Yuga Labs chooses OpenSea as its official NFT marketplace

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 NFT team behind Bored Ape Yacht Club’s famous non-fungible token series, is the latest project to support OpenSea. Yuga Labs has chosen OpenSea as the official marketplace for Bored Ape NFT collections.

Bored Ape NFTs are finally sailing home

In an October 14 blog post, Yuga Labs confirmed via its Bored Ape Yacht Club X account that it has chosen OpenSea as its official non-fungible token marketplace. “In the beginning, 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 market partner for BAYC, Otherside and Yuga’s other collections,” the OpenSea spokesperson explained.

The Yacht Club is back @OpenSea.
Feels good.🏴‍☠️ https://t.co/1SfOD8mPWN pic.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. Best known for the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT collection, it has expanded its portfolio by launching more NFTs, including Mutant Ape Yacht Club and Bored Ape Kennel Club NFTs. The company also built the Otherside, a metaverse project that allows crypto users to 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 in mid-2025 as “OS2,” integrating 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 bull run of 2021. The trading success of the Bored Ape Yacht Club and Mutant Ape Yacht Club NFT Series in April 2021 significantly increased OpenSea’s visibility. At the time, OpenSea emerged as the largest NFT market in terms of trade 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, allowing creators to limit secondary, non-fungible token sales only to marketplaces that enforce creator royalties, filtering out platforms like Blur, one of the leading NFT market platforms. At the time, Yuga Labs even threatened to remove all of its NFT collections from the OpenSea NFT Marketplace. Previously, Yuga Labs made Magic Eden its official NFT marketplace.

On @opensea’s decision to discontinue their Operator Filter. pic.twitter.com/ahc155WWkX

— Yuga Labs (@yugalabs) August 18, 2023

In the meantime, Bored Ape NFT maker, Yuga Labs, is joining Igloo Inc., the team behind Pudgy Penguins, the globally recognized non-fungible token collection with a fixed set of 8,888 penguin birds hosted on the Ethereum blockchain network, which recently made OpenSea its official NFT marketplace. Toast, the digital asset company behind Good Vibes Club, a globally recognized non-fungible token collection with a fixed set of 6,969 NFTs, also made OpenSea its official NFT marketplace.

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