Yuga Labs launched Mudwater today, a new trading-card line built around Bored Ape Yacht Club. Every BAYC holder can claim 10 packs and every Mutant Ape holder gets 2, unlocked through 6,551 Totems the team airdropped ahead of launch. Each pack holds 10 cards drawn from 120 pieces of BAYC artwork, with foil, numbered, and rare Cracked Ice variants mixed in. The twist is that it's phygital: every digital card is backed by a real, physical sealed pack sitting in a vault, and the whole collection lives on Solana rather than Ethereum, where BAYC itself was minted. Totems, packs, and cards are already tradable on OpenSea, and the team built in a small flywheel back to its own token — 2.5% of Mudwater trading volume gets used to buy APE and hand it to cardholders based on what they hold. It's Yuga's clearest move yet toward treating its Apes as a franchise rather than a single collection: give holders something new to open, trade, and argue about, instead of asking them to just sit on a PFP. Whether that holds anyone's attention past the initial claim rush is the open question — a card game only works if people keep playing it, not just claiming the pack and flipping it. For now it's a concrete answer to a complaint that's followed BAYC for a while: that beyond the art, there isn't much for a holder to actually do. Elsewhere, ApeFest Charleston rolled into its second day with Otherside handing holders an exclusive avatar claim, and Moonbirds' floor jumped 15.9% in a day without an obvious trigger yet. The broader tracked market sits 8.4% lower over the week and roughly flat over the last 24 hours.
Yuga Labs Launches Mudwater Trading Cards
BAYC holders can claim 10 packs and MAYC holders 2, via 6,551 airdropped Totems — 120 artworks, physical packs backed by Solana NFT twins, already tradable on OpenSea.
MAYC Holders Enjoy ApeFest Charleston
Yuga posted Day 2 plans and the pop-up shop as holders reported a big turnout and travel from across the world — with little talk of floor price.
Otherside Claims an Exclusive ApeFest Avatar
The Otherside team opened the Swamp amphitheater at ApeFest and offered a free OFF THE GRID Voyager variant plus a No Signal faceplate to holders on-site.
Moonbirds' Floor Jumps 15.9%
A one-day move about 4.4x its usual daily swing, and the hardest move in 54 days — but 3 of 30 tracked collections moved the same way today, so it isn't only Moonbirds.
A VeeFriends Piece Sold for $10,695
3.4x floor, 18 hours ago — one of the week's louder single trades on the collection.