Elon Musk swaps Twitter avatar for a horde of Bored Apes, BAYC floor price surges 10 ETH

Fresh from bidding to Purchase Twitter, Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO and laminitis of Tesla, sparked a disturbance connected the societal media this greeting erstwhile helium changed his illustration photograph to a collage representation featuring aggregate Bored Apes nonfungible tokens (NFTs).

Musk's Twitter avatar arsenic of Wednesday shows a representation featuring a postulation of Bored Apes with Ape 5809 stacked successful the middle. The NFTs are each from antithetic artists, each with a unsocial plan and serial number.

Bored Apes. Source Sothebys.

Bored Apes are highly coveted among NFT collectors. So fashionable that, erstwhile Yuga Labs, the institution down the Bored Ape NFT, launched a caller NFT project, state costs connected Ethereum (ETH) soared into the thousands of dollars.

The announcement caused a disturbance successful the NFT community, with immoderate saying Elon Musk made a collage of "screenshotted bored apes his illustration representation to troll NFT owners." Others judge Musk is trying to awesome his volition to get into the NFT space.

— Fancy Bears Metaverse (@FancyBearsMeta) May 4, 2022

Michael Bouhanna, a modern creation specializer and co-head of integer creation astatine Sotheby's, was likewise speedy to react, sharing a screenshot connected Twitter of Musk's profile. Bouhanna tweeted asking the Tesla CEO to delete the avatar helium had designed for Sotheby's sale, suggesting that Mr. Musk had not acquired the NFTs.

@elonmusk arsenic overmuch I respect your enactment I’d similar you to region your pfp that I created for our Sotheby’s sale. Or you recognition maine . Happy to nonstop you the archetypal record minted with the purchaser support pic.twitter.com/e83ZyxWGH5

— Michael Bouhanna (@michaelbouhanna) May 4, 2022

Elon Musk has since tweeted, "I dunno … seems kinda fungible," to his 90.7 cardinal followers.

Whatever the case, Apecoin (APE) holders were ecstatic, with their tokens expanding 20% successful worth according to Cointelegraph Markets Pro data. Since the Tesla CEO updated his Twitter illustration photo, implicit 10 Bored Apes person been sold at the clip of the article, and the level terms has since risen by 10 ETH.