SOLYD wants six Pudgy Penguins for its first iPhone case run

In Brief:

• Pudgy Penguins opened a licensing deal on OverpassIP with phone accessories brand SOLYD, which is looking for six Penguins to feature on the first edition of its iPhone case line.
• The submission window runs three weeks. Submitting doesn’t guarantee selection, it only puts the NFT into a pool.
• SOLYD already sells a Pudgy Penguins Pengu Edition case for the Solana Seeker at $32, each shipping with a case-specific soulbound token.

Pudgy Penguins opened submissions for an iPhone case licensing deal on OverpassIP, with accessories brand SOLYD selecting six Penguins to appear on the first edition of its case line.

The submission period runs three weeks.

Holders connect a wallet to OverpassIP, pull up their qualified assets and submit a Penguin against the open deal. Selection isn’t guaranteed. Submitting places the NFT in a pool that SOLYD draws from, the same mechanic every deal on the platform has used since launch.

Holders whose Penguins get picked earn a royalty on sales, commonly 5% of net revenues on physical products. Updates go out semi-annually through the OverpassIP blog.

Who SOLYD is

SOLYD started in the fall of 2024 around a narrow gap: more than 150,000 Solana Mobile Seeker phones had been pre-ordered and nobody was making cases for them. The team opened a waitlist in December 2024 and shipped on May 15, 2025 at 4 p.m. UTC. More than 500 people ordered in under a day.

The company has since moved onto iPhone, marketing MagSafe and anti-yellowing materials alongside its Seeker line. Its cases use an aluminium ring around the camera lens, and each one ships with a claimable digital collectible.

That collectible is a soulbound token minted to the case design and its owner, which SOLYD pitches to partner projects as a channel for airdrops and exclusive drops to verified case buyers.

The two brands aren’t strangers. SOLYD’s store already carries a Pudgy Penguins: Pengu Edition case for the Seeker at $32, and it includes the same case-specific soulbound token. Past collaborations include BONK, which got a King BONK design built with an artist, plus X-Ray and fully custom builds.

How the platform got here

OverpassIP is the licensing platform Pudgy Penguins built with SaaSyLabs, the shop behind Yuga Labs‘ Made by Apes. It runs on Polygon and compresses the process to three steps: select the NFT, review the legal terms, sign the agreement.

The beta went live in January 2024 with Pudgy Toys Chapter 2, which turned 88 Pudgy Penguins and Lil Pudgys into plushies, action figures, clip-on plushies and mystery figurines.

Orange Cap Games ran the first third-party deal on the platform, licensing 200 Pudgy Penguins for a trading card game. That relationship has kept going. The Vibes TCG set 4 deal closed March 14, 2026, drawing 1,469 submitted assets for 230 requested slots.

Other listings have covered Good Stuff Toys, PlayEmber’s Pudgy Life, which requested 11 Pudgy Penguins, and a Lil Pudgys YouTube show.

Prior submission windows have run shorter than this one. Pudgy Toys Chapter 2 was open for 14 days.

The pitch behind the cases

SOLYD’s angle is that a case is a distribution point, not just plastic. The soulbound token ties a physical buyer to an on-chain identity a project can target later, which is the argument it makes to partners like Pudgy.

And the company isn’t shy about the marketing. Working with BONK and Solflare, SOLYD sent a case past 30,000 meters at below -65 degrees Celsius and ran what it calls the first Solana transaction beyond Earth.