I’m building ApeFax exactly because of this.
When the CEO of Yuga publicly says collector strength is hard to quantify, that’s the gap. Floor price tells you nothing about a 4T or an admirals coat.
Rarity tools rank traits but don’t price them. OTC desks like @GrailsOTC are doing the work without the infrastructure underneath them.
Daily sales volume on rare-trait apes is dropping because the supply has gone diamond-handed, and nobody is tracking that signal.
Apefax is a Per-token fair value with the methodology fully exposed. No black box. Floor + trait premium + lineage + history + score. Each component visible.
The grails are rotating into stronger hands. The numbers behind those rotations should be transparent.
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there are only 46 gold apes
and at this point, it’s very difficult to find an off-market seller willing trade
the lowest listed gold ape is 199 eth ($460k) which is effectively double before @GrailsOTC started 3 weeks ago
bids are rising
but sellers are not budging
digital assets like these have rotated into significantly more diamondhanded positions
for gold apes, not only are sellers not budging
they pretty much don’t exist
we are still working through trippies, 4Ts, blacksuits, admirals coats, kings robes, pimp coats, etc
but overall our goal has been to help facilitate even more off-market inventory rotating into strong collectors
subjective trait-based requests are being facilitated
completionists are trading for full sets
minimalists are trading for clean apes
aesthetics are in control
this is important work because it applies momentum to a quality that is hard to quantify:
collector strength
paired with our progress on IRL events, I firmly believe the sustained pressure we are applying will yield the results everyone is after - a strong Club
on a related note, while the bayc website is deliberately minimal and opaque to the public, we are experimenting with a deeper experience in the members section
there are also other strategies, which i will go over this week, that I believe to be under engaged, but full of potential for the
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Dear Machi, we are friends even though we have never personally met.
Please DM me if you are dropping angles from the sky.
I will find a way to catch them.
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Just shipped a big ApeFax push today.
Four focused commits landed:
- Access ladder + paywall work
- Engine fair-value + explore value signals
- Full LiveCert rebuild with proper two-axis grading
- Explore flow + blocker fixes
Grok jumped in to help support dev. Game Changer.
Claude visual review cleared end-to-end. Codex redline rounds completed and remediated.
Pre-push smoke gates all green. LFG
Stack is in a much cleaner state than it was this morning.
Friday deploy and private view is still the target.
ApeFax is launching this summer!!
Check Before You Ape 🦍
GM to all the builders in the space.
Some days are definitely easier than others, and I have to force myself to keep posting on X because building in public is not easy.
I have faith that it will work and I know what I'm building is good and people need it regardless of the floor price.
I've been head down testing thousands of Apes to ensure every data point is defensible and transparent. I know it will take time for the market to adopt this as the new gold standard, but I'm sure we will make it.
Keep pushing.
ApeFax launching this summer.
Check before you ape 🦍
GM fam,
Head down in full dev mode on ApeFax.
Check out this slideshow I made and let me know what you think.
Might get frisky and change the order tomorrow.