The Biggest Celebrity NFT Owners in the Bored Ape Yacht Club

 CryptoPunks might have kicked off the NFT profile picture trend, but the Bored Ape Yacht Club is making even stronger inroads to collectors who aren’t deeply immersed in crypto culture.



Yuga Labs’ Ethereum-based NFT project—which has yielded more than $2 billion in secondary trading volume across three collections—counts a growing number of celebrity owners, including big names like TV host Jimmy Fallon, athletes including Stephen Curry and Shaquille O’Neal, and musicians like Marshmello and Post Malone.

The Bored Ape Yacht Club is billed as an exclusive social group for NFT holders, and the club keeps drawing more and more famous folks. An NFT acts like a receipt that proves ownership for a rare digital item: in this case, one of 10,000 unique avatars that can be used for social media profiles, creative projects, and potentially turning a profit given their rapid rise in value. 

With both Universal Music Group and producer Timbaland turning Bored Apes into virtual music groups, plus plans to bring the brand across the world of entertainment, Bored Apes could soon become ubiquitous—with celebrity holders helping to lead that charge.

Here’s a look at some of the biggest celebrity holders of Bored Ape Yacht Club and Mutant Ape Yacht Club NFTs, in order of when they first bought in.

Mark Cuban

Billionaire investor, Dallas Mavericks owner, and “Shark Tank” star Mark Cuban apparently received his Bored Ape as a gift in May, according to community resource The Bored Ape Gazette. He’s since held onto it amid skyrocketing valuations, and even featured it on his own Lazy.com NFT gallery profile. Cuban is also a big fan of Dogecoin and has invested in many NFT and crypto-related companies.

Stephen Curry

Curry wasn’t the first notable athlete to buy a Bored Ape, but he was surely the most prominent one when he joined in late August. The three-time NBA champion, Subway spokesperson, and “Holey Moley” TV show co-creator snagged his Bored Ape NFT for about $180,000 worth of ETH at the time. Curry was seen hanging out in the project’s official Discord server shortly after the purchase.

Steve Aoki

DJ Steve Aoki is deeply invested in NFTs, not only as a collector but also a creator. He’s dropped stuff on Nifty Gateway in the past, recently announced a Solana-based marketplace alongside legendary comic book artist Todd McFarlane, and works with artist pplpleasr to support women NFT artists. Aoki also holds eight Bored Ape NFTs and a couple of Mutant Apes, as well, alongside plenty more NFTs.

KSI

YouTube star and rapper KSI fell rapidly down the NFT rabbit hole. He bought his first NFTs in August, and within two days he’d created a Twitter alt account (@ksicrypto) dedicated to NFTs and gloated about how much his Bored Ape rose in value. Helping KSI ape in was Banks, another NFT die-hard and co-founder of the popular esports organization, FaZe Clan.

Shaquille O’Neal

Shaq, the retired four-time NBA champion and prolific ad pitchman, owns an NFT from the spinoff collection, Mutant Ape Yacht Club. He bought it in September at a relatively modest $14,000 worth of ETH, and best of all, his OpenSea wallet name is “manofdominance.” For a while, Shaq used a Creature World NFT as his Twitter avatar, plus he has launched his own NFTs via the Ethernity Chain platform.

The Chainsmokers

DJ and producing duo The Chainsmokers have been in the crypto space for a while, investing in startups, and they aped into a Bored Ape NFT in September at a price of about $210,000. They’re on hiatus and actually haven’t tweeted since early 2020, but that didn’t stop them from changing their Twitter avatar to the Bored Ape in question.

Mike Shinoda

The Linkin Park rapper and solo musician not only collects NFTs and showcases them via his Audius profile (including numerous Mutant Apes), but also creates his own. Shinoda has released an array of NFTs, particularly via the recently-shuttered Tezos marketplace, Hic et Nunc. He also streams regularly via Twitch and releases NFT of artwork created on stream, and is keen on a crypto future.

Marshmello

The mask-wearing DJ has since traded up to a CryptoPunk avatar for his Twitter profile pic, but he aped into the Bored Apes in September with a rainbow-teeth NFT purchased for nearly $220,000 worth of ETH at the time. Marshmello has tweeted about CrypToadz, as well.

Rich the Kid

Rapper Rich the Kid is quickly making moves in the NFT space, buying his first Bored Ape in early November and already asking his fans whether his Ape should “drop a music video.” He also tweeted about purchasing NFT-based land in the upcoming Ethereum-based metaverse game, The Sandbox. He previously released his own Rich Kids NFT project in September.

Madonna

The “Queen of Pop” shared her Ape pickup on March 24: a pink ape with eyeballs all over its fur and the “S&M hat” trait. It’s worth noting that Madonna’s longtime manager, Guy Oseary, who also used to run her Maverick record label, also now represents the Bored Ape IP as it expands into other entertainment realms. Moonpay purchased Bored Ape #4988 for 180 ETH (about $466,000) earlier in March, and the version of the image Madonna tweeted looks to be altered with a different background and other color tweaks.


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