A quick primer on understanding Bored Ape Yacht Club traits and rarity

So enough people have been asking me about Bored Ape Yacht Club and how the heck I figure out what apes to buy that I thought it would be good to do a quick, and I mean quick, primer on rarity traits. If people dig this article, I’ll write something more in-depth but it’s Saturday and I don’t want to spent too much time writing so I’m going to keep this short and sweet.

As you probably know, the value of an NFT has two components:

1. How much you (or other people) like the art
2. The rarity of a certain trait or combination of traits

To learn about rarity I use rarity.tools which is completely free to use and constantly updates their database with new projects. Just like domain investors look at things like search volume, CPC, number of extensions the word is taken in, etc. NFT investors look at rarity traits to guide investment decisions. To look at Bored Ape Yacht Club just go to the site, select “All Collections” from the top, and select Bored Ape Yacht Club – duh