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Since launching the Bored Ape Yacht Club in April 2021, Yuga Labs has by our count started 15 projects of its own and made four acquisitions, including the rights to CryptoPunks and Meebits. Yuga sold five brands again between April 2024 and May 2025: HV-MTL, Legends of the Mara, Meebits, CryptoPunks and Moonbirds. Twelve of the 15 in-house projects are still running in November 2026, among them the three Ape collections, ApeCoin, Otherside, ApeChain, Made by Apes and the card game Mudwater. A clubhouse in Miami and an anime series have been announced.

Below you will find every project with its launch, idea and current status.

Key points at a glance

15 in-house projects and four acquisitions since April 2021; twelve of the in-house projects are still running.
Five brands sold between April 17, 2024 and May 30, 2025.
On April 30, 2022, Yuga sold 55,000 Otherdeeds for around $285 million; since November 12, 2025, Otherside has been open to everyone.
ApeChain has been live since October 2024; on November 4, 2026, a switch to Chainlink CCIP was announced.
Since May 2026, holders have traded on a dedicated marketplace in APE.
Mudwater launched on October 17, 2026 on Solana rather than ApeChain.

All Yuga Labs projects at a glance

The count covers in-house launches and acquisitions, not partnerships, licensees or smaller services. ApeCoin and ApeChain formally launched via the ApeCoin DAO. We count them as Yuga because the company has controlled both itself since ApeCo was folded in in June 2026. Sources: boredapeyachtclub.com (Activations), Decrypt, The Block, Bored Ape Gazette, as of November 6, 2026.

The Apes: Bored Ape Yacht Club, Kennel Club and Mutant Apes

It began with 10,000 bored apes, minted in April 2021 at 0.08 ETH each. In early November 2026 the cheapest Bored Ape cost 5.62 ETH according to CoinGecko; the record was 153.7 ETH on May 1, 2022.

On June 18, 2021, every holder received a free dog from the Bored Ape Kennel Club. Royalties from dog resales went to animal welfare organisations, more than $1 million according to Yuga, per the club page.

The Mutant Apes followed on August 28, 2021. Holders received a serum with which they could create a mutant of their Ape, and Yuga sold another 10,000 mutants at 3 ETH each, for around $96 million in one hour according to Decrypt.

All three collections are still running. Bored Apes and Mutant Apes are the entry ticket to almost everything that came afterwards: ApeFest, Mudwater packs, licences for holders' own brands.

ApeCoin and ApeChain: a token and a dedicated blockchain

ApeCoin (APE) launched on March 17, 2022 via the ApeCoin DAO. Of one billion tokens, 15 percent went to Yuga Labs, 8 percent to the founders and 15 percent to Ape holders; everything has been unlocked since March 17, 2026. In early November 2026 APE was more than 99 percent below its all-time high of $26.70. Which exchanges are regulated in the EU is shown in our comparison of regulated crypto exchanges.

The DAO voted to dissolve itself in June 2025, and its successor ApeCo has been part of Yuga since June 2026. The background is in our analysis of who makes the decisions at Yuga Labs.

ApeChain, the dedicated blockchain for APE based on Arbitrum Orbit, launched in October 2024 at ApeFest in Lisbon. According to the press release, it was launched by the ApeCoin DAO with Yuga Labs and partners such as LayerZero and the Arbitrum Foundation. How the evening went is told in our history of every ApeFest.

ApeChain is running and being rebuilt. On November 4, 2026, ApeCoin and Chainlink announced that cross-chain transfers will in future use Chainlink CCIP instead of LayerZero; timing and fees are still open, according to CryptoNinjas.

So far the blockchain sees little use. Total value locked stood at $2.3 million on November 5, 2026 according to DefiLlama, around 93 percent below the December 2024 peak. By its first birthday, The Defiant counted only three of almost 30 protocols generating revenue. The club's marketplace and Made by Apes run on ApeChain, whereas Mudwater is published on Solana.

Otherside, Otherdeeds and Kodas: the metaverse

Otherside is Yuga Labs' metaverse. On April 30, 2022, Yuga sold 55,000 of the 100,000 land plots, the Otherdeeds, at 305 APE each, around $285 million in total. The rush drove up gas fees on the Ethereum network, and Yuga refunded the costs of failed transactions on May 4, 2022, according to Decrypt.

Demos followed: around 4,500 players at the “First Trip” in July 2022 and, according to CoinDesk, around 7,200 at the “Second Trip” in March 2023. In 2023 the Kodas, creatures on the Otherdeeds, became NFTs in their own right, and holders swapped their land for an “Otherdeed Expanded”, as the Bored Ape Gazette reported.

Since November 12, 2025, Otherside has been open to everyone in the browser as Koda Nexus, with no wallet and no NFT required. To expand it, Yuga acquired a platform based on Unreal Engine, along with part of the team, from Improbable at the end of December 2025.

A resource economy has been announced: according to eGamers, 74 raw materials on the Otherdeeds, levies paid to landholders and ApeCoin as the only currency for paying in and cashing out. eGamers reported the first plans on August 6, 2026, and Yuga presented them on X on September 9, 2026. The company has not yet given a launch date.

Games: Dookey Dash, HV-MTL, Legends of the Mara and Mudwater

In September 2022 Yuga hired Spencer Tucker as its first chief gaming officer. The first title to gain attention was Dookey Dash, a runner game through the sewers: from January 18 to February 8, 2023, holders minted a free Sewer Pass as an entry ticket, and the passes traded for almost $73 million according to The Block. In September 2024 the relaunch Dookey Dash Unclogged arrived in the App Store with $1 million in prize money.

In March 2023 the Sewer Passes became HV-MTL: holders swapped their passes for mechs, around 30,000 of them, and the game HV-MTL Forge followed in June. For landholders, Legends of the Mara began in April 2023 with the issue of the Vessels, and the strategy game's open beta started on September 26, 2023, according to Decrypt.

On April 17, 2024, Yuga handed both games to the studio Faraway, and Tucker moved with them, Decrypt reported. Since September 4, 2025, HV-MTL has belonged to Adam Weitsman and Gabe8bit, who want to bring the mechs to Otherside, according to the Bored Ape Gazette.

The newest game is Mudwater, Yuga's first card game, launched on October 17, 2026 at ApeFest in Charleston, in print and as NFTs on Solana. Bored Ape holders can claim ten packs until January 19, 2027, Mutant Ape holders two. Our Mudwater guide explains rules and prices, our guide to the free packs covers the claim, and our ApeFest 2026 review covers the evening.

TwelveFold: art on Bitcoin

In March 2023 Yuga moved onto the Bitcoin blockchain. TwelveFold consists of 300 artworks as Ordinals, content written directly onto the Bitcoin blockchain and assigned to individual satoshis, the smallest unit of a bitcoin. Yuga auctioned 288 of them on March 5 and 6, 2023 for 735.7 BTC, then around $16.5 million, according to Cointelegraph. The collection still trades on Magic Eden.

Acquisitions and sales: CryptoPunks, Meebits and Moonbirds

In March 2022 Yuga bought from Larva Labs the rights to CryptoPunks, one of the oldest NFT collections on Ethereum, and to Meebits, together with 423 Punks and 1,711 Meebits, as The Block reported. Holders received full commercial rights to their images, according to Decrypt.

In November 2022 came WENEW, the platform of Beeple and Michael Figge, with the 10KTF collection. Figge, until then CEO of WENEW, joined Yuga as chief content officer according to Decrypt and is now CEO. On February 16, 2024, Yuga took over PROOF, the company behind Moonbirds, as The Block reported.

Yuga then sold five brands within just over 13 months: HV-MTL and Legends of the Mara to Faraway (April 2024), Meebits to The Meebit Company (February 2025), CryptoPunks to the non-profit Infinite Node Foundation (May 13, 2025) and Moonbirds, Mythics and Oddities to Orange Cap Games (May 30, 2025). Orange Cap Games, the buyer of Moonbirds according to Decrypt, now prints the Mudwater cards.

The NFTs remained tradable in every sale; what changed hands was the ownership of the rights. Where you can trade CryptoPunks, Meebits or Moonbirds is shown in our NFT marketplace comparison.

Licensing and brand: Made by Apes, lifestyle and the clubhouse

Made by Apes is the club's licensing programme. Since summer 2023 holders have licensed their Ape for their own brands, listed in a directory called Bodega, as the Bored Ape Gazette reported at launch. In January 2024 the programme counted 315 companies, according to the Bored Ape Gazette. In November 2026 the site is live, licence applications are open and the new version is built on ApeChain.

Bored & Hungry, by contrast, belongs to a licensee, not to Yuga. Andy Nguyen opened the burger restaurant in Long Beach in April 2022 and closed it on April 8, 2024, Decrypt reported. The brand lives on as a pop-up, most recently at ApeFest 2026.

Fashion became a second pillar: in November 2023 a collection with BAPE in 25 stores worldwide, and in December 2025 a permanent shop with BAYC Essentials. Since May 2026 there has been a P2P marketplace on which holders sell merch, art and collectibles directly to one another, paid in APE on ApeChain. Buyers do not need to own an Ape.

Two projects have been announced. At ApeFest 2025 Yuga presented its first permanent clubhouse, in Wynwood, Miami, for holders and public events; in November 2026 the clubhouse page shows “Coming Soon”. On top of that comes an anime series with Jeffrey Huang (MachiBigBrother) and Bored Studios, which Figge presented again in Seoul in June 2026.

What the portfolio says about Yuga Labs

The list shows three phases. In 2021 and 2022 Yuga expanded broadly: three collections in five months, then a token, a metaverse and two acquisitions. 2023 brought five new projects in a single year. From autumn 2023, with Moonbirds as the exception, came the retrenchment: two rounds of layoffs and five brands sold. The main additions during this period were ApeChain and the open world of Otherside.

What stands out is how little Yuga has shut down. By our count, the only in-house project to end was the Dookey Dash season, and that was as planned; the acquired 10KTF collection was absorbed into Otherside in 2023. Otherwise Yuga has sold rather than closed. For holders that is the better route: their NFTs remain tradable and find owners who want to keep building.

Since late 2025 almost everything new has hinged on the Apes: the permanent shop, the marketplace, the clubhouse and Mudwater with free packs. Our view: this focus is right, because the Apes have survived every market turn since 2021.

Two open questions remain. Otherside took three and a half years to get from the land sale to an open world, and the resource economy still has no date. And ApeChain does not carry the year's most important product. In our view, whether Yuga ties both more closely to the Apes will decide whether the portfolio becomes a coherent whole again.

Disclosure: Dennis Weidner, founder of Cryptoticker, holds Bored Apes, Mutant Apes and Otherdeeds; Cryptoticker took over the BMW Apecar in 2025. This article is not investment advice.

Frequently asked questions about Yuga Labs projects

Yes. ApeChain has been running since October 2024 as a dedicated blockchain for ApeCoin. On November 4, 2026, it was announced that it will switch to Chainlink CCIP for cross-chain transfers. Total value locked stood at around $2.3 million in early November.

Otherside is Yuga Labs' metaverse. The land plots are called Otherdeeds, and Yuga sold 55,000 of them in April 2022. Since November 12, 2025, Otherside has been open to everyone in the browser as Koda Nexus, with no wallet and no NFT required.

The rights to CryptoPunks have been held by the non-profit Infinite Node Foundation since May 13, 2025. Yuga Labs had bought them from Larva Labs in March 2022. The individual Punks still belong to their holders.

Made by Apes is the Bored Ape Yacht Club's licensing programme. Since 2023 holders have been able to officially license their Ape for their own brands and products. The programme is running, and applications are possible in November 2026.

Yuga Labs handed the HV-MTL mech collection, together with Legends of the Mara, to the studio Faraway on April 17, 2024. Since September 4, 2025, HV-MTL has belonged to collector Adam Weitsman and Gabe8bit.

Transparency note: This article was produced with the assistance of artificial intelligence and reviewed by our editorial team before publication. All figures and claims were checked against the primary sources linked in the text. The feature image was generated with AI.

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