Yuga Labs, the company behind the popular Bored Apes Yacht Club NFT series has acquired the distribution rights to the no less popular CyrptoPunks and Meebits series for undisclosed amount. The first thing that Yuga announced together with the acquisition is that it will be transferring the IP rights to CryptoPunks NFT buyers, something that its creators from Larva Labs had refused to do.
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