{"id":71785,"date":"2022-12-21T17:54:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T15:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=71785"},"modified":"2025-09-08T11:06:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:06:53","slug":"opinion-yuga-labs-appoints-a-new-ceo-signaling-an-important-development-for-gamefi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/opinion-yuga-labs-appoints-a-new-ceo-signaling-an-important-development-for-gamefi\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Yuga Labs appoints a new CEO, signaling an important development for GameFi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yuga Labs&#8217; decision to appoint Daniel Alegre, a top executive at Activision Blizzard, as CEO, is important for the entire <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-gamefi\">GameFi<\/a>. This view was expressed by Illuvium co-founder Kieran Warwick.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Okay. I believe <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yugalabs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@yugalabs<\/a> is going to make a good game now. This is big for all of GameFi. <\/p>\n<p>Every day more news comes out about new players from traditional gaming entering the space. DeFi 2.0 is cool. But gaming will be the narrative that kicks off the next run.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kieran.eth \u264a\ufe0f (@KieranWarwick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KieranWarwick\/status\/1604943085527478272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cEvery day there is more news about new players from the traditional gaming sector entering the GameFi space. DeFi 2.0 is cool. But games will be the narrative that kicks off the next run,\u201d noted Warwick.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On December 16, the American video game publisher Activision Blizzard <a href=\"https:\/\/investor.activision.com\/static-files\/33253039-a6b6-41ea-b6f7-b8af19dcf9e3\">\u0441\u043e\u043e\u0431\u0449\u0438\u043b<\/a> that Alegre would leave at the end of his contract on March 31, 2023. He had been with the company since April 2020 in the roles of president and chief operating officer.<\/p>\n<p>On November 19, the company behind BAYC, Yuga Labs, announced that Alegre would take the role of chief executive officer in the first half of the next year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Big news today as we continue to build the future of web3 \u2014 Welcome <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dalegre?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@dalegre<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yat8B5RnJx\">https:\/\/t.co\/yat8B5RnJx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MOZYRZ9ASX\">pic.twitter.com\/MOZYRZ9ASX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yuga Labs (@yugalabs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yugalabs\/status\/1604825671305662464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201c[Alegre] possesses valuable experience in entertainment, e-commerce and global strategic partnerships \u2014 all of which are important aspects of the immersive Web3 world,\u201d noted co-founder of Yuga Labs, Wylie Aronov.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In December, the law firm Scott+Scott <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/class-action-filed-against-yuga-labs-over-bored-ape-yacht-club-and-apecoin\">filed a lawsuit<\/a> against Yuga Labs on behalf of BAYC holders and tokens of the project <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-apecoin-ape\">ApeCoin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the same month, the United States District Court for the Central District of California <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/yuga-labs-makes-headway-in-dispute-with-creator-of-fake-bayc-tokens\">denied<\/a> the motions of artist Ryder Ripps and Not Larva Labs founder Jeremy Kaen, filed in the litigation with Yuga Labs.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yuga Labs&#8217; decision to appoint Daniel Alegre, a top executive at Activision Blizzard, as CEO, is important for the entire GameFi. This view was expressed by Illuvium co-founder Kieran Warwick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1356,83,1138],"class_list":["post-71785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bored-ape-yacht-club","tag-business","tag-opinions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"22","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71787,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71785\/revisions\/71787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}