What Hamster Kombat Did: How Telegram Built a Web3 Gaming Juggernaut

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Two months ago the president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, was killed in a helicopter crash. Iran held an election to replace him, but there was a hitch: According to a senior official in Iran’s military, the nation’s citizens were too distracted to properly vet the candidates. Millions of Iranians, supposedly, were too busy clicking on their phones.

They were hooked on a crypto game called “Hamster Kombat.”

This feature is part of CoinDesk's GameFi theme week.

The game seems to have come out of nowhere. In March, it launched on TON, aka The Open Network, a Web3 ecosystem built on Telegram. Now the game is so popular that Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, Iran’s deputy chief of the military, Inal Kardan, Gaming Lead at the TON Foundation.#Ton_Coin_Surge #BinanceTurns7