THE BORED APE GAZETTE

That’s one small step for Voyagers, and one giant leap for ApeChain! On Wednesday, four astronauts made history as NASA sent them on the world’s first crewed lunar flyby mission since 1972. To celebrate the historic moment, Yuga Labs invited Voyagers to take off from the swamp and Nexus and head on an interplanetary adventure of their own on Otherside.   “Artemis II is going to the moon. Us too, actually,” Yuga Labs tweeted from its Otherside account. “New portal near spawn.

From fate to last second flight changes, the stars aligned around the swamp as Bored Ape Yacht Club member Kiki made it to this week’s New York City Apes meetup, even though she lives nearly 7,000 miles away in South Korea! Earlier this month, BAYC member Kiki saw fellow primate Kraytrain’s tweet about an upcoming event in the Big Apple and knew she had to be there.   “No club, no apes. Wherever apes are at is where I belong,” Kiki told the Gazette. “I saw Kraytrain’s post, a

As Bored Ape Yacht Club members continue getting together around the globe, Yuga Labs’ Chief Product Officer Michael Figge is hinting that something even bigger may be coming up. During Thursday’s Meet at the Clubhouse Space, Figge spoke about how much he and the team have loved seeing Apes come together in real life and teased that a larger event may be in the works for May. ‘Part of the Bored Ape Yacht Club is you do club things,” he said. “I think we are starting to see a

From the very first days of the Bored Ape Yacht Club to now, real life has always been the alpha! Yesterday, longtime Bored Ape Yacht Club members KrayTrain and Josh Ong brought around 30 Big Apple Apes together at fellow primate and Re_Generates co-founder Jed’s DeStefano’s Steakhouse in Brooklyn, where steaks were cooked just right, Ojulo tequila (bought by ApeCoin CEO Cameron Kates and made by Adam Weitsman) flowed, and early BAYC vibes, the kind that brought people to the

Seven months after the stalls at the swamp shut down, Blitz is back on Otherside with an all new free for all game mode, a spooky Koda temple map, and more on the way! On Thursday, gaming studio Command Line launched Blitz: Thornwood Ruins, inviting anyone and everyone to shoot it out and explore a spooky new corner of the metaverse.     Whether you played Command Line’s original Bathroom Blitz last year or are jumping in for the first time, Thornwood Ruins is built to be fun

From the BAYC Clubhouse in the heart of the Swamp to the ominous ruins of a Koda temple hidden away on a Thornwood Otherdeed, Command Line just dropped a brand new Otherside Blitz map that’s as ancient as it is addictive! It’s game on in the metaverse on Thursday after Blitz: Thornwood Ruins opened up, inviting anyone and everyone to pick up a weapon and shoot it out with their friends in a new free for all game mode set in a spooky new corner of Otherside.   “BLITZ Season 1

From the shitter to scared shitless, spooky season is coming early to the Otherside after Command Line announced its new Thornwood Ruins map, along with an all new free for all mode that looks like it plays a lot like Fortnite’s classic Battle Royale. “NEW BLITZ map incoming on   @OthersideMeta -THORNWOOD RUINS,” the company tweeted along with. A 37 second teaser trailer. “Free For All. Close Quarters Chaos. Double Jump and Slide …and a new weapon built for these haunted ruin

On Monday, OpenSea Founder and CEO Devin Finzer took to the timeline to tell his onchain crew that the platform would be charting a new course and delaying its $SEA token generation event due to rough market conditions. "A delay is a delay,” he tweeted. “I’m not going to dress it up, and i know how it lands. the reality is that market conditions are challenging across crypto right now, and $SEA only launches once.   @openseafdn could force the original date, or we could ens

The gears are turning and metal is clanking across Web3 as HVs assemble their Amps and prepare for the project’s highly anticipated EV02 art upgrade and Pets launch coming this week! “We are launching Evo2 + Pets on Friday,” the collection’s co-owner Gabe announced on Discord yesterday afternoon.     This move comes six months after Gabe and fellow co-owner Adam Weitsman acquired the HV-MTL collection from Faraway Gaming Studios in September 2025 with the promise of rebooting

Sticky floors, the smell of cigs in the air, and shit hitting the fan, it can only mean one thing: Bathroom Blitz is officially back! On Wednesday, Command Line announced that everyone around the swamp and beyond could now ape back into its popular Otherside based game and shoot it out with their frens. “Blitz is now streaming on Otherside,” Yuga Labs tweeted from its Otherside account. “Enter directly from the Blitz widget on http://otherside.xyz and squad up.”     As the G

Monday marked the end of an era for NFTs as Magic Eden officially closed its Bitcoin, Ethereum, and L2 marketplaces, as the company pivots away from multichain NFT trading and toward Solana and gambling.   What was once one of Web3’s most ambitious marketplaces, with Bitcoin, Solana, Ethereum, ApeChain, Abstract, and many other EVM chains trading under one roof, returned to its roots this morning with just Solana NFTs trading on the platform, alongside new gacha style NFT pac

The shitter is just the start! Over the weekend, Command Line’s popular Bathroom Blitz returned to the Otherside, inviting Windows Client players to ape in first, followed by everyone else sometime later this week. “Blitz is LIVE & this is just the start,” CommandLine Founder and Bored Ape Yacht Club member CryptoVonDoom tweeted last night. “ @cmndline has been COOKING on new stuff, this is just your first taste. SZN 1 Blitz w/: • New UI
• New gunplay
• New VFX & animations


Command Line just flushed Voyagers’ weekend plans down the drain after announcing that Bathroom Blitz was back and available on the Windows client now and that everyone else can ape in next week! On Friday, shit got real around the swamp after the stalls inside the Bored Ape Yacht Club bathroom opened back up, inviting the community to shrink down and shoot it out with their online frens once again. “BLITZ SEASON 1 is LIVE,” Command Line tweeted. “Bathroom Blitz returns to @O

Every swap can now become a sale, and trading fees can help support NFT floors after Clutch Markets rolled out its new perpetual futures exchange built with JPEG enthusiasts in mind. On Wednesday, ApeChain’s native Clutch Markets launched Clutch Perps, a perp DEX where anyone can trade hundreds of coins with up to 100x leverage, while NFT collectors support their favorite projects one trade at a time.   “Trade like a degen, support your collection like a local,” Clutch Market

Welcome to Vibecode World! Yuga Labs is set to launch its highly anticipated “Vibecode World” update tomorrow, inviting everyone to build and place vibecoded objects inside Otherside, according to Yuga Labs' Micahel Figge.   While we don’t know everything about tomorrow’s launch, longtime BAYC member and metaverse builder TropicalVirtual shared a walkthrough of Vibecode World late last week, giving the community an early look at what’s coming next. This update marks a major s

Shits about to get real on the Otherside as Command Line prepares to relaunch its popular third person shooter, Bathroom Blitz, in the metaverse! Six and a half months after the stalls closed around the swamp, Command Line CEO and longtime Bored Ape Yacht Club member CryptoVonDoom took to the timeline and said the game is coming back “very soon.” “Who’s ready to run it back,” he tweeted alongside a video of his avatar twerking.   As the Gazette previously reported, Bathroom B

Next week will be a vibe around the swamp as Yuga Labs prepares to launch a Vibecode update that could open the Otherside to player creation! Things were anything but boring on Friday when Yuga Labs’ Michael Figge announced that Otherside’s “Vibecode World” is set to release on Tuesday, March 3rd.     While we don’t yet know exactly what to expect when the “Vibecode World” rolls out next week, we do know it will allow more users to begin placing vibecoded objects inside the w

It’s the end of an era for NFTs after Magic Eden announced it will shut down its Bitcoin, Ethereum, and EVM marketplaces in the coming weeks as the company pivots away from multichain NFT trading and toward Solana and gambling. On Friday, Magic Eden revealed it will close its EVM and Bitcoin marketplaces on March 9th, shut down its Bitcoin API on March 27th, and deprecate the Magic Eden Wallet on April 1st, telling users to export their private keys to a new wallet before the

Building in public is a vibe, and soon you will be able to ape in on the action! Mutant Monday was insane around the swamp after Yuga Labs’ Michael Figge announced that the team will begin opening Otherside’s “vibecoding” tools to the public this week.   “We'll be giving out the MML role so more people can place vibecoded objects,” he wrote. “If good, we'll scale til everyone gets access. if it breaks, we'll work through it live. still lots of UX improvements planned but just

Getting warm and comfy has never looked boreder! This week, the Bored Ape Yacht Club added four new mohair beanies and an insane alpaca blend scarf to its always on merch store.   The beanies come in four different colorways, featuring either the BAYC or MAYC ape skull logo, and cost $40 USD each. Meanwhile, the scarf comes in a two tone green that feels very mutant coded and costs $69 USD, nice.   With these new pieces, the BAYC’s always on merch store now features 22 differ