Keeping Tabs On The Lab #38
To the Bored,
Good evening and thank you for reading the 38th edition of the Bored Ape Gazetteās keeping Tabs On The Lab newsletter.
As we ape into the news of the day, Iād like to say happy New Year to each of you!Ā Itās hard to believe but it's officially 2024 and the Yugaverse is set to turn three years old this April!Ā
It feels like just yesterday that I bought my Apes on the secondary market and started the Gazette. Back then, every ape used to dream about where the club was heading and what the future had in store for this community. While I can only imagine whatās next for us, it appears that Yuga Labs has a lot in store for the community in 2024, according to Yuga Labsā CEO, Daniel Alegre.Ā
āThere is so much planned in our Yuga Laboratory for 2024 that while I look back at 2023 with incredible gratitude, I am so pumped for what we will do together in 2024,ā he tweeted on New Yearās eve. āHappy New Year to all and thank you for being in this amazing journey with us.Ā
While we do not know everything Yuga Labs is creating in the laboratory, we do know that they will be releasing a royalty enforced marketplace with Magic Eden sometime this year and that Apes and non-apes are currently invited to sign up to be notified of the platformās launch here: https://magiceden.io
Along with a new marketplace, we also know that Yuga Labs is planning to release a new mobile game sometime this year that will incorporate Apes, Mutants, Dogs, and HV-MTLs!
āI know we just wrapped up forge, and weāve had something under our belts for a while here," Garga said at ApeFest 2023. "So, we have a partnership on a mobile first cross platform game coming in 2024 thatās been in development for over two years. I think itās pretty sick and I think we are going to have a lot of fun all together. And donāt worry, it's skill based and thereās no voting. And obviously Apes Doggos, HVs, and mutants are coming along for the ride. Weāre stoked for that.ā
On top of Yuga Labsā new marketplace and video game, the BAYCās Creative Director, Jeff Nicholas, recently tweeted that he and Yugaā goal in 2024 is to bring the community together.
āI do a lot of thinking about the varied reasons for āwhyā apes are in the club,ā Nicholas tweeted on December 27th. āThere are many (+ v personalized) But there are only a few underlying, core values that bind all of us. Into an actual club vs just a gathering of people 2024 will be about cultivating those values.ā
While Yuga Labs gets ready for an insane 2024, the ApeCoin DAO is also gearing up for a year that will be anything but boring, with new leadership taking office and an ApeChain for the $Ape ecosystem on the horizon.
On January 1st, 2024, the DAO entered a new era of leadership as BoredApeG, Hazel and Airvey started their terms on the DAOās Special Council, Bigbull began his term as the DAOās next Governance Working Group Steward, and the communityās first ever Marketing and Communications Working Group Stewards, Popil and Linstro, along with its first-ever Metaverse Working Group Stewards, David_Crypto and Dim, started their terms on these two recently created committees!
Take a look at the DAOās 2024 leadership team below:
New Special Council members and Working Groups arenāt the only thing happening around the ApeCoin DAO. Currently, the DAO is doing a Request for Proposal as the foundation looks for someone to build an ApeChain!
After months of conversations on the necessity for an ApeChain in the $Ape ecosystem and AIPs from Polygon Labs, Optimism, Arbitrum, and ZkSync to build it, the ApeCoin DAOās Administrator, WebSlinger, announced that it is holding an RFP and that everyone who wants to build ApeChain for the DAO can submit their ideas!
āThe ApeCoin community seeks a proponent to build ApeChain, a dedicated ApeCoin blockchain that scales $APE and supports the growth of the ApeCoin ecosystem,ā WebSlinger wrote. āOver community discussions in recent weeks and months, it has become clear that the ApeCoin community would like a Request for Proposals (RFP) process for ApeChain. In order to assist with this process, the APE Foundation is announcing this RFP to select a proponent to build ApeChain.ā
The deadline for companies, foundations, and individuals to submit their proposed ApeChain idea to the RFP is January 11,2024. After that, the community will provide its feedback on the proposals before $Ape voters go to the polls on February 7th and cast their coins for their preferred ApeChain option.
With all that said, 2024 looks like it will be anything but boring! Thank you so much for reading this weekās edition of Keeping Tabs On The LabĀ and be sure to follow the Bored Ape Gazette on Twitter to stay up to date on all things Yuga!
Sincerely,
Kyle
Editor-In-Chief
Bored Ape Gazette