Hamster Kombat Reaches Massive 239 Million Users in Just 80 Days

By Ben Knight July 05, 2024 In Blockchain, Hamster, Telegram
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  • Hamster Kombat has become an international sensation and is showing no signs of slowing down.
  • The Telegram-based mini game is gaining new subscribers at a rate of 4-5 million per day, amassing over 240 million in under three months.
  • The developers are planning to drop a native in-game currency within the next few weeks, which may foster even more growth.
  • The CEO of Telegram believes games like Hamster Kombat are set to usher in millions of new users to blockchain technology.

The word “phenomena” can be thrown around a little too liberally these days. But I think we can comfortably say the term applies to the viral Web3 game Hamster Kombat. Just consider some of its player base statistics: 239 million users signed up in 80 days (that’s 4-5 million a day), with about half of them active.

These are numbers that would make even colossal game developers like Rockstar and Bethesda cry.

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Native Tokens to be Launched Sometime this Month

The hype continues to grow for the Hamster Kombat community, as the developers are preparing to unveil the game’s native token on the Toncoin network. Although a release date is unofficial, the team’s roadmap suggests a July launch is on the cards.

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Unlike the player base data, the game itself isn’t particularly mind-blowing. Hamster Kombat has been described as a “crypto exchange CEO simulator” by the developers, as they emphasised that the app is NOT an idle “clicker”.

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Naturally, Hamster Kombat absolutely is an idle clicker game, where you tap a hamster to earn coins and scale your earnings incrementally. It’s this very simplicity (and the fact you make money for little effort) that is key to the game’s prosperity.

Hamster Kombat’s YouTube Channel First to 10M Subs in Under a Week

Nevertheless, Hamster Kombat’s overwhelming success has seen a rush of GameFi utility being added to Telegram, including a new toolbar tailor-made for multi-tasking Web3 games. Telegram’s founder, Pavel Durov, is keen to foster the platform’s newfound role as the home of blockchain play-to-earn applications.

…a new wave of mini apps on Telegram is coming, and Hamster Kombat is now leading the pack…Soon, Hamster’s team will mint its token on TON, introducing the benefits of blockchain to hundreds of millions of people. A new era is arriving, and we are witnessing its arrival in real time.

Pavel Durov

Hamster Kombat is set to be a world-record-holding application, with the developers applying to the Guinness Book of Records for the fastest YouTube channel to hit 10 million subscribers. 

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Whether you love it or hate it, it’s hard to deny the influence the cute furry ball is going to have on GameFi going forward. 

Ben Knight
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Ben Knight

Ben Knight is a writer and editor from Melbourne with a passion for all things music and finance. He enjoys turning complex topics – especially the technical details of cryptocurrency – into digestible bites that anybody can understand. He acquired his Master’s in Writing, Editing and Publishing from RMIT in 2019 and has run his own creative writing business ever since.

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