A cryptocurrency dealer has managed to make round $8.36 million with the latest airdrop of the native token of the favored non-fungible token (NFT) mission Pudgy Penguins, all in lower than 20 minutes.
In accordance with on-chain information evaluation service Lookonchain, the dealer spent 23,742 SOL to purchase 239.6 million PENGU tokens as quickly as they have been launched, which means they wager $5.36 million on the newly launched cryptocurrency shifting up.
The wager turned worthwhile practically instantly, with the dealer then offloading their PENGU holdings for 60,726 SOL, or round $13.72 million.
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The PENGU token was airdropped to holders of Pudgy Penguins NFTs and noticed an preliminary surge at launch from round $0.05 per token to a $0.07 excessive, earlier than those that acquired the airdrop began promoting en masse. The cryptocurrency has since seen a drop, and is now buying and selling at $0.031 per token.
Nonetheless, PENGU’s whole market capitalization is now hovering round $1.93 billion, making it one of many high 100 digital belongings by the metric. The token, at launch, was listed on numerous main cryptocurrency buying and selling platforms together with Binance, Bybit, OKX, and Bitget.
A complete of 23.5% of PENGU’s provide was distributed by way of an airdrop, whereas one other 22% was allotted to the Solana and Ethereum communities. Moreover, 12.3% of the provision shall be utilized as liquidity on decentralized exchanges.
Forward of the launch of PENGU, the ground worth of Pudgy Penguin NFTs has skilled a big improve. The bottom-priced NFT within the assortment buying and selling at 34.1 ETH (roughly $135,000) at one level.
The value of the NFTs has since plunged by greater than 52%, with the lowest-priced NFT within the assortment now buying and selling for 15.75 ETH ($62,400), seemingly as merchants dump their NFTs to lock in beneficial properties from the value appreciation and the widely-anticipated airdrop.
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