Yuga Labs is serious about refocusing on theĀ Bored Ape Yacht Club, theĀ Otherside metaverse game, and related projects. On Friday, the crypto startup said that it had sold off yet another previously acquiredĀ NFTĀ project IP, dumping theĀ MoonbirdsĀ property that it purchasedĀ just over a year ago. The buyer is Orange Cap Games, a young gaming startup that builds digital and physical trading card games. The firm’s first game, theĀ Pudgy Penguins-themedĀ Vibes TCG, launched onĀ Ethereum layer-2 network Abstract.
“Spencer [Gordon-Sand, CEO] and the team at Orange Cap Games are among the smartest, most detail-oriented builders in consumer crypto,” Yuga Labs co-founder and CEO Greg “Garga” Solano wrote on X. “Moonbirds deserve a team whose whole world is the birds, and there’s no one better than Orange Cap Games to help them reach their potential.”
Orange Cap Games has yet to share concrete plans for the Moonbirds IP and associated Mythics and Oddities collections. However, inĀ an X post, the studio said that any future on-chain assets tied to Moonbirds will either be minted on a layer-1 chain or on theĀ Yuga-linked ApeChain, an Ethereum layer-2 network. Additionally, Moonbirds characters will still come to Yuga’s long-in-the-works Otherside game.
