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: Pudgy Penguins co-founder Cole Villemain was voted out and removed from his role by the project's holders in January 2022. Early Tuesday morning, the 44,444-piece NFT collection Spritehood, launched by Cole Villemain on the Robinhood Chain, sold out in under an hour. According to on-chain transaction data, the NFT mint generated approximately $1.28 million in revenue. During the public mint, 37,430 NFTs were sold at $17 each, while another 5,526 were sold at $117 each, the latter corresponding to the $100 upgrade option available on the mint page. Based on these figures, total sales revenue amounted to $1.2829 million, equivalent to approximately 684.28 ETH at the contract's mint-time pricing. Prior to the paid sale, the contract deployer also free-minted 1,488 NFTs through 20 zero-price transactions.
NFT project Pudgy Penguins has announced an expansion of its physical retail footprint, with its trading card game Vibes Series 3 now available for sale across all channels of U.S. retail giant Target. Following the launch of Vibes Series 3, the total circulation of Pudgy Penguins trading cards has reached 15 million. The new series introduces new gameplay mechanics, original artistic designs, and incorporates character elements from Moonbirds.
: Pudgy Party officially announced on the X platform that the team has decided to shut down the mobile game Pudgy Party and cease further development. Pudgy Party launched as the top-ranked app on the App Store, with total downloads exceeding 1 million.The team stated that their Web-based game, Pudgy World, has greater advantages in scalability, narrative potential, and user acquisition capabilities, and is experiencing rapid growth. As the core flagship game product of the Pudgy Penguins universe, the team will fully dedicate its efforts to its future development.
According to on-chain analyst Yujin’s monitoring, after 100 million PENGU tokens (valued at $1.08 million) were transferred from the Pudgy Penguins token deployment address to centralized exchanges, the PENGU price dropped 7% from $0.01147 to $0.0106. Six hours ago, the PENGU token deployment address transferred out 137 million PENGU tokens (valued at $1.5 million), of which 100 million PENGU tokens (valued at $1.08 million) were sent to multiple exchanges including OKX.