BREAKDOWN: Culture vs. Commerce? The Upheaval of Apes Buying Punks
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🗓️ 18 March 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The Yuga Labs power move could reshape the NFT space forever.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Arculus and FTX US.
On today’s episode, NLW goes deep on the implications of Bored Ape Yacht Club’s parent company Yuga Labs buying CryptoPunks IP. Specifically, he focuses on the community’s questions of commerce versus culture. Will the new commercial freedom Punks’ owners have been bestowed lead to cringe commercialism or new types of creative expression? NLW also covers the launch of ApeCoin.
Read Punk 6529’s thread: twitter.com/punk6529/status/1502595586960367617
Cozomo’s thread: twitter.com/CozomoMedici/status/1503494796509257728
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:09.1 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:15.0 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, Arculus, and FtX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:22.8 | What's going on, guys? It is Friday, March 18th, and today we are talking about the upheaval of |
| 0:28.6 | apes buying punks. Culture versus commerce. It's a major, major moment, I think. Before that, |
| 0:34.9 | however, if you are enjoying the breakdown, please go subscribe to it, |
| 0:38.1 | give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to join the conversation, come join us on |
| 0:42.7 | the breakers discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit.ly slash breakdown pod. |
| 0:48.7 | Also, a disclosure as always, in addition to them being a sponsor of the show, I also work with FTX. So this show, |
| 0:56.8 | I kind of teased a couple days ago. Last weekend, one of the big pieces of news was that Yuga Labs, |
| 1:03.0 | the parent company of the Board Ape Yacht Club, had bought the rights to the Cryptopunks. |
| 1:08.6 | Mebits as well, but obviously the punks were the real landshaker here. |
| 1:12.9 | Their first act was to give punk holders full commercial rights, same as the BortApe Yacht Club |
| 1:19.2 | holders. And of course, given how much these collections had vied for some sort of supremacy |
| 1:25.9 | and leadership in the NFT space, it was a really, really big deal |
| 1:29.9 | and fought her for a ton of conversation. I framed this when I mentioned it a couple days ago |
| 1:35.2 | with two separate quotes, one from Punk 6-529, who said today's news is immensely good for |
| 1:40.7 | punks, will unlock tons of activity that was sidelined due to lack of clarity |
| 1:44.3 | on rights, and one from DC investor who said, I don't expect everyone to understand, but it feels |
| 1:49.3 | like my favorite corner bar just got turned into an applebee's. Today's episode is about going a little |
| 1:55.1 | bit deeper in how the community is thinking about this, how they're processing this, and I want to |
| 2:00.1 | start actually with that |
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