Why did Pudgy Penguins drop 10.9% on October 29, 2026?
PENGU largely moved with the market. This is PENGU's largest 24-hour fall in 29 days. No PENGU report was collected from the day before to the day after; the cause is unresolved.
What may have driven the move
No clear cause was found for this move.
Weaker possibilities: Open interest in PENGU contracts increased during the measured window, while buyer-initiated trading share declined. (OKX perpetual swap: settled funding, OKX perpetual swap: open interest, OKX perpetual swap: taker buy/sell volume)
What was checked
PENGU climbed to a 24-hour high, then fell back near its low. No confirmed news explains the move; changing futures positioning may have amplified the fall.
Did futures positioning contribute to the selling, or did it change in response to the price move?
Looked at the 24 hours to Oct 30, 2026, 00:14 UTC
- Day open / close
- $0.00795 → $0.0070824 hourly candles, OKX · USDT
- Day range
- $0.006998 – $0.00823817.7% from low to high
- Versus Bitcoin
- -10.94% / BTC -4.11%About -2.2 points of the move is its own after allowing for Bitcoin
- Versus the past month
- Its largest 24h fall in 29 days-10.94% in the 24 hours to Oct 30, 2026, 00:00 UTC, 4.0× a typical day (2.8%).
- 30-day range
- 33.3% below the high · 1.2% above the lowFrom hourly highs and lows on the same venue
- Other tracked coins
- 11 of 11 others also fell 3.6% or more
- 24h volume
- 1.9×of its prior 30-day daily average
- Where it traded
- Bullish 23% · Binance 11% · BitDelta 10%
- Perpetual swap
- funding near zero · open interest risingOKX perpetual swap PENGU-USDT-SWAP
Computed from OKX · USDT hourly candles for the 24 hours to Oct 30, 2026, 00:00 UTC. Methods →
PENGU timeline around October 29, 2026
Largest closed hourly move: -7.74%, Oct 29, 2026, 20:00–21:00 (UTC).
How often has this happened before?
Since 2024-12-17, PENGU has fallen 10% or more in a UTC day 21 times on Gate · USDT daily closes, counting moves within 7 days of each other once. Seven days later it was higher in 5 of 21 cases, with a median change of -7.91%. This is history, not a forecast.
| After the move | Cases | Higher | Median change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next day | 21 | 9 | -2.47% |
| 7 days later | 21 | 5 | -7.91% |
| 30 days later | 21 | 7 | -20.15% |
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One venue’s daily closes, before costs; the coin’s own survived history, so it says nothing about coins that no longer trade. Past episodes are not a forecast.