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Bored Apes creator Yuga Labs appoints Activision’s Daniel Alegre as CEO
Activision Blizzard COO Daniel Alegre is leaving the gaming giant to take over as CEO of Yuga Labs, the company behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club. Yuga’s first and current…
Yuga Labs’ Nicole Muniz to talk about NFTs and Bored Apes at TC Sessions: Crypto
As the NFT ecosystem continues to waver, superfans and blue-chip holders are still holding on strong. But how can the digital asset sector reignite growth and appeal to new audiences?…
Canada’s seed market set a record in Q2. Why is the US starting to retract?
Canada’s seed market is heading up and to the right, which is not something that can be said about the U.S.
Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Last week, we looked at Musk holding onto doge. This week, we’re talking about where all of this crypto VC money is possibly gonna go.…
All my apes gone: Legal disputes at the intersection of IP and NFTs
NFTs are no different than old-school physical assets in one important way: They’re governed by a legal framework which, in many respects, is rooted in the 20th century.
Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Last week, we looked at a crossover episode for meme investing. This week, we’re talking about Musk dumping tokens while holding onto others. You can…
The data doesn’t appear to indicate that there is a more attractive way to view NFT activity today. It is, by a number of measuring methods, depressed at the moment.…
Four-month-old Doppel is helping some of the biggest NFT projects spot scams
As NFTs have gained popularity, so, too, has NFT fraud. Copycats can quite easily upload images to an NFT marketplace, mint them and sell them to customers for profit without…
a16z, Coatue, USV invest in $725M developer fund for Dapper’s Flow blockchain
The web3 world is continuing to discover that it’s a lot harder to build a developer ecosystem than it is to build a platform. The Flow blockchain launched by NBA…
Co:Create aims to help NFT projects launch their own cryptocurrencies
NFT powerhouse Yuga Labs, the startup behind the Bored Apes Yacht Club (BAYC) monkey JPEGs, launched its native ApeCoin cryptocurrency in March to much fanfare. Through the launch, the startup…
We can see that the Yuga Labs world represents a large portion of the aggregate NFT market as we understand it. Is there a bit too much centralization there?
No one told the crypto world that startup megadeals aren’t as plentiful anymore
Watching the mega-round venture world contract as the crypto world stays silly is a good reminder that the web3 world is in fact siloed from the rest of the global…
Top NFT collections are bringing in millions of dollars weekly, but which will survive?
Many blue-chip NFT holders said that demand comes with inherent risk and market volatility that play a part in the future of the digital collectibles and their liquidity.
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What Yuga Labs wants to build after raising $450M
With popular NFT projects under its belt, and some evidence of ability to use one collection of digital assets to grow another, Yuga has ambitious plans for the coming years.
Bored Apes NFT startup Yuga Labs raises seed round at monster $4B valuation
Yuga Labs, maker of the multimillion dollar monkey JPEGs that plenty of NFT skeptics love to hate, just raised a $450 million round from Andreessen Horowitz at a $4 billion…
Even among the fastest-growing crypto startups, Yuga Labs has had a particularly explosive year. The startup is behind the NFT project Bored Apes Yacht Club (BAYC), which only launched in…
Bored Apes Yacht Club maker Yuga Labs announced Friday that they have acquired the rights to the CryptoPunks and Meebits NFT collections from creator Larva Labs. Bored Apes and CryptoPunks…
