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Last fall, we reported the then-unusual approach of the Bored Ape Yacht Club IP license. It gave all owners unlimited commercialization rights to their Bored Apes, including the ability to make derivative works. We explained how the Bored Ape IP License was a decentralized collaboration license or De-Collab license because it enabled owners to engage…
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To kick off its $450M in seed funding, Yuga Labs launched a matrix-like website that ripples when you move the cursor over it. Check it out.
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Yuga Labs announced the seed investors who invested $450 million in the less-than-year-old company, valued at $4 billion. Nicole Muniz, CEO of Yuga Labs, said: “Already, a new economy is possible with the IP of Apes, Punks, and Meebits, owned by the community. The possibilities for blockchain’s impact on culture are endless, and so we…
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Yuga Labs and its Bored Ape Yacht Club have been on a tremendous roll with the acquisition of the legendary CryptoPunks from Larva Labs, air dropping of millions of dollars’ worth of its new ApeCoin to Bored Ape owners, making some even multi-millionaires, and broadcasting a teaser video for the Otherside, which is launching in…
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Just when you thought it was safe to go to sleep, the NFT world reminds you it never sleeps. Or we should say Yuga Labs, creator of the Bored Ape Yacht Club, never sleeps. Late on Friday night, Yuga dropped a teaser video featuring characters not only from Bored Apes and Mutant Apes, but also…
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Yesterday, Yuga Labs and the Bored Ape Yacht Club launched the new ApeCoin overseen by the newly created Ape Foundation. The official website is https://apecoin.com/. (Please avoid scam websites posing as an apecoin site.) Each Bored Ape owner or Mutant Ape owner received the following number of APECOINS: NFT APECOIN ALLOCATED PER NFT OR NFT…
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The Bored Ape Yacht Club is entering the next stage of its development. It is launching the much anticipated $APE coin starting on March 17, 8:30 am ET for owners of Bored Apes, Mutant Apes, and any such owners who also have Bored Kennel dogs. Dogs alone are not entitled to $APE. The $APE entitles…
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Just four days after Yuga Labs announced it acquired the IP rights to the legendary CryptoPunks, The Block is reporting details from a “pitch deck” Yuga circulated to investors. Gordon Goner, though, a co-founder of the Bored Ape Yacht Club, said the pitch deck was old. The Block reported the following details: “an ‘in-game app…
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In stunning news that was rumored yesterday, the two biggest startups in creating NFTs — Larva Labs the creator of the CryptoPunks and Yuga Labs the creator of the Bored Ape Yacht Club — both announced that Yuga had acquired the intellectual property to Larva’s CryptoPunks and Meebits. The deal involves the two biggest and…
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Decrypt reports upcoming movies developed from NFT collections. They are: Movies in the pipeline Yam Karkai’s World of Women, with Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine. Micah Johnson’s Aku, the story of a black boy who wants to become an astronaut. Ben Mauro’s NFT comic book Huxley, with Marvel producer Ari Arad. Question marks: CryptoPunks by Larva…
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