THE BORED APE GAZETTE

On Tuesday, the NightGlyders’ highly anticipated secondary collection, Trainers, will mint and a lot of pixelated frens will finally meet their companions. “Trainers are the missing link in the Glyders’ journey, humanoid companions forged in the wake of the Forest explosion,” NightGylders Founder Pilot wrote. “As a refined collection of 1,666 elite beings, each Trainer is designed to bond with a Glyder, unlocking deeper chemistry, strength, and evolution. Together, they expa

From ribbiting on Ethereum to croaking around the swamp, Frank the Frog hopped into Otherside this week and made a splash by inviting everyone to mint a free Otherside avatar! Earlier this week, ApeCoin announced that a new fren named Franky the Frog has leapfrogged to Otherside and that everyone can collect one now! “A friendly new face just hopped into @OthersideMeta ,” ApeCoin tweeted earlier this week. @frankythefrog from Lonely Lily Studios is now live as a playable

Tuesday will be training day on ApeChain! On Saturday, NightGylders announced that its secondary collection, the Trainers, will mint on Blever on February 24th for $36 USD worth of $Ape! The collection will feature 1,666 NFTs with more than 350 traits and will play a role similar to trainers in the Pokémon series within the NightGylders world and lore. Each Trainer will also receive an Otherside ready avatar shortly after mint. “The goal is to expand the glyder IP in a po

LAND HO! Like a lookout in the crow’s nest, the ApeCoin intern took to the timeline to warn all Otherside scallywags and lollygaggers that the deadline to complete Blackbeard’s Bounty tasks is this Sunday! “All’s Well That Ends Well. The final 3-step Hunt of Season 1 is live in Blackbeard’s Bounty,” the intern tweeted. “Complete all seven Hunts now to climb the leaderboards together with the communities you pledge to. Season 1 ends this Sunday, 2/22 at 9PM PT. Rejoice and R

NightGlyders prices may be soaring on chain, but the project’s upcoming secondary collection, dubbed Trainers, has taken over the timeline as everyone gets ready to ape in! The world of NightGlyders is expanding later this month as the project’s founder, Pilot, prepares to release a secondary collection of human Trainers that has been in the works since October 2025. “Trainers have stepped from the shadow no longer watching, but bonded,” NightGlyders tweetedearlier this wee

ApeChain, are you ready for some football? Before the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks take the field for Super Bowl LX tonight, everyone around the swamp and beyond is invited to ape into Clutch Markets’ new Super Squares game and possibly win a ton of $Ape. At the time of publication, 54 players have wagered nearly 38,000 $Ape on Super Squares, according to ApeChain Head of DeFi 0xSimpleFarmer’s Dune Analytics dashboard. “Pleased to see almost 38,000 $APE

The Espresso Foundation’s crosschain airdrop is brewing around the swamp, but Bored Ape Yacht Club members and Presto minters must register their wallets before 7 P.M. EST to be eligible for the claim. “Final reminder for ESP airdrop sign-up,” ApeCoin tweeted over the weekend. “BAYC holders qualify automatically once registered. ApeChain community members and those who minted our crosschain Presto demo with @espressoFNDN and @RariChain are eligible too. Deadline: Sun, F

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL AND SQUARES?!? This Sunday is the Super Bowl, and whether you're staking it all on Sam Darnold and the Seahawks or backing underdog Drake Maye and the New England Patriots, everyone can get in on the action, and maybe score some $Ape with a little luck, thanks to Clutch Markets’ new Super Squares game! If you’ve never played or heard of squares, don’t worry. The game is easy, and it’s pure luck! Simply visit https://www.supersquares.fun/

Ever since he was a kid, Bored Ape Yacht Club member Spooky has been a Pokémon fan, collecting cards, playing the games, and trying to catch ’em all. Sadly, he lost his entire collection years ago while moving from California to Texas. But recently, ApeChain gave him another chance to be the very best like no one ever was. And he’s already put together a top tier collection featuring a massive Charizard and a stack of vintage Dark cards. Last month, Solana’s collectible capit

You’ve played his game, now it’s time to ape into his NFT. From the bathroom floor to the Blever launchpad, longtime Bored Ape Yacht Club member CryptoVonDoom’s Command Line gaming studio, the team behind Otherside’s Bathroom Blitz, released its first ever NFT collection on Blever on Monday. The collection, titled Lunar Beasts, features 888 fierce feline NFTs, each rigged and ready to roam the Otherside upon reveal following the mint. Each NFT costs 69 $APE, or roughly $10

A shadowless PSA 9 Charizard from 1999 worth $9,000, a poncho wearing Pikachu valued at nearly $8,000, and many more Pokémon that would make Team Rocket blush are now up for grabs on ApeChain! Pokémasters are breaking out their Master Balls, and their wallets, as ApeChain’s native Pokémon trading card prize wheel, Slab, officially launched its new $250 spin, enticing degens to try and catch ’em all. “$250 Slab packs are now live on @ApeChainHUB Shadowless Charizard, BGS

From onchain primates to real life ones, “Apes supporting Apes” has been said many times and shown in many ways around the swamp. From buying a frens’ project to simply giving a fellow primate a retweet, the meta has always been Apes together strong. Now, one ApeChain founder and her community are stepping up once again to make a real difference in the life of an IRL ape named Archie, and they’re asking for the community’s help! Ever since minting out Archie Apes and Mu

3-6-9, damn Geez fine! From PNutz on ApeChain to Feels on Amazon, the GeezOnApe have been on a tear, solidifying themselves as one of the top NFT collections not just on $Ape, but across the space at large. Riding that momentum, notable ApeChain collector ABP decided to ape in, purchasing 30 more GeezOnApe NFTs and announcing that his ultimate goal is to own 369 of the lovably dim witted 3D gorillas. “Had some fun last night,” ABP tweeted. “Picked up 30 Geez! Geez hit an al

Another day, another adventure! The journey from crypto degen to Pokémon Master is officially on as ApeChain’s native trading card prize wheel, Slab, teases six figures’worth of new cards, better pulls, and maybe even a $250 spin. $Ape’s, get ready to catch ’em all! “Happy Friday,” Slab tweeted this morning. “We just received $240,000+ worth of Pokémon Slabs for our newest packs on ApeChain. Get ready to unpack.” As the Gazette previously reported, Slab was created by S

DAO voting, strategy coins, and gambling are all coming together thanks to Cypher Industries and ApeChain’s very own Clutch Markets, who are looking to merge three different metas into a money making ecosystem. Earlier this week, Ethereum native market infrastructure dApp Cypher Industries announced that it is teaming up with Clutch Markets and its founder, and ApeChain Head of DeFi, 0xSimpleFarmer to launch $MARKET, which he has described as a TokenWorks style strategy coin

Everyone knows “ApeChain on top” but what about ApeChain every day? Over the weekend, Bored Ape Yacht Club member and ApeChain builder Allo dropped a brand new onchain heatmap, giving everyone a clear look at just how active they’ve been on ApeChain. “Introducing the ApeChain Onchain Heatmap,” he tweeted. “I just built a fun tool to track your ApeChain activity visually See your onchain activity heatmap, volume and share your contribution card.” From last January to no

It was a wizarding weekend around the swamp after notable NFT collector and HV-MTL owner Adam Weitsman purchased the most magical Zard as his first ApeChain NFT, casting a spell on the project that sent its floor straight up! Amid Weitsman’s week of high end NFT purchases ranging from the 1/1 Good Vibe Club’s VibeFoot to a 2019 era XCOPY piece titled The State of Us, the collector bridged to ApeChain and officially became a wizard, picking up the rarest Zard in the collection

That’s several small claims for $Ape, one giant leap for ApeChain! Following this month’s Exodus Rising mission to space, ApeCoin crews are back around the swamp, and everyone is invited to claim their badges on OpenPage for bravely going where no $Ape has gone before. “Exodus Rising Chapter II Badge Claim,” ApeCoin tweeted. “The cure for Outbreak hasn’t been found yet. But for now, we successfully steered the ship in the right direction. Players, and anyone who completed

You’re a wizard, Weitsman! It was a magical Sunday around the swamp as HV-MTL owner Adam Weitsman went bippity-boppity bought, picking up a Zard as his first ever ApeChain NFT. Following a week of magical purchases spanning Vibetown to the fine art world, Weitsman returned to $Ape and purchased a pixelated wizard. “Tonight I wanted to try to support some nice small collections with great communities that might not get as much exposure as others,” Weitsman tweeted. “Added @Z

Quackers, yappers, and the projects that rely on them for marketing are now left asking what’s next after X declared war on AI slop and low value posts. Thursday will go down as the day InfoFi died, after X’s Head of Product, Nikita Bier, publicly took aim at engagement farming, automated replies, and the flood of low effort content that has increasingly clogged feeds and ruined Crypto Twitter. “We are revising our developer API policies: We will no longer allow apps that r