After much anticipation, the Bored Ape Yacht Club’s (BAYC) Otherside metaverse is all set to drop this week. Otherside will officially launch this Saturday, April 30 at 12 pm ET, Otherside announced on its Twitter page this weekend.
Yuga Labs has also launched Otherside’s official Discord server—a move which broke Discord, to say the least. Already, the server boasts nearly 138,000 members and it’s still hard to get in! So, what exactly is Otherside? And how can you get in?
BAYC’s Otherside metaverse: What we know so far
Yuga Labs, BAYC’s parent company, dropped a teaser for Otherside, in mid-March. Since then, crypto Twitter has been abuzz with chatter about Otherside and what all it could entail. The teaser featured an ape in flip-flops and a hat, smoking a cigarette. He then fishes a potion out of the water and consumes it, which sends him to the “Otherside”—a place filled with lava and…