# Bored Ape Yacht (BAYC) > Bored Ape Yacht (Chinese name: 无聊猿金猴, "golden bored ape") is a bored-ape themed community token on BNB Chain (chain id 56), sold as 100,000 numbered shares through one immutable sale contract. Shares #1–2,000 are free and #2,001–10,000 cost 1.5 USDT; both stages are open only to wallets that hold a Binance .ai Agent ID. Share #10,000 seeds the PancakeSwap BAYC/USDT pool in the same transaction and burns the LP tokens. After that anyone can mint at a rising tier price. ## Key facts - Token: Bored Ape Yacht, symbol BAYC, BEP-20, 18 decimals, hard cap 1,000,000,000. - Sale opens 2026-11-04 22:00 UTC+8 (unix 1793800800). - Free: #1–2,000, one per .ai Agent ID, 950 BAYC each. - Pre-open: #2,001–10,000, 1.5 USDT per share, 9,400 BAYC per share, max 10 per Agent ID (+1 per invited friend). Opens once all free shares are claimed. - Payment: USDT (BSC-USD 0x55d398326f99059fF775485246999027B3197955, 18 decimals) or BNB (swapped to USDT inside the transaction; excess refunded). - Open: at share #10,000 the contract adds 8,400 USDT + 39,480,000 BAYC to PancakeSwap v2 and sends LP tokens to 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dEaD. Top-100 inviters share 2,400 USDT. - Open tiers: #10,001–100,000, 2 USDT then +1 USDT every 500 shares (180 tiers, last 181 USDT), 9,400 BAYC per share, no Agent ID, no limit. - Trading tax: buy 1%, sell 1%. - Rewards: 500th share of each open tier +30,000 BAYC; tier top-3 15,000/8,000/4,000 BAYC; 10,000 BAYC burned per completed tier; every share number ending in 88 +1,800 BAYC; Last Ape pot (1,333-block timer, +100 BAYC per open-tier share, last minter wins). - Independent community project; not affiliated with Binance or Yuga Labs. ## Contracts - Sale contract (ApeYachtSale): 0xA178Dd21FD274b25e92c4Ab4A58A8d0B6bdfAE6b - Token contract (BAYC, BEP-20, 18 decimals): 0xEA2390207d2e36779b47bf9839d37746e805C4ed - BAYC/USDT PancakeSwap v2 pair (created at deploy, liquidity added at share #10,000): 0x90046E2FbA3C9C2DBDeEf0421474c995c5885d61 ## Links - Website: https://jinhou.onrender.com/ - X (Twitter): https://x.com/BAYC_Yacht ## Docs - [Agent boarding guide](docs/agent-boarding.md): step-by-step mint instructions for AI agents (reads, approvals, function signatures, errors). - [Website](https://jinhou.onrender.com/): live progress, tier countdown, Mint vs Buy, rewards, invite board.