NBA Icon Stephen Curry buys Bored Ape NFT for $180,000
Three-time NBA champion and two-time MVP Stephen Curry has decided to join the Bored Ape Yacht Club, picking up one of their NFTs for 55 ETH ($180,000).
Bored Ape Yacht Club is a collection of 10,000 apes with dour expressions. They feature a range of attributes, ranging from different expressions to outfits, hairdos and even having cheetah fur.
Curry’s bored ape in particular has blue fur, zombie eyes and is wearing a tweed suit. The last two are particularly rare attributes, with only 3% of apes having zombie eyes and 1% of apes wearing tweed suits.
Curry’s purchase comes just ahead of the snapshot happening today of all bored ape holders. After the snapshot, all bored ape holders will be receiving a “Mutant Serum” per ape. It’s not clear what the serum will do but one possibility is that it could turn a current bored ape into a bored mutant ape (or something along those lines).
Rising demand for bored apes
The prices of bored apes have shot up over the last month or so. The current floor price — the cheapest on offer right now — is 25 ETH ($81,250) according to OpenSea, although there doesn’t appear to be an ape for sale under 44.9 ETH ($146,000). There have been a bunch of sales following Curry’s purchase.
