THE BORED APE GAZETTE

Royalties will be enforced, and community alignment is a must in this Dojo! On Thursday, the Chimpers announced plans to migrate from their existing contract to a new royalty enforced one, aiming to strengthen the brand, buy back NFTs and the $CHMPSTR strategy token, and power up its Collector Hub rewards program. “This migration is about alignment and longevity,” Chimpers Founder Insight Chimp wrote his announcement X Article titled 'Chimpers Contract Migration: What’s Chan

Let the good vibes roll or should I say, flywheel! On Tuesday, the TokenWorks team announced a series of updates to the Good Vibes Club strategy coin aimed at ensuring the protocol’s flywheel keeps spinning, regardless of where its NFT holdings are sold. “Good Vibes Club NFTs owned by VibeStrategy are now purchasable on @opensea,” Token Works tweeted. “When the Strategy buys an NFT, it will be listed on both the Strategy contract and Seaport. Regardless of where it's sold, th

From the farm to the DEX. It’s not much, but it’s Birb honest work. On Wednesday, Moonbirds took to the timeline and announced its latest pair of soulbound tokens in collaboration with Binance’s Aster DEX and Bybit’s ByReal liquidity layer dApp, inviting users of both platforms, as well as Birds, Mythics, and Oddities holders, to wet their beaks and claim the NFTs.     As the Gazette previously reported, Moonbirds has been rolling out soulbound tokens in collaboration with so

Can you “Feels” it? The vibes are high around the swamp this evening as Yuga Labs’ Blue the Koda, alongside Chimpers, Geez, and HV-MTLs, get ready to make their way to Amazon for a first of its kind digital collectible sale, and everyone is invited to ape in! “Feels go live on Amazon tomorrow at 9AM PT,” Yuga Labs tweeted from its Otherside account. “All open edition packs are $19.99 and include 10 Feels. We’re doubling down on community IP and will be reinvesting all Yuga re

Things will be anything but boring around the swamp this Thursday after Yuga Labs’ Michael Figge teased that he’ll be dropping this month’s Otherside feature update.   “gm  @OthersideMeta January feature update coming this Thursday,” Figge casually tweeted this afternoon.   While Figge didn’t get into details about when on Thursday the update will drop, or exactly what new features it will include, we do know that the timing is notable. Thursday also happens to be the day th

Moonbirds and Meteora users are wetting their beaks on an all new soulbound token that many believe will play a role in the Moonbirds’ highly anticipated $Birb token launch. On Monday, Moonbirds took to the timeline and announced its latest soulbound token in collaboration with Solana’s largest liquidity pool creator, Meteora in a move that has the community feeling extra birbish as users fly in to mint.   “Claim your Meteoria X Moonbirds SBT on @solana now! Open to all @Met

From an anon behind a screen to a model at Paris Fashion Week, Zagabond stepped out of the manga panels and onto the runway, putting his Azuki energy on full display. And soon, you’ll be able to copy his look! On Tuesday, videos from Paris Fashion Week began circulating from the Swamp to the Garden as Zagabond made his move. Talk the talk, walk the walk,” he tweeted along with a seven second video of him walking across the stage.     Zagabond’s look wasn’t random. In fact, it

Forget Space Invaders! It’s attack of the voxels in this new Meebits game that just won the collection’s first ever vibecoding competition! Pew! Pew! On Monday, Meebits announced that Warrbo was the winner of this weekend’s inaugural vibe coding competition for his game, Meebits Invasion, taking home the title and a 1,000 $Ape grand prize.   Warrbo’s game is fun and simple, playing like the classic Space Invaders. But instead of players taking aim at pixelated UFOs, however,

Forget infoFi! Coins for content is the new meta in the Web3 world after Chimpers announced that its Blind Box buyers will get paid to post their unboxings. Chimpers and collectors, get ready for your close ups! On Monday, crypto’s favorite pixelated primates tweeted that every Blind Box buyer who creates an unboxing video and shares it online can earn $50 USD worth of the project’s strategy coin. “As Chimpers Plush Keychain Blind Boxes begin to arrive, we’re rewarding the co

Whether Ralph Wiggum grows up to be a principal or a caterpillar is still anyone’s guess. But one thing is certain. Springfield’s favorite nitwit is about to go onchain as a Vibe Code Model Context Protocol, and all that’s left to decide is whether you choo-choo-choose to ape in. Go banana! Over the weekend, Seedify Fund Founder and longtime Web3 builder Meta Alchemist took to the timeline and announced his next project that’s based on the popular Simpson character, Ralph Wig

From a bot reboot to a limited-time burn. The HV-MTLs are getting a strategy coin next Monday, and it comes with a time-sensitive twist! The HV-MTL’s reboot continued on Saturday when HV-MTL owner Adam Weitsman announced that the project is teaming up with Rhynotic and the TokenWorks team to bring the bots to the Strategy ecosystem.   “HV-MTL x @token_works is launching on 01-26-26!.”     Like TokenWorks’ other strategy coins, the HV-MTL token will be fully onchain, autonomo

It’s Chimpers supporting clankers on the timeline today, after the Chimpers project announced it has added several HV-MTLs to its treasury. Beep. Boop. Bought and supported. On Saturday, Chimpers announced that it had purchased 15 HV-MTL bots to show support for Adam Weitsman and the work he’s been doing to unite the NFT space and bring the fun back onchain. “We believe in backing builders who genuinely push Web3 forward, especially those building on   @apecoin and strengthe

The token works and so does this form of funding! As the memecoin trenches heat back up on the backs of developer coins being deployed on creators’ behalf, TokenWorks creator Rhynotic is reminding everyone that he built a funding model similar to this emerging meta; but without the millstone of a bundled shitcoin unwittingly getting hung around builders’ necks.   “With "lets fund creators" making the rounds again, i've gone ahead and made the FundingWorks platform open to the

There are more questions than answers on the timeline tonight after the Nakamigos project announced its new Cypherpunk Files collection, inviting many longtime holders to claim one for free while the rest of Web3 is encouraged to join in on the lore. But be warned, this rabbit hole could run deep or go nowhere.   Mystery and intrigue have always been at the core of crypto. From the very beginning, the unknown identity of Satoshi Nakamoto has fueled endless debate. In more rec

Red light. Green light. No matter the market conditions are, Its always the right time to mint for the meme!   On Friday, the Meebits’ new piece of interactive artwork titled “Red Light, Green Light” made its way into Punk6529’s iconic meme collection, and everyone’s invited to mint their very own voxel tonight. Inspired by the Meebits’ Camogen traits, “Red Light, Green Light” changes colors in real time as the price of Ethereum moves up and down, because, from a certain poin

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

Whether you ape in or huddle up, everyone will want to take a chance at this onchain raffle for a rare Left Facing Pudgy Penguins collectible worth more than $3,500. Web3 physical marketplace DYLI is raffling off a rare Left Facing Pudgy Penguins figurine, and collectors have until today at 1:00 P.M. EST to buy a $1 raffle ticket for a chance to win a piece of Pudgy Penguins history.     “This one’s different,” DYLI tweeted. “A Left Facing Pudgy Penguin collectible toy Fair D

Let not your heart, or your HV-MTL, be troubled! On Wednesday, HV-MTL owners Adam Weitsman and Gabe announced that they will be reopening the activation window for holders to reactivate their Bots this Thursday at 10:00 A.M. EST.   “Tomorrow January 15 2026 we’re reopening the activation window at 10:00 AM EST (New York / Brooklyn / USA time) not 10 AM in China, not 10 AM in Europe,” Gabe tweeted. “The window will be open for 24 hours (1,440 minutes).”     Remember, reactivat

Memes, meaning, and a sustainable revenue model that pushes character IP out of the nest were all explained in a new paper from Moonbirds titled “The Birbillions Thesis.” Birb becoming the PopMart of Web3 isn’t just a tagline for OrangeCap Games Founder and Moonbirds owner Spencer; it’s the blueprint for getting what he’s building accepted culturally as a meme and taken seriously as a business. And if it all works, he believes birbillions will flock.   Memes move people. Comp

After months of asking “What’s in the Birb Box?” collectors across Web3 and beyond finally got their answer and it turns out the surprise is soulbound, maybe even $Birbish. On Tuesday, Moonbirds revealed that the brand’s Birb Box blind boxes are packed with surprises, inviting holders to scan the QR codes found inside to claim a tiered Soulbound Token.   “The birb. blind box QR codes are now scannable to redeem your randomized SBT's,” Moonbirds tweeted. “You will randomly rec