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.
Crypto news outlet Cointelegraph has confirmed that its website was compromised in a front-end exploit used to promote a fraudulent token airdrop and steal from users.
It said in a statement on X on Sunday night that they were aware of the “fraudulent pop-up” and were “actively working on a fix”.
“Do not click on these pop-ups, connect your wallets [or] enter any personal information,” it warned.
Decrypt has approached Cointelegraph for comment.
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Texas sheriffs used power tools this week in retrieving $32,000 from a Bitcoin ATM after a Jasper County family said they were scammed out of funds, according to local law enforcement.
The family said it had lost $25,000 to the fraudsters.
An image shared by the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office on Facebook shows sparks flying as an official uses what appears to be a circular saw to crack into a Bitcoin Depot kiosk. Other images show stacks of hundred dollar bills, evidence bags, and a gas station...
The price of Bitcoin was little changed on Friday as U.S. Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller argued that the U.S. central bank could start lowering interest rates as early as July.
Bitcoin was recently changing hands at $104,300, flat over the past day and down 0.6% since Israel and Iran began exchanging missile attacks a week ago, according to crypto data provider CoinGecko. Ethereum was flat over the past 24 hours to trade just around $2,500, while Solana ticked up slightly.
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