The upcoming airdrop of popular Telegram games#HamsterKombatand#catizenmay cause outages on the TON network.
Telegram’s tap-to-win games have taken the cryptocurrency world by storm, bringing hundreds of thousands of new users to The Open Network (TON). However, Hamster Kombat and Catizen, which are scheduled to be airdropped later this month, could cause trouble for the TON network, TON developers have warned.
The TON Core team wrote on its official Telegram channel on Tuesday that it “will not face additional technical pressure and may face some unforeseen issues.” The warning comes as Telegram grapples with service disruptions caused by activity in tap-to-win games.
According to the developers, the upcoming HMSTR and CATI airdrops will cause downtime on the TON network. Daily active user addresses on TON have reached 1.1 million multiple times in the past two weeks, and single-day transactions have reached 14.4 million ahead of upcoming airdrops for popular tap-to-win games like Hamster Kombat and Catizen. About 35 million players on the Telegram app “Catizen” will launch the CATI token on September 20. The team also said that all games will be eligible for the HMSTR token airdrop when the token arrives on TON on September 26.
“The level of user engagement on Web3 was previously unimaginable,” TON Core developers wrote in a post on their Telegram channel. The surge in user activity, fueled by TON’s Telegram gaming craze, has caused network-wide outages. Network activity has been disrupted twice in the past month, albeit for just a few hours.
According to TON developers, the DOGS airdrop is at the core of the problem. Service outages on TON may increase again ahead of this airdrop and other upcoming game-related airdrops on the platform. Both events are likely to result in increased workload on TON as buyers attempt to claim their characters.
