THE BORED APE GAZETTE

Rock bottom? Not even close! On Sunday, an anonymous NFT collector named 0xbroo on OpenSea, with a penchant for pictures and pebbles, purchased an Ether Rock for 41.8 ETH, or roughly $75,000 USD! As the Gazette previously reported, Ether Rocks is a collection of just 100 NFTs and one of the earliest projects on Ethereum, launching shortly after CryptoPunks in 2017. Originally intended as "pet rocks on the blockchain," the project has become one of the longest running memes

The timeline was filled with everyone from patriotic primates and penguins to star-spangled NFT collectors as the crypto world went red, white, and blue! On this day 250 years ago, the 13 American Colonies signed the Declaration of Independence from the British, and freedom’s been reigning ever since! To celebrate one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all, collectors reimagined their favorite NFTs as all American J-Pegs, filling the timeline with f

Minting a bunch of NFTs or scooping up a percentage of a memecoin fresh off the rip on Pump.fun is so last cycle! These days, the biggest onchain hits are cardboard, and Phygitals just raised the stakes. On Thursday, the popular card company announced that it had added a 2002 Legendary Collection Reverse Holo Charizard, estimated to be worth $155,000 USD, to its Gacha Game, making it the biggest chase card in the dApp's history. “There are Charizards... then there's this Ch

From Web3 to Whatnot, Orange Cap Games' flight into the mainstream continued Thursday night when the Vibes TCG maker went live on the popular shopping platform to rip packs alongside Chief Intern Officer Pax. From 7:30 p.m. ET until around 11 p.m. ET, Orange Cap Games hosted its first ever Whatnot livestream, ripping everything from single packs to booster boxes of its newest set, Birbs & Pengu, along with a handful of boxes from its debut release, Enter the Huddle. With Drak

From rocket ships and artificial intelligence to digital art. One of Wall Street's biggest fund managers is betting on SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI and... CryptoPunks after adding another hoodie wearing Punk to his collection, bringing his total to 35. On Friday, D1 Capital Partners founder Daniel Sundheim, whose firm has $11 billion USD in assets under management, purchased a hoodie wearing CryptoPunk for 140 ETH, or $243,000 USD. With the purchase, Sundheim now owns 35 Crypt

Put on your pin striped, pixelated suits and slick back that voxel hair because Stonk Brokers are making their way to Robinhood Chain's trading floor soon, and plenty of friends will be invited to ape in! On Thursday, Clutch Markets took to the timeline to share an update on Stonk Brokers, a collection of 2D day traders that originally launched on Robinhood Chain's testnet earlier this year. “The Anvil and StonkBrokers (Fully onchain SVG NFTs with token bound wallets) are c

'WHO'S STILL HERE?' And what does it mean? Those are the questions around the timeline today after Beeple shared a mysterious black and red teaser video asking, "Who's Still Here?" before flashing the date 10/17, a date many community members believe could be connected to ApeFest 2026. As the Gazette previously reported, Yuga Labs shared six black-and-red ApeFest teasers over the span of six days last month, beginning with "10.17," followed by "USA," "COLLECTORS COLLECT," a

From an NFT skeptic to a bored believer! One of the club's newest members changed his mind on NFTs after he began seeing them as art, and now he's got two grails in his collection. Since 2023, Ed has been lurking around the swamp, watching the Bored Ape Yacht Club, its members, and the culture surrounding these monkeys, but he just couldn't bring himself to ape in. “I honestly never thought I’d buy an NFT because I saw them as JPEGs that anyone could download for free,” he sa

From ripping packs to finding Pax! This Lil Pudgy was one of the first collectors in the world to find the full set of Vibes TCG Pengu promo cards! In the two weeks since Vibes TCG Birbs & Pengu hanger packs made their way to Target, Barnes & Noble, and Books A Million stores across the country, the packs' exclusive Pax promo cards featuring the Pudgy Penguins mascot have become one of the biggest chases, with the rarest gold version selling on eBay for well over $100. Sinc

The Otherside is home to 9,900 non-Mega Kodas, but only one can claim the title of the most aesthetic. And thanks to Bored Ape Yacht Club member and Koda connoisseur Phin Erin, we now know that honor belongs to Homeless NFT's Koda #1! They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but last month it was in the eyes of the voters after Phin put together a month long March Madness style tournament to determine, once and for all, which Koda mogs the metaverse. “The tournament t