Creating Token Communities, Building Consumer Brands, and The Future of NFTs | Luca Netz, Pudgy Penguins
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The elephant in the room is a $75,000 pudgy penguin. Right? It's too priced out of the average retail buyer to participate. And a whale who actually believes in the message and everything that we're doing for crypto in terms of pushing it forward from a narrative perspective, from a development perspective, can't go put $30,000,000 on our floor because they'll get crushed on the slippage on the way up and they'll get crushed on the slippage on the way down. Everybody wants to be a part of this. Everybody wants to align with it, but there's really no vehicle in which they can do it. And Pangu o
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excited to be here once again. Yeah.
You sleeping much these days?
Haven't been, but I'm planning to get some good shut eye here in a couple days. I'm gonna do the 23rd to the first break. I think we all need it.
Just sleep for, like, 8 days straight? Yeah. How how, how was it, man? Give us I mean, let's let's jump into the good stuff. Like, we just you're coming off this big airdrop. Wanted to have you on to talk about the airdrop, the whole business, Pangoo, Pudgies, the rod, little pudgies, abstract, everything. But, I mean, give us the, like, behind the scenes of this airdrop. How did it go in your mind? I'd
probably put it, like, at a 7, 7a half out of 10. There was a little bit of technical issues on the claim. I think, you know, I I don't know how familiar you are, but I think we were responsible for Solana all time highs and daily transactions, Solana all time highs and transactions per second. And, I think, we we pushed the limits of some of the RPCs, so that was exciting. Over 20,000,000 hits on the claim website. So it was a it was a claim both for, you know, people on EVM and SVM. So obviously, nothing we have ever done before, so a lot of learnings to say the least, but excited that we ca
Give us give us the numbers on the airdrop. Like, how many how many people hit the site? How many claims?
Yeah. Like, 20,000,000 people hit the site. I think there's 900 and, like, 80,000 claims, almost a 1000000 claims that went through. Probably the biggest claim of all time, from an individual perspective. So that's pretty exciting and cool. And, I think today we have 500,000 on chain holders, assuming the sexes are in the millions, I'd probably assume, just figuring how big those holder bases are and how many users are on those platforms. And that's the metric that I think matters the most to us. Ultimately, I think what we've been able to accomplish over the last couple of years, is pretty im
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