Uzbekistan: We did not ban the game Hamster Kombat

The National Agency for Prospective Projects of Uzbekistan (hereinafter NAPP) did not prohibit citizens of the country from playing the clicker Hamster Kombat. The regulator clarified the legal status of the Telegram application and warned about the risks of withdrawing tokens in the future.

Earlier, some media reported that participants in the clicker game would be sent to prison. It was reported that players could go to jail if they try to withdraw tokens to a cryptocurrency exchange. Note that the project itself does not yet have its own coin.

The NAPP statement emphasized that Hamster Kombat is not a typical Play-to-Earn game aimed at earning cryptocurrency. The coins used in the application have no collateral or real value, the agency noted.

According to the regulator’s comments with reference to the legislation of Uzbekistan, a cryptoasset is a property that is a collection of digital records in a distributed data registry (blockchain), which has value and owner.

The department admitted that in the future, the coins used within the application could move to the blockchain and become a crypto-asset. In this case, they can only be purchased or sold through national service providers.

Thus, the Uzbekistan regulator did not introduce any restrictions for Hamster Kombat players. However, this rule is relevant until the application developers have released their own token.