LOOKING BORED: ImprobableIo's Co-Founder Herman Narula Changed His PFP To A Bored Ape!

As global markets crashed and Apes old and new ‘return to monke’ around the swamp, ImprobableIo Co-Founder Herman Narula decided now was as good a time as any to finally change his profile photo to his Bored Ape!

Things were anything but boring around the Bored Ape Yacht Club on Monday as metaverse builder Herman Narula heeded Gordon Goner’s warning about the end of the financial world and changed his PFP to a JPEG more fit for the Otherside: Bored Ape #8487.

“@GordonGoner is this what you meant,” Narula tweeted along with a photo of his Bored Ape!

 

 

As The Bored Ape Gazette previously reported, Narula and his fellow Improbable Co-Founders joined the BAYC back in May 2024 at the Otherside Town Hall, where Yuga Labs CEO Garga announced that everyone was friends again and that Otherside would run on Improbable’s M Squared Technology.

 

“The previous leadership at Yuga was focused on building a lot of Otherside’s capabilities from the ground up,” Garga said at the time “But building everything yourself takes a long time and we didn’t want to ship on a Web2 cadence, we wanted to ship like our butts were completely on fire. So when I took over the CEO spot 2 months ago I decided to make a big change. Going forward, we are contributing everything we built, all the shit that we worked hard to do, and we are putting it on M squared. Otherside is going to live on M squared. We are buddies with IO again. We are locking arms with Improbable, and we are migrating Otherside to M squared and they are returning the favor by building out some additional capabilities for us. Honestly, we are all super stoked about it.”

 

Improbable defines its M Squared (M2) technology as “a network of interoperable metaverses to create interconnected virtual worlds and experiences for users to socialize, play games, attend concerts, create, and build value over time.”

During an M2 lecture hosted by Improbable last summer, Narula explained how his company’s M2 tech, alongside its open-format building protocol, Metaverse Markup Language (MML), can lead to the creation of a truly interoperable metaverse. 

“It’s essentially like an ecosystem that lets everybody profit,” Narula said in June, 2023. “So, you can make a world like Sandbox and Decentraland, you can connect one in, you can create MML objects, and you can have them move from world to world. You can create and use experiences that have thousands of people in them at the same time. And none of these are going to be decisions that are only made my Improbable. So M2 stands apart from us and is kind of like an underlying telecoms network for the metaverse. And there will be economic incentives that will incentivize all of the large metaverses we are working with to create more interoperable.”

 

The Bored Ape Gazette will continue to follow Narula and his work on Otherside and will keep you posted on who else joins the swamp and makes their Ape their PFP. Stay tuned for updates!