Yuga Labs sold Moonbirds NFT collection to Orange Cap Games: Market Moving
Yuga Labs, Moonbirds and associated NFT collections to Orange Cap Games by selling some of the NFT assets continue to dispose of. After the sale, the price of Moonbirds rose to 0.9 ETH. However, the collection is still 98 %below the AC level.
🦉 Moonbirds changed hands: new scene in the NFT market
Crypto Game attempt Orange Cap Games (OCG) acquired the Ethereum -based NFT collection Moonbirds from Yuga Labs. The agreement includes associated collections called Mythics and Oddities. The amount of sales was not announced to the public.
This development arrived only a year later after Yuga bought Proof in February last year and received IP rights of Moonbirds collection.
🎮 A new vision based on game -centered
Yuga Labs Founding Partner Greg Solano said in a statement on the subject:
“Moonbirds needed a team that would devote all their focus to them. This team can be none other than Orange Cap Games.”
Moonbirds will continue to join Yuga’s Metaverse project in the Otherside universe. In addition, all new assets on the chain to be produced will be hosted either on the Ethereum or on Apechain, the Layer-2 solution of Yuga.
📈 The price jumped but the summit is still far away
Following the sales news, the base price of MOONBİRDS NFTs rose from 0.295 ETH to 0.9 ETH. Nevertheless, it should be reminded that the collection is 98 %below from 38.5 ETH, the highest level of all time in April 2022.
🧩 Yuga Labs changes NFT strategy
With the volume decrease in the NFT market, Yuga continues its strategy to sell IPs:
May 2025: Cryptopunks’ IP rights were transferred to the Node Foundation, which is not profit.
February 2025: MEEBits was sold to The MeeBit Company; Yuga minority remained as a shareholder.
2024: IP rights of HV-MTL and Legends of the Mara games have been sold to third parties.
These steps show that Yuga’s focus on the main collections such as Bored Ape Yacht Club, Mutant Ape Yacht Club and Otherside.
📊 Spring signals in NFT market
The NFT sector started to move again after a long recession:
In May 2025, the number of NFT buyers increased by 50 %and reached 936,000 people.
The total monthly volume increased by 15 %to 430 million dollars.
In addition, Disney announced the cooperation with Dapper Labs on May 30, launched the new digital loyalty program. This is interpreted as a signal of return to the NFT area of large brands.
Yuga Labs’s transfer of Moonbirds shows that the balance of power in the NFT market is redistributed. The increasing interest of crypto gaming companies to NFT IPs indicates that in the future, NFTs can be replaced not only as collections, but as a gamified digital asset.
