gm Web3 explorers,

There's a wave of fresh air going through the industry. In this newsletter we highlight some of the positive developments from the past week:

🐧 Pudgy Penguins is a beacon of hope for the NFT sector
🤖 Virtual Protocol sees revival for AI agents on Base
🦄 Unichain doubles total value locked in just one week

This, and much more, in today's newsletter. LFG! 📡🔵

💥 Beacon of NFT hope: Pudgy Penguins

The 3 best performing NFT collection have all seen their volume at least double in the past week. Pudgy Penguins increased its trading volume by 206% to $5.28 million, placing it in 2nd place behind the RWAs from Courtyard. Lil Pudgys grew 117% to $1.6 million, and the PudgyPresent collection went up 244% to $117,970. That means that the Pudgy community did $7 million in NFT trading volume.

Also important, the PENGU token went up 141% during that timeframe, reaching a price of $0.0123 at the current moment.

Pudgy Penguins

🤖 Virtuals resurfaces as a leader in AI agents

Virtuals Protocol has seen some strong performance this week, in part to their handling is certain scams happening through their protocol. The result is some renewed confidence, which impacted token prices. Tokens like MOTHER, GAME by Virtuals and VaderAI by Virtuals went up 200% or more in the past week.

The protocol's own token went up 116% in the past week, reaching a price of $1.27. The VIRTUAL token did not see this price point since February this year.

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🌳 Treeverse MMORPG grows 200% with launch

Fantasy MMORPG Treeverse has seen the number of wallets tapping into its onchain system grow 209% to 5,790. The data peaked on 27 April with 4,810 wallets, recording the highest number since the dapp went live in February. Treeverse has an airdrop campaign live where users can earn IMX, MON and END tokens.

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📊 Unichain is shaping up nicely with 112% growth

Uniswap Labs launched Unichain in February, and right now the ecosystem is sitting on $486 million in total value locked. This liquidity that can easily be shared across the OP Superchain ecosystem, which consists of Optimism, Soneium, Zora, Lisk, Base and others. In the past week, the TVL on Unichain grew 112%, and this success was driven by the growth from Uniswap V4 and Stargate Finance.

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📢 Play smart, earn from playing these great games

Our monthly update for the Best Play to Earn Games of the month just went live this past weekend. We've listed 10 new games with interesting campaigns, rewarding play test, and big product launches coming this May. Check it out!

Discover the games for this month

📢 Base doubles dapp volume to $3.78 billion

In the past 7 days, Base has seen $3.78 billion flowing into its smart contracts. The biggest contributors to this growth are Uniswap V4, which saw a 966% volume increase to $738 million. With 582% growth, Jumper Exchange also made a splash with $435 million in dapp volume.

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❎ Your last chance to vote for your favorite projects

In two days, the current Boosting Cycle will end. People completing Quests or staking RADAR for their PRO members, are eligible to receive Boosting Power (BP). Use your BP to vote for your favorite projects!

Boost your favorite dapp now

🏆 Win 300,000 FISHW and 90 USDC with new Quests

Sports management game Invincible Football Manager and and casual action game FishWar have both launched a Quest on DappRadar. Complete the quest and have a chance to earn financial rewards!

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