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Cool Cats releases The Milk Chug Season 1 on YouTube
Blue Cat and your favorite Cool Cats characters are getting an animated series, on September 24, the popular PFP series released a trailer for its new show, The Milk Chug Season 1, on X, with the 13-episode series premiering on September 26 on the Cool Cats YouTube channel.
Developed in conjunction with animation studio Titmouse, The Milk Chug features a Hollywood-star voice cast, with the blue cat voiced by Zeno Robinson (Dragon Ball Super, The Owl House), while Cool Cat’s friends are voiced by Dan Stevens (Godzilla x Kong: A New Empire, Cuckoo), Maggie Lawson (Psych, Lethal Weapon) and Natasha Leggero (Ugly Americans, Another Time), among others.

In 2021, Sergio Silva discovered CryptoPunks, which changed the trajectory of his life. Sergio, a former trader at Goldman Sachs and Barclays, jumped from traditional finance to NFT and was attracted by the cultural change brought about by digital ownership. Since then, he has been a promoter in the Web3 field and recently took the helm of MeebCo - the new home of the iconic Meebits series.
In this conversation, Sergio reflects on his initial entry into the world of NFTs, why Meebits remains an artistically outstanding achievement to this day, and how his team is reshaping the future of the series in the fields of art, practicality, technology, and community. From AI agents to physical products inspired by personality traits, Sergio shares MeebCo's vision: to blaze a new path for development based on the heritage of Larva Labs.

In May 2025, CryptoPunks was 'sent to the museum.'
To be precise, it is Yuga Labs that transferred the intellectual property of this project, which pioneered the NFT art era, to a non-profit organization named Infinite Node Foundation (NODE).
The latter announced that this acquisition includes all the intellectual property of CryptoPunks, along with a $25 million cultural fund, which will promote an ambitious museum collaboration plan aimed at incorporating CryptoPunks into mainstream global art institutions.
It also boldly announced, "This is not a transfer of ownership, but liberation."

It all started with a few lines of code, without any sensational release or roadmap. In early 2018, Robi, the founder of the now-defunct early experimental NFT infrastructure platform Ark.Gallery, built a tool aimed at solving a growing problem in the NFT world.
CryptoPunks is a generative art series created by web3 studio Larva Labs in 2017, consisting of 10,000 pieces. However, it was not compatible with markets like OpenSea; they were launched before the ERC-721 token standard and relied on custom smart contracts, making them operate independently from the ever-expanding NFT ecosystem on Ethereum. This made it harder to buy, sell, or integrate into new platforms.