Pudgy Penguins: the price of PENGU token is in a pump of +28% in the last seven days

Pudgy Penguins has recorded two opposite results in the last week: the price of PENGU token is in a bull pump of +28%, and the sales volume of the NFT collection has dropped by -30%. 

Pudgy Penguins: the price performance of PENGU token in pump of +28% in the last 7 days

Good news for PENGU, the token of Pudgy Penguins, which in the last seven days has recorded a price pump of +28%. 

At the time of writing, PENGU is worth $0.042 compared to $0.032 a week ago. This price performance turns out to be better than some of the main cryptos, such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) in a pump of +6% each. 

PENGU is in the 53rd position in the overall crypto ranking, with a total market cap of 2.63 billion dollars. 

Yesterday, the price of the Pudgy Penguins token reached as high as $0.044. In general, PENGU is experiencing a 250% price surge since its launch, which occurred on December 17.

In fact, on that date, the NFT project team had officially released the PENGU airdrop, giving a prize of 92,000 dollars to the NFT holders. 

PENGU was launched on the Solana blockchain, which became famous for the solid trading activity in the memecoin sector. 

Pudgy Penguins: PENGU token in pump, NFT collection sales declining and the GIF and sticker strategy

While on the crypto side, PENGU started 2025 with strong price performance, on the NFT side, the Pudgy Penguins collection seems to be in decline. 

In fact, according to the data reported by CryptoSlam, in the last seven days, sales of the Pudgy Penguins NFT collection have dropped by -30%. Despite this decline, Pudgy Penguins remains the top collection in the ranking with a weekly sales volume of over 7.1 million dollars.

Pudgy Penguins consists of 8,888 NFTs that represent unique and adorable penguins, which have captured the crypto-community and beyond, growing impressively. 

Only in these first days of the year, Berko Crypto, community lead of Pudgy Penguins, wanted to publicly report the results of the NFT project:

In just the first few days of 2025 @pudgypenguins had:

>Billions of GIFs views
>Telegram stickers experiment sold out in record time
>Hundreds of thousands of new penguins with actual stake in the game
>Viral Instagram and TikTok campaigns pic.twitter.com/P4uGMxrBGX

— Berko (@Berko_Crypto) January 3, 2025

In practice, Pudgy Penguins implemented a viral strategy of GIFs and stickers, recording over 1.1 billion views in the first 5 days of 2025. 

The NFT market in 2024

Remaining in the NFT sector, a final analysis revealed that 2024 ended with a total sales volume of 8.8 billion dollars. This is an increase of 100 million dollars compared to the total NFT sales volume recorded in 2023.

This result means that, despite the slow growth of this crypto micro-sector, NFTs continue to be alive in the blockchain ecosystem. 

Looking at the flow of sales volume during the year, it seems that the last few months have been crucial. 

In fact, after a terrible September, volumes started to rise again from October, with December being the revolutionary month of all 2024 for a total NFT sales volume of 877 million dollars. 

Pudgy Penguins joined the general performance of December 2024 for the NFT market, remaining at the top of the collections ranking, with a monthly sales volume of 115 million dollars.