SNEAK PEEK
- Pudgy Penguins is using real toys and an online world to welcome users to NFTs.
- Besides toys, users have their personal digital penguins in a digital world.
- Users don’t need MetaMask or crypto to experience the Pudgy World.
Pudgy Penguins has launched their Pudgy World online experience to enable users to both create and customize digital penguins through non-fungible tokens.
Today is the beginning of a new era for Web3.
We’re happy to announce that Pudgy Toys and Pudgy World are now available. pic.twitter.com/UKbkIAJzvS
— Pudgy Penguins (@pudgypenguins) May 18, 2023
Real toys and loot boxes are used to welcome users to NFTs without letting them know that they have any NFT.
Previously, to own NFTs, one had to either take part in a mint or buy them on secondary markets. However, Pudgy Penguins has a totally different approach.
Rather than making people buy NFTs, they have created a toy line that allures everyone. According to buyers of toys, they are getting a cute penguin; however, they are also getting a ticket to a digital world at the same time.
A Polygon wallet represents each account in the Pudgy World though users can sign up through email as well as use a custodied wallet. Furthermore, every digital penguin is a SoulBound NFT.
Here’s the contract code for the Pudgy World penguins: https://t.co/5peA39X2DI.
The Pudgy team created this SoulBound NFT contract that mints an NFT to the user’s wallet whenever they save their penguin on Pudgy World. Only the Pudgy backend can mint NFTs (adminMint function).
— cygaar (@0xCygaar) May 22, 2023
The Pudgy team developed this SoulBound NFT contract that mints a non-fungible token to the wallet of the user while saving their penguin. It is only the Pudgy backend that can mint non-fungible tokens.
The Penguins can be changed to possess various colors or clothing items. An NFT represents all these customizations.
Additionally, these penguins can be changed to have different colors or different clothing items. Each of these customizations is represented by an NFT.
Here’s the contract for these items (traits): https://t.co/CY2MHeAnGI. It’s represented as an ERC1155 token.
— cygaar (@0xCygaar) May 22, 2023
Talking about how physical toys intersect with the Pudgy World, each toy has a code to redeem a loot box. Every loot box has a series of items inside and they are used to customize the penguins in Pudgy World.
So how do the physical toys and Pudgy World intersect?
Each toy purchase comes with a code that can redeem a loot box. Inside each lootbox is a series of items as shown below. These are the items that are used to customize the penguins in Pudgy World. pic.twitter.com/xnD9pERFtZ
— cygaar (@0xCygaar) May 22, 2023
Upon redemption of a loot box by a user, the Pudgy backend transfers the trait NFTs to the wallet of the user without needing a MetaMask or buying crypto. As each NFT is minted ahead of time and the admin wallet owns it, only a transfer is required.
Here are the various flows:
– User signs up for Pudgy World -> wallet is created for them
– User creates a digital penguin -> a soulbound NFT is minted to the wallet without user interaction
– User redeems loot box -> NFTs a transferred to wallet with no user minting needed— cygaar (@0xCygaar) May 22, 2023
The team at Pudgy, in each flow, has hidden many scary crypto interactions to curb onboarding friction. Also, there’s a trait marketplace that lets users buy certain items with a credit card. This is one more way to decrease the friction for non crypto-native users.