The Pudgy Penguins X BE@RBRICK collectible drop is now live.
Each BE@RBRICK Pengu collectible set includes two different-sized figures with supply limited to 750 pcs.
Get yours below.
It's quite unusual for a bear market where #Altcoins outperform on a slight $BTC bounce.
It's also very unusual for a narrative to have coins turn 20x in the middle of a Bitcoin bear market.
This Week in the Virtuals Ecosystem 🟩
🟩 @0xNeurobro Selected for Base Batches 002 from over 700 applicants and heading to EF Devcon Buenos Aires to showcase Neurodex and onchain intelligence.
🟩 @AIxVC_Axelrod Shared a full breakdown of how swaps flow through ACP with a 99.5 percent success rate and crossed 52M dollars in trading volume in 60 days since Seller Agent Mode went live using Butler and ACP.
🟩 @aixbt_labs Turned its dataset and indexer live so anyone can plug into AIXBT via API, x402, MCP, or ACP, powering agents like Butler, Ethy, Waveform, and others with trading intelligence.
🟩 @ArAIstotle Locked in a Taiwan patent for its Multi Spectral Reality Detector, with US and SG next, and launched FACY staking to align economic stake with the pursuit of verifiable truth.
🟩 @BasisOS Introduced Agentic Fund of Funds built with Virtuals, an autonomous AI driven fund of funds routing capital across trusted vaults like Morpho, Autopools, and ZyfAI for optimized onchain yields.
🟩 @BitRobotNetwork Reported over 25,000 real world robotics training tasks uploaded to SeeSaw in under two weeks, pushing internet scale robotics data forward.
🟩 @capminal Launched Limit Orders on Base so traders can set precise target prices, control slippage, and support partial fills, all powered by Kyber.
🟩 @ethereumfndn Announced Ethereum Builders After Hours in Buenos Aires, co-hosted with Arbitrum, Virtuals, and Frachtis VC to bring founders and builders together during Devconnect.
🟩 @ethy_agent Now processes more than one swap per minute through Butler on ACP v2, powered by Coinbase Server Wallets. Scaling toward becoming the default AI trading assistant with secure, production grade infrastructure.
🟩 @GAME_Virtuals Shipped percentage based pricing for fund managed ACP jobs so developers can charge fixed or percentage fees with automatic protocol level fee calculation.
🟩 @hexar99 Rolled out Hexar AI agent mode, letting users describe changes in a component tree while the agent updates it and turns conversations into always current documentation.
🟩 @InsideAMAI AMAI went live on Virtuals, creating a competitive arena where AI agents battle, build reputation, and generate real economic value.
🟩 @mamo Surpassed 196M dollars in total flow as USDC and BTC accounts earn through Moonwell and Morpho while the MAMO account compounds trading fees from Aerodrome.
🟩 @Maneki_DeFi Highlighted how Agentic Fund of Funds shifts the ecosystem from isolated yield agents to coordinated systems, with Maneki providing the curation and data layer that strengthens these autonomous vaults.
🟩 @Mute_swap Began embedding Monero style privacy, including ring signatures and Dandelion++, to give AI agents optional private microtransactions and cross chain swaps via Monero.
🟩 @pokpok_io Chosen for Base Batches 002 Startup Track and set to pitch PokPok at EF Devcon in Argentina as part of the next wave of Base native builders.
🟩 @PrismaXai Showed up at RoboCon AI in New York, representing Virtuals aligned robotics and AI in a leading robotics forum.
🟩 @Shekel_Agentic Launched the Shekel V2 app with a refreshed interface and UX for agent powered financial coordination.
🟩 @solacelaunch Introduced its first staking mechanism where locking exactly 100,000 SOLACE grants up to 22 percent discounts on Solace Seed hardware, directly tying token utility to device presales.
🟩 @TeamLurky Announced Royalties so speakers earn residual income whenever their conversations are used in x402 or ACP powered API calls and alpha reports, turning voice data into owned revenue.
🟩 @the_small_thing Completed a mesh network stress test across 10 ocean nodes in the Mediterranean, validating real time telemetry, multi hop routing, and power efficient, self healing connectivity for scalable ocean cleanup robotics.
🟩 @UndercoverIRIS Finished integration with Virtuals ACP so I.R.I.S. can now coordinate autonomously with other agents and access the onchain agent network through Butler.
🟩 @Vader_AI_ Launched EGOPLAY V2, a physical MMO where players record daily life to earn rewards on iPhone and Android, and kicked off a 3M VADER ticket based reward pool for Season 1.
🟩 @Wach_AI Published a detailed look at ERC 8004 for agent identity, reputation, and validation, and demoed how WachAI mandates and validation agents verify jobs before settlement, helping make x402 a trustless protocol.
🟩 @WaveformBackup Announced its upcoming plugin marketplace where users can connect plugins directly into their AI trading agents and pay in stablecoins via x402, with a 5 percent fee used to buy back WAVE.
🟩 @Xtreamlyio Joined the Virtuals agent cohort to provide market depth and volatility models that enhance risk management and return profiles for agents across the ecosystem.
🟩 @ZyfAI_ Partnered with Virtuals and BasisOS to bring automated yield routing to the Agentic Fund of Funds on Base, helping direct capital to the strongest agentic yield strategies.
🟩 @virtuals_io Introduced Agentic Fund of Funds and Agentic Micropayments by Butler, bringing real time yield optimization and sub cent precision transactions to ACP.
Unveiled Pudgy AI where tagging @pudgypenguins and @Butler_Agent generates custom Pengu videos directly on X.
Released Tom Lee (@fundstrat) and Jansen Teng (@ethermage) discussing the agentic economy and AI crypto powered infrastructure led by Virtuals Protocol.
Agents keep shipping. See you next week. 🟩
Abstract just got a whole lot faster.
Block times are down from 1s to 200ms, a 5× speed boost for every transaction, unlocking truly real-time apps and seamless user experiences across the network.
Now live on Abstract mainnet ✳️
Pudgy Penguins X Kung Fu Panda
Pudgy Penguins is bringing Pengu into the world of Po, Master Shifu, and Grand Master Oogway from @Dreamworks Animation's Kung Fu Panda.
More information to come soon.
Introducing the penguSOL LST with @sanctumso.
With penguSOL, you can now stake and earn yield through our Pengu validator and support $PENGU without any lockups on your $SOL.
More info below.
🚨 $PLUME x MasterCard 🤝
MasterCard selected $Plume as one of FIVE fintech startups to join their Start Path program cohort
The program is pretty competitive and only available to teams with a live product that's generating revenue
As a member of this program, $Plume receives special access to Mastercard's network of partners, channels, and customers - along with dedicated support from their team
It's a massive signal for the ecosystem that a tradfi player like Mastercard is spending dedicated resources to get involved with RWAs like this
And it’s a big validation for Plume that’s driving institutional RWAs at scale
https://t.co/7Aqeaqxlde
Let me get this straight:
- Pudgy Penguins is hitting almost 1 billion impressions every day
- Has launched one successful game, with two more on the way
- Has partnerships with Lufthansa, Nascar, Icee, PEZ and more
- Has physical toys in Walmart, Target, and stores worldwide
- The parent company (Igloo Inc) is building a consumer focused L2 on ETH
- The onchain community has seamlessly grown to over 800,000 holders
- We have NFTs for our super fans, core collectors, and community braintrust, and a social currency in $PENGU for everyone who wants to join the movement
- We have community members building products with their NFT IP that are being recommended on the front page of Amazon
- Our community is one of the smartest in crypto, building protocols like LayerZero, Nansen, AbstractChain, Polygon and many more
- Our community includes leaders at top finance firms like VanEck and Bitwise
- The leading ETH Treasury Company rocks a PENGU PFP
Seems to me that the Penguin takeover is well on the way.