The Pudgy Penguins brand has made inroads into the mainstream in recent months; physical toys based on its intellectual property have been released in Walmart and Target, while the brand has hit the pages of outlets like the New York Times.
Ethereum NFT brand Pudgy Penguins has expanded from tokenized profile pictures (PFPs) to plush toys in major retailers and beyond—and next it’ll enter the mobile gaming world via a new collaboration with publisher Mythical Games.
Billed as a “AAA” mobile game, the Pudgy Penguins title is set to debut in 2025 on the Mythos Chain, a Polkadot-based gaming network that was spearheaded by Mythical Games. The studio is the developer behind games like NFL Rivals and Blankos Block Party.
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The “AAA” mobile game will launch on the Mythical platform, home to other NFT-trading-centric games NFL Rivals and Blankos Block Party, at some point in 2025.
The Mythos Chain (MYTH), which will host the Pudgy Penguins mobile game, claims over one million active wallets and over 5 million players, and will be migrating to Polkadot shortly.
Frequency, a parachain aimed at providing a framework for decentralized social media that prioritizes privacy, was by far the most popular parachain on Polkadot this month.
The daily number of transactions on Frequency averaged 180,000 in the last 10 days, according to Polkadot analytics outfit DotLake, a 108x month-on-month increase.
Polkadot parachains number of transactions. Image: DotLake
MeWe, a decentralized social network designed to solve Big Tech-related privacy issues, is in the process of migrating to Polkadot parachain Frequency, after first announcing the move last year.
The firm's founder and CEO Jeffrey Edell believes that blockchain can be used to combat issues that have plagued social media over the past decade, such as fake news, disinformation and misinformation.
This isn’t the first time Frequency has been in the crypto news recently.
Frank McCourt, a real estate billionaire with an estimated net worth of $1.4 billion, has launched a “people’s bid” to buy TikTok, and plans to shift some elements of its technical framework to an architecture created by Project Liberty, based on Frequency.
However, this is dependent on the billionaire’s bid for the social media platform succeeding, while the U.S. government would need to force TikTok to divest its interests.
1/ 🧵Mover alert! ⏰ @one_frequency, the parachain linked with a bold bid to secure social media phenomenon @tiktok_us in the US, tops the Daily Number of Transactions in the @Polkadot ecosystem with an average of 180k in the last 10 days, a 108x MoM increase 🫡 pic.twitter.com/N8Yq6yiY20
Polkadot Decoded, the world’s largest Polkadot Community Event, has partnered with Beatport.
Beatport is one of the world’s largest online electronic music stores aimed at DJs, and the platform provides its own specialized streaming service.
Beatport will provide music for the Polkadot Decoded’s closing event. Headliners have yet to be announced for the event, but 2023’s closing event featured artists such as Len Faki, Gina Jeanz, Lovecatt, Tsuniman and MARRØN.
We're thrilled to announce that Beatport is teaming up with @Polkadot to kick off @PolkadotDecoded 2024 in style! Join us on July 10th in Brussels for the Opening Party, featuring a massive lineup at the exciting warehouse venue.
Long time collaborators Polkadot creator Gavin Wood and Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin took to the stage at EthPrague last week.
The pair, who first collaborated over a decade ago, discussed how crypto can help address corruption in the developing world, crypto’s relevance to average people, Polkadot’s impending JAM upgrade and the democratic future of Ethereum.
Wood and Buterin also explored the best way to build an ecosystem and the pros and cons of and on-chain and off-chain governance.
Glauber Contessoto rose to crypto fame in 2021 when he became what was believed to be the first “Dogecoin Millionaire”—a title he wore proudly. Now, four years later, he’s claimed the title of “Pepe Millionaire,” while his DOGE stash has dipped slightly below that milestone level.
Across six wallets shared and verified with Decrypt, Contessoto now owns approximately $1.116 million of the Ethereum meme coin PEPE.
This is in addition to his Dogecoin stash that he has become famous for. Contessoto...
America's biggest crypto exchange Coinbase introduced two new "wrapped" tokens this week, allowing traders to use XRP and Dogecoin on DeFi protocols.
By introducing cbDOGE and cbXRP, Coinbase is hoping to address surging demand for cross-chain functionality in the complex DeFi world, the company and industry observers told Decrypt.
The exchange is making the new offerings available on its own Ethereum layer-2 Base network.
Coinbase holds 1:1 reserves of the underlying assets that back Coinbas...
A month after the Pectra upgrade, key indicators on Ethereum have begun to reveal the promise and pitfalls of the network's most ambitious technical overhaul since the 2022 "merge."
One of the major features that the Pectra upgrade brought was expanding the Ethereum blockchain's capacity for handling "blobs," which are units of "ephemeral data storage," helping keep larger amounts of it on the consensus layer, according to a definition from the Protocol developer team.
A blob is a dedicated data...
