🐇 MegaETH Announces Fluffles. Ethereum L2 MegaETH is launching a 10k soulbound NFT collection, The Fluffle, representing at least a 5% ownership stake in the network. An allowlist-only sale will roll out in two phases, with no team allocations.
🔮 Taproot Wizards Raises $30M. Bitcoin Ordinals project Taproot Wizards secured $30 million in a round led by Standard Crypto to advance OP_CAT, a proposed upgrade aimed at expanding Bitcoin’s smart contract capabilities.
🔥 Pudgy Penguins Burn $PENGU. The Pudgy Penguins team burned 13.69% of the total PENGU supply, valued at over $150 million, after expediting the claim process due to bot concerns.
The “Big Four” of big chain launches this year are Abstract, Berachain, MegaETH, and Monad.
Abstract just went live last month, and now Berachain's next up to the plate with its mainnet launch tomorrow, Feb. 6th.
Berachain has taken unique approaches to get here, both with its DeFi-friendly design and its go-to-market strategy centered around an early but already teeming NFT scene.
If you're interested in exploring the Berachain NFT landscape once the network is live, I've got you covered with the basics. Let's catch you up! 👇
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