This Week in Crypto Games: '
Hamster Kombat'
Airdrop and
Expansion, $
47Million
Gaming Scam
This Week in Crypto Games: 'Hamster Kombat' Airdrop and Expansion,
$47 Million Gaming Scam
Catch up on this week’s biggest crypto and NFT• Экономика » Финансы » Платежные средства » Платежные системы интернета » Криптовалюта » NFT - невзаимозаменяемый токен gaming news and find some
weekend reads in our latest roundup.
By Ryan S. Gladwin
Sep 29, 2024 Sep 29, 2024
4 min read
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The crypto gaming space is busier than ever lately, what with prominent games
starting to release, token airdrops piling up, and a seemingly constant array
of other things happening at all times. It’s a lot to take in!
Luckily, Decrypt ’s GG is all over it. And if you need a quick way to get
caught up on the latest moves around crypto video games, we’re happy to
present This Week in Crypto Games.
Our weekend roundup serves up the biggest news from the past week, along with
a few other tidbits you might have missed. We also showcase a few of our
original stories from the week.
Biggest news
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Hamster Kombat airdrop: Ultra-viral Telegram mini-app Hamster Kombat launched
its HMSTR token on The Open Network (TON) on Thursday. The tap-to-earn game
attracted over 300 million users , with 131 million of those being eligible
for the airdrop—though an additional 2.3 million were cut for cheating .
But not everyone was happy with the "free money." Several players described
their HMSTR reward as “dust” as its token price fell to as low as
$0.006—pre-market trading predicted its price to be $0.095 the day before the
airdrop . But traders still were all over the drop, with more than $1.2
billion worth trading hands in the first 24 hours. And TON held up, despite
concerns .
Ahead of the airdrop, Hamster Kombat revealed its roadmap for the upcoming
year. The anonymous team plans to release NFTs, create and launch new games,
and most notably start to distance itself from Telegram exclusivity.
Its first step in doing this will be creating a progressive web app (PWA) for
iOS, Android, and desktop—PWAs are websites that behave like regular apps.
Months later, the team will look to move away from the PWA by directly
integrating Hamster Kombat into desktop games.
$47M gaming scam: Binance• Экономика » Финансы » Платежные средства » Платежные системы интернета » Криптовалюта » Binance assisted Indian law enforcement in arresting four
individuals suspected of defrauding victims of $47.6 million and then
laundering the funds. This was linked to the Fiewin online betting and gaming
app, which promised users easy earnings but ultimately trapped their funds,
not allowing users to withdraw their money.
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The investigation found that the app froze accounts once significant funds had
been accumulated, then transferred them through various cryptocurrency• Экономика » Финансы » Платежные средства » Платежные системы интернета » Криптовалюта wallets
to make it more challenging to trace the transactions. However, Binance• Экономика » Финансы » Платежные средства » Платежные системы интернета » Криптовалюта » Binance’s
Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) provided technical expertise to trace the
movement of funds.
ICYMI
Deadrop’s new gameplay trailer dropped , showing some notable improvements.
Dr. Disrespect said that he’s “ got a feeling ” that he’ll rejoin Midnight
Society. The studio says it's not happening .
Space Nation Online "soft launched" its MMORPG in quest to become next Star
Wars.
Flappy Bird confirmed its FLAP token and plans for staking rewards.
FLAP will power the Flappy Bird ecosystem ð®
Staking the $FLAP token will grant you rewards from the Flappy Bird
Foundation.
Play during Season 1 of the Flap-a-TON to be eligible! https://t.co/KpZYYxcyxQ
pic.twitter.com/dyPSnbhBQ2
— Flappy Bird (@flappy_bird) September 28, 2024
Treasure announced that it was bringing its decentralized gaming console to
ZkSync ecosystem .
Crypto farming game Pixels previewed its Telegram tap-to-drive game .
Shooter game Farcana launched a staking program for its FAR token.
The British gambling regulator is prosecuting NFT• Экономика » Финансы » Платежные средства » Платежные системы интернета » Криптовалюта » NFT - невзаимозаменяемый токен fantasy soccer game Sorare• Экономика » Финансы » Платежные средства » Платежные системы интернета » Криптовалюта » NFT - невзаимозаменяемый токен .
GG spotlight
Here are a few of our original stories from this past week that we think are
well worth a weekend read:
Edited by Andrew Hayward
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