Itโs been a while since the last @baycsg meetupโฆ
But if youโre in Singapore ๐ธ๐ฌ this week, swing by and catch up with your fellow apes for old timesโ sake.
Food and drinks on @BoredApeYC๐ป.
Captainz who stayed: thank you. ๐
Captainz who left: I get it.
Captainz who'll come back: welcome.๐
There's more coming than just art. No, it's not another 2 year wait.
Potatoz x Panda Friends at Ocean Park Hong Kong๐ผ
9GAG's beloved mascot Potatoz has arrived at the "Giant Panda Adventure" at Ocean Park Hong Kong!
Come take photos with the funny Potatoz and the irresistibly cute Panda Friends at the season-exclusive Winter Photo Spot! Plan your visit now!
Date: Today - 7 Jan 2026
Venue: Winter Photo Spot, located at "Giant Panda Adventure", Ocean Park Hong Kong
some thoughts on APE:
Staking for ApeCoin ends today. I think that's a good thing longterm.
Staking had an admirable goal: align BAYC holders and long-term believers with ApeCoin.
In practice though, it created a hyperinflationary setup and constant sell pressure that didn't really benefit anyone.
So weโre moving APE to a usage-driven economy instead, and making the token deflationary.
Iโve said this before, but I think generalized L2โs without a killer app are a dead end. A chain is only as good as the thing on it that people actually want to use.
For APE, that killer app is Otherside.
Weโre already seeing how Otherside can be a home for communities across crypto. And itโs the perfect canvas for us at Yuga to partner with some of the biggest companies and artists in the world, from Amazon to Daniel Arsham.
Going forward, weโll keep evolving Otherside into the best place for creators to launch their own game or social experience, with crypto quietly doing the heavy lifting in the background: permissionless ownership, creator royalties, and open economies.
That means incentives should line up so ApeCoin wins if Otherside wins, and vice versa.
To start, from now on all gas spent on transactions on ApeChain will be burned.
So that activity on Otherside permanently reduces the supply of APE.
This will be small to start, of course, and not as flashy as staking. But itโs the start of a real economic loop, where value comes from what people build and use.
This is just the foundation. Thereโs a lot more coming to make Otherside more robust, scalable, wild and fun. Along with ways to make sure the economic loop between Otherside and APE is stronger than ever. More to share on all that soon.
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Potatoz just pulled off his OP move with @PredatorGaming mouse. Drop your best name for this signature move!
Follow these rules to join:
1. Follow @PredatorGaming
2. Drop a name for the move and leave your country/region flag emoji in the same comment.
10 submissions with the most creative answers will be picked to win a Potatoz themed Predator Cestus 353 Mouse!
People say we're late to make Potatoz the mascot of 9GAG.
Maybe. But timing matters more than speed.
We launched Potatoz NFTs in July 2022. That's 3 decades in crypto years.
The markets have matured a lot since then. Onboarding is getting simpler, and governments/regulators have started to recognize crypto as part of a real industry.
More importantly, the gap between both worlds has narrowed enough to build a real bridge while we work on our products.
That's why it's time to open our Web2 channels and let Potatoz run.
In one month, 9GAG Potatoz videos have:
- 19M views on Instagram
- 15.1M views on X
35M+ people seeing a Potatoz IP across mainstream platforms. And collaborations with brands like @Predatorgaming that bridge even further (more soon).
We could've rushed this when hype was high, but that wouldโve been short-sighted. Neither side wouldโve understood what we were building.
Now, all that work is compounding in public.
9GAG gives us the reach most dream of. @Memeland gives it meaning. $MEME gives it power.
Good things take time. Great ones take patience.
This is how we bridge. One Potatoz at a time. ๐ฅ