ICYMI - Top Weekend Headlines #8

In case you missed it, here are the top news highlights over the weekend.

The summary:

• Pudgy Penguins make a global debut with a strategic partnership with Lotte
• Pump.fun exploited for $1.9M, hacker detained in London
• Wolf Game migrates ‘Cave Game’ to Blast, 20k Blast Sheep minted
• Wolf Game's $bWOOL goes live on Wasabi Protocol, hits $10M TVL in less than 2 days
• Someone buys $345k worth of $PAC, moving the price to a new ATH
• Pacman clarifies the value of Blast Points

Headlines

Pudgy Penguins make a global debut with a strategic partnership with Lotte

First with Walmart, then with Target and GameStop - the Pudgy Penguins continue to expand their Pudgy Toys across major retail markets. In their global debut, they recently announced a strategic partnership with Lotte Group, a conglomerate in South Korea. Most recently, they also announced a partnership with Big W, one of Australia’s largest retailers.

No doubt, the Pudgy Penguins are making massive moves.

Pump.fun exploited for $1.9M, hacker detained in London

Pump.fun, a launchpad primarily for Solana memecoins, was hacked for nearly $1.9M in SOL through a lending vulnerability.

Most recently updates suggest that the hacker was detained in London and released on free bail.

Wolf Game migrates ‘Cave Game’ to Blast, 20k Blast Sheep minted

Wolf Game, an OG GameFi project that introduced novel game theory and onchain mechanics, has recently migrated their ‘Cave Game’ component to Blast.

Their onboarding mechanism (free soulbound NFT ‘Blast Sheep’) saw 20k mints since going live.

Wolf Game's $bWOOL goes live on Wasabi Protocol, hits $10M TVL in less than 2 days

Users were also able to bridge their main ERC-20 token $WOOL to $bWOOL, which was integrated into core Blast protocols like Wasabi, achieving a $10M TVL within 2 days.

Someone buys $345k worth of $PAC, moving the price to a new ATH

On the weekend, someone purchased $345k worth of $PAC, suddenly moving the price to $0.26 in anticipation of Pacmoon v2 (social validators) and hitting another potential Gold Jackpot.

Pacman Clarifies the Value of Blast Points

With some confusion on why Blast Points moved from 36k points per Blast Gold to 107k points per Blast Gold, Pacman made a tweet to help clarify.

That's all folks - that should catch you up. Now let's start the week off strong