From CryptoPotato · By Chainwire
[PRESS RELEASE London, United Kingdom, October 16th, 2026]
The 10,000-piece collection will debut immediately after ApeFest, amid renewed discussion about liquidity and long-term value in the NFT market.
There’s a new troop of Apes heading into Web3. And judging by their entrance, they have no intention of arriving quietly.
The timing places Liquid Apes alongside a wider conversation about the future of NFTs, as the sector continues to evolve following the dramatic market expansion and subsequent correction of recent years, while also tackling something the NFT market has long been missing: real underlying dollar liquidity.
Liquid Apes, a collection of 10,000 original, hand-drawn NFTs, will begin minting on 21 October, with public access opening the following day. The project is supported by an international team including Nathan Hill, CEO of the CMC Group of Companies, whose portfolio includes *The Crypto Magazine* and the award-winning Liquid NFTs marketplace.
While the technology behind the collection is serious, the team has been having rather a lot of fun introducing it.
10,000 Reasons to Get Noticed
In September, the team quietly slipped 10,000 NFTs onto OpenSea.
Not the real Liquid Apes, of course.
NOT THE LIQUID APES was a deliberately cheeky parody collection, free to mint, with 9,000 NFTs proudly offering absolutely nothing and 1,000 hiding a guaranteed opportunity to join the real collection’s whitelist.
Ten thousand pieces of marketing, planted directly inside one of the world’s biggest NFT marketplaces. No conventional advertising campaign. Just curiosity, a little mischief and a very deliberate strategy.
And that was only the beginning.
Coincidence? Not remotely.
With ApeFest drawing the global NFT community together this week, the team has timed the Liquid Apes launch to follow immediately afterwards.
Drawing on NFT history Liquid Apes has adopted two characteristics associated with the original Bored Ape Yacht Club launch in 2021: a supply of 10,000 NFTs and an initial mint price of 0.08 ETH ($236 equivalent at the time of the final BAYC mint). Bored Ape Yacht Club became one of the defining collections of the NFT boom, achieving substantial secondary market valuations and helping establish NFTs as a mainstream cultural phenomenon. Although valuations and trading volumes across the NFT market have since fallen considerably from their peaks, BAYC’s influence on digital collectibles and community led Web3 projects remains significant. The Liquid Apes team describes the shared numbers as a recognition of that history rather than an attempt to replicate the original collection. The new project features exclusive hand drawn artwork and will launch using a very different underlying economic structure.