THE BORED APE GAZETTE

Do you want to play a game? TokenWorks' $APESTR contract turned into a trap straight out of Saw this spooky season after an anonymous attacker exploited a known vulnerability to claim its Bored Apes' Mudwater packs, leaving 21 primates effectively trapped inside the contract and potentially putting hundreds of other NFTs at risk of a similar fate! Things were anything but boring around the swamp Tuesday morning when an anonymous attacker exploited a reentrancy vulnerability

Who's ready to go big card hunting down in the swamp? Tomorrow at 10 p.m. ET, Bored Ape Yacht Club member MoreThanHype and the Other Games crew will kick off their 24 hour Mud Mania livestream, where they'll be ripping open cases of the BAYC's new Mudwater trading cards, chasing rare 1/1s, digging into the game's lore and chatting with some of the people who brought the game out of the mud! “It's great to be able to host another event supporting apes,” Hype told the Gazette.

Trick or Treat! Halloween is almost here, and crypto's phygital marketplace DYLI is inviting collectors everywhere to grab their candy buckets, hit the virtual streets, and knock on some doors for a chance to win spooky surprises and prizes, if they dare! “Trick or Treat Street is now live,” Dlyi tweeted this evening. “Knock on three doors a night until Halloween (8pm ET) and build your Candy Bucket with Dilbert's finest surprises… Bonus if you keep a streak for 3 nights an

From birbish to backing! Over the weekend, Moonbirds announced that it had awarded a grant to a little birdy who's been building a one stop nest for his feathered frens for almost two years! “The Birb Foundation is excited to award @soyouboughtit a grant to help @igottheherb continue developing exceptional resources for the Moonbirds community.” As the Gazette previously reported, IGotTheHerb is the birb behind "So You Bought It, a community built website designed to he

Invisible Friends is about to walk before they run! Last week, Invisible Friends' original "Head of Stuff," CoinBilly, officially acquired the NFT project he helped build, promising to bring the collection out of the shadows and into a new era. And his first order of business is giving collectors everywhere the chance to own the project's most recognizable Friend for the first time ever! On Monday, Invisible Friends announced that "The Walk," the walking character that helped

From bored to cardboard and back! Ever since ApeFest, Bored Apes have been all about Yuga Labs' new trading card game, Mudwater, as everyone rips packs and stacks grails both in real life and online. But one primate is building something to remind us all that the real PSA 10s are the frens made along the way! Last Thursday, Bored Ape Yacht Club member SeanNana launched his all new Still Here photo editor, which transforms everyone's favorite ApeFest memories into the legendar

Bored Ape Yacht Club member GrimyFrankie's Card Shack is open for business! It's been just over a week since Mudwater made its debut at ApeFest 2026, and BAYC member GrimyFrankie has wasted no time turning cardboard into cash, buying up unwanted cards in bulk and reselling them through his TradingCardSets eBay shopt as becomes a Mudwater market maker! “I decided to go hard in this because I can see massive opportunity in bored ape trading cards,” he told the Gazette. “I k

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

There’s a small fortune hidden deep in the Mudwater, and the only question is: who’s going to wade in and find it?! Late Friday night, notable NFT collector Adam Weitsman put up a six-figure bounty for whoever pulls the first one of one trading card from Yuga Labs’ new phygital trading card game, Mudwater! “Confirming my $100000 bounty on the first unique 1/1 pulled Mudwater card.” As the Gazette previously reported, Yuga Labs stealth launched its first ever trading card

The J-Peg journey goes round and round for one Bored Ape Yacht Club member as he takes his ApeBus to the Lone Star State for Art Blocks Marfa Weekend! After four anything but boring days in Charleston for ApeFest 2026, BAYC member WebMx is hitting the road again, trading the Holy City's coastal streets for the dusty trails of West Texas, where he hopes to add even more signatures, stickers, and dicks to his mobile work of art! As the Gazette previously reported, WebMx purchas

A cold blooded collector is hosting a heater of an event this Art Blocks Marfa Weekend, and everyone is invited! As digital artists and NFT enthusiasts descend on the tiny Texas town of Marfa for the sixth annual Art Blocks Marfa Weekend, noted NFT collector and Creepz whale Adam Weitsman is slithering into town to throw a reptile worthy raver of a celebration at a theater that's been abandoned for half a century! And that's not all! Along with bringing collectors together

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

ApeFest 2026 is in the books, but there’s still time for it to make its way into your wardrobe! Whether you made it to Beeple Studios in Charleston for this year’s ApeFest or experienced a whole lot of FOMO while watching the festivities unfold on the timeline from home, Bored Ape Yacht Club members still have one last chance to commemorate the Club’s flagship event with some new swamp style! “Last call, Apes,” the BAYC reminded the community. “ApeFest 2026 may be over, bu

Americans won't just be deciding the fate of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Senate, and governorships across the country this election season! They'll also be determining who walks away with a Meebit! On Thursday, MeebCo's all new, election themed bingo game, Meebterms Lotería, minted out on ApeChain, with 256 unique game boards now in the hands of collectors hoping their random picks will match the results of November's midterm elections! “We have had a really g

From good vibes to moody moods! Earlier this week, the citizens of Vibetown were introduced to Moods, an all new NFT collection from Good Vibes Club in collaboration with Clutch Markets' StonkBrokers on Robinhood Chain that will have collectors expressing themselves like never before! “Giving the Citizens of Vibetown more expressive range opens up richer stories, more complicated personalities and more relatability,” the GVC tweeted Tuesday. “Vibetown has always been full o

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

Clutch Markets took a major step toward European exchange listings with the publication of a regulatory white paper that could help bring more listings and more eyes to StonkBrokers than ever before! On Tuesday, The MiCA Crypto Alliance announced that it had officially published the $STONKBROKER white paper in accordance with the European Union's Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation, or MiCA, the EU's unified regulatory framework for crypto assets. "From an early stage of th

As Americans prepare to head to the polls this November, a different kind of race is taking shape onchain, with a Meebit up for grabs! The 2026 U.S. midterm elections are just around the corner, with control of Congress, several governorships, and a slew of state and local issues on the ballot. But while Americans prepare to cast their votes, the voxel voters of NFT land are getting ready to see if election night can make them a winner in an all new onchain lottery inspired b

It's about to be prove it season for social trading gurus, Pump.fun callers, KOLs, and self proclaimed trenchers after Clutch Markets founder 0xSimpleFarmer and ChainMancer's Michael Hirsch teamed up to introduce an all new onchain primitive dubbed "Books" on Robinhood Chain! With the rise of apps like FOMO, social trading has become the talk of the timeline, with key opinion Leaders sharing their memecoin thesis, revealing their trades, and inviting followers from across cry

Some Bored Ape Yacht Club members bring stickers to hand out at ApeFest. Others snap photos with all their frens around the swamp. But this Ape brought his whole house, and he's getting everyone to sign it! Since April 2026, BAYC member WebMx has been living the van life, cruising around in a graffiti covered red ride featuring his Normies and StonkBrokers. But for ApeFest, he wanted to do something a little different. So he traveled to Detroit, purchased a brand new to him w