Tap to Win. Messaging Telegram figures prominently among the crypto successes of the year 2024. A dynamic largely supported by its association with the network The Open Network (TON) accelerated from the end of 2023. Because this meeting will make it possible to develop a real Web 3 ecosystem linked to its application. The opportunity to see the emergence of a new type of in-App games called tap-to-earn. A look back at the rise and failures of the project Hamster Kombat (HMSTR).
- Telegram saw crypto success in 2024 thanks to its association with The Open Network (TON).
- The Hamster Kombat game emerged as a tap-to-earn phenomenon on Telegram, attracting over 200 million active players.
Telegram and tap-to-earn
The year 2024 will have been very intense for Telegram messaging. Particularly in the context of its crypto strategywidely associated with The Open Network (TON) since the fiasco of its cryptocurrency GRAM in 2020.
But its founder, Pavel Durovis not one of those who admits defeat so easily. And from the end of 2023, Telegram will make a new merger in integrating the TON wallet into its messaging application.
An initiative that will immediately accelerate the emergence of a Web 3 ecosystem on this blockchain. And one of the main sectors requested by its users will move towards gaming with digital rewards.
A trend which will give rise to the principle of tap-to-earn. With as main representative, the project Hamster Kombat whose significant success will quickly earn him declared an “enemy” of the Iranian state. Just that….
Hamster Kombat
The first real tap-to-earn game to have significant success on Telegram is called Notcoin. With a principle as simple as it is addictive: tap the screen of your smartphone to develop his characters and reap the rewards.
A recipe for success quickly taken up by the Hamster Kombat project. With the objective of making his ball of fur the next big boss of a exchange the most successful crypto in the world. Result: more than 200 million players active last June.
But the game is not the only attraction of this project. Indeed – and just like Notcoin and its NOT token – Hamster Kombat aims to launch the HMSTR cryptocurrency. A sort of memecoin which will be distributed to its community via an airdrop announced as massive.
A quickly sluggish operation, despite the integration of the HMSTR token on the Binance launchpool in preview. Because since its launch, this cryptocurrency has not stopped to accumulate negative returns.
The games tap-to-earn do they have a real future on Telegram ? Or would it not be than a flash in the pan like play-to-earn or more recently move-to-earn ? The question deserves to be asked at the end of the year. Start of the game in 2025!
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