In 2025, OpenSea rebranded itself from a primarily non-fungible token market platform to a multi-digital asset trading platform, and many non-fungible token projects are moving there to access its new features and large user base. Yuga Labs, the digital asset company and the NFT team behind the famous Bored Ape Yacht Club non-fungible token series, is the latest project to endorse OpenSea. Yuga Labs has picked OpenSea as its official marketplace for Bored Ape NFT collections.
Bored Ape NFTs Finally Sails Home
In an October 14 blog post, Yuga Labs, through its Bored Ape Yacht Club X account, confirmed that it has picked OpenSea as its official non-fungible token marketplace. “In the early days, OpenSea and Yuga Labs helped define what digital ownership could mean for communities and collectors. Today, that shared vision brings us back together as the exclusive marketplace partner for BAYC, Otherside, and Yuga’s other collections,” the OpenSea spokesperson explained.
The Yacht Club’s back with @OpenSea.
Feels right. https://t.co/1SfOD8mPWNpic.twitter.com/RVNApoLRem— Bored Ape Yacht Club (@BoredApeYC) October 14, 2025
Launched in 2021, Yuga Labs is a renowned blockchain technology company that creates and manages non-fungible token collections, gaming projects, and metaverse experiences. It is best known for the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT collection and has expanded its portfolio by launching more NFTs, including Mutant Ape Yacht Club and Bored Ape Kennel Club NFTs. The company has also built the Otherside, a metaverse project that lets crypto users interact and play games. Yuga Labs is also a major force behind the ApeCoin (APE) ecosystem.
On the other hand, OpenSea is the largest non-fungible token marketplace in the NFT market in terms of trading sales volume and users. The OpenSea NFT marketplace relaunched as “OS2” in mid-2025, integrating the trading of both NFTs and fungible crypto tokens. The new version is built for cross-chain trading, meaning a user can buy an Ethereum NFT with tokens from another chain, and it supports 19 blockchains. This innovation has made the OpenSea NFT market platform attractive to many NFT projects, including Yuga Labs.
Yuga Labs & OpenSea NFT Integration
The OpenSea NFT marketplace started its trading journey a few years before Yuga Labs was even founded. The two companies strengthened their relationship during the historic 2021 market bull run. The trading success of the Bored Ape Yacht Club and Mutant Ape Yacht Club NFT Series in April 2021 significantly boosted OpenSea’s visibility. At the time, OpenSea emerged as the largest NFT market in trading sales volume.
The OpenSea and Yuga Labs parted ways in August 2023 after OpenSea disabled creator royalty enforcement. OpenSea launched its Operator Filter in November 2022, enabling creators to restrict secondary non-fungible token sales only to marketplaces that enforce creator royalties, thus filtering out platforms like Blur, one of the leading NFT market platforms. At the time, Yuga Labs even threatened to delist all its NFT collections from the OpenSea NFT Marketplace. Previously, Yuga Labs made Magic Eden its official NFT marketplace.
On @opensea's decision to sunset their Operator Filter. pic.twitter.com/ahc155WWkX
— Yuga Labs (@yugalabs) August 18, 2023
In the meantime, the Bored Ape NFT creator, Yuga Labs, joins Igloo Inc., the team behind Pudgy Penguins, the globally acknowledged non-fungible token collection featuring a fixed set of 8,888 penguin birds hosted in the Ethereum blockchain network, which recently made OpenSea its official NFT marketplace. Toast, the digital asset company behind Good Vibes Club, a globally acknowledged non-fungible token collection featuring a fixed set of 6,969 NFTs, also made OpenSea its official NFT marketplace.
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