Yuga Labs: Acquires CryptoPunks and Meebits from Larva Labs

Yuga Labs Acquires CryptoPunks and Meebits from Larva Labs

  • Yuga Labs, creators of the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), acquired the intellectual property (IP) of the CryptoPunks and Meebits collections from Larva Labs
  • CryptoPunks and Meebits are popular non-fungible token (NFT) collections on the Ethereum blockchain
  • CryptoPunks is a non-fungible token (NFT) collection on the Ethereum blockchain
  • The experimental project was inspired by the London punk scenes, the cyberpunk movement, and electronic music artists Daft Punk
  • The Meebits are 20,000 unique 3D voxel characters, created by a custom generative algorithm, then registered on the Ethereum blockchain
  • YugaLabs owns the copyright for both the CryptoPunks and Meebits collections, as well as 423 CryptoPunks and 1711 Meebits
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