SoFi adds PENGU token to its banking app, price climbs 8.9%

A cartoon penguin just walked into a bank. Not a crypto exchange or a decentralized trading app, but an actual nationally chartered US bank. SoFi added the PENGU token, the digital asset tied to the Pudgy Penguins NFT project, to its trading platform on October 19, 2026. By the following day, the token had climbed 8.9%. What SoFi actually did SoFi, which operates as SoFi Bank, N.A., now lets its users buy, sell and hold PENGU directly through its banking app. That matters because of who SoFi is. The company is the first nationally chartered US bank to offer crypto trading to consumers. SoFi counts more than 15 million members. Every one of them now has PENGU sitting in the same app where they might check a savings balance or pay down a loan. A technical signal joined the party The listing was not the only thing traders were watching. Around the same time, a TD Sequential buy signal appeared on PENGU’s daily chart. TD Sequential is a technical indicator chartists use to flag when a trend may be running out of steam. A buy signal suggests a downtrend could be nearing exhaustion. The history here is part of why the signal drew attention. Previous similar signals on PENGU were followed...