PENGU price surges on Korea expansion
Pudgy Penguins (PENGU)
Editor:
Eugene Serbin
bitcoinethereumnews.com reports that PENGU’s price surged 10.24% as Pudgy Penguins expanded its ‘Playground activation’ to Korea Blockchain Week. The rally notably lifted PENGU’s price above the $0.01000 area and pushed its market capitalization to roughly $629.67 million. Despite the price increase, the memecoin’s trading volume fell 10.
How the market reacted
Whalio's own Binance spot order flow for PENGU, measured when this story was written up on 30 September 2026. Not the outlet's figures.
Current data shows PENGU trading at $0.009971 with a 1-hour buy ratio of 40.8% and a 4-hour buy ratio of 45.1%, compared to a 24-hour buy ratio of 51.7%. This indicates that buying pressure is fading in the short term relative to the daily average. The 1-hour volume delta is -$103,706 and the 4-hour delta is -$673,625, showing net selling pressure over these shorter windows. However, the 24-hour volume delta is +$501,033, indicating that net buying has occurred over the full day. The CVD at 24-hour close is +$618,205, confirming that cumulative buying has outweighed selling over the last day.
The latest daily buy ratio of 50.4% sits at the 59th percentile of the last 322 days, against a median of 50.0% - ordinary for this coin.
Was that an ordinary day?
The same Binance spot measurements for PENGU, averaged over the days leading up to the story.
Over the preceding week, the average buy ratio was 50.7%, with the latest day showing a buy ratio 1.1 points higher than that average. Trading volume was 0.59x the weekly average, indicating significantly lower activity than usual. Net buying occurred on 4 of the last 7 days, with a total volume delta of +$3,020,614 over that period. The price change over 8 days was -0.8%, suggesting a slight decline despite the net positive volume delta.