Bored Ape Yacht Club to develop P2E game with Animoca Brands

This article comes fromDecrypt, Original Author: Andrew Hayward

Odaily Translator |

This article comes from, Original Author: Andrew Hayward、Odaily Translator |In less than 8 months, Bored Ape Yacht Club has become one of the most valuable and well-known NFT projects:

Celebrities 'Join' the Club

Adidas signs with the brand

, virtual bands emerged, and are now preparing to launch their own games.

Yuga Labs, creators of the Bored Ape Yacht Club, has announced that it is partnering with Animoca Brands to develop a Play-to-Earn game. Animoca Brands is the publisher of the upcoming Metaverse game The Sandbox and an investor in a range of Play-to-Earn gaming and crypto industry projects including Axie Infinity, NBA Top Shot developer Dapper Labs, and more.

Bored Ape Yacht Club's game is scheduled to launch in the second quarter of 2022 and will focus on the Play-to-Earn model and use Bored Ape NFT. In addition, the official did not announce more details. The teaser image shows a robotic hand holding an electrified banana with the Bored Ape Yacht Club logo printed on it.Although the Bored Ape NFT was minted on the Ethereum blockchain, Animoca Brands and Yuga Labs have not yet announced which blockchain platform their game will run on. Many Ethereum-based games (most notably Axie Infinity) use second-layer scaling solutions, such as sidechains, to minimize fees and provide faster transaction speeds than the Ethereum mainnet.。

What is unclear is whether the Bored Ape Yacht Club game will be exclusive to NFT holders, or if it will be available to everyone, perhaps to the benefit of NFT owners.

This NFT collectible bills itself as an exclusive club and offers its owners various perks such as access to a private Discord server, special merchandise drops, live events such as a recent concert in NYC featuring the likes of The Strokes and Chris Rock attendance) andAdditional free NFTsIn a press release, a Yuga Labs spokesperson said the partnership will “expand the utility and benefits available to all Bored Ape NFT holders.”

An NFT is the equivalent of a deed of ownership of a unique digital item, whether it's a Bored Ape-style profile picture, a digital artwork, a video file, or something else. The market will experience explosive growth during 2021,

Transaction volumes approached $10.7 billion in Q3According to CryptoSlam data, during its three NFT Drop events, Bored Ape Yacht Club created a total of more than $1.4 billion in secondary market trading volume. It's also growing in popularity with celebrities, with comedian Jimmy Fallon, NBA player Stephen Curry and rapper Post Malone among the notable owners.andSince Bored Ape holders can commercialize the images they own,Music ProducerTimbalandand。

universal music group(Universal Music Group) created the virtual Metaverse band separately. Yuga Labs recently teamed up with adidas on a Metaverse initiative; and with Horizen Labs, among others,Ethereum-based token launch planned for Q1 2022