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, creator of Bored Apes, announces $450 million seed round investors, including Adidas, Samsung, Google, A16z, FTX, Sandbox, Time, Colin Kaepernick, Dez Bryant, Shaq, & Snoop Dog
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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Backlash against Bored Apes’ success
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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Yuga Labs drops another bombshell late Friday night: video of “Otherside” featuring not just Bored Apes, but CryptoPunks, Meebits, World of Women, Cool Cats, Nouns, Toadz, and music from The Doors
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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Bored Ape owners share life-changing experience from APECOIN drop from BAYC
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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Bored Ape Yacht Club launches $APE coin starting on March 17, 8:30 AM ET, first for owners of Bored Apes, Mutant Apes, Bored Kennel dogs and then public sale
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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V1 Punks DMCA controversy with Larva Labs over. Yuga reportedly plans on ending dispute with V1 Punks.
One of the biggest winners in Yuga Labs’ acquisition of the IP rights to the legendary CryptoPunks NFTs is the group of so-called “V1 Punks” owners, who were embroiled in a copyright DMCA dispute with Larva Labs. V1 Punks are the original CryptoPunks, which had a major coding error in 2017. Oops. To fix the…
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NFT BOMBSHELL: Larva Labs sells IP rights to CryptoPunks, Meebits to Yuga Labs, creator of Bored Ape Yacht Club, which plans to give unlimited commercial rights to CryptoPunks owners
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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Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) will transfer all IP to Bored Ape owners. Say what?!
Not a day goes by in the NFT world without something mind-blowing. I’ve been blown away so much by a message from Yuga Labs, the creator of the Bored Ape Yacht Club, from January 3 that I’ve taken this long to write about it. As many of my readers know, back in November 2021, I…
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Serena Williams, Neymar ape in Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs on same day, both buying pink Bored Apes! Who’s next?
What’s the chance that Serena Williams and Neymar, the Brazilian soccer player, both buy Bored Ape NFTs on the same day? Not only that, but buy rare pink Bored Apes! It has to be coordinated, right? Serena and Neymar must have planned this together (they do know each other from a meeting in 2016 in…
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