- Origins of *Hamster Kombat* and Its Investors
- How *Hamster Kombat* Is Linked to Arenum
- Eduard Gurinovich’s Conflict with Influencers
The game *Hamster Kombat*, which gained viral popularity worldwide, is still not listed on any exchange. Users are growing impatient with the ongoing delays, despite Binance creating a page for the HMSTR token.
Origins of *Hamster Kombat* and Its Investors
In August, the number of *Hamster Kombat* players exceeded 155 million per month, just under six months after the game launched on Telegram in March. The game concept involves earning coins that can theoretically be sold or exchanged on cryptocurrency exchanges. The idea for the game came from entrepreneur Eduard Gurinovich in early 2020, who proposed it to IT holding AD.RU. AD.RU invested $600,000 in the project, and by summer 2020, it was actively working on it, securing additional investments of over a million dollars. However, by early 2021, the project's expenses exceeded its income, and the team proposed using an Initial DEX Offering (IDO) to attract funding. This allowed the team to continue working on new games and hypotheses. In 2024, the company launched the *Hamster Kombat* project, which quickly gained popularity.
How *Hamster Kombat* Is Linked to Arenum
The game was indeed created using Arenum's resources, and the game's servers are hosted on the company's platform. The hamsterkombat.io domain registration was also connected to the corporate email ap@arenum.games. This is confirmed by documents from the Ministry of Energy, Commerce, and Industry of Cyprus. AD.RU was actively involved in the project, but in June 2024, AD.RU's head Anton Gorshkov reported that Eduard Gurinovich distanced himself from the company, claiming that *Hamster Kombat* is not related to it.
Eduard Gurinovich’s Conflict with Influencers
AD.RU is not the only entity accusing Eduard Gurinovich of unscrupulous behavior. In August, project partner and marketer Nikita Anufriev announced his departure from *Hamster Kombat*. According to him, Gurinovich offered him 25% of revenue and shares for helping promote the project. Anufriev helped attract hundreds of thousands of users and secured partnerships with the cryptocurrency exchange BingX and several DAOs. Influencers and project partners, who invested in it, believed that without their support, the project would not have achieved such success, and publicly expressed their dissatisfaction.
*Hamster Kombat* continues to face challenges on its way to listing on Binance. Internal conflicts and issues with investors question the game's future.
