SEC Ends 3-Year Probe Into Yuga Labs—What’s Next?

It has now been a couple of months since Yuga Labs’ had essentially “broken” Etherscan due to the high demand generated by its Otherside mint. As such, there have been discussions on how such an entity could mitigate the type of problems that arose during its legendary mint. For the answer to this, there have […]

A source familiar with the matter said the SEC is looking into whether certain NFTs from Yuga Labs could be “more akin to stocks.” Sources say that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) probe into Yuga Labs is actually part of a wider investigation into the nonfungible token (NFT) market, which already came to light in March.On Oct. 11, a report from Bloomberg citing a source “familiar with the matter” said the SEC is investigating Yuga Labs over whether certain NFTs are “more akin to stocks” and whether the sales of certain digital assets violate federal laws. However,....

Otherdeed NFTs top the “burn leaderboard” over the past seven days at roughly 55,816 ETH, or 56% of all burns during that period. The burning rate of Ethereum has spiked to new all-time high (ATH) levels following the heavily anticipated sale of tokenized land plots in Yuga Labs’ upcoming Metaverse project the “Otherside.”Yuga Labs, the creators of the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), sold 55,000 virtual land nonfungible tokens (NFTs) dubbed “Otherdeeds” on Sunday. The overwhelming demand for the tokens saw Ethereum gas fees shoot up so high that a handful of users paid as high as 2.6 Ether....

Gordon Goner warned about a possible incoming attack after receiving “credible information” that an insider from Twitter would help bypass the security of the social media accounts. Gordon Goner, the pseudonymous co-founder of Yuga Labs, issued a warning about a possible incoming attack on their social media accounts under the Yuga Labs umbrella after receiving “credible information” that an insider from Twitter would help bypass the security of the accounts.Yuga Labs, home to some of the most popular nonfungible tokens (NFTs), including the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) and Otherside,....

Following a six-day snapshot voting period, the final results narrowly reveal that 53.59% of ApeCoin participants advocate to remain on Ethereum for the mid-term future, with 7.1 million APE tokens cast in total. ApeCoin DAO, a governance system serving the democratic rights of ApeCoin holders — a digital asset tied to the Bored Ape Yacht Club ecosystem — published an official proposal on May 2 to debate whether the asset should remain on Ethereum, transition to a layer-2 alternative, or perhaps explore the possibility of chain migration. The ApeCoin improvement proposal (AIP) titled....