The Pudgy Penguins co-founder's Spritehood minted 44,444 NFTs on Robinhood Chain without whitelist, raising $28M. OpenSea listing under 'spritehood-wisps'.
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Cole Villemain, the co-founder of Pudgy Penguins, sold out his new NFT collection Spritehood on Robinhood Chain. The mint raised roughly $28 million from 44,444 customizable pixel-art RPG hero NFTs. He did it without a whitelist or paid promotions, skipping the usual hype playbook.
Pricing scaled with scarcity. Standard classes started at $17. The rarest tier, a class called Death Knight, commanded roughly $117 per mint. The collection went live and sold out on August 11, 2026. It is now listed on OpenSea under the name “spritehood-wisps.” Villemain directed users to spritehood.io as the primary minting portal.
Spritehood did not launch on Ethereum mainnet or a typical NFT chain. It minted on Robinhood Chain, an Arbitrum-based Layer-2 network that has been building its NFT ecosystem through 2026. By July, several collections on Robinhood Chain had collectively exceeded 1,500 ETH in trading volumes. The network is also pushing into decentralized finance and real-world asset tokenization, as covered in Robinhood Chain bets on tokenized QQQ.
Villemain's name carries weight in NFT circles, though not without complexity. As co-founder of Pudgy Penguins, he helped build one of the most recognizable NFT brands from the 2021-2022 boom. That collection launched in July 2021 with 8,888 pieces and sold out almost immediately. In early 2022, Villemain and fellow teammates faced community backlash over perceived mismanagement and treasury issues. They were ousted following a community vote. The project was later acquired by Luca Netz of Netz Capital for 750 ETH.
Stepping back into the space with Spritehood, Villemain generated nearly $28 million in a single mint on organic demand alone. A $28 million sellout on a Layer-2 chain, with NFTs priced from $17 to $117, and no paid promotions or whitelist, is a notable data point for the current NFT market. The collection's presence on OpenSea means secondary trading volume and floor price data will be publicly trackable in real time.
For Robinhood Chain, the Spritehood launch adds a flagship NFT success story to a network that already saw multiple collections exceed 1,500 ETH in trading volumes by July 2026.
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