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The next BAYC drop is not for sale.
You can only claim it by owning an Ape.
More Soon.
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For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.
AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.
Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.
The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.
images.nvidia.com/pdf/Open-W…
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SpaceX has exercised the option to acquire @cursor_ai in an all-stock transaction with the goal of building the world’s most useful AI models.
For the past few months, SpaceXAI has been jointly training a model with Cursor, which will be released in Cursor and Grok Build soon.
We look forward to working closely with the Cursor team to advance our frontier AI capabilities
SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai are now working closely together to create the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI.
The combination of Cursor’s leading product and distribution to expert software engineers with SpaceX’s million H100 equivalent Colossus training supercomputer will allow us to build the world’s most useful models.
Cursor has also given SpaceX the right to acquire Cursor later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for our work together.
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Jalen Brunson sacrificed over $100 million to give the Knicks a better chance to compete for a title.
Tonight he’s an NBA champion and a legend in New York for life.
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Introducing the BAYC P2P Marketplace.
A peer-to-peer marketplace for BAYC apparel, collectibles, art, and weird one-offs from the Club.
Buy and sell directly on boredapeyachtclub.com/p2p
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Let me recap the earnings call. $MSTR
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BAYC #3439 securied @ 211,111 USDC
via @GrailsOTC.
NFT Financing by @CirrusNFT and @gondixyz.
Congrats to buyer & seller.
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NFTs are back and BAYC is leading the charge
I sat down with Yuga Labs CEO @mfigge to discuss:
→ His journey to becoming CEO
→ How he thinks about floor price
→ What's next for the club
→ Plans for Otherside (+ next drop)
0:00 Intro
0:30 How Figge got into NFTs
8:30 From a buyer to CEO
14:30 IRL and events
18:15 Storytelling
21:12 Bored Apes anime
23:39 Clothing store and peer-to-peer marketplace
26:05 Floor price
29:11 Mainstream NFT narratives
31:05 Grails OTC desk
35:16 The Vision for Otherside
40:06 Upcoming Otherside NFT drop
42:00 UGC in Otherside
43:54 Timeline on mainstream adoption
46:13 Otherside Token
47:07 Target for Bored Apes
49:04 Final Thoughts
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Over the past few years, I’ve woken up to random @CoinDesk articles shitting on our industry, and specifically NFTs.
That alone wouldn't bother me. Criticism is healthy. The press should hold this space accountable.
But while Coindesk takes $ 300k+ to write glowing “research” around companies in crypto, they also write ragebait headlines that shit on the same industry.
Pretty annoying to see.
It’s bad journalism to ask for $ 300k+ for an article, and if we don’t pay, you write negatively about us.
There are so many other news outlets actually trying to make it by covering bright stories in our industry.
There are so many other twitter spaces and communities that show up daily to move the space forward.
But what Coindesk is doing can’t be a sustainable model.
So a few weeks ago I opened up a short position on Coindesk’s parent company, Bullish.
This isn’t about money, it’s about principle.
The principle: you can’t hurt our community for your corporate gain.
Why can a business shit on an industry it participates in and still aim to profit within it?
Well, it can’t.
That was my bet anyway.
I’ve now closed the short up $5,387.46.
To be clear: the position is closed. Nothing I write here profits me from a trading standpoint. The trade is over. What's left is the principle.
I will use the money to take Bored Apes out to dinners, or Laker Games, or whatever the fuck I want - and every time I do, I will post an entire article about how I got the money (shorting Coindesk) and why I think Coindesk’s current approach is bad for our industry.
Congrats Coindesk, you’re now at war with a fucking psycho.
I will relentlessly bearpost this behavior until a representative reaches out to me and assures me that they’re going to knock this shit off.
Happy 5th Anniversary to the @BoredApeYC aka THE BEST CLUB ON THE INTERNET (and IRL) 🎂 🦍 🎂 🦍 🎂
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Five Years of Bored Ape Yacht Club
A note to The Best Club on the Internet,
Five years is a long time on the internet. It’s long enough to understand what makes something different, and to recognize when it becomes part of people’s lives in a real way.
The Bored Ape Yacht Club has always been more than something you scroll past. It’s something people step into, build with, and carry with them. That’s what makes this a Club.
Like @mfigge said recently, the Club should live in your world, not just your timeline. That's where we're headed.
Here's what that looks like right now.
We recently rolled out the new bayc.com - a fresh look, member profiles and directory, an updated store.bayc.com, and more coming soon. It’s a step toward making the Club feel more tangible, more connected, and easier to immerse in.
IRL is the Alpha
Over the last few weeks, Apes have been mobilizing across the globe through regional meetups, bringing local chapters together in ways that actually matter.
We spent 4/20 weekend with Snoop and Dr. Bombay, giving a group of Apes a member-only moment you can’t replicate online.
These moments pull people closer together, create and strengthen real bonds, and push the energy of the Club forward.
We say Bored Ape, You say Yacht Club
We’ve also been thinking about what it actually means to be a Yacht Club - not just the name, but the feeling behind it. That’s starting to take shape. From here on out, you’ll see it show up more clearly in our apparel, our collaborations, and an aesthetic that finally does the Yacht Club name justice.
Five years in, and we’re not slowing down.
There’s more to share, but for now… thanks for being an Ape. Thanks for being in the Club.
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Introducing the Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust (MSBT), designed with transparent reporting and a 0.14% expense ratio, supported by a custody approach that brings together traditional considerations and crypto experience. Learn more about MSBT: mgstn.ly/4mhxVmH
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