Court Documents Reveal Yuga Labs Lacks Bored Ape Image Copyright
Court documents reveal that Bored Ape Yacht Club’s (BAYC) parent company Yuga Labs does not have any copyright registrations for images in the collection. The information comes from court filings in the case between Yuga Labs and artist Ryder Ripps.
Bored Ape Yacht Club’s Sewer Pass Mint Nabs $1.3 Million One Hour After Launch
Bored Ape Yacht Club's experimental mint for Sewer Pass attracted more than $1.3 million worth of ETH in trading volume just one hour after the mint began.
The floor price for the new NFT project sits at 1.475 ETH ($2,272), and comes one day after it was delayed for a day.
A Bored Ape Whale Just Spent Nearly $1 Million on DeGods NFTs
A pseudonymous NFT trader known as "Pokeee" spent nearly $1 million to sweep 69 DeGods NFTs on Monday. Pokeee made the buy through the Magic Eden marketplace, using its tool that lets buyers “sweep the floor” or buy up a desired amount of NFTs from a project. Traders sometimes purchase numerous lowest-priced NFTs in a project as a bet on the future success of the collection, rather than individually selecting more valuable assets.
Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT Sales Spike Ahead of Yuga’s Dookey Dash Game
Trading rises as Yuga Labs reveals a game that requires a Bored Ape NFT to claim an access pass—and teases rewards for players.
Yuga Labs Gamifies Minting NFTs with ‘Dookey Dash’
Yuga Labs, the creator of the Bored Ape Yacht Club collection, unveiled plans to gamify the process of minting NFTs. The startup today announced an upcoming online game in which players must navigate a sewer to claim rewards in the form of NFTs. From Jan. 17, players will be able to claim a free “Sewer Pass” — giving them access to a course named “Dookey Dash.” They then have until Feb. 8 to record as high a score as possible to claim power sources, the purpose of which remains unclear. These prizes will “evolve throughout 2023,” according to Yuga’s tweets. (The Block)
Bored Ape Yacht Club Ends 2022 With 69 ETH Floor Price
Yuga Labs backed NFT project Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) ended the year with a floor price around 69 ETH, or $82,740.
Mutant Ape Yacht Club All-Time Sales Reached $1.8 Billion
According to <a href="https://www.cryptoslam.io/">cryptpslam</a>, Mutant Ape Yacht Club(MAYC)'s all-time sales reaches $1,801,566,646, mumber of total transactions is 55,077.
Coinbase Pauses Plans for Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT Short Film Trilogy
At the peak of <a href="https://decrypt.co/resources/what-is-bored-ape-yacht-club-the-celebrity-nft-of-choice" target="_blank">Bored Ape Yacht Club</a> hype earlier this year, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announced <a href="https://decrypt.co/97509/coinbase-bored-ape-yacht-club-short-films" target="_blank">a trilogy of short films</a> inspired by the <a href="https://decrypt.co/resources/non-fungible-tokens-nfts-explained-guide-learn-blockchain" target="_blank">NFT</a> project during the run-up to the <a href="https://decrypt.co/99561/coinbase-nft-marketplace-150-users-first-day-public" target="_blank">launch of the exchange's NFT marketplace</a>. But after releasing the first entry in July, the company confirmed to <i>Decrypt</i> today that it has paused further production of the series.
Bored Ape NFT Artist Seneca Continues on Her Own Path With 'Portraiture'
Yuga Labs rode the <a href="https://decrypt.co/resources/what-is-bored-ape-yacht-club-the-celebrity-nft-of-choice" target="_blank">Bored Ape Yacht Club</a> NFT rocket ship to a <a href="https://decrypt.co/95706/bored-ape-cryptopunk-nfts-yuga-labs-450m-4b-valuation" target="_blank">$4 billion valuation</a> and <a href="https://decrypt.co/resources/what-is-yuga-labs-otherside-inside-the-bored-ape-yacht-club-metaverse" target="_blank">big metaverse plans</a>, but it was pseudonymous artist <a href="https://allseeingseneca.com/" target="_blank">All Seeing Seneca</a> who led the original design of the disinterested Apes. Now they’re everywhere.
ApeCoin Up 31% as Staking Nears, Bored Ape NFT Prices Rebound
<a href="https://decrypt.co/95398/apecoin-what-is-bored-ape-ethereum-token-who-gets-it" target="_blank">ApeCoin</a> (APE), the <a href="https://decrypt.co/resources/what-is-ethereum-quickly-explained-four-minute-guide" target="_blank">Ethereum</a>-based token created for the growing <a href="https://decrypt.co/resources/what-is-bored-ape-yacht-club-the-celebrity-nft-of-choice" target="_blank">Bored Ape Yacht Club</a> ecosystem, is outperforming most major cryptocurrencies during the last week. It’s now up 31% over the past seven days, with the increase coming ahead of the launch of ApeCoin <a href="https://decrypt.co/resources/how-do-you-stake-cryptocurrencies-earning-passive-income-with-crypto" target="_blank">staking rewards</a>.
