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Yuga Labs Launches Mudwater Trading-Card NFTs on Solana

October 21, 2026, 8:29 PM UTC (3 hours ago) · 1 source · Summarized by CryptoBipto

Yuga Labs, the company behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club, has launched a new trading-card NFT collection called Mudwater on the Solana blockchain. The move marks a notable expansion for Yuga Labs beyond Ethereum, where most of its previous NFT projects have been based.

WHY IT MATTERS

NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are unique digital items recorded on a blockchain — think of them like digital collectible cards where ownership is publicly verified. Yuga Labs is one of the biggest names in NFTs, similar to how a major sports league might be in the trading-card world. Until now, most of their projects lived on Ethereum, the most widely used blockchain for NFTs. By launching on Solana — a competing blockchain known for cheaper and faster transactions — it is like a company that only sold products in one store deciding to expand to a different retail chain. For newcomers, this highlights that the crypto world is not one single network but many competing blockchains, and major companies sometimes move between them to reach different users or reduce costs.

Yuga Labs is one of the most prominent companies in the NFT space, best known for creating the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) collection on Ethereum.

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