Keeping Tabs On The Lab #25
To the Bored,
Good evening and thanks for reading the 25th edition of the Bored Ape Gazette’s Keeping Tabs on the Lab newsletter!
Happy fourth of July to our American readers and happy Forge of July to everyone forging their HV-Homes in Yuga Labs’ latest game.
It’s been a star-spangled couple weeks around the Bored Ape Yacht Club and the extended Yugaverse. From the beginning of the HV-MTL Forge to the ApeCoin DAO electing four new leaders, and a bunch of brands making waves around the swamp! It’s safe to say that the fireworks aren’t the only thing lighting up the skies of the Otherside this year!
With so much happening around the community, let's ape into the news and keep tabs on the lab!
To begin, Yuga Labs’ highly anticipated HV-MTL Forge game launched last week on June 29th and HV-MTL holders have been vibing to Lo-Fi beats, petting their HVs, and cleaning up oil shits ever since!
“HV-MTL Forge is a game that starts as a mix between a pet game and a casual world builder, and ends as a competitive dungeon crawler,” Yuga Labs explained in its gaming guide. “Your HV is relying on you to evolve into an Evo2 and earn up to 6 powerful upgrades for its Evo2 form. You’ll do this by building a workshop — your forge, which will generate the energy needed to explore The Rift — and keeping your HV happy.”
The HV-MTL Forge game consists of six seasons that last three weeks each. During these six seasons, players will need to earn at least three AMPs in order to evolve their HV to its EV02. The first season of the Forge is set to end around July 20th and the game’s final season will end in November 2023.
“Slow burn folks,” Yuga Labs’ Chief Gaming Officer Spencer Tucker tweeted about the Forge. “Pace yourselves and vibe, play with friends, build cool shit, share it, strategize, this is a marathon not a sprint ;-),”
As HV-MTL holders forge ahead and build their HV-Homes, ApeCoin DAO Contributors forged the future of the ApeCoin DAO with the election of two new Special Council members and the election of the community’s first ever Working Group Governance Stewards.
On June 28th, a month-long election season came to an end around the swamp and the $Ape community elected longtime Waabam and CapetainTrippy to replace Yat Siu and Alexis Ohanian on the DAO’s Special Council.
Along with the election of Waabam and CapetainTrippy, the ApeCoin DAO also elected AllCityBAYC and TigerIsFine to join Amplify as Stewards on the DAO’s first ever Governance Working Group.
As the $Ape community made massive decisions at the DAO, one of the most famous BAYC members made the decision to go back to his writing roots and begin working on his second book.
Last week, JenkinsTheValet took to Twitter and announced that the time is right for him and his community to write again!
“Looking at @LadyApeFundy and @CapetainTrippy, two apes I’d been with since the beginning, made me realize that so much had changed in the last year since I published Bored & Dangerous,” Jenkins tweeted on Friday. “@writersroomnft, it's time to write our next story.”
Apes that would like to be included in Jenkins’ next book, are welcome to join the WritersRoom and help tell this boring tale.
“Community members can get involved by joining the Writers Room space on Avenue ( @downavenue_) where they’ll be able to contribute characters and help Jenkins formulate his next story,” the Writers Room team told the Gazette. “In this market, we feel it’s especially important that we continue to invest in building creativity on top of all of the IP that we own in the form of our NFTs. This project won’t result in a mint or anything like that, but community members who participate will see their characters come to life in a professional piece of long form content.”
As JenkinsTheValet gets to work on his next best seller, ALTs by Adidas holders are getting to work on crafting their future Web3 identities at the Rift Valley motel!
Adidas’ journey into the metaverse continued today as the project opened its trait vending machine and invited holders to spend their airdropped Rift Valley Motel coins and craft their characters’ faces.
ALTs by Adidas holders have between now and July 25th to customize their characters at Adidas’ trait vending machine.
As Adidas opens the window for its holders to select their characters’ facial features, the window for Gucci KodaPendant holders to claim their physical necklace is closing later this week.
KodaPendant holders have until Thursday July 6th at 12 P.M. EST to claim their physical Otherside Relics by Gucci necklaces.
Remember the Gucci KodaPendants are just the first of possibly many Otherside Relics by Gucci and they are part of the luxury fashion house’s multi-year partnership with Yuga Labs that was first announced on March 27th, 2023.
“We are excited to unveil this multifaceted partnership with Yuga Labs, a leader and creative pioneer in web3,” Robert Triefus, Gucci’s senior executive vice president, corporate and brand strategy, and chief executive of Gucci Vault & Metaverse Ventures, said in a press release at the time. “This will give us an active role in Otherside and 10KTF’s continuing narrative, unfolding in multiple forms.”
Thank you so much for reading this week’s edition of Keeping Tabs On The Lab and be sure to follow the Bored Ape Gazette on Twitter for all things Yuga!
Sincerely,
Kyle
Editor-In-Chief
Bored Ape Gazette