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ARE WE FUCKING READY

. @MadMeerkatNFT. Kudos to Evergreen for bringing this kickass sneakers to the burrow few years back.

It's taken awhile, but I'm proud to say that my Made by Apes application for @MadMeerkatNFT is finally approved by @BoredApeYC ! I thought this is a good time to summarise all that is going behind the scenes when I say I've been pushing the MM IP hard via different initiatives. Some of them might seem weird, but hear me out. 1. Made by Apes License Apefest blew my mind and allowed me to see how branding could take off with an iconic design - Apes of course. Anyone who is in the NFT space is sure to recognise one. The question is - A lot of it has been to push a product and service, but what about a whole ass project? This license permits me to weave in elements of my own ape with whole collection(s), and given that a lot of inspiration for our inception was by the Bored Apes (both artwork and culture, I've been vocal about this from time to time), this reduces a huge friction and allows Mad Kats to gain a bit more attention when we push merch. Now, with weaved elements together, it's not just a meerkat - It's a meerkat that looks somewhat familiar to something you might have seen on the Internet. 2. Figurines Well, I'm not shy to admit either that I know right now we are not well known at the stage where we could get some meerkats onto Funkopop just yet. But figurines have been a huge part of many people's collectibles journey since childhood, and I don't see any difference here. The route here is easy: Find your forever Kats --> Get your figurines --> Feelings of emotion to these Kats get deeper. 3. Gaming and manga characters We're collaborating with a few projects that have shown some traction and demand to introduce some madness into their worlds. Getting a whole collection into 1 of them definitely doesn't make pragmatic sense just yet, hence I'm glad we went through a CC0-ish Treasury Kat @Duke_of_Madness , that allowed everyone to come together to celebrate via a representative that everyone feels a belonging to. I've also submitted an application for @OverpassIP , that I believe will push all three categories and more further. Let's see how this goes, but I would like to think that we have a little step in all these frontiers, each inching us a bit closer and closer to something madder we're trying to create. Week wasn't the best for me but I'm glad I had some good stuff to close it off. Lastly I know a few have told me the Merge is overdue - I know it is. But it will make sense when introduced finally with some of these bullets taking off. LFGM.