Yuga Labs acquires Beeple’s 10KTF game, hints at metaverse integration

Yuga Labs, creators of Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), person acquired 10KTF; the NFT crippled founded by integer creator Michael Winkelmann, besides known arsenic Beeple.

10KTF is simply a browser-based NFT crippled that allows players to outfit heroes with crafted items and loadouts successful bid to implicit missions. Missions reward players with APE coins, badges, materials, and escaped airdrops.

The crippled besides intends to see galore items that could beryllium worn by an avatar successful the future; pairs of socks and backpacks are fashionable items from the game’s collection. Until now, fans person been near to wonderment what Metaverse level volition diagnostic these items. Now that the acquisition has been announced, immoderate fans person begun to speculate that 10KTF items whitethorn go wearable wrong Yuga Labs’ as-yet-unreleased Otherside metaverse ecosystem.

A thread published connected the 10KTF authoritative Twitter transmission connected Nov. 14 showed images of the 10KTF hero, Wagmi-San, drinking an elixir that was antecedently featured successful the Otherside trailer. The last station successful the thread is simply a retweet from the Otherside’s channel, which says “welcome to the Otherside, Wagmi-San.”

Welcome to the Otherside, Wagmi-san. pic.twitter.com/cNCNTqOd44

— Othersidemeta (@OthersideMeta) November 14, 2022

Once the acquisition is completed, the institution said that Beeple volition beryllium hired arsenic an advisor for Yuga Labs.

Back successful March, YugaLabs announced that it was acquiring some the Cryptopunks and Meebits NFT collections from the nonfungible pioneers astatine Larval Labs. At the time, Larval Labs co founders Matt Hall and John Watkinson said that, though they were not joining Yuga arsenic portion of the deal, “we saw successful [Yuga Labs] the accomplishment acceptable and expertise successful this abstraction that we were missing.”