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.
Top college football prospect Matai Tagoa’i is set to join football stars like Russell Okung, Odell Beckham Jr., and Trevor Lawrence by receiving his compensation in Bitcoin.
The linebacker will be paid part of his earnings via the Strike app after signing a “name, image, and likeness” (NIL) deal with the University of Southern California (USC).
The exact details of his package are not known, but some college football players, such as Shedeur Sanders, have received estimated payouts of up to $4....
The world’s largest asset manager BlackRock just debuted a new advertisement proselytizing the virtues of Bitcoin, but rather than cheer on the Bitcoin ETF issuer for its efforts, Bitcoiners aren’t happy.
The video, which is housed on the iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) ETF page on BlackRock’s website, spends three minutes walking viewers through the evolution of money and key fundamentals of Bitcoin.
One of those fundamentals is Bitcoin’s 21 million fixed token supply.
While the video explains t...
El Salvador may have reached a deal with the International Monetary Fund that will see the tiny country scale back its Bitcoin law—but it’s still going to “HODL.” And it might even step up its BTC buys.
That’s according to Stacy Herbert, the head of El Salvador’s National Bitcoin Office, who wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter) Thursday that the country may even continue buying the cryptocurrency at an “accelerated pace” going forward.
El Salvador in 2021 made Bitcoin legal tender along with...
