The controversial crypto airdrop of tap tap game Hamster Kombat has yet another task for users after dropping tokens worth peanuts. The Hamster Team has revealed that users must transfer their tokens to officially mint them on the blockchain.
The Hamster Token was airdropped using the unique Mintless Jetton system, designed in collaboration with The Open Network (TON). In this system, players can see their token balance in their wallets, but the tokens are only minted and written to the blockchain once they initiate a transfer.
This requirement to move tokens before they officially exist on the blockchain is a strategic effort to prevent overloading the TON network during the massive distribution. With over 131 million potential recipients, traditional blockchain minting would create significant congestion, slowing down transactions and inflating fees.
The Mintless Jetton system resolves this by deferring the minting process, allowing users to claim and store tokens without causing immediate blockchain activity.
Hamster developers urged users to claim there tokens and hinted that new features are on the way that would require HMSTR tokens.
The airdrop, widely promoted as the largest airdrop in the crypto space, promised to deliver $HMSTR tokens to millions of participants. However, instead of the large-scale token distribution that many anticipated, users were disappointed by the small amount of tokens they actually received.