Yuga Labs Announces Skill-Based NFT Mint

Yuga Labs, the artistic studio behind Bored Ape Yacht Membership (BAYC), has introduced an growth to its non-fungible token (NFT) ecosystem that begins with a free mint and a skill-based sport.

The distinctive drop, which entails a number of steps, begins on Jan. 17 with a free mint for current Bored Ape Yacht Membership/Mutant Ape Yacht Membership holders referred to as Sewer Passes. These tokens are the important thing to unlocking a skill-based sport referred to as Dookey Sprint, which opens for gameplay on Jan. 18.

Dookey Sprint will likely be playable to anybody who holds a Sewer Cross, together with these bought on the secondary market. Holders are in a position to play the sport a limiteless quantity of occasions, with the objective of receiving a rating increased than 0 to validate their Sewer Passes and “remodel them right into a mysterious energy supply.”

The outcomes of this wacky course of will reveal itself on Feb. 15 when Dookey Sprint gameplay ends.

“Sewer Cross holders will compete for the very best rating and earn their new energy supply,” BAYC wrote in a sequence of tweets on Wednesday. “The very best single-run rating in your particular Sewer Cross and accompanying pockets that achieved the run will decide what it reveals.”

The workforce additionally hinted that no matter is revealed will “evolve all through 2023” and will likely be utilized in future “battles.” You possibly can learn an extended rationalization of the mechanics of the sport right here.

It is clear that this new NFT mint, which started with a foolish and NSFW animated video on December 21 referred to as “The Trial of Jimmy the Monkey,” is a part of Yuga’s broader plans to develop an interoperable metaverse expertise referred to as “The Otherside.” The platform will enable gamers to personal land and switch their current NFTs into playable characters.

“The entire initiatives that we now have are deeply vital to us,” Wylie Aronow, one of many co-founders of Yuga Labs, informed CoinDesk in an interview final month. “The place we see the Otherside is at that intersection.”

In keeping with the roadmap of Yuga Labs’ newest mission, NFTs created from this month-long experiment will likely be a part of a story expertise referred to as “Chapter 1” at a later date.