Yuga Labs purchases Beeple’s 10KTF Game, hinting at metaverse integration

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The company stated that Beeple would be joining Yuga Labs as an advisor once the acquisition was complete. News Yuga Labs, the creators of Bored Ape Yacht Club, (BAYC), has acquired 10KTF. This NFT game was created by digital artist Michael Winkelmann and is known as Beeple. Players can outfit their heroes with crafted items or loadouts to complete missions. Missions reward players with APE Coins, badges, materials and free airdrops. The game also plans to include many items that can be worn by avatars in the future. Popular items in the game’s collection include socks and backpacks. Fans have wondered what Metaverse platform will feature these items up to now. Fans have speculated that 10KTF items might become wearable within Yuga Labs’ as-yet unreleased Otherside metaverse ecosystem. The thread’s final post is a retweet by the Otherside’s channel that reads “welcome the Otherside, WagmiSan.” “Welcome To the Otherside, Wagmisan. pic.twitter.com/cNCNTqOd44– Othersidemeta (@OthersideMeta) November 14, 2022
YugaLabs will hire Beeple as an advisor once the acquisition is complete. YugaLabs first announced in March that it would acquire both the Cryptopunks NFT collections and the Meebits NFT collection from Larval Labs’ nonfungible pioneers. Matt Hall and John Watkinson, co-founders of Larval Labs, stated that they did not join Yuga as part the deal but that they saw in Yuga “the skill set and expertise that we were lacking in this space.”