THE BORED APE GAZETTE

Forget the charts! This Halloween, the scariest thing an NFT collector can do is watch The Simpsons! Spooky season is upon us, and no one is safe, not even NFTs! A few years back, America's favorite yellow family satirized our beloved J-Pegs in their annual Halloween special, Treehouse of Horror XXXIV, poking fun at tokenization, NFT burns, Bored Apes, and more! The episode opens with Bart accidentally getting turned into an NFT, forcing his mom, Marge, to go onchain to sav

The Token works, but it’s under new management! On Saturday, the Infinite Node Foundation announced that TokenWorks founder Rhynotic had donated ownership of his PunkStrategy contract to the organization, bringing his experimental CryptoPunk purchasing protocol to the nonprofit responsible for preserving the world's first NFT collection! “As the home of CryptoPunks, we welcome independent projects that share its spirit of experimentation,” The Node Foundation wrote in a pre

Things were anything but boring in the world of fine art on Friday after Yuga Labs announced that four Bored Apes and four Mutant Apes are joining the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's collection of approximately 155,000 works spanning 6,000 years of history! From prehistoric pottery to pixelated primates, these eight Apes are officially cultural relics as the LACMA welcome them alongside more than 200 works of digital art through a landmark donation! “Bored Ape Yacht Club i

NFTs are art. Collectors collect, and so do museums! From the swamp to the gallery walls, Bored Apes, Twelvefolds, and more are making their mark on art history as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art announces a landmark gift of more than 200 digital artworks! On Thursday, LACMA announced that members of its Digital Leaders group and other collectors have offered the museum hundreds of digital artwork from over the decades including early computer generated creations to NFTs

From pulling up in cars to pulling cards from packs, BMW shifted gears with the Bored Ape Yacht Club as the luxury automaker raced into the club's all new trading card game, Mudwater! Over the weekend, Apes, their plus ones, and friends of Beeple were treated to an unexpected collectible as they entered Beeple Studios for ApeFest 2026, receiving an exclusive BMW x Mudwater promo card before any of them even knew the game existed! The card, titled Blissfully Unbothered, whic

Ahoy there, App Store! On Tuesday, crypto's leading marketplace for coins and collectibles, OpenSea, announced that its highly anticipated mobile app was officially out of beta and available to everyone on iOS and Android! “OpenSea Mobile is now open to everyone,” the platfrom announced. “Everything you own. Everything you trade. Everyone you trade with. Memes, art, trading cards, perps. 25+ chains, all your wallets, one app. Trade everything, together.” From seasoned N

Things are Bored and Boujee around the swamp as Bored Ape Yacht Club members get ready to take over Beeple Studios for ApeFest 2026 tonight, with a special performance from Migos rapper Offset! After days of meetups, poker games, and late night Waffle House parties across Charleston, the best club on the internet is coming together for its main event, where Apes will trade the streets of the Holy City for an unforgettable night of music, art, and celebrating the fact that we'

Get in, loser, we're going to ApeFest! It was a full throttle Friday around the swamp as the Bored Ape Yacht Club announced that BMW would be pulling up to ApeFest once again, keeping its Bored Ape Bimmer Club experience rolling for the fourth year in a row! “Bags packed. Engine running. Bored Ape Bimmer Club is live.” The BAYC tweeted. “Available exclusively while supplies last at the Bored Ape Yacht Club ApeFest store. Union Station Charleston SC.” The new collection in

ApeFest 2026 is taking place at Beeple Studios in Charleston, South Carolina, this Saturday, so it's only fitting that the artist finally aped in to make sure he could get in! Mutant Monday was insane, and frankly, a little weird, as longtime BAYC fren and legendary crypto artist Beeple officially joined the best club on the internet, purchasing Bored Ape #2388 for 11.88 ETH, or roughly $29,800 USD! “Please welcome @beeple to the Bored Ape Yacht Club,” the club’s communi

Pax and Polly may be the faces of Pudgy Penguins' recent partnership with Kung Fu Tea, but Orange Cap Games artist StoopidPenguin made sip happen and collectible! Earlier this week, Pudgy Penguins waddled into its tastiest partnership yet, as the brand took over Kung Fu Tea's 350+ locations nationwide. But between the specialty boba drinks on tap and the all new Pengu blind boxes on shelves, a limited edition Vibes TCG promo card that comes with every drink had collectors and

Vital Toys founder and Bored Ape Yacht Club member Sidney Richlin will be dropping it like it's hot tomorrow as he showcases his Dr. Bombay figurine, inspired by Snoop Dogg's Bored Ape, live from New York Comic Con as part of its exclusive release at Walmart! This Saturday at 11 a.m. ET, Richlin will be going live on Walmart Live as part of the retailer's New York Comic Con festivities. “ill be live with Walmart showcasing the 13 inch exclusive Dr. Bombay figure and talkin

Getting into Walmart ain't nothin' but a G thang! This week, the world's biggest big box retailer is about to become its boredest as Bored Ape Yacht Club member Snoop Dogg's primate, Dr. Bombay, makes his way from the LBC to the online toy aisle as a collectible figurine! Three years after BAYC member and Vital Toys founder Sidney Richlin teamed up with Snoop Dogg to drop a Dr. Bombay figurine like it's hot, these plastic primates are making their way to Walmart.com as part o

It’s tea time! On Monday, Pax and Polly officially waddled into more than 350 Kung Fu Tea locations with two new drinks, blind boxes, and limited edition Vibes TCG cards, giving everyone a taste of what these fat flightless birds have been building for years! “Pengu is now live at Kung Fu Tea nationwide, bringing Pudgy Penguins into the beverage category,” the project tweeted this afternoon. “With Pudgy-branded drinks and exclusive products, we're making Pudgy Penguins part o

Bitwise Asset Management was founded in 2017, manages several publicly traded crypto ETFs, and has $15 billion in assets under management. But for NFT enjoyers, the most important thing about the firm may be that it has embraced the penguin! On Sunday, Bitwise President Teddy Fusaro changed his profile photo on X to a pengu-fied version of himself, mustache and all. “New PFP Time to lock in,” Fusaro tweeted. Fusaro embracing the penguin on his personal page comes after

Inversebrah, get in here lil shid! The Bored Ape Yacht Club’s biggest minter and the project’s Co-Founder Garga were going back and forth Sunday over whether the NFTs that changed their lives helped or hurt the NFT space. Things were anything but boring on Sunday as collectors across the timeline shared their takes on the impact Bored Apes had on NFTs, the underlying technology, and what the collection’s legacy will be going forward. Crypto’s newest anonymous main charact

What could have been one of the biggest hacks in NFT history was averted this morning thanks to Yuga Labs’ Head of Blockchain, 0xQuit, who conducted the largest white hat rescue the NFT space has ever seen, saving more than 23,000 NFTs worth nearly $6 million from being stolen. Following a relatively small scale NFT theft involving 10 Meebits, 50 Otherdeeds, 10 WoW, and 235 Desperate Apewives, 0xQuit discovered a vulnerability in Limit Break’s Payment Processor contracts that

Return to Monkee? Sort of! On Tuesday, X owner and the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, was “laughing out loud” after retweeting an old screenshot from when he changed his profile photo to a troop of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs and tweeted, “I dunno… seems kinda fungible.” Following Musk’s tweet this afternoon, normies laughed, Apes celebrated their place in the cultural zeitgeist all these years later, and OGs who have been in the Bored Ape Yacht Club since the beginning reca

It’s beginning to look a lot like Peng-Mas as the Pudgy Penguins get ready to waddle into Walmart this holiday season! On Friday, the brand’s Head of Partnerships, Steve Starobinsky, took to the timeline and asked whether anyone had received a physical copy of Walmart’s holiday catalog yet, hinting that Pax and the Penguins probably make an appearance! “Has anyone received the @Walmart holiday catalog physical copy yet?” Tonight, the Gazette has not seen the holiday catalog

From everybody was Kung Fu fight-ing to EVERY PUDGY WAS SIP-PING BOBA! On Monday, crypto’s cutest fat flightless birds announced that they’ll soon be putting the pudgy in Pudgy Penguins with an all new beverage collab that will have crypto consumers and tea connoisseurs waddling to their local Kung Fu Tea! “We’re excited to announce that we are officially entering the beverage category with Kung Fu Tea,” the brand tweeted. “In the coming weeks, we will be in every Kung Fu Tea

Pudgy Penguins may have just gotten its first taste of the candy aisle with PEZ, but according to CEO Luca Netz, the fat flightless birds have another sweet activation in the works! On Thursday, Netz went live on Whatnot to rip Vibes TCG packs and give away Pudgy Penguins PEZ dispensers. While showing off the huddle’s collaboration with the iconic candy brand, Netz opened up about why partnering with the 99 year old company was such an important milestone for Pudgy Penguins a