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@jsboogie79 with MAYC 22016. Mutant Ape Grappling Club brings all Ape holders who 💖 MMA & Jits together. Training out of HK @ SHBJJ, Purple 🟪🟪🟪⬛️⬛️🟪

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@OthersideMeta brought the 🔥🔥🔥 So close hitting the record but another reason to get us all together again!

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Let's get @CryptoGarga on the mats asap! Welcome back sir!!!

[Garga.eth (Greg Solano) @CryptoGarga]

Some news to share:

I am stepping back in as CEO of Yuga Labs. Wylie and I are grateful for all the contributions and operational rigor Daniel has brought to the company, and appreciate his thoughtfulness and mentorship over the past year. I’m reinvigorated to be taking the reins for our next chapter.

Looking at what’s ahead for Yuga, we need to execute with a more cryptonative focus across the entire company. There’s a couple things that are top of mind for Wylie and I:

-BAYC: Appreciate everyone coming out to the first “Bored Meeting” this past weekend. To sum up our thinking around BAYC in the briefest possible terms, the utility of BAYC comes from the network. From everybody who is in the club. That’s why ApeFest is so special, why Made by Apes has seen explosive adoption, why the clubhouse itself is so hype, and why BAYC is able to collab with some of the biggest brands in the world.

We want to unshackle the BAYC team at Yuga as much as possible to execute against its vision. More focus, more agility. So it can do the above, and create the space for the magic and crazy shit we used to get up to more often.

Focus and agility requires autonomy. Step 1 is already done. A new company, “BAYC LLC”, was created as a Yuga subsidiary and will be responsible for everything BAYC. We’ve got a crack team of ninjas on the BAYC team, but there’s still a couple important roles to be filled over there.

-Otherside: Otherside should be the living room of web3. The default space you go to in order to play and hang with your community (no matter what community that is).

Otherside is also a massive swing for the fences. We’ve got a lot of work to do. The only way it gets built properly is if you all come in and experience it more often. When we set out to build Otherside, the goal was to make it a public, iterative process. I’m confident in the work our team has done to get us back to this plan, and our communication is going to ramp up this week starting with “Apes Come Home.” And we need to follow it up with a lot more frequent communication starting now and throughout the year.

-Gaming: We need to approach games at Yuga with a tighter focus on what works. For us, that’s a barbell approach:

1) crazy fun play patterns that any kid at heart can enjoy. The more wildly fun and mass market, the better: like Dookey Dash. This is all about opening the funnel and flooding our ecosystem with millions of new users, and leveraging that to create opportunities for creators, IP holders, and pro players. Stoked for how this is coming together with our friends at @farawaygg

2) Cryptonative mechanics and platforms, like [redacted].

We’re going on three years since Yuga was founded, and we couldn’t be more excited about some of the stuff we’ve got in the pipeline. Extremely grateful for the team that’s assembled here across all our brands. There’s a lot of work to be done, but I couldn’t imagine doing it with any other team, or any other community of builders. Thanks for your support.

For those who will be there, I’ll see you at NFT Paris.

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@kennyysol @BoredApeYC Amazing Ape! Welcome to the fam!

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I know everyone is really worked up about @yugalabs acquiring @proof_xyz but I for one am happy to have some @moonbirds on the mats with us.

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@_jeffnicholas_ Staying put, ready to roll. (Pun intended)

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@_jeffnicholas_

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@fattyloNFT Welcome home bro! Let’s get at it!!

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@bullabulla_eth @fattyloNFT Good times @bullabulla_eth Safe journeys back stateside! Hopefully you & @fattyloNFT will get to link on that side of the world!

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We’re still here & recovering from a rough holidays. Finishing up with the Year Of The Dragon festivities & back at it with a brand new friend. Wishing the #mayc & #bayc fam a Happy Chinese New Years!

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@tinoforbidden GM

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Landed stateside for the holidays. 🎅🏼🎄

Anyone have any good Jits gyms to recommend around San Jose??

Finally have some room to breathe & get some Mutant Ape Grappling Goodies out to you. Stay tuned!

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@_jeffnicholas_ @Dodgers Haven’t followed baseball in years but this news has me fired up!

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Just when we thought we were getting over ApeFest HK...

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@matritchie @BoredApeYC @OneAndOnlyPapii Loving the tie dye tee!!

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@4evaFamouss @BoredMunchies Finished the bag in one sitting. Honestly, your product ain’t no joke. Loved it! Keep at it fam!

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Was lucky to have grabbed a bag of these from @BoredMunchies during #apefest2023 But quickly regretting the fact that I didn’t grab more than one!?!?

These bad boys taste amazing! For sure a great snack right off the mats! Please tell me you can send some to HK?!?

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@_jeffnicholas_ Yes, we are hopeless romantics. Wong Kar Wai for dayzzzz!!!!!

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Joining @MAYC_Grappling to fight some Apes ! Got me a sick Tshirt at @BoredApeYC #ApeFestHK

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@elethera_art @yusufbuilds @BoredApeYC Always looking to add new members to grappling club. Welcome anytime!

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@yusufbuilds @BoredApeYC Welcome to the club bro! Looking forward to seeing pics of on the mats and stay in touch. Gonna airdrop some artwork for those that I hooked the tees up as my first ever batch!