Bored Ape Yacht Club 🍌 (@BoredApeYC) — Twitter Score 697 out of 1000

Bored Ape Yacht Club is the official Twitter account for the Bored Ape Yacht Club, a collection of 10,000 unique algorithmically generated ERC-721 NFTs on Ethereum, launched on April 30, 2021 at 0.08 ETH each (approximately $190 at launch) and selling out in 12 hours. The collection was co-founded by Greg Solano, Wylie Aronow, Kerem Atalay, and Zeshan Ali. Its parent company is Yuga Labs, which raised $450 million at a $4 billion valuation in a March 2022 seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Animoca Brands, The Sandbox, FTX Trading Ltd., Tiger Global, and others; co-founder Greg Solano returned as CEO of Yuga Labs in February 2024. Bored Ape Yacht Club's Twitter Score is 697 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranked #122 (top 0.1%) of 389,587 accounts tracked. Active since 2021, the account has 1,026,127 followers as of July 2026 and 20,535 posts.

Bored Ape Yacht Club anchors a multi-collection NFT ecosystem. Companion drops include the Mutant Ape Yacht Club (20,000 NFTs, launched August 2021), the Bored Ape Kennel Club (10,000 NFTs, launched June 2021), and Otherdeeds (100,000 metaverse land NFTs, launched April 30, 2022). ApeCoin ($APE), an ERC-20 governance and utility token with a total supply of 1 billion tokens, launched on March 17, 2022 via airdrop to BAYC and Mutant Ape Yacht Club holders; each BAYC holder received over $100,000 worth of APE at launch, and the token is governed by ApeCoin DAO. The collection's floor price peaked at approximately 128 ETH (around $354,000) in May 2022. Yuga Labs acquired the CryptoPunks and Meebits NFT collections and their IP rights from Larva Labs in March 2022, later selling the Meebits IP in 2024 to concentrate resources on the BAYC ecosystem and Otherside. In October 2024, ApeChain, a Layer 3 blockchain built on Arbitrum Orbit with $APE as its native gas token, launched mainnet and grew from 5,000 to over 103,000 unique accounts in a single day. The Otherside metaverse project launched its Koda Nexus hub in November 2025; Yuga Labs unveiled AI-driven creation tools for the platform in June 2025 and, in early 2026, acquired Improbable's Unreal Engine platform and development team to power it.

Bored Ape Yacht Club and Yuga Labs have faced several legal and regulatory proceedings. The SEC opened an investigation in October 2022 to determine whether BAYC NFTs and ApeCoin constituted unregistered securities; the agency closed the inquiry in March 2025 with no charges filed. A federal class action lawsuit filed in December 2022 alleged that BAYC NFTs and ApeCoin were unregistered securities and that Yuga Labs allegedly colluded with celebrities including Justin Bieber, Madonna, Paris Hilton, and Steph Curry to promote them; a court dismissed the suit in September/October 2025, ruling that neither product satisfied the Howey Test. Yuga Labs also brought trademark infringement claims against artist Ryder Ripps over a copycat BAYC collection; a court initially awarded nearly $1.6 million in damages, but an appeals court overturned that judgment in July 2025 and remanded the case to trial. In June 2022, the BAYC official Instagram account was hacked, with approximately $3 million worth of NFTs stolen from holders through a phishing link. At ApeFest in Hong Kong in November 2023, multiple attendees reported eye and skin injuries attributed to UV lighting at the event.

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Bored Ape Yacht Club draws followers from across the NFT and broader crypto community. The accounts following Bored Ape Yacht Club include 2,109 founders, 369 angel investors, 2,485 influencers and 108 VCs, among them Laura Shin, Chris Dixon, Toly, Ansem, Solana and 6529. Bored Ape Yacht Club has been mentioned by 4,080 accounts, with 56,392 total mentions.