Pudgy Penguins NFTs and PENGU, the ecosystem’s Solana token, have fallen sharply within the final 24 hours since its father or mother firm launched Summary, a consumer-focused Ethereum layer-2 community.
PENGU has fallen 24% throughout that point and 49% within the final 30 days to $0.0173, dropping it exterior the high 100 crypto belongings by market cap in accordance with CoinGecko. The Solana token has fallen to its lowest value because the risky launch day in December.
In the meantime, the unique Pudgy Penguins NFTs on Ethereum have skilled a related decline, dropping slightly below 20% within the final 24 hours, and 39% on the week to $37,950 or 11.94 ETH.
Whereas the broader market decline might have performed a job, some merchants and analysts have urged that the steeper Penguin decline comes amid the shortage of speedy rewards for Penguin-linked belongings on the Summary community.
“The response means that [Pudgy Penguins NFTs] had been being priced with the expectation of a mainnet [token generation event] with a wholesome drop to Pudgy holders, not a protracted XP/Factors program,” posted on-chain analytics and block explorer platform Parsec Finance on X (previously often called Twitter).
The value decline has additionally helped propel an NFT liquidation cascade on Mix, the Blur market’s NFT financialization platform, as detailed by pseudonymous “Fashionable Market” podcast host and Web3 analyst, BCheque.
“As a result of the ground value retains happening, extra lenders pull their loans, which will increase the variety of NFTs needing to refinance the mortgage. When no lender steps in, the NFT will get liquidated into the fingers of the lender,” he stated. “The lender doesn’t need it; [they] simply wished to earn curiosity on the mortgage. So the lender sells it to the market to recoup as a lot of the mortgage principal as attainable. Repeat again and again because the spiral continues.”
The decline marks greater than a 60% retrace from the Pudgy Penguins excessive of greater than $100,000 previous to its PENGU airdrop in December.
Whereas the neighborhood stirs on the shortage of speedy rewards for Pudgy Penguin customers, the Summary crew made it clear that multipliers for XP—the chain’s native reward system—wouldn’t be the one approach that Penguins and PENGU holders are rewarded.
“At launch, the Pudgy Penguin and Lil Pudgy standing provides customers bonus XP for utilizing Summary. There might be extra coming for these holders,” the Pudgy Penguins X account posted. “PENGU plans to have a big tie in with Summary within the close to future, however for now, take pleasure in further XP each week based mostly in your tier.”
For now, Pudgy Penguins and Lil Pudgy NFT holders can declare an XP multiplier inside their Summary International Pockets rewards tab. Homeowners of at the very least 88,888 PENGU tokens—roughly $1,520 value at present costs—can do the identical.
Summary launched its mainnet and portal on Monday. The Pudgy Penguins father or mother firm raised $11 million in 2024 in an effort to launch the community, making an attempt to get billions of customers on-chain and interacting with shopper crypto purposes and tasks.
Edited by Andrew Hayward
