April 2021
BAYC Goes Live
Bored Ape Yacht Club launches on Ethereum. 10,000 apes, commercial IP rights, a culture built on "Apes Together Strong." The blueprint is set.
AOA Archive
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Opening the issue
AOA Archive
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Opening the issue
AOA Archive / Issue 01
A collection that had to rebuild itself.
October 2024
The moment ApeChain goes live, Apes on Ape is there. One of the very first NFT projects to deploy natively on the new chain. Early believers mint in — with placeholder art for now — trusting the team and the vision. The OG collection on ApeChain.
Arbitrum Orbit Layer-3. Native $APE gas. Near-zero fees. Built for NFTs, gaming, and creators. The stage is set for a chain-native ape project.
April 2021
Bored Ape Yacht Club launches on Ethereum. 10,000 apes, commercial IP rights, a culture built on "Apes Together Strong." The blueprint is set.
March 2022
$APE drops via a major airdrop to BAYC, MAYC, and Kennel Club holders. Governance. Utility. A token tied to culture — not just speculation.
December 2024
Yuga Labs issues a DMCA takedown against the original collection. Art too close to BAYC. Platforms delist. The project goes dark. Many wrote it off. But within the Ape community, something different started — a rallying call.
Late 2024 – Early 2025
The community didn't scatter. BAYC holders, Ape ecosystem veterans, and true believers showed up. "Apes Together Strong" wasn't a slogan — it was a plan. The team scrapped every pixel of the original art and built a completely fresh 10,000-piece generative collection from scratch. Original traits. Original soul. Same rebellious energy.
AOA originally launched in October 2024 — the same month ApeChain went live — with placeholder art. After a DMCA in December 2024 and a full art rebuild, the collection minted out as 10,000 generative apes on January 8–9, 2025. In December 2025, the metadata was updated on-chain and every holder received their fully original, final artwork.
Record / June 29, 2025
Floor hits ~$67.35 / 111 APE. The "only Apes on ApeChain" narrative peaks. Music plays climb into the millions. Arcade testing kicks off. The community that held through the DMCA and the rebuild reaps the moment.
The original art team is out. SmokeThatDank and ApeProfessore step up and take over — two artists already deep in the AOA community who believe in the project. They commit to building the definitive generative collection from scratch: 10,000 fully original pieces, new traits, new soul. The art is no longer outsourced — it's made by the community, for the community.
Same token number. The left file is the original art kept in the site archive. The right image is the live collection thumbnail.
Open Ape #7650December 2025
The moment holders had been waiting for. Metadata is updated on-chain and every holder receives their fully original, generative Ape — replacing the placeholder that launched with the mint. apesonape.io goes live as a creator-first playground: SoundCloud integration, AI studio, AOA Arcade, 3D avatars for the Otherside. The real AOA era begins.
December 2025
The December 2025 delivery is when apesonape.io goes live with SoundCloud. NoTime, 2Real2x, SmokeThatDank, and ApeProfessore are releasing music.
Enter AOA RecordsAOA doubles down on culture. NoTime, 2Real2x, SmokeThatDank, ApeProfessore — real artists releasing real music. 2M+ SoundCloud plays. Arcade games. Wardrobe drops. A community that ships daily and measures success in plays, not price. The DMCA story isn't baggage — it's the badge.