Crypto The gaming space is more crowded than ever, with popular games starting to release, token airdrops piling up, and other things that seem to be happening all the time. There is a lot to enter!
fortunately, DecryptThe GG is above all. And if you need a quick way to catch up on the latest activity around crypto video games, we're happy to feature this week in Crypto Games.
Our weekend roundup features the biggest news from the past week, along with a few other news you may have missed. We'll also feature a few of our top stories of the week.
The big news
Hamster Kombat air drop Super Viral Telegram Mini App Has Launched Hamster Kombat HMSTR Token On. Open network (ton) Thursday. Very attracted to the tapping game 300 million users, 131 million of those eligible for airdrops – though more 2.3 million was cut for fraud.
But not everyone was happy with the “free money”. Many players have expressed their views HMSTR Award as “Dust” As the token price dropped to $0.006—pre-market trading predicted the price to be $0.095. A day before the air drop. But traders were still above the downside, buying more than $1.2 billion worth of hands in the first 24 hours. And Thon stuck it out despite his concerns.
Before the air drop, Hamster Kombat has revealed its roadmap. for the coming year. Anonymous Group plans to release NFTs, create and launch new games, and most notably, begin distancing itself from Telegram's monopoly.
The first step in doing this is to create a. Progressive web application (PWA) for iOS, Android, and desktop—PWAs are websites that look like regular apps. Months later, the team is looking to move away from PWAs by integrating Hamster Combat directly into desktop games.
$47M gaming scam Binance has helped Indian law enforcement arrest four individuals suspected of defrauding victims of $47.6 million and illegally withdrawing the funds. This was linked to Fiewin, an online betting and gaming app, which promised users easy earnings but ended up trapping their money and not allowing users to withdraw their money.
The investigation revealed that the app blocked accounts after accumulating significant funds and then transferred them through various cryptocurrency wallets to make it more challenging to track the transactions. But Binance's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has provided the technical expertise to monitor the movement of funds.
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Here are a few of our early stories from this past week that we think are good weekend reads:
Edited by Andrew Hayward.
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