ApeScape uses separate ownership layers for dungeon floors, Top Side deeds, and future minted items. The current direction across the ApeScape docs is that ownership follows the NFT asset and the verified wallet that holds it, while the live site keeps the public framing broad and pre-beta.
ApeScape treats ownership as a game system tied to specific assets, not to temporary layouts or one-off sessions.
1-1000.nft_0001 through nft_3455.This matters because ApeScape's weekly dungeon layouts can change while the ownership layer stays stable. Floor 233 can look different from week to week, but it is still Floor 233 for ownership and game-routing purposes.
Dungeon floor ownership is the clearest currently documented ownership model in ApeScape.
The live ApeScape Dungeons collection page supports this framing at a high level by describing the collection as the official dungeon-floor NFT collection for ApeScape and linking it to exploration, loot, progression, and on-chain dungeon ownership.
Top Side deeds are a separate ownership layer from dungeon floors.
The docs describe Top Side deeds as the ownership layer for the surface world, including concepts such as:
The public site currently keeps Top Side language lighter than the docs bundle. On the live whitepaper page, Top Side is described as the surface world with cities, parcels, houses, apartments, Mythic Wonders, city dungeon entrances, future Master Minters, and Top Side deed ownership, but it does not yet expose the deeper operational detail found in the docs repo.
Wallet verification is the documented gate between a player identity and ownership-based game actions.
The current docs standard is:
The public site already exposes a wallet-login flow. The live site shows Wallet Login in navigation and describes MetaMask sign-in for community access, with Glyph recommended for new ApeChain users. The same public wallet surface also makes an important distinction: admin accounts still use username/password, while player-facing wallet flows are for community access and future ownership-aware features.
The ApeScape docs are explicit that the client should not be trusted for ownership claims.
That means the wiki should explain ownership this way:
This keeps wallet-linked play aligned with the documented threat model and avoids presenting ownership as a cosmetic label only.
Wallet Login experience.There is no hard contradiction between the live site and the docs repo, but there is a depth mismatch:
For first-publish wiki copy, the safest approach is: