APECOIN—Bullish or Bearish for CryptoPunks? | Zeneca, Andy8052, Scott Lewis
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🗓️ 23 March 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In a massive week for Bored Ape Yacht Club studio Yuga Labs, they acquired CryptoPunks & Meebits from Larva Labs, as well as releasing their community token $APE. With ApeCoin and a massive inflow of intellectual property, the NFT space is spinning with buzz and speculation about what this all means.
Today, we have Zeneca_33, Andy8052, and Scott Lewis joining State of the Nation to get to the bottom of this monumental event. What does this mean for Punks and Apes? What about intellectual property, ownership, and value? And lastly, are we seeing the dawn of a new age of digital monopolies?
In this chaotic landscape, a rational and steady approach to understanding is always a winner.
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Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro
8:00 Panelists
12:03 What CryptoPunks Want
16:44 Brand Management
22:01 Applebees
26:52 Creative Commons License
32:00 Best Rights Strategies
40:00 ApeCoin Launch
46:20 Is $APE Overvalued?
54:58 Yuga Labs Deck
1:00:52 Financials vs Monopolies
1:04:31 $450 Million Raise
1:06:45 Panelist Projects
1:10:00 Closing & Disclaimers
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Resources:
Scott Lewis:
https://twitter.com/scott_lew_is?s=20&t=kXCI6sgHk2MMkG_PZKekSQ
Zeneca_33:
https://twitter.com/Zeneca_33?s=20&t=kXCI6sgHk2MMkG_PZKekSQ
Andy8052:
https://twitter.com/andy8052?s=20&t=kXCI6sgHk2MMkG_PZKekSQ
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Bankless Nation, welcome to another state of the nation episode where we talk about |
| 0:12.2 | something hot that is going on in crypto today's episode. |
| 0:15.1 | What could be hotter than this? |
| 0:16.6 | The apes bought the punk, David, Yuga Labs, biggest NFT acquisition in history. |
| 0:23.4 | One for the history books in all of crypto, I think, made a massive purchase of crypto |
| 0:29.3 | punk IP from Larval Labs and also purchased some punks and other assets along with that |
| 0:35.7 | I believe. |
| 0:36.7 | We're going to be talking about that today. |
| 0:38.2 | David, what's the topic and who do we have in our conversation on today's state of |
| 0:43.4 | the nation? |
| 0:44.4 | Yeah, this has really caught the NFT ecosystem by storm. |
| 0:48.1 | People always speculated that at one point in time some NFT brands will start buying the |
| 0:53.2 | IP of other NFT brands, but I don't think anyone expected that the second largest, the biggest |
| 0:59.3 | brand has come out in the NFT mania, the board apes, would buy the most original, most |
| 1:04.6 | OG IP out of the crypto punks from Larval Labs. |
| 1:07.8 | It's like Ethereum buying Bitcoin. |
| 1:09.6 | Wow. |
| 1:10.6 | That's amazing. |
| 1:11.6 | Sorry, man. |
| 1:12.6 | That's advice. |
| 1:13.6 | So there's been a lot of just questions about what does this mean? |
| 1:18.2 | What does it mean for people to own NFTs but have that be separate and distinct from |
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