Over 72% of PENGU holders dump all tokens immediately after launch

12/19/2024 20:51
Over 72% of PENGU holders dump all tokens immediately after launch

TK Research found that more than 72% of PENGU holders have sold or moved all their tokens immediately after the launch. This means only 18% are still holding onto their entire token supply

Over 72% of PENGU holders dump all tokens immediately after launch

TK Research found that more than 72% of PENGU holders have sold or moved all their tokens immediately after the launch. This means only 18% are still holding onto their entire token supply.

According to data from on-chain analysis firm TK Research, as many as 18.7 billion PENGU (PENGU) tokens have been claimed since the native token was launched, which amounts to 81,4% of its circulating token supply. The native token of the NFT collection Pudgy Penguins was launched officially on Dec. 17, listing on major exchanges such as Binance and OKX.

The analysis revealed that 72.33% of holders have sold or moved all their PENGU tokens, while 3% sold 90% of their PENGU tokens and less than 1% of holders have sold or moved 75% of their tokens. On the other hand, nearly 18% of PENGU holders still choose to keep their tokens after the launch. But only 3% have bough more PENGU tokens.

In addition, the on-chain analytics firm found that the average holder wallet has 19,300 PENGU tokens allocated.

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Price chart for PENGU in the past 24 hours of trading, December 19, 2024 | Source: CoinGecko

According to data from crypto.news, PENGU has gone down by nearly 9% in the past 24 hours of trading. It is currently trading hands at $0.03. PENGU has accumulated a market cap of $1.9 billion within just two days after its public release, placing the NFT native token in 71st place on the overall crypto leaderboard by market cap.

Though, PENGU now has a daily trading volume of $2.06 billion, surpassing its market cap.

On the day PENGU was launched, an unlucky trader bought $10,000 worth of PENGU tokens a few hours after it was launched. Unfortunately, the value of the token dropped, leaving the trader with PENGU tokens worth only $3.

PENGU is the native token of popular Ethereum-based NFT collection Pudgy Penguin. The token’s launch was announced on Pudgy Penguin’s official account on Dec. 6, with a maximum token supply or more than 8 billion.

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