What is Hamster Kombat?

A free game inside Telegram where you tap the screen as a hamster running a pretend crypto exchange. The taps build up in-game coins, and in September 2024 the real HMSTR token was handed out to players. It runs on The Open Network (TON).

Is HMSTR its own blockchain?

No. HMSTR is a Jetton, which is TON's name for an app token. It has no blockchain of its own and borrows TON's proof-of-stake security. Think of it as a coin that lives on top of TON rather than under it.

How many HMSTR are there?

The supply is capped at 100 billion HMSTR and never grows past that. About 64 billion were circulating as of mid-2026. A full 60% was set aside for the player airdrop, and the rest went to liquidity, the team, marketing, and partners.

How is it related to Notcoin?

Notcoin came first and proved that a simple tapping game on Telegram could draw millions of players and hand them a big airdrop. Hamster Kombat followed the same blueprint in 2024, so it is best seen as a sibling rather than a copy of the same chain.

Where can I get HMSTR?

Players first earned it free through the airdrop in September 2024. Since then it trades on major exchanges such as Binance, KuCoin, and Gate. It has been very volatile, so only try a small amount for fun. (Information only, not advice to use any particular exchange or to invest.)

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📒 Codex · TON tap-to-earn

Hamster Kombat HMSTR

the tapping hamster CEO

🎭 a cartoon hamster in a necktie, hoarding taps inside Telegram until the airdrop drops

🐶 Meme

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💬 “I am the CEO of an exchange that doesn't exist, and my whole job is tapping the screen. Keep tapping, the airdrop is coming. Squeak.”

💬 TL;DR

March 2024: a free tapping game appears inside Telegram. You play a hamster CEO of a pretend crypto exchange.
2024: it goes wildly viral, with reports of 300 million players signing up.
September 2024: the real HMSTR token finally arrives on TON and 60% of it is given to players.
Footnote: the supply is fixed at 100 billion HMSTR, and the price fell hard after launch.

📖 The Story

March 2024. A new game showed up inside Telegram, the chat app many crypto fans already lived in. You opened it and met a cartoon hamster running a make-believe crypto exchange. The whole game was one big button: tap the screen and watch your in-game coin count climb. No download, no fee, just tapping. It was built on The Open Network (TON), the blockchain tied to Telegram.

Spring and summer 2024. Then it exploded. People shared it with friends, friends shared it with friends, and the numbers got silly fast. By the peak the team reported more than 300 million total players and tens of millions tapping every month. For a while the tapping hamster was one of the most talked-about things in all of crypto, and it was made by a team that stayed anonymous the whole time.

September 2024. The big day arrived. All those taps had been a promise, and the promise was an airdrop. On September 26 the real HMSTR token went live on TON and a full 60% of the supply was handed out to players, with the rest kept for liquidity, the team, marketing, and partners. Around the same time it landed on Binance Launchpool, where people could earn HMSTR by staking other coins.

What came next was harder. Once the token could be traded its price slid sharply, and its market value reportedly slipped below its older sibling Notcoin. The hamster had pulled off one of the largest crowds crypto had ever seen, then had to learn what a game is worth once the tapping stops.

📊 Stats

📣Reach 300M+ players at the peak

🎮Depth The whole game is one tap

🪂Airdrop size 60% given to players

🎢Volatility Fell sharply after launch

🛠️Real-world use A game token, little else

🧩 How it works

HMSTR is a Jetton, which is just TON's word for an app token. That matters: it has no blockchain of its own and no miners or validators behind it. Instead it sits on top of TON and borrows that network's proof-of-stake security. The game lives inside Telegram, the token lives on TON, and the airdrop is the bridge between them.

👆 Tap, 🪙 stack in-game coins, 🗓️ do daily missions and 🐹 upgrade the exchange, on a loop — then once, in 🪂 Sept 2024, that loop paid out as the real 💎 HMSTR token on TON.

🌗 Light & Shadow

🌕 Light

It pulled an enormous crowd into crypto, with reports of 300 million-plus players, by making the first step nothing harder than tapping a button
The supply is fixed at 100 billion and never grows, so there is no quiet stream of new coins diluting it
It rides on TON and Telegram, which gives it a real distribution channel that most game tokens never get

🌑 Shadow

The price fell sharply after the token went live, and its market value reportedly dropped below sibling Notcoin
The team is anonymous, so there is no public face to hold accountable if direction or funding shifts
Outside the tapping game the token does little, and a player count can fade as fast as it grew once the airdrop is over

🧬 Evolution lineage

Hamster Kombat is not a fork of any chain. It is a sibling of Notcoin in TON's 2024 wave of Telegram tap-to-earn games, an app token that lives on TON rather than a network of its own.

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❓ FAQ

What is Hamster Kombat?: A free game inside Telegram where you tap the screen as a hamster running a pretend crypto exchange. The taps build up in-game coins, and in September 2024 the real HMSTR token was handed out to players. It runs on The Open Network (TON).
Is HMSTR its own blockchain?: No. HMSTR is a Jetton, which is TON's name for an app token. It has no blockchain of its own and borrows TON's proof-of-stake security. Think of it as a coin that lives on top of TON rather than under it.
How many HMSTR are there?: The supply is capped at 100 billion HMSTR and never grows past that. About 64 billion were circulating as of mid-2026. A full 60% was set aside for the player airdrop, and the rest went to liquidity, the team, marketing, and partners.
How is it related to Notcoin?: Notcoin came first and proved that a simple tapping game on Telegram could draw millions of players and hand them a big airdrop. Hamster Kombat followed the same blueprint in 2024, so it is best seen as a sibling rather than a copy of the same chain.
Where can I get HMSTR?: Players first earned it free through the airdrop in September 2024. Since then it trades on major exchanges such as Binance, KuCoin, and Gate. It has been very volatile, so only try a small amount for fun. (Information only, not advice to use any particular exchange or to invest.)

⚠️ Not investment advice. All figures are for information only