A few weeks ago I stepped up and became CEO at Yuga. I joined BAYC in June 2021. Anyone who was around back then will never forget that ride: Doggo airdrop, mutant mint, casino night, and the first Apefest - it was a slingshot out of the pandemic and into a new frontier. Over the past year I’ve been sharpening the focus on Otherside. As CEO, my goal is to extend that discipline across all of Yuga. BAYC is the best club on the internet. The Club needs to be part of your world, not just your timeline. We’ll be doing way more stuff together as a club - meetups, moments, access, apparel. I see all of this guided by three pillars: IRL, Storytelling, and Style. While I’m handling operations, I’m excited that Garga will be freed up to be going deeper on the BAYC creative and world-building he’s always been best at. With Otherside, we’re developing a world class social platform for digital ownership and crypto. People will explore Otherdeeds, compete for resources, and build their own experiences. To win, we’re going to need to grow our user base a lot, and prove how every community can succeed in Otherside. We’ve made a lot of progress over the last few weeks and I’m stoked to show you, there’s a lot more ahead.

More games on Otherside! Organizers: @OtherGamesXYZ It was interesting to play games made through MML #otherside #Web3 #othersidemeta #ApeChain

Other Games: Bootcamp in @othersidemeta x.com/i/broadcasts/1oJMvvDXj…

While the club reconnects overseas in Asia near the end of June, the House of Four Winds will be co-hosting a special mahjong night with @17ikoola . Join us for a night of tradition, community, and culture🀄️🐉🪷 Spots are limited: luma.com/fppwvkgo @BoredApeYC

KBBQ soju while scheming up plans for global domination when your magic internet jpeg community becomes your closest friends, collaborators, and confidants

A lot of product design comes down to removing friction. For the new Otherside wearable shop, we introduced a bulk purchase flow that allows players to select multiple items and press-and-hold to buy everything at once. No repeated purchase loops. No unnecessary confirmations. No extra clicks. Just a simple interaction that handles the complexity behind the scenes and gets players back into the experience faster. It's a small detail, but a nice quality-of-life improvement. Maybe we should have also included a select all button XD

Sometimes you just know

If you have followed me for some time you know how passionate I have been for game development and world building in Web3. From building experiences on the Roadmap for the @BoredApeYC to becoming an Alpha-Tester in the ODK, the belief in having a decentralized game world has only gotten stronger. For me the vision for this metaverse has never been more clearer than right here on @OthersideMeta. I am excited to take up this torch as an ambassador for Otherside and ODK and rally the community and devs to build up Otherside to a higher level. @TheRenderPool has already amassed a great circle of devs and curious minds who align with this mission already. It will now be my job to keep the focus and provide the resources for game makers to build worlds and environments for their communities and beyond. To all the devs, builders and artists, let's keep building the culture we want want to see right here on Otherside.

been keeping the teams lean on purpose but some opportunities are worth testing we brought @veratheape and @KiKi_Blockverse in to help with China and Korea for a few months and it's creating real momentum. continuing that spirit, we’re going to be trying out two roles on @OthersideMeta for a few months I've asked @Escapation to join the Otherside team to work on AI development. There’s so much potential for innovation and we want Otherside on the forefront of that narrative. I've asked @tropicalvirtual to join the Otherside team to help as an official ODK ambassador. If you know Otherside, you know Tropical shows up for the ODK community. Stoked to back him in an official capacity. Both start Monday clear eyes, full hearts Otherside

one of my favorite members ever - the general. if you're in the club please give him a warm welcome back.

Today we launched Nations of Nexus on @OthersideMeta. On the surface, it's a futbol inspired activation. 48 nation-inspired jerseys. 2 Otherside team jerseys. 2 shorts variants. A new wearable shop. A playable pitch in the Swamp. But for me, this launch represents something much bigger. Over the last several months, a small but incredibly talented team has been building what we've been calling internally Wearable Studio, a custom creation platform designed specifically for Otherside. The original goal was simple. Give creators the ability to move from idea to game-ready wearable faster than ever before. This activation became our proving ground. An opportunity to put the tooling, workflows, and pipeline through a real production environment, pressure test every assumption, and gather the learnings needed to make the platform stronger. For this activation, a single concept artist (we see you @Lovans) was able to create 52 wearables in an incredibly aggressive timeline, taking concepts all the way through to finalized assets that are now live in Otherside. From sketch to production. From production to distribution. All from the same platform. That outcome is not the result of working harder. It's the result of building better systems. The wearables launching today are the visible output, but behind them is months of work designing workflows, UX patterns, creation tools, storefront experiences, minting flows, and the supporting infrastructure needed to create, publish, and manage wearable content at scale while integrating learning along the way. What excites me most is that this activation demonstrates something we've believed for a long time. Wearables are more than cosmetics. They're identity. They're affiliation. They're access. They're participation. They're an extension of us. The jerseys you pick are not just something you wear. They determine which nation you represent. They unlock access to the pitch. They become your ticket into the experience itself. In this activation, wearables are not sitting on the sidelines. They're part of the gameplay loop. That's an important step toward a future where digital items can do more than just look good. They can help shape experiences, communities, and the worlds we participate in. As designers, some of the highest impact work we can do isn't creating the final asset. It's creating systems that allow entire teams to create more, move faster, and be more ambitious. That's what Wearable Studio represents to me. A platform built by creators, for creators. A force multiplier. This launch would not have happened without an incredible team of designers, artists, engineers, and producers, who pushed through every challenge to make it real. And none of it happens without leadership willing to trust their team, empower experimentation, and give people room to build something ambitious. Creativity has never been the bottleneck. The process usually is. Today is proof. 52 wearables. One concept artist. One platform. One activation. And a glimpse at what scalable creation inside Otherside can look like. The most exciting part for me isn't the 52 wearables we launched today. It's everything they make possible next. See you in the Swamp 🦍⚽

Wearables Updates: @OthersideMeta How to equip your Otherside Futbol Kit. Definitely NOT Soccer

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She said it’s me or the BAYC Well…

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