ConstitutionDAO However for the Apocalypse: Solana NFT Mission Goals to Purchase Nuclear Bunker – Decrypt

Bear in mind when ConstitutionDAO tried (and failed) to purchase a replica of the U.S. Structure? Properly, now there’s a mission aiming to do a lot the identical with a nuclear bunker.

The creators of doomsday-themed Solana mission Meatbags hope to buy a nuclear bunker constructed through the Chilly Struggle in Rutland, England. To do that, 100,000 Billionaire Bunker Membership NFTs can be supplied on the market at $14 a pop in an try to boost $1.4 million, with NFT holders forming a decentralized autonomous group or DAO collective that may vote on what to do with the property.

The positioning spans 1.4 acres with a nuclear bunker and former reservoir, in keeping with SDL Property Auctions, and was inbuilt 1960 to behave as a British Royal Observer Corps (ROC) Chilly Struggle monitoring publish. This was certainly one of 1,500 underground monitoring posts constructed throughout the UK, throughout a time of heightened worry of nuclear warfare. 

Planning permission has already been secured for the positioning by its present house owners to show it right into a luxurious house with two flooring of “cathedral-type ceilings,” a big glass frontage, and views throughout the Leicestershire countryside. Meatbags claims to have an estimate on how a lot these plans will price, and the group has factored this into the NFT elevating value.

The try remembers the well-publicized effort from ConstitutionDAO, which shaped in late 2021 in an try to buy a replica of the U.S. Structure at public sale.

Regardless of elevating about $47 million to additional such goals, the DAO did not win the public sale, shedding out to billionaire Citadel CEO Ken Griffin. ConstitutionDAO finally refunded its members, which Meatbags has additionally pledged to do if it might probably’t safe the aforementioned bunker or another web site inside six months of its bid being rejected.

However different DAO-driven efforts have had extra success fulfilling their goals—comparable to LinksDAO, which bought the Spey Bay Golf Membership in Scotland in 2023 and is overhauling the positioning.

Robert, the pseudonymous co-founder and CEO of Meatbags creator Useless Bruv, informed Decrypt that the group has scoped out a few options already, a few of that are additionally in the UK—however they’re open to touchdown a web site elsewhere, too.

“We’re assured we’ll have the ability to get our fingers on a bunker,” he added.

Billionaire bunker membership

If the Meatbags collective efficiently purchases the property as the results of the upcoming “Purchase the Bunker” marketing campaign, it is going to permit the newly shaped DAO to vote on what can be completed with the property.

“I assume the concept can be to have the ability to have folks come to the property, keep on it. Both I believe it is going to flip right into a vacationer attraction, or I believe it might additionally go down the route of being an insane property on Airbnb,” Robert informed Decrypt. “Finally, it’ll come right down to what the DAO votes [for].”

Meatbags is a narrative-driven NFT mission about doomsday preppers residing in a world that’s coming to an finish, referred to as Surviville, which mirrors real-world considerations like warfare tensions, international pandemics, and the rise of highly effective AI. As such, the group already has its toe on the earth of doomsday prepping—so there’s an opportunity the DAO might vote to make use of the property as a useful bunker if the worst was to occur.

Other than taking part within the DAO, Billionaire Bunker Membership holders may also obtain an on-chain land deed verifying that they personal a share of the bunker, and can be invited to a gap get together.

Robert claims to have reached out to the auctioneers by way of electronic mail and stated they seem open to the NFT mission shopping for the property. SDL Property Auctions didn’t reply to Decrypt’s request for remark.

The positioning is presently listed for a information value of over £650,000 (or about $862,000) plus charges. Meatbags goals to boost $1.4 million so it might probably additionally refurbish the place, create wiggle room for negotiating, and pay administration, working, and authorized charges incurred all through the marketing campaign. The DAO will vote on how any remaining funds can be used.

Billionaire Bunker Membership NFTs will go on sale on Monday at 8am ET, with customers capable of buy utilizing Solana Pay or bank card by way of the Useless Bruv web site. 

ConstitutionDAO fell in need of its personal aim, and making an attempt to promote 100,000 NFTs in 2025 at any value may appear to be a Herculean process. Even so, the group is assured in its probabilities to drag this off.

“I’m about as optimistic as you might be when betting on crypto and the apocalypse on the identical time,” pseudonymous co-founder and inventive director Psychrome informed Decrypt.

Edited by Andrew Hayward