Crypto gaming startup Pixelverse introduced Tuesday that it’ll introduce a Pudgy Penguins character to its widely-played Telegram recreation, PixelTap. This transfer brings probably the most recognizable figures within the crypto world to a recreation that has already attracted tens of millions of gamers in current weeks.
Pudgy, the face of the profitable Pudgy Penguins NFT assortment on Ethereum, will be a part of different crypto-inspired characters like Doge, Solana’s Mew, and Avalanche’s Coq Inu in PixelTap.
Pudgy Penguins has seen extra crossover success than most NFT collections, touchdown its toy line in shops like Walmart and Goal and reportedly promoting greater than one million models to this point. It has additionally drawn tens of millions of followers to its social media efforts by way of viral content material, and is growing a number of Web3 video games.
Pixelverse’s PixelTap recreation has skilled explosive progress, with over 50 million customers registering inside the first month of launch. The corporate says that the sport now boasts greater than 10 million each day gamers amid a Telegram tap-to-earn gaming increase.
On Monday, Pixelverse introduced that its PIXFI token will launch on The Open Community (TON) on Thursday, July 18. Nonetheless, the corporate performed coy on airdrop particulars, telling Decrypt’s GG that they’re supposed for long-term rewards and that it will not disclose person allocations.
“Gamers will be capable of declare and obtain PIXFI tokens and in-game belongings, however the precise particulars of how this may work are nonetheless unknown,” mentioned Pixelverse co-founder Kori Leon.
Editor’s notice: This text was written with the help of AI. Edited and fact-checked by Andrew Hayward.