More than 200 million users tap hamster and are already planning to take a new Lamborghini Urus, an apartment in some new neighborhood in Moscow or even a villa abroad (well, this is if you daily collected all the combos and ciphers) well or just give away credits. Everyone has their own problems and desires. But all these people have one thing in common. Blind faith that someone just like that, for tapping on the screen will take and distribute millions of dollars to schoolchildren, cab drivers, cleaners and grandmothers from streetcars (who else there tap in virusivshivshih tik-tok, write in the comments).
In today's article we'll take Hamster Kombat project to the bone. We'll talk about how you are being bilked for time and attention, how the creators of Hamster Kombat sell their audience, highlight all its gags and inconsistencies. We'll break down the economics of his token, investments, and guess at what price it will hit the market. And most importantly, we will try to understand how much money the project will be able to earn.
In order to understand how much money the project will give away (and whether it will give it away at all) and whether it is worth spending your time on it, you need to analyze a lot of metrics, including its fundamentals, fundraising, tokenomics, team and much more. That's what we're going to do right now. Make yourselves comfortable
And yes, I have to warn you. Not everyone will like this material. In my time in crypto I've gotten used to seeing people wanting to be scammed. That's okay. I'm ready for some hate, too. Someone has to open your eyes to this harsh world and show you that it's not so welcoming anymore.
Content material:
1. Introduction. The "tappers" trend and why it shot up.
2. What is Hamster Kombat? Project idea, team and marketing.
3. Investing in Hamster Kombat. Why is there not enough money for everyone?
4. Hamster Kombat and bookmaker advertising. The team's gags.
5. Tokenomics of the project Hamster Kombat. What is wrong with it?
6. Parsing the HMSTR token. How much can it be worth on the listing?
7. Pavel Durov and Hamster Kombat. Does the top 1 CIS cryptan have anything to do with Hamster Kombat?
8. When will Hamster Kombat go public? And what's in store for it? A breakdown of the project's roadmap.
9. HMSTR token listing. Which exchanges will be involved and why?
10. How to withdraw Hamster Kombat tokens from the application and sell them?
11. Who will make money in Hamster Kombat?
12. How is Hamster Kombat, as a phenomenon, useful for cryptocurrencies and for you and me?
13. Conclusions. Is Hamster Kombat a good project?
1. Introduction. The "tapas" trend and why it shot up.
As they say, let's start at the beginning. In order to understand why the "tapaloks" trend has shot up, we will go back to January of this year. On January 2, the first $NOT koin was mined in this way (by clicking on the screen). We have already written an article about this phenomenon. And it made a lot of sense at the time. And here's why:
My team and I defined the meaning of the "tapaloks" trend as follows - it's a great way to get a large mass of people unfamiliar with cryptocurrencies. But there's a catch. In order to entice them, you need to offer something. So I would formulate the essence of the trend as follows: it helps to "shove" an already existing good product to an already existing audience.
Consider this:
Telegram has a monthly user base of 900 million people. At the same time, Telegram has its own blockchain (TON - The Open Network) and its native cryptocurrency - token $TON. That is, in this bundle we have on the one hand a really useful and worthwhile product (blockchain ecosystem - payment for services right inside the application, secure data exchange, TON Storage, TON Payment, a bunch of, indeed, mini apps).
On the other hand - 900 million users, quite progressive users (who use, for example, WhatsApp only to watch postcards from grandmothers on every holiday) and ready for new technologies.
This is why the Notcoin project has been so successful. Notcoin simply added a kind of Patreon to the Telegram ecosystem, and by the trading volume of the $NOT token and their comparison with the price chart of the $TON token, you can understand how much new liquidity it brought to the market.
In fact, after listing, the Notcoin project has already fulfilled its function and the market doesn't need it in the form it is now. It still has potential, but we will write about it in the next article. Today we are going to analyze a new phenomenon (or not new?) - Hamster Kombat.
2. What is Hamster Kombat? Project idea, team and marketing.
Hamster Kombat is an application (game) inside Telegram, in which you are promised to earn money in project tokens for tapping (tap) on the screen. You will receive your tokens, of course, only after the project enters the market and its coins are traded on exchanges. The application itself looks as follows:
Screenshot from the Hamster Combat app - home screen (although I think you've seen it without me, and most people reading this stuff see it every day)
The essence of the game at the moment is that you are the CEO of the exchange and develop it by pumping various cards. I won't go into the mechanics of pumping, I didn't dive into them myself and that's not why we're here. Here it is important to understand one single mechanics - in order to pump your exchange and earn more hamyakoin must buy cards of a new level (for the same hamyakoin), as well as "tap" on the screen and get them for each touch. Everything here is quite simple and similar in essence to Notcoin.
There are also two activities each day. Ciphers and combos. In order to learn a cipher, you need to spend a few minutes in the hamster chat rooms and you will find it.
Combo, on the other hand, is a set of three cards that you must either guess or buy all of the cards offered in the game. Here too, everything is simple, all these millions of users take them in thematic Telegram-channels, which are the first to solve them and share with others to attract traffic to their resources.
Only two indicators are important in the game - the total balance on the account and the number of coins earned per hour. For which of these parameters will give out drops and which is still the most important - it is unknown. We will find out only before listing and distribution.
As for the project team. According to unconfirmed rumors, they are the co-founder of CarPrice and CarMoney, Russian entrepreneur Eduard Gurinovich, as well as Alexander Zelenshchikov and Alexander Pasechnik. I can neither confirm nor deny this information. We were contacted by the project team about partnership and advertising. We were supposed to promote the project for six months. We refused. But since we had a lot of offers at the time and Hamster was only one of them, we did not find out who exactly was behind the project.
This, by the way, is another red flag. It is customary in crypto to reveal the identities of the funders. But a little later in the article, you will understand why such secrecy.
3. Investing in Hamster Kombat. Why is there not enough money for everyone?
One of the most important aspects that we always analyze when we start to participate in any project and spend our money and time on it is fundraising. That is, how much money the project has raised from foundations at the development, initial marketing and user engagement stages (or even at the stage before all of the above).
And there is absolutely no information about Hamster Kombat. And this is a huge gray area in the project.
As a rule, all projects are proud of how much money they have raised. This gives users confidence in the solidity and fundamentals of the project. Projects write in their accounts: "We were invested in by such and such a big fund. They saw us as partners, great potential and entrusted us with a large amount of money." It is also a kind of confirmation that the project has money for development, marketing, buying advertising from Influencers, listings on exchanges and so on. All this for a large cryptocurrency project is very expensive. Who reads us constantly, knows how much you need to bring Binance or OKX in order for your token to be listed there and it traded smoothly (liquidity was maintained, volumes were boosted by shares and promos, prices were equalized on various platforms by market makers and so on).
You will say to me - but, for example, the Base project, in which you participate, also did not disclose investments. Yes. But behind this project is one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges Coinbase, which does not have its own token + there are known names of backers and they are quite loud.
But okay. Let's make an assumption that Hamster Kombat conducted closed fundraising and raised funds. Let it be so, although I am convinced in the opposite, as I talk to many representatives of crypto funds and in their opinion, few people will risk giving funds to a project without a fundamental with a life cycle "before listing". And let there are hundreds of millions of users. But who are they? Are they people with a lot of money, with a lot of liquidity? I doubt it.
But okay, let's go back to our assumption. Let the hamster have funds, then another logical question arises: "Will a project that has money advertise bookmakers?"
At this point, we'll move on to the next chapter - the Hamster Kombat backstories.
4. Hamster Kombat and bookmaker ads. What bad is involved in the team .
At one point in the Humster Kombat app, a "Soccer Time" card appears, giving a freebet of 3,000 rubles, Winline's basic incentive bonus. When purchasing the card, the user is immediately directed to the Winline registration page.
Hamster Kombat and Winline partnership (this is the loading screen so you understand, it is seen by all 240 million users when logging into the app)
We've made the assumption that Hamster Kombat has money. Okay. Think about it, if you really have no problems with investments and have the funds to pay out rewards to your early users, why do you need all this negativity with bookmakers? Moreover, such partnerships will clearly raise questions from the regulator after the token is released. CIS doesn't like bookmakers, it's no secret.
Why do I personally consider such a partnership to be a scandal? After all, Winline is a licensed bookmaker, everything is legal and legitimate.
Yes, because you, friends, have become a highly marketable commodity to wait for its time and be sold in bulk to a rich buyer. That's all.
I'll say it again - hamster has 240 million users, at the time of publication of the article, probably already a few million more. Having such an audience opens up just a lot of ways to monetize it. Notcoin, for example, flooded TON ecosystem projects with traffic, and they responded by helping in areas where they had resources - ston.fi provided liquidity for wNOT | TON, NOT | TON pairs, storm.trade also helped with listing and liquidity.
Humster decided to just make more money.
I take this decision as follows - it is simply selling your audience, selling your users to another project. And what a project. A project that develops a disease that is already serious for modern society - ludomania. And if you tell me that any cryptocurrency project develops it, I will realize that you do not know anything about crypto.
Involvement of people in gambling is gaining very serious momentum and society will pay for the super profits of bookmakers and casinos later.
What else outraged me in this situation is that the funders of Hamster never once embarrassed the average age of their users. I mean, they realize who holds the bulk of the accounts in their game. A grown-up person will once again ask himself the question: "What the fuck do I need it? What am I doing?" And schoolchildren will continue to believe in millions on hamstercoins and pounding on the screen 24 hours a day, forgetting about lessons and losing chances to acquire knowledge and development.
Now let's get to the technical details. Next is a section with a breakdown of the economics of the token from Hamster Kombat.
5. Hamster Kombat project tokenomics. What is wrong with it?
Tokenomics is the most important part of any cryptocurrency project. And Hamster Kombat, despite its specificity, is no exception. In other words, it is the native token economy, showing how many tokens will belong to which group of people. And when those tokens will be unlocked. Hamster Kombat has an announced token $HMSTR, which they plan to list on all exchanges:
Exchanges whose CEO you are invited to become inside Hamster Combat. Most likely, all of them will not refuse the token $HMSTR in listing.
Hamster Kombat also has certain problems with tokenomics. Or rather, peculiarities. It will be more of a problem for "tap" users. For the project it is an attempt to save its token after listing and extend the life of the project a bit (we will talk about the life cycle of the project in a separate section of the article).
We found information on Hamster Kombat tokenomics, but it was almost immediately deleted. This is also one of the types of marketing. They understood perfectly well that people will have time to look at it and spread it around the publicks. But that would be the case with fundamental projects whose audience cares about the economy of the token. Here people just don't give a damn. It is more important for them not to miss today's combo than to understand how tokens will be distributed among the groups of its holders. And for nothing)
Hamster Kombat Tokenomics ($HMSTR token).
According to this document, the Total Supply (Total Supply or total token issuance) of $HMSTR will be 10,000,000,000,000,000 tokens. Further by the numbers:
8,525,000,000,000 tokens in total (KOL Round + Airdrop Initial + Community Incentives categories) will be distributed to the community. That's not a bad thing. There are nuances here too - the more tokens you give to a community, the less the project has the ability to control token issuance and behavior. And given Hamster Kombat's community, it will be rolled faster than the first minute candle can shoot off. That's already a bad thing.
But much more interesting is another figure:
Airdrop Initial (tokens allocated for initial airdrop - to the first clickers) = $100,000,000 $HMSTR. In other words - all 240,000,000,000 million users clicking the app now will only get 100 million coins in the first phase, which is only 1% of the token issue.
At the same time, they will also get not all tokens at once, but gradually. There will be locks, which I mentioned above. Loki is a temporary freezing of tokens on wallets to reduce the pressure of sellers in the exchange stack during the listing and the first time of the project's life. Many projects do this so that the token is not rolled away at once. Thus, the initial net distribution (without lots) will be only 20,000,000 $HMSTR. This is 0.2% of the issue.
Westing (time of linear unfreezing of tokens) will be 4 months for this category of users.
The rest of the figures:
IDO (Initial DEX Offering) is an additional fundraising through decentralized marketplaces. What it means. Hamster Kombat will offer users to buy 25,000,000 of its tokens at an initial price determined by them. And then after listing them immediately (note this, there will be no cliff or vesting here) the option to sell them will open up. The classic IDO of a good project implies making money from this procedure. But only real killers of their capital will participate in this tokensale.
Next. 575.000.000 $HMSTR will be given to partners (Partnership category). They will include refounders, those who provided Hamster with advertising space and those who will provide liquidity on listings, whoever it may be.
Team (the project team) will receive $575,000,000 $HMSTR. They will have a 7 month Cliff (full lock) and then their tokens will be unlocked linearly over 20 months.
Token Liquidity (Token Liquidity category) is allocated a ridiculous $100,000,000 $HMSTR.
Friends, if you are still spending your time on Hamster Kombat and you are not alarmed neither by the concealment of the raised funds (because they may not exist at all), nor by the tokenomics, you can close the article. There's no help for you anymore.
For those who still have a chance - the next section. Let's try to guess how much the $HMSTR token and the project as a whole may be worth.
6. Parsing the HMSTR token. How much can it be worth on the listing?
The token $HMSTR has a total issue of 10,000,000,000,0000 tokens. At the same time, as we can see from the tokenomics Initial supply will be only 127.500.000 $HMSTR (see the column Initial unlock in tokens and add up the values). That is, 1.27% of the entire issue will initially be on the market.
To estimate how much a token can cost, we need to compare it with something. We need something to base it off of.
The pioneer Notcoin and its token $NOT comes to mind here. It may be more fundamental, more useful and utilitarian. But let's assume for a second that Hamster will be valued by the market in roughly the same way.
Notcoin is currently worth $1.5 billion (Market Cap, project capitalization)
Financial metrics of the $NOT token. Source - coinmarketcap.
The Circulating Supply and Total Supply of a token are equal. This means that all $NOT tokens are in circulation.
This, in turn, means that you and I will not see any additional selling pressure in the exchange stacks triggered by large splits. All tokens are already in the market.
With Hamster Kombat, the situation is fundamentally different. Initially, only 1.27% of the entire supply will be in circulation. Moreover, you and I have not seen the software that distributes $HMSTR tokens among the drop participants. It has not undergone any audits from the top crypto market leaders. You know what this suggests?
A team could very easily distribute the first batch of tokens to themselves. Of course, they could give pennies to users, but concentrate the bulk of them in their hands. This will allow them to inflate the token price to any value. But this is only 1.27% of the supply. What will we do when the unlocks start, all users will get their tokens and carry them into the glass?
That's right. The token will roll to the bottom.
This is the very manipulation I believe the team is planning to do. Thesis again:
1) They only release 1.27% of the total supply into the market (which is pennies and worth nothing actually);
2) They then pampers the price of the token. Thereby causing FOMO (lost profit syndrome) for everyone who hasn't gotten the tokens yet and forcing people to continue to participate. Westings are there for a reason.
3) Then they distribute the tokens. In other words - sell them into the market. They are bought again by you. Because you are on FOMO and you think that now the rocket will fly, now it will grow even higher and stronger.
4) And then there's the curtain. By curtain, I mean the token falls to such a bottom from which no liquidity can get it out. I have a little insight from the funder of the largest market maker in the CIS. I will allow myself to voice it here:
In order to maintain liquidity in memcoins on Solana, injections equal to $5 million every three hours are needed. Of course, the figures are always different, but plus or minus this is in line with reality. Now watch this:
Solana is an international blockchain used worldwide by a huge number of crypto users. There a priori liquidity is thousands and tens of thousands of times greater. As for Hamster Kombat, it is predominantly a CIS project after all. I think that the number will be much higher.
What do you think - if Hamster sells advertising to bookmakers, does it have the money to maintain such liquidity, and even with the constant breakdowns and sell pressure in the glass created by those people who will receive the token and immediately sell them?
The question is rhetorical.
Hence the answer to the question posed by the section title - how much can a $HMSTR token be worth on a listing?
- As much as you want. But you won't have this token on your hands, believe me. And when you do, it will be worth 0,000..... continue on your own.
7. Pavel Durov and Hamster Kombat. Does the TOP 1 cryptan of the CIS have anything to do with Hamster Kombat?
Now another interesting point that the funders of the Hamster Kombat project are trying to manipulate. Every mention of Pavel Durov, who not only I consider to be the TOP-1 representative of the CIS crypto community (for me he will always remain Russian, despite any citizenship and statements), is forced on all publicks. First on Hamster-related ones, and then on news ones.
The very same post by Pavel Durov about Hamster Kombat.
It's normal and logical. Funders and marketing department employees cling to any infoprovod, each of which boosts the number of new users, increases the FOMO of existing participants and the potential profit of the project. In other words, people earn money. That's okay.
But they're making money on you. I understand that you can't save everyone, especially those who want to be deceived, believe me, I have met a lot of them during my way in crypto. But still, where's your critical thinking?
Durov mentions Hamster Kombat for his own personal reasons, which have nothing to do with the success of its launch. Durov's gain here is that Hamster is made inside Telegram, and he's only highlighting the potential of his platform as part of viral marketing.
Hamster will bring a huge number of users to the TON blockchain, just as Notcoin has brought Notcoin, just as other tappers will. This is, indeed, the case. But Durov only cares about the users who will stay on the blockchain, not the high school kids who sold their $HMSTR for a brownie and went off to college because all the time they should have been gaining knowledge they spent clicking four fingers on a screen.
8. When will Hamster Kombat be released? And what's next for it? A breakdown of the project's roadmap and lifecycle.
When will the long-awaited by two hundred million users Hamster Kombat come to the market? Of course, no one has exact information except the project team and employees of the listing departments. But there is information from the project itself that it should happen in July. However, the date of TGE (token generation event) has been postponed by the project more than once. And I also have some thoughts about it.
This year, because of not very positive market sentiment, many projects sin such a thing as postponement of TGE and listings. From my observations, most of them entered the market extremely poorly. And there is a significant difference between those who do decide to enter the market within the established deadlines and those who blow them off, forcing their users to continue wasting time and money on participating in activities and farming tokens, and making investors wait nervously.
Think about it, if a project is fundamental, if it has attracted good investments and realizes that it will be used by people, albeit a smaller number in a bear market compared to a bull market, does it really care about market fit?
In my opinion, projects that postpone their release are simply afraid that they will not find liquidity, will not find their market fit. This means that their life cycle will be very short. The founders of such projects make the main calculation on the listing. They plan to make the most money on the listing, and then they will not care about the project. After all, the money is in the cash register. Therefore, my advice is to pour such projects into the glass as soon as the tokens are in your hands.
As for the life cycle of Hamster Kombat. I'll just show you their Road Map:
Hamster Kombat Road Map. How will the project evolve? The source is the official website of the project.
Please note that all the main part of the actions and activities is aimed at attracting users and ends with the TGE of the project. Further there will be some squad competitions and "more activities", which have not been invented yet, because the team is not engaged in the foundation of the project, but in viral marketing and attracting new hamsters for sale to bookmakers.
If you haven't stopped tapping your hamster at this point in the article, I have nothing more to say.
The life cycle of most memcoins (and $HMSTR is a memcoin) is from two days to two weeks. From there, it depends on liquidity and community. We have already discussed what kind of community (future holders of hamstercoins). I doubt that these people have any capital that will be enough for more than two servings in the school cafeteria.
9. HMSTR token listing. Which exchanges will be involved and why?
The token from Hamster Kombat will likely get listings on all major exchanges. And that's another point that the creators of the app are happy to manipulate.
They say, "You'll see, our token will be traded on real cryptocurrency exchanges! Isn't that proof that it will be worth something? Isn't that proof that our token isn't air, and we're not just here to resell it to an audience?"
But here's the thing. The thing is that exchanges don't care at all about what the token represents. Exchanges make money on commissions from trading and on liquidations. Therefore, they only care about the number of users of the project. Yes, there are formal procedures that must be followed - fairness of distribution, proof that the token is not manipulative and there are many more points. But believe me, they won't care about all these points, because Hamster Kombat has such a huge number of users. And even users who don't know much about crypto. For an exchange, it's just a gift. How many liquidations of hamsters await them and how much they will earn on it. Tens and hundreds of millions of dollars.
It is for this reason that we will see high-profile listings. Of all the exchanges I can only single out Binance, which can only refuse because Hamster's funders might not be able to reach them, plus they're already doing fine with users. And possibly OKX, since they have the most strict rules for listing memcoins there that I know of. Will they be able to resist hundreds of millions of hamsters with just as many dollars to make? Time will tell.
Well, in the next section, I still want to give a helping hand to those who never heard me and continue to tap the hamster. I realize that most of you just won't figure out how to withdraw your pennies from the app and sell them on the exchange. The rest of you, scroll down to section 12 and read how hamsters will then be useful to you and me.
10. How to withdraw Hamster Kombat tokens from the app and sell?
The $HMSTR token will be issued on the TON blockchain. To many of its users this doesn't mean anything, so I'll try to explain:
A token cannot exist somewhere in prostration. It is always on the blockchain. If you're already in crypto, you need to internalize that. So the token from Hamster Kombat will run exactly on the TON blockchain.
In order to withdraw tokens from the application to your wallet, you need to connect your wallet that supports the TON network on the "Airdrop" page.
It can be Tonkeeper (I would choose it if I were you), MyTonWallet (also ok, but the interface has lags, if you don't know crypto, you can get dumb), Tonhub, DeWallet (I haven't used both of them, I don't know about them), Bitget Wallet (I don't recommend it, I don't have much respect for the exchange and its products). There is also an option to connect a multi-currency SafePal wallet, but you are unlikely to understand, do not go there.
How to create these wallets can be found on the Internet.
11. Who will earn money in Hamster Kombat?
Have we come to the most interesting part? I'm sure most Hamster users have tapped on this section at once. I want to upset you at once - real money on this project will earn only its creators and bookmakers, which they still advertise and have already advertised.
Next. The developers of the project will earn. Yes, this figure will be higher than that of developers outside the cryptocurrency market, but still the money is small.
Then there are the Influencers and audience owners. The so-called opinion leaders. I my opinion about influencers advertising Hamster Kombat (we can only say one thing, conscience 0%, brains a little more).
Well, in last place come those who spent all that time tapping, pumping cards and wasting their time on Hamster. Unfortunately, you will earn pennies. If you don't understand why - reread the sections with token economics and comparative analysis of tokenomics with Notcoin.
12. How is Hamster Kombat, as a phenomenon, useful for cryptocurrencies and for us?
Let's move on to the positive aspects of the emergence of such a phenomenon as Hamster Kombat and such strong viral marketing.
I already gave an example above of how this kind of app and this kind of aggressive marketing, helped attract a large number of people to the crypto industry. The TON blockchain metrics have really grown a lot (number of users, number of transactions and so on). And this has a really positive impact on the industry as a whole.
Crypto is severely lacking in this kind of marketing and the industry is severely undervalued. They will help reevaluate the blockchain industry within 5-10 years. And then you and I (those who have already been in crypto for a long, long time) will be even richer than we are now.
Now the plus side of projects like Hamster Kombat for you and me. People who are completely ignorant of the market have entered it. They think that someone will pay them for their every action, for the energy they spend. This is sort of true. But outside their field of vision there is a large layer of work, which consists in understanding which projects will really bring money, and which will only take up time.
I personally know people who made money on notcoin, but after the coins were distributed, they didn't even know how to withdraw them from the app and sell them on an exchange. They didn't know what kind of wallet they needed, what blockchain network these coins were in, and how to transfer the coins from the wallet to the exchange.
This is a big positive for you and me. Because it is to these guys that we will sell our assets, which we bought much earlier, when they become more familiar with the market. This is normal, it's not just cryptocurrency, but other industries as well. The pioneers, the ones who figured it out earlier, always make more money.
13. Conclusions. Is Hamster Kombat a good project?
In any project (not necessarily even cryptocurrency) we exchange our time, attention, and sometimes money for something. In Hamster Kombat, we exchange it for clicking on the screen in the hope of getting incomprehensible tokens, which are not clear how they will be traded and how much they will be worth.
Can you make money from a hamster? - Yes, you can. But your earnings will amount to pennies.
Is it a good project in general? - Sure. It's very cool from a marketing point of view to get 240 million users to click on the screen.
Is it a good project for the crypto industry? - Definitely, yes. We are waiting for all the hamsters on the market and in PvP we will show them whose territory this is.
Is it a good project in terms of attitude to the user? - Well, after the advertisement of a bookmaker's office, I think there is nothing to talk about.
Is it a good project from the point of view of earning money? - I think not. If you do not agree with me, re-read the article. If you have reread it and still disagree, I am waiting for you in the comments.
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