the final two weeks. 

The flourishing first of Notcoin, and now of Hamster Kombat, seems to have attracted further would-be successors. Yesterday, two further Telegram-based video games with token airdrop ambitions—Tapswap and Yescoin—introduced plans to quickly launch on TON.

Edited by Andrew Hayward