Hamster Kombat Unveils Layer-2 Blockchain on TON
Hamster Kombat has introduced the Hamster Network, a new layer-2 blockchain built on The Open Network (TON), aimed at revolutionizing Web3 gaming and decentralized applications.
Announced on February 25, this platform is the first gaming-focused layer-2 blockchain within the TON ecosystem, designed to enable developers to launch fully decentralized games with all logic encoded in smart contracts.
Unlike traditional games that store minimal on-chain data, the Hamster Network ensures complete on-chain functionality for its games.
The launch of the Hamster Network also includes the creation of a broader entertainment project, the “Hamster Verse,” which will feature characters from the Web3 game.
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This ecosystem will be supported by a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), which pushed for the layer-2 blockchain’s creation on TON. Essential infrastructure has been set up, including a crypto wallet, bridge, and decentralized exchange (DEX), making it easy for users to use their TON wallet addresses on the new network.
Despite a recent 35% drop in the value of its native token, HMSTR, the Hamster Kombat team remains focused on ensuring that the token provides key utility, including in transactions, governance, and rewarding users.
Although user numbers have fallen from a peak of 300 million to 11.5 million active users, the project continues to emphasize its commitment to re-engaging its core audience and strengthening the Hamster Kombat ecosystem.
Alexander Stefanov
Reporter at CoinsPress
Alex is Editor-in-Chief of Coinspress and co-founder of Millennial Media Group, with nearly a decade of experience covering financial markets - crypto first, then everything else. It started in 2016 with Bitcoin. Like most people at the time, he didn't fully understand it - so he kept digging. Blockchain, tokenomics, the projects, the cycles. That curiosity never stopped, and eventually pulled him into traditional markets too: equities, commodities, macro. Not because he left crypto behind, but because you can't properly understand one without the other. What drives him is straightforward: he wants to know why something is happening, not just that it's happening. Most market coverage stops at the headline - price up, price down, here's a chart. Alex finds that kind of reporting actively unhelpful. If you walk away from an article without understanding the mechanism behind the move, what did you actually learn? He holds a degree in Tourism from New Bulgarian University - not the most obvious path into financial markets, but markets have a way of pulling in people who are simply too curious to stay out. He has authored over 200 in-depth analyses and more than 10,000 articles across crypto and traditional finance. He still thinks every day in markets teaches him something new. That's probably why he hasn't stopped.
