The upcoming airdrop of popular Telegram games #HamsterKombat and #catizen could cause outages on the TON network.
Telegramâs tap-to-win games have taken the crypto world by storm, bringing hundreds of thousands of new users to The Open Network (TON). However, Hamster Kombat and Catizen, which are set to airdrop later this month, could spell trouble for the TON network, TON developers have warned.
The TON Core team wrote on an official Telegram channel on Tuesday that it âwill not be facing further technical pressure and possibly some unforeseen issues.â The warning comes as Telegram grapples with service disruptions caused by activity in tap-to-win games.
The upcoming HMSTR and CATI airdrops will cause outages on the TON network, according to the developers. Daily active user addresses on TON have reached 1.1 million several times in the last two weeks, and single-day transactions have reached 14.4 million ahead of the upcoming airdrops for popular tap-to-win games like Hamster Kombat and Catizen. Approximately 35 million players on the Telegram app âCatizen will launch the CATI token on September 20th. The team also said that all games will be eligible for the HMSTR token airdrop when it reaches TON on September 26th.
âThis level of user engagement on Web3 was previously unimaginable,â the TON Core developers wrote in a post on their Telegram channel. The surge in user activity, fueled by TONâs Telegram gaming craze, has caused outages across the network. In the past month, network activity was disrupted twice, albeit for a few hours.
The DOGS airdrop is the crux of the problem, according to TON developers. Service outages on TON could intensify again ahead of this and other upcoming game-related airdrops on the platform. Both of these events will likely lead to an increase in TON work as buyers attempt to claim their characters.
