Hamster Kombat airdrop slated for Sept. 26

Telegram-based clicker game Hamster Kombat has announced its airdrop date after multiple delays that have caused the event to be postponed since July.

Hamster Kombat has informed its over 52 million Telegram subscribers that the airdrop and token production event will take place on September 26, following months of anticipation for the distribution. The web3 game has over 50 million users in over 190 countries worldwide and allocates 60% of HMSTR’s supply to players.

The confirmation of the airdrop date comes after the team initially planned to reward users in July but backtracked, citing on-chain complexities in distributing tokens to actual users.

The project’s gamified approach has encouraged a large amount of participation, but there’s a chance some of its users will be bots. It’s unknown how many participants are eligible for the airdrop.

Can TON handle Hamster Kombat’s airdrop load?

With the Hamster Kombat airdrop date set, the question of how The Open Network (TON) will cope with millions of users requesting tokens comes to the fore.

According to Crypto.news, TON halted block production for hours, about two days after another Telegram mini-game, Dogs (DOGS), launched its token. DOGS also disrupted Telegram Wallet and several cryptocurrency exchange operations. TON developers have fixed the issue, but the incident suggests a similar network bottleneck could be brewing.

Telegram mini-apps like Dogs and Hamster Kombat are powered by successful predecessors like Notcoin (NOT). The other clicker game airdropped $1 billion worth of NOT coins in May, paving the way for a slew of Telegram-based gaming projects.

The HMSTR team aims to surpass the distribution of Notcoin by offering the “largest crypto airdrop in history.”