The launch of Pudgy Penguins’ PENGU token is off to a less-than-ideal begin, with crypto wallets flagging the claims web site as “dangerous” and claimants complaining that they’re lacking tokens.
Pudgy Penguins NFT holders have been supposed to have the ability to declare their share of 88 billion PENGU tokens beginning in the present day.
Nonetheless, some have reported they’re lacking a portion of their claims. Crypto influencer Nick O’Neill shared a screenshot exhibiting he claimed 573,092 tokens however says he solely acquired 7,940. Others mentioned that they have been lacking as a lot as half of their allocation.
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As well as, crypto pockets agency MetaMask is flagging the Pudgy Penguins declare web site as a possible menace that will steal your property. Not solely that, however in line with Pudgy’s inventive chief, ‘chefgoyardi,’ the web site is experiencing DDOS points after getting over 4.7 million hits and receiving 100,000 claims.
It seems that some points stem from Solana and its transaction limits. In accordance to the founding father of Clusters, the claims are being damaged down into a number of transactions for a number of the bigger PENGU claims.
They mentioned, “Amount shown vs amount claimed is not a discrepancy, just refresh the page and it’ll show what you already claimed & what remains to be claimed.”
Pudgy’s inventive chief and security program supervisor, ‘Beau,’ reminded customers experiencing difficulties that they’ve 88 days to say their tokens and that they will all the time wait. Chefgoyardi has since posted that the “claim amount discrepancy/wallet connectivity issues are nearly patched.”
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The ground value of Pudgy Penguins NFTs has dropped by over 50% following in the present day’s occasions. Wallets linked to early PENGU traders are already promoting giant quantities with one pockets promoting 176 million tokens price over $9 million.
In accordance to CoinGecko, the value of PENGU was $0.06845 earlier in the present day however has now dropped to $0.03116 — a 54% lower in value.
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