What Is Hamster Kombat? The Telegram Crypto Recreation and Airdrop

Are hamsters combating now? Not precisely—however whereas Hamster Kombat’s title could be a little bit deceptive, this Telegram-based clicker sport has rapidly turn out to be a dominant chief within the play-to-earn house by increasing upon Notcoin’s successful mannequin.

With some 300 million gamers, the Hamster Kombat workforce plans to launch its token on The Open Community (TON) and supply an airdrop declare, rewarding gamers for racking up in-game cash by ultimately dropping them actual, tradable crypto tokens.

That’s pushed many extra individuals in the direction of the sport, however as of this writing, new gamers can nonetheless dive in and rack up cash forward of the airdrop. Right here’s what it is advisable to learn about Hamster Kombat, easy methods to play it, and what we all know in regards to the token and airdrop up to now.

What’s Hamster Kombat?

Just like Notcoin, Hamster Kombat has gamers tapping away to earn cash in a Telegram-native utility (or “mini app”)—which suggests to play the sport, you simply open a chat on Telegram.

The sport builders declare that they’ve amassed some 300 million customers, all eagerly tapping away in-game in an effort to earn cash that may presumably be used to find out what number of tokens gamers obtain within the upcoming Hamster Kombat airdrop.

Whereas Hamster Kombat has been round since March, the sport picked up severe steam after the Notcoin airdrop concluded in Could—maybe on account of tap-addicted players migrating to a brand new sport with an upcoming token and airdrop within the works.

Hamster Kombat’s core idea is just like Notcoin, with some barely richer sport mechanics layered on high of it. Briefly: It’s a tap-to-earn sport combined with a crypto change simulator.

In Hamster Kombat, you’re the CEO of an up-and-coming crypto change, and it’s your job to develop the change to new heights by no means earlier than seen… on the earth of hamsters. So as to take action, gamers faucet a picture of a cartoon hamster to earn cash, after which use these cash to purchase upgrades for his or her change.

The best way to play Hamster Kombat

Hamster Kombat begins off in a way acquainted to Notcoin customers, with gamers tapping away at a golden coin within the Telegram app. With Hamster Kombat nonetheless, step one is—for some cause—shaving your hamster so she or he can turn out to be the CEO of a crypto change. 

Just like Notcoin, gamers can use their in-game factors to buy “Boosts” that improve stats, reminiscent of what number of factors are earned per faucet, or how lengthy you may faucet earlier than having to take a break and wait in your power bar to refill. There are additionally free each day boosters that gamers can declare six instances per day.

As soon as gamers have earned some factors, they will begin utilizing them to improve their change within the “Mine” tab of the sport. This tab reveals all types of upgrades that gamers can buy (purely with in-game cash) for his or her change, and embody issues reminiscent of including cash like Bitcoin to be traded at your change, organising a KYC course of, and even occurring the Joe Rogan podcast.

Each improve you buy in your change earns you extra cash passively. For instance, including the BTC pair to your change prices 250 factors, however then earns you 40 factors per hour. In different phrases, these additions rapidly repay and assist propel your change additional alongside.

There’s additionally additionally a each day combo of upgrades that’ll earn you 5 million free cash, plus a each day cipher which you can enter in morse code for one more free 1 million in-game cash. You should definitely learn our Every day Combo and Every day Cipher guides for particulars on each.

‘Wen airdrop?’

What’s the purpose to incomes in-game cash? Equally to Notcoin, Hamster Kombat has additionally introduced an upcoming airdrop, although the has been far more clear about it than Notcoin was at first.

The HMSTR token was initially focused for July, however finally missed that ETA. As of this writing, we do not have a clearer estimate in view, and the workforce attributed the delay to the problem of dropping a token to such an enormous participant base.

How will the airdrop work? We do not have full particulars but, however the workforce has already clarified that not like Notcoin, it will not be a straight conversion from in-game cash to on-chain tokens.

“Airdrop will rely upon the revenue per hour and another [activity] parameters that we are going to reveal later, NOT the coin stability,” the workforce tweeted on June 6, additional advising gamers to “play correctly.”

Hamster Kombat has since tweeted “revenue per hour over coin stability,” solely emphasizing that element. So do not simply deal with stacking cash—spend money on upgrades and continue to grow your digital change forward of the drop.

And whereas the sport continues so as to add options, the builders say there isn’t any one approach to increase your allocation. “Participation in varied actions will impression the quantity of tokens acquired within the upcoming airdrop, not the very fact of distribution itself—all gamers (however not bots) will obtain the tokens,” they wrote in late July, including that “no part of the sport is obligatory to play.”

Additionally, after the preliminary airdrop, Hamster Kombat plans to launch a second in-game season with additional rewards. So the enjoyable and earnings will not cease when the token drops.

Edited by Andrew Hayward

Editor’s observe: This story was initially printed on June 2, 2024 and final up to date with new particulars on August 5.