Barely four months after its launch, Hamster Kombat is hogging all the spotlight, reaching new milestones, but developers say the project is far from reaching its potential.
Described as a Telegram mini-app, the app requires users to tap a hamster avatar to generate in-game tokens. They then trade the coins for upgrades to improve their profit per hour. In addition to tapping and upgrading profit per hour, users can earn through referrals or completing in-game tasks.
Since its launch, the mini app has surged to the top of the rankings among its peers with a series of impressive milestones. According to Telegram founder Pavel Durov, the clicker game has racked up nearly 239 million users since March, growing by as much as 5 million users per day.
By day 73, Hamster Kombat reached 100 million users and showed no signs of slowing down. Only OpenAI’s ChatGPT onboarded 100 million users in a shorter time frame, making Hamster Kombat one of the “fastest-growing digital services in the world.”
The metrics of the project’s YouTube channel have earned it a raft of Guinness World Records, including an award for the most subscribed channel and the fastest to clinch 10 million subscribers.
Onboarding a quarter million people to Web 3
Apart from operating as an idle game, Durov revealed via a post on his Telegram channel that Hamster Combat will introduce millions of people to Web 3 upon token mint. The project’s gamified nature is expected to smooth over the introduction process, making it one of the single largest pushes for distributed ledger technology (DLT) adoption.
“Soon, Hamster’s team will mint its token on TON, introducing the benefits of blockchain to hundreds of millions of people,” said Durov. “A new era is arriving, and we are witnessing its arrival in real-time.”
The project has since dropped hints revolving around Web 3 including a partner blockchain announcement back in May and rolling out on-chain infrastructure development. There are concrete plans to roll out a steady stream of educational content on YouTube to bring green users up to speed on Web3 concepts.
Ahead of the launch of the project’s HMSTR tokens, virtual currency exchange Bybit announced its listing for pre-market trading. Analysts claimed that the move could affect the asset’s price at the commencement of spot trading.
“It is worth noting that both the pre-market price and the official listing price are ultimately determined by the market, and there is not necessarily a direct correlation between the two,” read a Bybit statement.
