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After touching grass and cherry blossoms in Japan, the @pudgypenguins are leaving the real world and going back into the MetaMask-verse for the next stop of our torch relay. We've been really excited that @0xjordy reached out to @FroggyCyborg and me to plan this special piece, in which huddle OGs @thebonedaddyETH, @FrenchieMamaNFT, and @yourgirlkel are joined by not only @MetaMask's honorary penguin but also a bunch of @MetaMask employees who are part of the huddle: @0xjordy @dongleehan @TheMindofMar @AugmentedMode @mikashi @0xOhm_eth Very honored to feature one of the OG wallet providers in this week's @FroggyCyborg art piece and grateful to see how many builders in this space chose to join the huddle! We love to have you onboard. Penguins 🩷 MetaMask! For next week we're moving to NYC in honor of our very active @PudgyNYC sub-community – stay tuned! Rekindle the inner flame of the huddle!

Been testing @risextrade over the last few days as a founding trader. Had a very interesting meeting with the team. Honestly, I think they have a good chance of becoming a Top 5 perps DEX. Fully on-chain orderbook and settlement. Universal orderbook merging EVM with L1. Portfolio margin live from day one. Backed by Vitalik Buterin and Galaxy. Got a few invite codes to share (DM if you’re an active trader). Official launch starts in a few weeks, so you’d be among the first 100 users. Retroactive points confirmed as well. gRISE.

On our way to "Rekindle the inner flame of the huddle" the @pudgypenguins managed to escape the cold winter of their home region Antarctica and made it to Japan for the beautiful Sakura spring season!🌸 It's not only spring time in Japan and the real world though! What felt like a harsh, cold, and long winter in the NFT space seems to be finally coming to an end. Lots of fresh energy and excitement can be felt in the space and even the order books. One subcommunity that held up the good vibes with amazing community activations and energy both on Twitter and especially IRL has been @PenguAsia around @FoxyPenguinApe and countless other amazing people that contributed in meaningful ways. So this piece by @FroggyCyborg is not only a celebration of the Japanese Sakura season but also a thank you to the amazing @PenguAsia community and leaders – featuring the President and Vice president for the Japanese @pudgypenguins subcommunity alongside some of the people that made it to our early bird lists by replying to the first teaser tweet for the activation. Huge kudos for all the amazing stuff that has been done by our Asia community over the years💕 Our next piece that will feature many other penguins from our almost 100 sign ups gonna take us from the real world back into the Metaverse and gonna include a very famous fox – that many of you may have used as a wallet during your journey in crypto – as a special guest.

8888 but this one is mine forever ♥️ So 8887 @pudgypenguins 🐧

Let's REKINDLE THE INNER FLAME OF THE HUDDLE! The year is 2026 A.D. Crypto twitter seems entirely ded and full of bears. Well not entirely! One small huddle of indomitable @pudgypenguins still holds out against the bears. But they've been complacent and on the verge of being also overcome by the gloom and frustration that hold most of CT in their cold grip. However ... penguins thrive in winter, they made it through many cold ones before, and the huddle shall prevail again. It is always darkest before dawn! There have been lots of sparks that illuminated the darkness lately: More twitter spaces, group chats waking up again, new collectors coming in, awesome commissions being created, funny copy pasta chains and memes being spread. Penguins refuse to be overpowered by negativity and try to make a difference. Also thank you to the community team around @ppmcghee for hearing out ideas and feedback. Yet, the huddle is strongest when everyone holds together and pushes forward together – from the OGs, to the team members, to the newest holders, to everyone who joined along the way. You are all TRUE penguins. I wanted to help to unify and excite people, so I've been thinking about ways to do so. What instantly came to my mind is art and the emotions it sparks in us – especially if it is something that is personalized, such as a commission and features things we love. "I am my Penguin, and my penguin is me" – is one of the most passionate statements initially coined by legend @JoeyMoose many years ago when penguins were still in their infancy. It's the magic sparked from truly identifying with something that feels like "you", the magic of the 8888 original penguins and the 22222 lil pudgies (some of which still are waiting to see the light of this world) – with unique traits, characters, and vibes. Seeing all the art pieces our new legendary collector @DohkoNFT commissioned after picking up his ice skin penguin – that he clearly adores – sparked a lot of excitement in me. Excitement that I first felt when @offshoot3D and @EtheriaChan gifted me my first NFT commissions for my penguins all the way back in 2021. I want all of the huddle to feel such excitement, but I know many are in a rough spot right now (including even myself to some degree due to being scammed ... yay) and cannot afford splurging money on commissions right now. So I reached out to @FroggyCyborg, who is not only one of the most talented artists – especially when it comes to sparking emotions in people with his art – but also became one of my closest friends in crypto over the last half decade. Together we brainstormed many hours and came up with an activation that we hope is able to not only excite people but also make them feel appreciated, connected, included, part of an awesome unified and strong community, and most importantly "happy" in those dark and hard times ... and is something that captures the idea of the initiative of "rekindling the inner flame of the huddle". Drawing from the concept of the Olympic flame that features a torch relay throughout the world, we want to create a set of weekly art pieces that connect into one huge unified artwork that features all holders of penguins or lils that want to be a part of it. While passing on the flame from one penguin to the next, we want to – akin to the tradition of the Olympic flame that inspired us – traverse the world and feature all the awesome regions in which @pudgypenguins captivated people and found holders as well as all the amazing regional subcommunities that were formed over the years. If you are leading a subcommunity for a region, please reach out to us and we shall figure out an awesome way to include you in one of the backgrounds for the many pieces that will be made. If you are a holder of @pudgypenguins and / or @LilPudgys and wanna be a part of the upcoming art pieces the process is very simple: 1. Quote tweet this tweet with "Rekindle the inner flame of the huddle", the artwork below, and whatever else you wanna include in your quote tweet. 2. Reply below this tweet with a picture of the penguin or lil that you wanna see included in the artwork. There is no cost or any further obligation to be included, I prepaid @FroggyCyborg a decent chunk and he is a legend and willing to do the work for the community. If you still wanna chip in after you were featured in one of the weekly art pieces, feel free to send some crypto to froggycyborg.eth (EVM only), but that is fully OPTIONAL. Please have some patience though, it's all gonna be handcrafted art so it is gonna take some time to get to all of you. Froggy – the goat – wanna aim for roughly one piece per week. Primarily we'd be happy with as many of you as possible just joining the movement and helping us to bring positive energy and vibes to the gloomy twitter timeline and the huddle. We're grateful for all of you for being part of the huddle and everything all of you do. I cannot make an appreciation post for all of you, but I do appreciate you all! @LucaNetz lighted the flame, @FroggyCyborg and me started passing it on, but we need all of you to carry it out in the entire world and make penguins be the universally and globally liked phenomenon we envision them to be. Community matters, you all matter. Don't ever let anyone ever tell you otherwise! We hope this brings some joy to all of you over the weeks. P.S.: A big thank you and kudos also goes out to @FoxyPenguinApe for helping us with ideation, her awesome community work for @PenguAsia, chipping in a big donation to @FroggyCyborg, and supporting us with already preparing the next piece of this art chain. After starting out in wintertime and in the home of penguins – Antarctica – we gonna move to Japan for spring – featuring the beautiful Sakura season that is in full bloom right now! Beyond that our path is still open, let us know where you all wanna waddle to next!

This is an @IvanOnTech appreciation post! ♥️🐧 One of the guys I’ve been following before I even got on CT. Legend bought his @pudgypenguins, instantly PFPed it, and has been rocking it ever since. P.S.: Respect the pump (in all assets, and eventually the pump will come into your life)!

Lemme start this off by saying that I have become complacent last year about @pudgypenguins. In the early phases of the takeover it was pretty clear to me that @LucaNetz and team needed a strong community that is rallying behind them here on CT to make this thing work. At least half of the NFT space hated on penguins for various reasons and never fully accepted them as one of the blue chip NFTs – which however made the huddle hold together and push even harder. Yes, as captured on a VIBES TCG card, Luca did in fact save the Penguins. But long before that the penguin community turned themselves and our beloved penguin NFTs into something that is genuinely cherished by many worth saving ... and before anyone came along to save the penguins, the community fought and rioted and tried hard to save themselves. This is how we got here in the first place. It is also how we made it into a NYT article or raised huge amounts for charity with an auction by @EtheriaChan that featured @cobie, @Cryptopathic, and @loomdart. Fast forward, these old times seem long forgotten in 2026 – just one page in the endless encyclopedia of pengu lore. Luca and team building on the foundation created by the community (as well as the old team and especially the original artist who by a stroke of genius or luck or sheer talent drew this simple, yet captivating and impressive, art, that, we all fell in love with) did a fantastic job. Penguins are seen, liked, and shared on Instagram by couples and people across the globe. Toys made it to Walmart and into the homes of many kids that never even heard the word NFT. Everything felt like smooth sailing now, aside from some envious haters or the occasional – sadly not atypical – PvP between NFT communities, most people were championing penguin now, while many of the former big blue chips died. Everything seemed almost perfect – lean back and enjoy the ride, praise the team for their good work, like & share the new releases and updates, and proliferate the penguin (?!). Well ... in that seemingly perfect smooth ride lies a silent danger. Looking outside projects are dying left and right, meanwhile penguins doing well, good stuff happening. Yeah there might be hiccups, some frustrations, maybe even some true problems ... but things are going much better than elsewhere ... by a landslide ... would be ungrateful to speak up. Just shut up and enjoy the ride ... penghalla is coming! Now ... this creates two big problems: First, we've turned from a community that was very outspoken, constantly sharing feedback, critique, and rioted so hard that we made the old founders leave and sell the project into a seemingly positive yes-men culture that mostly just praised and amplified the work of the team and swallowed most frustrations for a long time now. It is super commendable that the Inner Igloos are still ran without much of any miss on a bi-weekly basis and in theory they offer a good opportunity for feedback (as they did very well in the past). But, while it's exciting how much they grew in listeners, that causes two issues: (1) There is lots of potential input but very limited time and hence it is close to impossible for everyone to speak up or share their thoughts and – imho even more importantly – (2) the vibe changed a lot; it turned from a cozy campfire chat where one could spitball ideas and openly voice concerns and critique as well as constructive feedback to much more of an update session and people expressing gratitude and excitement. This is only natural as the numbers grew, but there has never really been a proper alternative way that found much usage. There are kinda both sides to blame for that. We as the community never really asked for one and the team side failed to recognize that was has been around did not really live up to the task. As such, lots of unheard feedback & frustrations piled up and the disconnect between the community and the team feels somehow larger than ever (kinda excluding Pudgy Asia from that where @FoxyPenguinApe does a fantastic job with especially IRL events & community, but I believe that even in that region similar issues still exist for the CT / "only online" audience). This is very sad to see, because the community and the team being in a strong interlock was one of the superpowers of @pudgypenguins – as stated by @LucaNetz: "you all are the brain, we are the muscle". I do not believe that this general idea and vision changed, but in the last year it has not been working remotely as well as it used too. Sure growing pains and all, but it is a crucial loss and deepens the feeling of disconnect which is dangerous. Two ... "Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times (Hopf)". The penguin community, molded in FUD and constantly fighting back in 2021 and 2022, had some of the most impressive and relentless energy ever. Instead of accepting the downfall of the project we constantly pushed forward against all odds – overcoming all obstacles somehow. A lot of this carried over into the bear market and early phases of the 2024/2025 bull market and then slowly fell off. No more fights, smooth sailing, winning. I think this also in parts happened on the team side as well. On the CT community side we saw less and less spaces, less viral stuff, less pengposting (not in total, community grew, resourced grew, but we literally took over CT back in 2021 with a tiny crowd of people; now more and more of us became complacent). It is still good, better than most, but the direction is wrong. On the team side I can only speculate. But it feels like sometimes too much was put on the plate. Smooth sailing and winning can create over-optimism and a bit of hubris. Also having all eyes and attention on one's thing makes it sadly easy to occasionally being taken advantage off in various ways. Combine that with the unfortunate yes-men culture that arose and you get a fairly dangerous combination. Things are still seemingly going very well for now and maybe it is just a feeling of a penguin obsessed random guy, but aside from the obvious bear market some things are not going in an upward direction and need to see a shift and turnaround before they start affecting the broader picture more severely. I've playfully, but only half jokingly, posted about that internship role (which I would be actually down for @LucaNetz) because I do think there needs to be something done about the feeling of disconnect that has arisen as the brand and company scaled, but I have no idea yet if that will go somewhere. However ... we can JUST DO THINGS (thanks to @MINHxDYNASTY for the quote and inspiration) and that is exactly what we used to do in the @pudgypenguins community. It's time to properly lock in again for me. And it's time to lock in again fellow penguins. Now I may have put "True Pengu King" in my Twitter name many years ago because I am retardedly obsessed with penguins (not only the pudgy ones) but a king is nothing on his own and a good king should be a servant of his people ... eh penguins. So for now, if this post sparked any thoughts in you or you have general thoughts, ideas you wanna bounce, frustrations that bother you or anhing else that you wanna vent about, discuss or ideate on feel free to shoot me DMs or book a call with me (calendly in reply below so algo does not punish this post). I'm back to being terminally online this year so I'll make sure to get back to you quickly. I'll also do my best to aggerate and condense any inputs and feedback you all have and will try to push it through to the team in some way (no promises here, but hopeful) and worst case you at least will have an extra place to vent. While it is awesome to see how the fanbase of the penguin is growing all over the globe, I believe its success is hampered if the core is rotten. So let's all together bring the CT huddle back to its former glory fellow penguins – in honor of our lost pengu brother Elmo.