The Great ApeCoin Plot Twist: Is ApeCo the Big Banana?

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Once upon a blockchain, in a world not so far away, there lived a dysfunctional experiment called the ApeCoin DAO. Oh, but what began as a gloriously wild idea soon became as sluggish as a hippopotamus after Christmas dinner, and just about as noisy as Aunt Marge at the annual family reunion. You could almost hear the gavel pounding along with the thud of hopes and dreams for a “serious” experiment in decentralized governance 🍌.

Now, as if he were conjuring up the world’s oddest candy factory, Greg “Garga” Solano of Yuga Labs pranced onto the scene, waving a colossal scroll titled AIP-596. “Let’s put this theatre out of its misery,” he cried, suggesting they boot out the token-holding rabble and usher in a brand new, shinier regime by way of ApeCo — a mysterious entity lurking somewhere in the Cayman Islands and, presumably, not afraid of sunburn or bureaucracy.

“ApeCoin DAO was a bold experiment, but one born of a different era. What started with promise has devolved into sluggish, noisy, and often unserious governance theater. Too many resources have gone to vanity proposals and low-impact initiatives.”

Greg Solano

The solution? Shrink the peanut gallery, supercharge the crème-de-la-crème (by which they mean the Bored Ape Yacht Club, ApeChain, and the rather trippy-sounding Otherside), and let a small band of ApeCo wizards make decisions at the speed of a caffeinated monkey. Out with the slow, in with the go — or so the script goes.

This isn’t a total monkey mutiny, mind you. Animoca Brands, those venerable digital playground builders, piped up in mild approval. “If the crowd wants a ringmaster, let’s give them one,” shrugged Yat Siu, who knows a thing or two about saying things that almost sound reassuring at stakeholder meetings.

Meanwhile, the comment section was positively fizzing with bright-eyed hope and the odd splash of doubt (one can never underestimate the power of internet scepticism). Some cheered and waved banana peels in the air, hollering things like “Evolution! History! Much wow!” while others whispered, “Hang on now, what about our modest pile of unspent bananas and NFTs?”

A few, it must be said, popped up out of their burrows, noses twitching with suspicion. Frostyz wondered where the all the half-baked proposals had scampered off to, and whether anyone had checked inside the Banana Bill or looked under the cushions for forgotten NFTs. Lanzer, meanwhile, grumbled about the “bad optics” and the dazzling speed of it all — “the kind of speed you only see when someone accidentally sits on a porcupine.”

“Not to doubt Yuga is one of the most successful pioneer in NFT’s space, but if Yuga are the controller of ApeCo, I’m here to worry. The ability of the Yuga team to take on another organisation again is in doubt as not a beautiful transcript in the acquisition of Cryptopunk, Meebits, Moonbirds, WENEW, Roar and building Otherside with studios, like Improbable, etc.”

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less bonkers) ideas, like keeping the foundation as a kindly, time-locked babysitter for everyone’s bananas. But they were drowned out by the fanfare of apes who’d clearly had one too many energy drinks.

As for the ever-touchy topic of “decentralization,” Siu wisely reminded everyone that DAOs were, in fact, a creature of regulatory environments that have all the predictability and cheerfulness of a nest of spiders behind your toilet.

“In the case of ApeDAO, the regulatory environment and sentiment that prevailed during much of the last three years posed challenges to operations, and provided some important lessons that have been the topic of much discussion.”

Yat Siu

Animoca, for its part, says they’ll keep playing ball in whatever jungle they find themselves, partnering up, buying tokens, and generally swinging through the trees as usual.

And so the curtain falls, with votes piling up (98% tallied in favor, which is more certainty than most people have about breakfast), and the ApeCoin story swooping toward its next chapter — less Shakespearean drama, more banana republic. 🐵🚀

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2025-06-19 20:09