Key Points
- Hamster Kombat (HMSTR) Telegram game just got a shout-out from Bloomberg.
- The game called a “killer app” by Bloomberg now has over 150 million users ahead of its token launch on TON.
Hamster Kombat (HMSTR)’s success keeps surging on a daily basis and now, the mainstream media picked up on its sudden and consistent rise in popularity.
The team at Hamster Kombat posted a message on their X account today, telling the game’s community that Bloomberg just wrote a piece on the project.
They noted that the project now has over 150 million users.
gm with a shout-out from Bloomberg 🐹
one note though
Notcoin: 35M
Hamster Kombat: over 150M 📈🚀🐹 https://t.co/nzGWoIgYUd— Hamster Kombat (@hamster_kombat) June 12, 2024
Bloomberg just wrote a piece about the game entitled “A ‘Hamster CEO’ Offers Clues to Crypto’s Latest Hopes for a ‘Killer App’.”
They begin their article by noting that tap-to-earn is the latest gaming craze on Telegram and a lot of people in the crypto community believe that this trend could be the “killer app” that will define the current bull market.
Bloomberg brings up Hamster Kombat, the game where users can earn points by tapping a cute hamster on their phone screen via the Telegram-based mini-app.
New Telegram games like ‘Hamster Kombat’ show the search is on again for a ‘killer app’ in crypto, @MuyaoShen writes in the Bloomberg Crypto newsletter https://t.co/lZwIbNeWFg
— Bloomberg Crypto (@crypto) June 11, 2024
They also noted that users who accumulate enough points could purchase various strategies to grow a pretend crypto exchange run by the hamster CEO character.
Bloomberg notes that such strategies include enabling margin trading, listing new meme coins, and implementing anti money “loundering” policies.
Bloomberg continued and noted that the project has more than 31 million followers on the official Telegram channel and they brought up more clicker games that have seen huge success such as Notcoin and Catizen, another Telegram game.
Bloomberg mentioned Alex Felix, chief investment officer at digital-asset firm CoinFund who said that in Asia, the super app model is thriving and the best examples are WeChat, Alipay, and Meituan which consolidate myriad services within a single platform.
He also said that Telegram’s adoption of blockchain introduces a transformative alternative digital ecosystem.
Hamster Kombat (HMSTR)’s rising success
The clicker game Hamster Kombat is without a doubt another successful project on Telegram that managed to gather a user base of over 150 million in just 78 days.
On June 10, they announced via another message on X that their YouTube channel reached 20 million subscribers.
They also offered followers their gratitude for supporting the project.
The team behind the project recently made a comparison between important apps that were able to hit the important mark of 100 million users.
WhatsApp took 3.5 years, Instagram 2.5 years, TikTok, 9 months, and Hamster Kombat reached 116 million users in 72 days, and now the user base surpassed 150 million after 78 days.
Hamster Kombat marks one success after the other with a community that seems to be constantly growing.
The project will soon launch its HMSTR token on the TON blockchain according to their recent announcement.
