Hamster Kombat Listing on OKX. When Will It Be, And What Risks Await Users?
After announcing a new listing date for Hamster Kombat, exchanges have started announcing the listing of the HMSTR token. What do users need to know?
The long-awaited HMSTR listing?
OKX will be one of the first crypto exchanges to list the HMSTR token, exchange officials announced on Friday. The listing will take place on September 26, the same day that the Hamster Kombat team will hold a TGE and airdrop among its players. Before and after the listing, OKX will run a series of promotional campaigns in support of HMSTR.
The exchange has not disclosed details regarding trading pairs for HMSTR.
HMSTR has been available on the OKX futures pre-market since early August. The exchange offered interested parties to trade HMSTR with 2x leverage before its official launch.
Postponement after postponement
This week, the Hamster Kombat team announced a new date for the airdrop token. The token was originally scheduled to be launched in July, but the developers postponed it, citing technical issues. The new listing date was announced almost a month after the postponement was announced. During this time, users of the game managed to express their dissatisfaction and distrust.
The updated airdrop criteria were passive earnings, completing daily tasks such as combos, cipher and mini-games, friends, achievements, collecting keys and subscribing to the team channel. These requirements were also repeatedly criticized by the community. Users labeled the game “too stressful.”
Where can you buy HMSTR now?
Pre-marketing of tokens has been gaining momentum recently. Some exchanges that offer this option trade HMSTR before its official release to the market. Buyers and sellers set their own desired price for buying and selling. It is worth noting that the buyer does not actually get HMSTR as of now. Instead, he buys some sort of Points that will automatically be converted into HMSTR once it is listed. Also, the pre-market price does not guarantee the actual price at listing.
Right now, HMSTR is traded on the pre-market on OKX, Bybit and Gate.io.
Why and what are Hamster Kombat players risking?
Players met the news about the new airdrop date ambiguously. Some anticipated the imminent launch of the token, while others treated the team's announcement with suspicion and skepticism.
The game is at the center of a scandal
Earlier we wrote about the corporate conflict in which everyone's favorite game got bogged down. The Hamster Kombat team refused to pay profits to early investors, and its founders were accused of manipulation and deception of partners. This raised suspicions among regular users that the team might not be completely honest with them too.
Now users are actively discussing the tokenomics of the project, becoming more and more convinced that Hamster Kombat will distribute only 20% of tokens instead of the promised 60%. And bot farms are to blame. And Primitive Ventures founder Dovey Wan believes that Hamster Kombat's popularity is due to “industrial farming.” She emphasized that the game model should have been called tap-to-fake rather than tap-to-earn.
Other Hamster Kombat risks
Throughout the game's existence, users have faced various problems in and out of the game. The immense popularity of Hamster Kombat has played a cruel joke, attracting not only interested users, but also scammers. Hamster Kombat was often caught up in scandals about phishing communities, fake airdrop dates, dubious advertisers and “hijacking” of user accounts.
