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What is to Happen Next for Yuga Labs?

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Tushar Verma
What is to Happen Next for Yuga Labs?

The Securities and Exchange Commission had started an investigation into the shady activities at Yuga Labs, a significant and crucial NFT-based enterprise. A consumer rights group called Scott+Scott made the decision to join the fight alongside them.

They also took part in concurrent investigations using their own methodology. Nevertheless, they have made the decision to proceed and have gathered everyone connected in any way to Yuga Labs. These include a few of the chosen executives who they believe need to be scrutinized, as well as a few company directors.

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Yuga Labs are based on selling digital assets, including ApeCoin tokens, virtual properties in its metaverse, and other groups of non-fungible tokens (or "NFTs"). The Bored Ape Yacht Club collection of NFTs is Yuga's signature item.

Yuga launched the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection on April 20, 2021, minting a total of 10,000. The NFTs display digitized images of a cartoon ape with a bored expression, as the name would imply. Through the selling and resale of the Yuga NFTs, Yuga and company executives were able to make hundreds of millions of dollars thanks to its promotional activities regarding the Bored Ape Yacht Club and its ecology.

In a public offering of the ApeCoin token on March 17, 2022, Yuga held back about 32% of the total supply for the company's founders, executives, and other insiders.

On April 30, 2022, Yuga began selling 55,000 pieces of virtual land as part of their metaverse initiative. This auction brought in about $320 million in cryptocurrencies. The "biggest offering of its kind," as stated by Bloomberg in an article headlined "Bored Ape Metaverse Frenzy Raises Millions, Crashes Ethereum," took place during this virtual property sale.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into Yuga's portfolio of digital assets and the sale of unregistered securities, according to a report by Bloomberg on October 11, 2022, headed "Bored-Ape Creator Yuga Labs Faces SEC Probe Over Unregistered Offerings."

The company's promoters will also be subject to additional actions and additional scrutiny as part of this overall investigation. They place a great level of importance on accurately determining whether any federal security-related laws have been broken or compromised in any way. They contend that the situation is truly severe and that all reasonable efforts should be made to make the correct identifications....Read More

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