Vision & A Message from Tommy (The Creator):

Hey guys, Tommy here. I decided to create Dragon Degens after watching "Ready Player One" for the nth time (which by the way is a great movie everyone should watch) and asking myself: "What would I be in the metaverse?" Of course, the answer was a badass dragon humanoid, and thus Dragon Degens were born!

I poured a lot of my time and energy overseeing and fine-tuning minute details to make them as awesome as they could be, while taking inspiration from some of my favorite video games. Alas, I feel they are finally ready to release into the world! I hope you love them as much as I do and look forward to building our new metaverse clan together!

Welcome to the Clan!

Dragon Degens are a digital art collection of high quality 3D NFTs that functions as a pass to community events, and our members-only Discord channel where we strategize our plans, and more. Collectively thousands of hours have been spent building Dragon Degens by over a dozen individuals over the past year and a half. A whole lotta love has been poured into our collection!

Mission Statement and Values:

We love to party and have fun but are also bound by an honor code. Together, we align with noble values and strive to see Web3 become a safe haven, free of scammers and other bad actors. We love the honor code from West Point: “I will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.” Being a Dragon Degen means bringing your best vibes and good virtues to the clan, this is what we aim to co-create together!

Core Team

  • Tommy: Creator of Decentralized Governance on Ethereum. Built a blockchain that eliminates crime. Likes to party.
  • Ryan: Jiu Jitsu Degen. Master software architect. Grapples code into submission.
  • Radu & Team: Extremely talented 3D art team. Loves Dragons. Part-Vampire.
  • Warwick: 3D Animator and kind hearted human being. Loves animals. Passion for perfection.
  • Palace: Proponent of Decentralized Governance. Medicinal gardener and psychedelic hippie.
  • Adev: NFT Degen by day. Yogi and philosopher by night
  • Leon: Thinks, writes, breathes code. In an everlasting pursuit of exploration in the rock garden. Immortal.
  • Pedro: Health-oriented developer. Avid reader & cocktail drinker.
  • Danny: Curious and creative. Thinking made visual. Tries to watch more sunsets than Netflix.
  • Mary-Anne: Passionate about building. Nurturing. Stays on top of community pulse. Mother to us all!
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Specs and Minting Details:

There are 10,000 Dragon Degens available to mint via ETH, and several thousand additional Dragon Degens able to minted/summoned through the initial Dragon Blood airdrop and future airdrops. Dragon Degens can be minted via Dragon Blood, as well as with ETH. Due to incumbent NFT marketplaces not paying royalties, Dragon Degens is launching in a novel way that will allow our collection to generate revenue from minting. We see this as critical to the health of the collection, and helps us pay developers and support our team.

Minting with Dragon Blood:

Dragon Degens can be minted with 1 million Dragon Blood which can be acquired through the airdrop, airdrop recruiting program, as well as purchasing Dragon Blood from Uniswap. You can reserve your Dragon Blood once minting starts and will be able to claim your Dragon Blood to mint Dragon Degens a few weeks afterward, join our Discord to stay tuned!

Minting with ETH:

9001 Dragon Degens will be available to mint for 0.069 ETH each, the remaining 999 Dragon Degens will use a unique minting mechanism where each subsequent Dragon Degen increases in price 0.69% (from the initial 0.069 ETH price). This allows a small portion of the mint which will allow the team to continue receiving funding over time until the final Dragon is minted.

*Note that the reveal is expected to occur within a week after public minting of the first 9001 Dragon Degens concludes.

Initial Dragon Blood Airdrop:

We will be kicking Dragon Degens off with a bang and rewarding users who've traded on Opensea, as well as holders of many NFT communities. We are planning additional rounds of airdrops for other communities in the future!

  • Opensea Volume Airdrop Reward: 1 billion Dragon Blood airdropped based on Opensea total volume up through Oct 15th of the year 2022.
  • NFT Community Airdrop Reward: For each of the below NFTs you held in March 2023, you will also be eligible to claim the respective amount of Dragon Blood indicated below. Note that most snapshots were taken on March 6th, but some were taken on other dates through the month of March.

Group 1: 100K Dragon Blood per NFT

  • Bored Ape Yacht Club
  • Crypto Punks
  • Nouns

Group 2: 20K Dragon Blood per NFT

  • Azuki
  • Chrome Squiggles
  • CyberKongz
  • DeGods
  • DigiDaigaku
  • Godjira Gen1
  • Mutant Ape Yacht Club

Group 3: 10k Dragon Blood per NFT

  • 0n1 Force
  • A Kid Called Beast
  • Alien Frens
  • Art Gobblers
  • CloneX
  • Doodles
  • Dogepound
  • Checks
  • Chimpers
  • Cool Cats
  • Creepz Genesis
  • Crypto Dick Butts
  • Fluf World
  • goblintown.wtf
  • Godjira Gen2
  • Gutter Cat Gang
  • Hape Prime
  • Invisible Friends
  • Kaiju Kingz
  • Killabears
  • Lazy Lions
  • Meebits
  • Mekaverse
  • mfers
  • Moonbirds
  • Nakamigos
  • Onchain Monkeys
  • Porsche 911
  • Psychedelics Anonymous
  • Pudgy Penguins
  • Quirkies
  • Renga
  • Sappy Seals
  • Supreme Kongz
  • The Captainz
  • The Plague
  • The Potatoez
  • Valhalla

Anti-Roadmap

Disclaimer: First and foremost we proclaim that if you’re buying Dragon Degens, only do so for the artwork and/or the community. Do not buy Dragon Degens with any expectation of the team or any organization beyond your own personal indulgence. Do not buy Dragon Degens for the expectation of profit from the work of the team or any other organization.

Also, note that our team is unorthodox and we often take the off-beaten track in how we do things. We regularly look at and test things outside the box. Thus, as with our other products, the only expectation we want held of us is to be moral and virtuous. We believe actions speak louder than words. Thus, we will have no formal roadmap, and that’s how we like it to be.

Airdrop Strategy:

One of our growth strategies is strategic airdrops. Over our many years in blockchain we have seen the power of airdrops many times. What better than strategic and regular airdrops especially while combined with referral mechanisms? Over time, we intend to conduct rounds of strategic Dragon Blood airdrops to worthy or new up-and-coming communities which we feel would be a good fit to cross-participate with the Dragon Degens.

The litmus test for our airdrops is that they should yield a positive net return for the ecosystem (measurable community growth and/or more new demand for Dragon Degens than supply created), and thus a net positive for the community. We will test and find the airdrop strategies that work best and yield the best results in growing our community.

Additionally, in the Dragon Degens DNA, we have introduced a powerful affiliate marketing strategy tied to our airdrops. Specifically, we have implemented a pay-it-forward type of recruiting program which benefits both the party being recruited and Degen doing the recruiting.

There are no fees to participate in our affiliate program. Quite simply, the more you recruit friends to our airdrops or other activities, the more free Dragon Blood you are eligible to claim in each airdrop.

*Important Note* Dragon Degens shares a referral tree with the GonnaMakeIt NFT Marketplace. This is a very powerful aspect of Dragon Degens, as it means for all the recruits you bring to Dragon Degens, you will also have a share of their revenue on the GonnaMakeIt NFT marketplace! Similarly, anyone you refer through the GonnaMakeIt referral program, will also grow your Dragon Degen referral tree!

Airdrops and Recruiting Rewards:

From our first airdrop, Degens who get others to claim their free Dragon Blood airdrop reward will be rewarded as well for doing so. We have engineered quite a generous design for this purpose: For any person you recruit to claim their Dragon Blood airdrop - you will get a whopping 50% of what they claim. They will also get a 50% bonus on their claim so it's a win-win!

Additionally, for anyone your friend recruits, you will get 30% of their airdrop rewards, and for anyone they recruit, you will get 15% of their rewards. Note there is a huge incentive for bringing in friends who know a lot of people, as you will get a significant amount of airdrop rewards that they claim. The referral tiers are broken down in the next section below to make it more clear.

Referral Tiers:

Dragon Degens are rewarded for recruiting efforts via a referral program which runs 3-levels deep. Recruits also receive a 50% bonus on their claim so they will be grateful to be recruited. Note that these bonuses may eventually be reduced to a 20% bonus for referees and 20%, 10% and 5% for levels 1, 2 and 3 respectively, but for the first round of airdrops we have made the bonuses super high, so seize the opportunity and get on your recruiting game quickly!

  • Tier 1: 50% of Dragon Blood
  • Tier 2: 30% of Dragon Blood
  • Tier 3: 15% of Dragon Blood

First Airdrop Bonus Categories:

  • Recruiting Bonus - 50% bonus
  • Early Degen Bonus - 50% bonus
  • Aped-in Bonus - Up to 50% bonus
  • Tweet Bonus - 50% bonus
  • Recruit Your Friends Bonus - Up to 100% bonus

*Note that these rewards don't compound but do stack, ultimately resulting in a significant multiplier for Dragon Blood to be claimed.

Tentative airdrop plans include:

  • Airdropping to other select communities where we feel their communities have a good synergy with ours.
  • Airdropping to recent Opensea, Blur or other marketplace traders.
  • Airdropping to ETH holders (many of which who aren’t yet active in NFTs).
  • And more! We are conscious of the power of airdrops to bring users to our community and welcome your ideas on who we should airdrop Dragon Blood to next.

As a reminder, these are tentative plans, subject to change as we find the optimal way to utilize our resources to grow.

Initial Airdrop and 69-Day Contest!

The first airdrop claim period will last for 69 days, giving Degens ample time to claim their rewards. This will coincide with a 69-day contest with generous prizes for those who recruit the most! The total prize pool is a whopping 150 MILLION DRAGON BLOOD, with a 69 MILLION DRAGON BLOOD Grand Prize! The Degens who accumulate the greatest amount of Dragon Blood via their recruiting efforts will be rewarded as such:

  • 1st - 69M Dragon Blood
  • 2nd - 21M Dragon Blood
  • 3rd - 10M Dragon Blood
  • 4th - 5M Dragon Blood
  • 5th - 2.5M Dragon Blood
  • 6-10th - 1M Dragon Blood
  • 11-20th - 700K Dragon Blood
  • 21-50th - 350K Dragon Blood
  • 51-100th - 200K Dragon Blood
  • 101-200th - 100K Dragon Blood

Staking your Dragons:

In the future we will implement a staking mechanism for Dragons, greatly rewarding those who are willing to lock up their Dragons for long periods of time. This will have the effect of tightening the available supply of Dragon and rewarding our most loyal holders.

Additional Notes:

Dragon Degens have launched with a very lucrative introductory referral program (with rewards of 50%, 30%, 15% bonuses for level 1, 2, and 3 recruits respectively). Note that these rewards are very high and will likely eventually need to be scaled down to 20%, 10%, and 5% for levels 1, 2 and 3 respectively. For the time being though, capitalize on the huge referral rewards while you have them!

Planning ahead, to have enough proverbial ammo for Dragon Degens down the road we reserve the right to produce extra Dragon Blood and mint extra Dragons. We are careful and thoughtful about how we do this, but if we have a big opportunity, we need to be able to capitalize on it and not have our hands tied, or people up in arms because we didn't make our intentions clear from the start. We will eventually need to add more Dragon Blood to the pool as it runs dry, and as we grow to new heights, and also need Dragon Blood on hand for competitions, rewards and any other needs. We also need to have enough Dragons in our vault to have an allotment for influencers and celebrities who want to represent Dragon Degens. We would be happy to provide a Dragon from our vault to use as their profile pic (note that we would expect that they use a Dragon Degen as their profile pic and sport it as such for a minimum of 1 year).

We are tentatively planning to have 420 Dragons in the vault for such purposes, and again note that every single Dragon Degen given from the vault will be done very thoughtfully and gradually over time. By the way, if you know a celebrity or influencer who would make a good Dragon Degen, definitely let us know! Additionally, at some point in the future we will mint a collection of Dragon Degens on the Energi blockchain (the best blockchain in the world at preventing and stopping crime) and also reward our hard-working team members with a Dragon each as these are the people who have made Dragon Degens possible and should rightfully represent us.

Finally, given we have spent a tremendous amount of time working on the Dragon Degens, we intend to continue doing so. As we grow, we plan to upgrade the visuals and graphics of the Dragon Degens, grant the Dragons with new items in future expansions, and adjust appearances if needed as well as clothing and rarity of features. Also, be aware we will be adding items, and lower body attributes to the Dragon Degens as we continue to upgrade them to full-body 3D. This may cause rarities to change, so be aware of this ahead of time that rarity scores on Dragon Degens may change! None of these upgrades or adjustments will be shared with any external parties or allowed to be acted on by any internal Dragon Degens team member before being made public, our rights are only reserved for the greater good and growth of our clan. Again, we have poured a lot of life force bringing the Dragons to life and care deeply about our community and the fair treatment of all our clan members.

Made it to the end? Hell ya 😎 Let me leave you with a revelation I had on my birthday. “May every day be a celebration!” We have so much to be grateful for, if only we are grateful for a fraction of what we should be grateful for, we would be ecstatic every day. Thank you for joining us and I look forward to conquering the metaverse together!
- Tommy