Bored Ape Yacht Club / 17 posts found
Exclusive: Major League Soccer Signs Bored Ape NFT as an Athlete
Major League Soccer — the US’ official soccer league (or “football league” if you’re in any other part of the world) — just announced a notable new signing: Striker, a Bored Ape NFT. The news was just announced in an exclusive release shared with nft now. The one-of-a-kind signing was conducted by a division of Get Engaged called ge3. Through the deal, the team hopes to tap into the growing interest the sports world has taken in NFTs over the past few years. Before Striker got packaged into a virtual athlete, he was simply known as Bored Ape #6045. Get […]
See How Google AI Gave New Life to 10,000 Bored Ape NFTs
Imaging technology based on AI has become increasingly powerful and impressive with the passing of time. Most notably, the NFT art space has benefitted substantially from this emerging technology, with projects like Entropy Cards featuring pieces almost entirely generated using AI tools. Some projects in the NFT space are even inching towards embedding AIs into NFTs. However, with the release of the Artsy Monke collection, perhaps the time is ripe to embrace tradition, and return to monke. For those skeptical about the project based on its name alone, this isn’t an attempt to latch onto the branding that’s defined the […]
Ready to Audition Your Bored Ape Brand? A Crypto Exchange Beckons
While still a new and relatively undeveloped concept in Web3, the NFT market continues to grow, with NFT rentals forming a new economy within the blockchain ecosystem. NFT rentals aim to address the question of reliable income with NFTs, in a bid to offer more than speculative price increases. Instead of letting your digital assets sit idle in your wallet, proponents argue, why not rent them (and their utility) out and earn passive income in the process? MouseBelt Labs, for example, recently developed a platform for NFT rentals called BoredJobs, which is essentially a licensing marketplace that lists thousands of Bored […]
It’s Time to Talk About the Baseless BAYC Nazi Claims
On October 2, 1984, author and media theorist Neil Postman gave the keynote address at the Frankfurt Book Fair. In that address, Postman presented an essay entitled “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Showbusiness.” During his talk, he surprised the crowd by saying he thought the fair’s theme, which was focused on George Orwell, was a mistake. Of the two defining dystopian novels of the 20th century, Postman argued that Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World got it right, not Orwell’s 1984. “Orwell missed the mark completely,” he explained in a statement that remains, for some, as startling […]
PFP NFTs: Every Generative Avatar Project You Need to Know
Profile picture (PFP) non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have come to dominate the NFT ecosystem. As these generative avatar projects became astoundingly popular in 2021, their significance has only continued to increase as the NFT ecosystem has grown. At its core, a PFP NFT is a digital token or artwork that is designed to be displayed as a person’s social media profile picture. Many of the world’s most popular NFT collections, such as Bored Apes and Doodles, are PFPs. PFPs live at the intersection of collectibles and generative art. They’re collectibles in the sense that they usually come in large quantities (10,000 […]
Otherside: Everything to Know About the New Bored Apes Project
It has already been a truly wild year for the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), and 2022 isn’t even half over. With new and exciting happenings being announced on a near-monthly basis, Yuga Labs — the company behind BAYC — has finally initiated the first phase of their massive metaverse endeavor. It’s a new project called Otherside. The forthcoming collection was announced back in March. And speculation and unconfirmed information in circulation have made details pertaining to the April 30 launch a bit fuzzy. Don’t be fooled though, this isn’t at all comparable to secondary projects like the Bored Ape […]
Coinbase Is Creating A Three-Part Bored Ape Yacht Club Film Series
It just keeps getting better and better to be a member of the Bored Ape Yacht Club. The ever-popular NFT project and brand is now coming to the silver screen. Today (April 11, 2022), crypto-exchange giant Coinbase announced plans to create an interactive film series featuring the Bored Ape Yacht Club and ApeCoin communities. The three-part film series is titled “The Degen Trilogy,” and the first of the films is set to feature only the inaugural Bored Ape collection originally launched in April of 2021. A casting call went out today for any BAYC holders interested in submitting their unique […]