This Week in Crypto Games: ‘Hamster Kombat’ Players Get Crafty as Pre-Market Trading Expands

The crypto and Luckily, 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.Crafty Kombat players: How wild is the Hamster Kombat craze getting? Just days after Telegram CEO Pavel Durov said that the game had amassed 239 million players and counting, a report from a Russian news outlet claimed that percussion massage guns sales had surged due to players using them to super-charge their in-game tapping. One brand was actually using Hamster Kombat imagery on its product listings.In fact, Decrypt’s GG found that there are many unique ways that people are trying to exploit the tap-to-earn game, including with a sewing machine and some apparent custom-made contraptions. Here’s a look at some of the wildest examples.Another cryptocurrency exchangeThe developers of Hamster Kombat have yet to announce the conversation rate at which they will award players on-chain tokens in exchange for the in-game coins they earned. That uncertainty makes pre-market trading even more of a gamble. July is poised to be a big month for On July 19, Ronin farming game Popular Japanese anime and manga series “The Sandbox, along with companies Minto and Copro Corporation, received authorization from IP owner Kodansha Ltd. to produce Vape-to-earn by @puffpaw_xyz One of the more interesting consumer dApps this year to build.Using tokens to incentivise users to quit smoking and reduce vaping over time – with green tea extract. Rewards are verifiable on-chain where each pod is a token miner.Muh DePin x… pic.twitter.com/wvCFErfeYr— Ash (@ahboyash) July 11, 2024Here are a few of our original stories from this past week that we think are well worth a weekend read:Edited by Andrew Hayward