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aiming for these dates june 22 - july 3 taipei, HK, shanghai, seoul might move a day or two either way might squeeze in one more city more details next week want to connect with our community+partners and talk about bayc, otherside, and ethereum:0x4d224452801aced8b2f0aebe155379bb5d594381 apes together strong

unique holder count over last year has increased, rotation into fresh new holders is a bullish narrative new expansion on rednote and douyin signals focus on growth within chinese holder community strong worldwide community with 30+ worldwide events in the last 45 days yuga well capitalized and filtered down to a pretty cracked team with focus on collector culture more of my perspective here

first area of focus for APAC: i’ve asked @veratheape to join us over the next few months to build the foundation of our work across our Mandarin speaking communities we’re starting with comms in RedNote and Douyin local content to connect an important part of BAYC more soon

so let me get this straight in the last cycle people didn’t know whether or not launching a token would be totally chill or would be totally jail because the SEC wasn’t willing to establish modern rules so to be safe don’t launch a fungible token in a US jurisdiction get really good lawyers who will tell you how to navigate a mission impossible laser room of jurisdictions so you don’t get in trouble with your little coin then someone you don’t know and will never meet will launch your token’s smart contract in BVI or Panama or wherever it’s chill to do that so ‘you’ didn’t launch it for tax purposes the token will get appraised at de minimis so you don’t get fucked on taxes with a fortune of phantom income at tge treasury is managed off-shore by a ‘Foundation’ put a DAO in front to advise the Foundation on how to distribute a token by voting on different proposals people organize beauracratize and participate in a pure democracy where the richest people have the most votes and winners get free money? but at least that’s a reason to buy the token builders try really hard get disillusioned by proposals get scorned by other participants get blamed when its not working pitchforks dissolve dao but then rich people holding tokies to control the ballot have no reason to hold market sell price down only everyone jaded all because navigating a grey zone legal landscape from washington beaureaucrats who didn’t want to set a clear policy tokie ATL but now new leadership is autistic at simplifying and thinks a bunch of shit doesn’t make sense and is going to tear down and rebuild and streamline everything until its coherent did I get that right?

it’s been a month since announcing my transition to ceo at yuga the team has done great work over the last 30 days and the next few weeks will be an important part of the shift bored ape yacht club

just reached a new record high of monthly active users on @OthersideMeta highest since launch and we're only halfway through May otherside has its own voice and a lot of different ways to grow everyone can win on otherside last week's treasure hunt for the 20 arsham voyagers was a glimpse over 700 voyagers raced to find them got footage? drop it below no one has seen a platform for digital collectibles like this before work's not done see you on otherside

there are only 46 gold apes and at this point, it’s very difficult to find an off-market seller willing trade the lowest listed gold ape is 199 eth ($460k) which is effectively double before @GrailsOTC started 3 weeks ago bids are rising but sellers are not budging digital assets like these have rotated into significantly more diamondhanded positions for gold apes, not only are sellers not budging they pretty much don’t exist we are still working through trippies, 4Ts, blacksuits, admirals coats, kings robes, pimp coats, etc but overall our goal has been to help facilitate even more off-market inventory rotating into strong collectors subjective trait-based requests are being facilitated completionists are trading for full sets minimalists are trading for clean apes aesthetics are in control this is important work because it applies momentum to a quality that is hard to quantify: collector strength paired with our progress on IRL events, I firmly believe the sustained pressure we are applying will yield the results everyone is after - a strong Club on a related note, while the bayc website is deliberately minimal and opaque to the public, we are experimenting with a deeper experience in the members section there are also other strategies, which i will go over this week, that I believe to be under engaged, but full of potential for the bored ape yacht club