The crew behind Hamster Kombat lately disclosed that it has been receiving provides from a few of the high enterprise capital corporations in crypto however has “turned down each single one” to this point.
In accordance with the crew, the choice to reject enterprise capitalist funding was made to guard Hamster Kombat’s participant base and retain the developer’s core give attention to offering gamers with a meritocratic expertise that rewards members by really enjoying the sport.
That is in stark distinction to many crypto video games and tasks that embrace enterprise capital funding, just for the enterprise capital corporations to make use of the participant base as an avenue for exit liquidity, the crew mentioned in an Aug. 10 announcement.
Hamster Kombat’s crew didn’t reveal which enterprise corporations had expressed an curiosity in funding the Telegram-based sport.
The builders for Hamster Kombat additionally defined that 60% of the upcoming HMSTR token could be reserved for the gamers, whereas the remaining quantity will likely be used for liquidity, future partnerships, in-game rewards and ecosystem improvement.
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The “largest airdrop in crypto historical past”?
Hamster Kombat’s builders have been teasing the extremely anticipated airdrop as “the biggest airdrop in crypto historical past” as the sport continues to draw customers and showcase meteoric success in Web3 gaming.
In July, the Hamster Kombat crew introduced that the sport had surpassed 300 million gamers, constructing on its preliminary success of buying 239 million customers in solely 81 days. The sport has been broadly touted by the crew and Telegram founder Pavel Durov as a strategy to onboard lots of of hundreds of thousands of people to blockchain expertise, driving mass adoption ahead.
Crypto change Bybit has already listed HMSTR for premarket buying and selling on its over-the-counter (OTC) platform. The itemizing will enable customers to safe the token earlier than it really goes dwell on conventional exchanges.
Bybit famous the potential for the OTC buying and selling to skew the ultimate itemizing value of the token but in addition defined that different elements would probably play a job in shaping the spot buying and selling value of HMSTR as soon as it formally launches.
Bother in Hamster paradise
Hamster Kombat’s fast success has made the sport’s neighborhood a goal for malicious actors and scammers promoting faux HMSTR airdrops.
The faux airdrops and complex phishing assaults even prompted the Hamster Kombat crew to concern a discover on Telegram cautioning customers in opposition to any people or teams claiming to supply gross sales of the token, which has but to launch.
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