Pixelverse Pudgy Penguins?

+ Cool Cats' first manga series, sculpture artist turns to Bitcoin Ordinals.

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Leah Alger
July 19, 2024

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This Week's Low-Down:

  • 🐧 Pudgy Penguins Join Pixelverse’s Telegram Game ‘PixelTap’

  • 🐱 Cool Cats and Kodansha Launch New Manga Series

  • 🌠 Sculpture Artist Brendan Murphy Turns to Bitcoin Ordinals

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Trending Collections on OpenSea:

Pudgy Penguins Join Pixelverse’s Telegram Game ‘PixelTap’

The popular Pudgy Penguins NFT character ‘Pudgy' is set to join Pixelverse's Telegram mini-game, ‘PixelTap’.

  • This integration serves as a lead-up to the anticipated 2025 launch of an exclusive Pudgy Penguins game, which aims to enhance the character's profile in the gaming world and may further increase its popularity.

  • Even those who do not own a Pudgy Penguin NFT will have the opportunity to engage and compete with Pudgy in the Pixelverse arena alongside other crypto characters such as Doge and Mew.

  • The Pudgy Penguins collection continues to be a frontrunner on the Ethereum NFT platform, boasting a market cap of around $320M (94,124 ETH) and selling 1M plush toys worldwide.

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  • 150,000+ active subscribers and growing fast!

Cool Cats and Kodansha Launch New Manga Series

Cool Cats has partnered with renowned publisher Kodansha and creative studio San Fran Tokyo to release a manga series.

  • ‘COOL CATS Welcome to Sapphire Town’, penned by Colin Egan (Clon), unfolds in Sapphire Town at the Milk Chug cafe, starring Blue Cat and his companions.

  • Yuuma Natsuna illustrated the manga, which promises a visually engaging and authentically developed story that aims to captivate both longtime fans of Cool Cats and new readers.

  • The debut chapter will be available for free on Comic DAYS. After that, fans can anticipate new chapters monthly.

  • Plans are in place to distribute a physical edition of the series later in the year, which will be available in more than 2.5K bookstores and over 70 online outlets throughout Japan.

Sculpture Artist Brendan Murphy Turns to Bitcoin Ordinals

Artist Brendan Murphy has created a new art collection called ‘Frozen With Desire’, featuring 3.1K Bitcoin Ordinals Spacemen inspired by his diamond-encrusted sculpture.

  • This project marks Murphy’s entry into the Bitcoin blockchain art space, following his earlier Ethereum-based NFTs, ‘Boonji’.

  • Owners of the Ordinals can redeem their digital pieces for a physical artwork.

  • The project showcases a 3D recreation of his original ‘Frozen With Desire’ sculpture, which is adorned with 6.2K responsibly sourced digital diamonds on the Bitcoin network.

  • Now available on Magic Eden, each NFT is priced at 0.00144 BTC (approximately $92), potentially making it a good investment opportunity for those interested in crypto art.

Today's edition was written by Leah Alger