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Bored Ape Yacht Club creator Yuga Labs on Wednesday opened the minting of its newest NFT collection, HV-MTL, through a so-called “summoning” process in which owners of Sewer Pass NFTs can burn—destroy—them in exchange for robots described as Mechs.
The new @yugalabs collection is available for the first time👀
HV-MTL (Heavy Metal) pic.twitter.com/ySegrBWJOm
— Ben Jammin 🍌 (@xBenJamminx) March 15, 2023
HV-MTL is a collection 30,000 Evo 1 Mechs that Sewer Pass NTs release from a Power Source when burned. This will allow you to access future games and content.
We’ve Dookey’d and we’ve dashed. Now the holder of the Key can begin to fulfill Gary the Dog Prophet’s prophecy by releasing the power from within the Box. The Summoning begins in one hour… pic.twitter.com/TmNAkuR5P8
— Bored Ape Yacht Club (@BoredApeYC) March 15, 2023
The HV-MTL NFT floor price was set at 2.7 Ethereum, or approximately $4,445 for each on Wednesday on OpenSea. HV-MTL also surpassed 2,588 ETH on secondary market, approximately $4.3 Million.
Dookey Dash was a browser-based “endless runner” game that challenges players to progress as far as possible through a virtual sewer system, attempting to avoid obstacles while picking up items.
Last month, the NFT racing game Dookey Dash ended as esports star, Kyle “Mongraal” Jackson, won the inaugural race.
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Over 25,000 players took part in the race that used Sewer Passes—unique digital collectibles only available to Bored Ape Yacht Club Members—as fuel. Now those Sewer Passes will become mechanized companions to owners’ apes.
Some collectors complained about issues with the HV-MTL metadata and missing “companion” traits. Yuga Labs said they were investigating, and that meanwhile, “the trait has been removed from the collection for now and we will push a metadata update when this is resolved,”
It was resolved in four hours.
We’ve resolved the issue of the Companion trait not showing correctly on HV-MTL Power Sources. The metadata has been updated, and the trait has been added to the collection.
— Bored Ape Yacht Club (@BoredApeYC) March 16, 2023
There is more to be cautious about than the excitement surrounding the Bored Ape-related NFT drops. In order to trap collectors, fraudsters claiming to be from the Bored Ape Yacht Club circulated malicious URL links.
Twitter searched “bored ape yacht club”to pull up the account to get the link to the summoning site but the account and website was a lookalike and bye bye sewer passes.
Thanks @twitter for your great security, and @yugalabs for making so many domains and steps you just made… https://t.co/pj6w38CR2Y
— 🅧 Glassy.eth 💎 (@GlassyMusic) March 16, 2023
Yuga Labs is long associated with Ethereum and NFTs. But the company expanded into Bitcoin last month when it launched Twelvesfold, a collection 300 generative art pieces. The project raised more than $16 million.