Pudgy Penguins launches PenguBot

Pudgy Penguins rolled out PenguBot on April 10, adding a Telegram trading bot to a brand better known for non-fungible token collectibles and toys. (livebitcoinnews.com) The bot lets users place trades through Telegram chat and says it supports Solana, Ethereum, and Abstract. Pudgy Penguins said signup creates a self-custodial wallet, meaning the user, not the company, controls the wallet keys. (livebitcoinnews.com) Posts tied to the launch said users can fund that wallet with bank cards or crypto and use text commands to buy, sell, track positions, and set limit orders. Third-party coverage also said PenguBot offered a 60% referral-fee share tied to user activity. (livebitcoinnews.com, pickaxe.io) Telegram trading bots are chat-based tools that route orders to blockchains without sending users to a separate exchange screen. Pudgy Penguins is entering a market already populated by crypto bots such as Trojan, Maestro, and BonkBot, according to coverage of the launch. (ourcryptotalk.com, themerkle.com) The release extends Pudgy Penguins beyond its original profile-picture collection into trading infrastructure built around the PENGU token and Telegram distribution. Pudgy Penguins’ main site describes the company as a Web3-born brand spanning content, merchandise, toys, and digital collectibles. (livebitcoinnews.com, pudgypenguins.com) Community attention also centered on a possible airdrop after launch chatter linked rewards to holding Pudgy stickers on The Open Network and generating bot trading volume. The Open Network’s sticker system turns Telegram-style stickers into blockchain-backed collectibles that can be held and transferred onchain. (asksurf.ai, ton.org) Some launch metrics remain self-reported. One recap of the rollout said PenguBot claimed more than $120 million in volume and more than 15,000 active traders, figures that had not been independently verified. (ourcryptotalk.com) The immediate test is whether Pudgy Penguins can turn Telegram attention into repeat trading activity without losing the community appeal that made the penguin brand valuable in the first place. (pudgypenguins.com, ourcryptotalk.com)