Hamster Kombat receives countless "inquiries" after the "biggest" airdrop in history
The Hamster Kombat project with the HMSTR token is facing a wave of "calling names" because the airdrop value received is not as "huge" as previously announced.
Hamster Kombat officially listed for trading
As reported by Coin68, at 07:00 on September 26, 2024, the HMSTR token of the 58th Binance Launchpool project, Hamster Kombat, was officially listed on most large and small exchanges.
One day before the listing, Hamster Kombat conducted an airdrop for 131 million eligible users out of a total of 300 million registrations to participate in the game since its launch this summer.
As previously announced by the development team, Hamster Kombat will:
- Set aside 60% of the total supply (equivalent to 60 billion HMSTR tokens) to airdrop to players in this first allocation. However, only 88.75% of the tokens will be received on the day of TGE. The remaining tokens, equivalent to 11.25%, will be locked and undergo a 10-month vesting process, expected to be withdrawn in July 2025.
- 15% of the tokens will be allocated for the second airdrop.
- The remaining 75% will be allocated to:
- Liquidity 4%.
- Binance Launchpool 3%.
- Team 8%.
- Marketing 4%.
- Partnerships and sponsorship programs 6%.
Because of the huge number of players receiving airdrops, the TON network had to post content warning of the potential for local overload. The TON development team was aware of this early because the DOGS token airdrop had previously caused the blockchain to "freeze" for 7 hours.
Countless "parent inquiries" sent to Hamster Kombat from the user community
Although it is one of the most anticipated token reward events of the year, the project's distribution strategy has created a wave of fierce criticism.
Because many players said they spent nearly half a year experiencing the game, but after listing the official trading price around 0.01 USD, calculating the effort over the past time only earned about 10 - 30 USD, a number too small compared to the statement "this will be the biggest airdrop in the history of cryptocurrency".
For example, the account @bnbHodlerX shared a screenshot of the airdrop reward received with an extremely angry state and a few "parent inquiries" such as "LOL, WTF". The amount of tokens this person met the airdrop conditions was a total of 2263 HMSTR, but 88.75% (equivalent to 1997 tokens) were transferred to the exchange wallet. Comparing with the price this person set a sell limit order at 0.012, after "6 months of hard work playing the game, he earned up to 25 USD".
Not only one, but countless users sent "sincere thanks" to Hamster Kombat because the airdrop reward was "huge" after 3-6 months of hard work playing the game, such as @simplyEnnkay received 14 USD, @pre_shios received 8 USD, @esatoshiclub earned 7 USD, @Investergram pocketed 5 USD, @Sirnasky received 3.45 USD.
The account @Georgebabss also humorously satirized that the value of 0.011 USD for each HMSTR that this person received through the airdrop "could make me a CEO", referring to the culture of the game Hamster Kombat where every user who first accesses the application will receive the sentence "Welcome CEO has joined"
Due to the heat of the Tap-to-Earn trend, along with the "rosy picture" statements from the project team in the past that, "not accepting any funding from investment funds to maintain an authentic game, respecting the efforts of gamers, only rewarding those who actually play the game", many players have even invited and enticed their relatives and family members to join in making money together.
As user @Not_Tolulope shared a screenshot, it shows that she invited her parents to join the game for a while, receiving a total of more than 103 HMSTR tokens, which converted to less than 1 USD, causing the father to immediately conclude "trash" after knowing.
Not stopping there, on the "Trending for You" bar displayed on the X platform (old Twitter), the most frequently appearing search keywords are all related to "Hamster Kombat", "HMSTR", or "HMSTRSCAM" (referring to fraud).
The top list of trending search keywords related to Hamster Kombat displayed on the X platform (old Twitter) on the evening of September 26, 2024.
The incident may not stop here, when the first airdrop storm flooded the community, the Hamster Kombat project continued to announce the next development roadmap with the Season 2 airdrop event.
This information continued to be used as a "joke" by users when affirming that "Hamster Kombat Season 2 will be played and airdropped to the founding team as well as influential people".
In the context of the storm that is surrounding, it is unknown how the Hamster Kombat team will "soothe" the community, because it is the users who have brought huge revenue to the project since its inception until now. Only knowing that articles with the keyword "dust" referring to "airdrop rewards as valuable as dusting" are spreading extremely viral on X.
The token price from the time of listing to the time of the article has continuously "probe the bottom" and shows no signs of stopping, currently trading around 0.008 USD for each HMSTR coin.
