Pudgy Penguins concluded its PENGU token claim on Solana early, burning 13.69% of the total supply valued at over US$150M.
The airdrop ended abruptly due to low legitimate claims, with the project lead accusing bots of trying to harvest unclaimed tokens.
Shortly after the burn, PENGU's price dropped over 14% within 24 hours, falling to US$0.0117 and dropping out of the top 100 tokens by market cap.
Pudgy Penguins' parent company, Igloo Inc., plans to attract new capital by increasing institutional interest, but the NFT market has been on a downward trend.