Hamster Combat, the largest Telegram tap-to-earn crypto game in terms of player base, announced via its mini app on Tuesday that the first season of in-game rewards will end on September 20 ahead of next week’s token launch and airdrop.
According to the in-game screen, “Season 1 will end on September 20” and players’ achievements up to that point “will be converted into HMSTR tokens.” Hamster Combat then encourages players to “hurry level up” before the cutoff. The team has previously shared what in-game criteria will be used to determine token allocation.
In a Telegram community post shared on Tuesday, the Hamster Combat team said it will take a “snapshot” of players’ in-game earnings and status on September 20 at 6pm UTC. However, as previously confirmed, rewards are planned after the game’s second season airdrops.
Hamster Combat will launch its HMSTR token on The Open Network (TON) on September 26 and offer players an airdrop claim. The game previously claimed to have more than 300 million total players to date, with Telegram app data showing 94 million active players last month. This makes it the most played Telegram game ever.
While the Hamster Combat token launch is widely anticipated by crypto gamers, it is also seen as potentially problematic by TON itself. TON saw two periods of downtime in late August due to another token claim for a smaller project, raising concerns that the size of the Hamster Combat drop could bring the network down again.
‘Hamster Combat’ Telegram Game to Airdrop Billions of Tokens Via Binance
The popular Telegram tap-to-earn game Hamster Combat is set to launch its HMSTR token on The Open Network (TON) later this month alongside an airdrop to its millions of players. On Thursday, developers announced plans to drop billions of tokens to Binance customers through the LaunchPool rewards campaign. HMSTR tokens will have a total supply of 100 billion tokens, the Anonymous Hamster Combat team revealed as part of Thursday’s announcement—and of those tokens, there are 3 billion…
In fact, TON core developers acknowledged in a Telegram post last week that the September 20 launch of HMSTR and Catigen’s CATI token could lead to “further technical stress and possibly some unforeseen issues” amid the high-profile token drop.
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