On September 16, it was reported that Greg Solano, co-founder of Yuga Labs, denied the news on social media that "Yuga Labs plans to launch a new NFT project named Mecha Apes before the end of this year", calling it a fake news. Previously, according to protos, Yuga Labs planned to launch a new NFT series "MechaApes" before the end of this year and raise 50 million dollars through this project.