Hamster Kombat is a mini-application on Telegram in which players click on an image of a hamster to receive virtual coins.
The timing of the listing and the conditions for receiving the airdrop are unknown. The project does not have a white paper.
The creators of Hamster Kombat remain anonymous. Journalists linked them to the Russian Federation.
Fraudsters have already started hunting for “hamsters”. Experts named phishing as the main threat.
Every bull market brings with it funny but questionable trends that some still manage to make money from. In 2021 it was NFT fever, in the current cycle it was meme tokens.
However, clicker games like the sensational Notcoin, which listed in May, have already begun to compete with them for the attention of users.
Now there is a new leader in the segment - Hamster Kombat, which has spawned many memes and funny videos. Let's look at the features, advantages and disadvantages of a game that even your grandmother has heard of.
What is Hamster Kombat
Hamster Kombat is a mini-app on Telegram in which players click on an image of a hamster to receive virtual coins. The application only works in the mobile version of the messenger.
There is no donation in Hamster Kombat, users only waste their time. They are offered to take on the role of CEO of a cryptocurrency exchange and lead it to success. You can even choose one of the largest trading platforms, but the decision will not affect anything. There is no plot in the game. The main gameplay is tapping on a hamster and improving cards.
In the first Exchange tab, the user sees his character, which can be upgraded to level 10 (upper left corner) by accumulating coins. For example, the fifth (Diamond) requires 1 million units, and the ninth (Grandmaster) - 100 million. So far, the level only changes the appearance of the character and transfers the player to another league.
On the same screen you can see the main indicator in the game - profit per hour. To the lower left of the hamster is the energy that is consumed when tapping and is restored at the rate of three units per second. You won't be able to click endlessly.
In the lower right corner is Boost. Here you can use coins to increase your profit per tap, increase your energy reserves, and take advantage of its free full recovery. But no more than once an hour and only six times a day.
The second Mine tab contains all the player’s cards that increase profit per hour. They are divided into four categories, each immersing a beginner in the crypto industry.
For example, the Markets section mentions staking, shitcoins, fan tokens, DeFi 2.0, GameFi, DAO, margin trading, trading bots and more. In the PR&Team section you can upgrade your X, TikTok, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph cards, and in Legal you can get acquainted with KYC, AML, SEC and obtain licenses from different regions and countries.
The most valuable options are in the Specials category. Here some cards are dedicated to certain events. For example, the listing of Notcoin, the addition of USDT to the TON network, Pavel Durov’s interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson, Bitcoin Pizza Day, various conferences, etc.
The third tab contains a referral link for inviting friends and a description of the rewards for this. The fourth contains simple tasks (select an exchange, subscribe to a social network, watch a video) to receive coins. In the fifth, missions for receiving airdrops will appear later.
Hamster Kombat listing timing
According to the roadmap on the project’s official website, the developers intend to add a pre-listing Web3 quest in June. The Token Generation Event is scheduled for July - a token release event, which is usually followed by a listing.
However, the Hamster Kombat team does not even give an approximate time frame for the appearance of tokens on cryptocurrency exchanges. It is unknown at what price they will be traded at the start. There is also no way to get acquainted with the tokenomics of the project in the white paper - the button on the website is inactive, the document is not publicly available.
On June 6, the developers announced that the airdrop will depend on the “Profit per hour” indicator, and not the balance of coins. They will also take into account “some other activity parameters,” which they promised to disclose later.
Despite user expectations and the hype surrounding the game, Hamster Kombat never guaranteed income for players. The project became successful due to the popularity of Notcoin, but will not necessarily repeat its fate with listing.
Web3 entrepreneur Vladimir Menaskop noted in a comment to ForkLog that the project is preparing a listing at a good time.
“HMSTR is hyperinflation built in. I don’t know whether any of the exchanges need it, but the time of meme tokens has definitely not passed yet, and the TON ecosystem is in the top 10 for various indicators,” he believes.
HAPI CCO Mark Letsyuk believes that compliance may hinder listing on Binance, Coinbase and Kraken. To get listed on the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, the project will need to undergo serious legal review.
“I don’t think they will refuse to hold an airdrop, otherwise the entire industry will immediately lose faith. If the largest project after Notcoin refuses airdrops, then the entire Telegram tapal industry will be shaken, just as the ZKsync and LayerZero cases have now spoiled the picture in the retrodrop segment,” the expert said.
At the same time, Letsyuk is confident that due to the abundance of bots, each player will receive less than they did in Notcoin.
“HMSTR will not cost more than NOT, because Notcoin is a more trusted project that Telegram itself supported. I think they will do the airdrop, but people will be a little disappointed. Everyone will take off their rose-colored glasses and stop hoping that they will poke at the screen from 10 accounts and receive $300–500 from each,” added CCO HAPI.
Who created Hamster Kombat
The creators of the game remain anonymous and communicate with the audience on behalf of the hamsters. However, journalists found out that they may be connected with the Russian Federation.
According to The Bell's sources, Russian IT entrepreneur Eduard Gurinovich had a hand in creating the game. Earlier, the Telegram channel “Toad and Viper” noted that on March 14, simultaneously with the main domain of the project, an additional one was also registered - hamsterkombat.com.
The email address declared during registration - ap@arenum.games - belongs to the Cyprus company Arenum ltd., whose shareholders include Russian entrepreneurs Eduard Gurinovich, Alexander Zelenshchikov and Alexander Pasechnik.
In thematic chats, another argument in favor of the version about the creators from the Russian Federation is the appearance of the project’s merch on the Russian Ozon marketplace.
According to Menascope, the anonymity of creators is not a big problem.
“There are enough anonymous projects in the crypt: from Bitcoin to YFI and others. I use DeFi a lot, and every fifth to seventh project there is anonymous. Anonymity is great, but when it is combined with decentralization and openness. Any other kind of anonymity is poison,” he explained.
CCO HAPI agrees with him. In a comment to ForkLog, he called anonymity “rather imaginary in modern Web3,” since identifying the creators of the project would not be difficult, but he doubted the appearance of such a request.
Fraudsters are on the hunt for “hamsters”
Although Hamster Kombat does not yet have a function for withdrawing in-game coins, analysts have already warned about the appearance of scammers.
Researchers F.A.C.C.T. We found about 200 resources that offer intermediation in crediting currency to a TON wallet through its link to the application. This way, attackers gain full control over the user’s assets.
Another scheme is sending phishing links supposedly to log into Telegram and launch the Hamster Kombat bot. When clicking on them, users lose access to their accounts.
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