The DeGods NFT assortment was launched in October 2021 on the Solana blockchain. It was created by Frank DeGods (Rohun Vora) and DeLabs in 2021. Primarily based in Los Angeles, California within the USA, DeLabs is described as a know-how firm that specialises within the improvement and distribution of revolutionary services and products. The DeGods assortment have been the primary deflationary Solana NFTs.
In the case of the success of any NFT venture, its founder is without doubt one of the most vital points.
Frank DeGods is broadly regarded within the NFT area as one of many GOATs (biggest of all time). Frank DeGods is a pseudonym. The primary identify (Frank), was impressed by the founder’s love of American singer-songwriter Frank Ocean. The second identify (DeGods), is taken from the identify of his NFT assortment. As beforehand talked about, the gathering creator’s actual identify is Rohun Vora. In an impressively courageous transfer, Frank DeGods doxxed himself in morning put up on X (Twitter) on twenty ninth November 2022.
This revelation was prompted by media makes an attempt to uncover his identification, main Vora to reveal it himself. Following his announcement, different members of the DeGods group additionally revealed their identities. One notable determine included Mud Labs CEO Kevin DeGods, who recognized himself as serial tech entrepreneur Kevin Henrikson.
Frank DeGods’ background and subsequent rise to fame exemplify the beliefs of the American dream. His household have been immigrants from India, and have been described by Frank as extraordinarily exhausting working. This contributed largely, to instilling in him the type of work ethic that might later see him create one of many trade’s most revered NFT collections.
Frank DeGods would begins his journey in direction of the mantle of Web3 legend, by working within the movie trade on the age of 15. This impressed his movie research at UCLA (The College of California, Los Angeles). Ultimately Frank dropped out of his research to pursue his entrepreneurial goals.
The targets of the venture’s founders have been as lofty as they have been important for his or her success. They needed to create an NFT assortment that was artistic and revolutionary. They needed to prioritise the venture’s transparency to the NFT group. This contributed closely to the Web3 group’s pleasure and belief within the DeGods/y00ts assortment. They needed to construct a powerful and enduring model. And so they needed to create a cult like group. The 4 pillars of any profitable NFT venture.
DeGods is a set of 10,000 NFTs on the Solana blockchain. Every NFT was minted for a value of three Solana (SOL). Because of the hype, all the assortment bought out in simply seven seconds. This was regardless of some technical points through the launch.
The target market for DeGods was male, tapping into the “Crypto Bros” meta for the creation of its assortment. They focused a youthful demographic, typified by the wild public occasions that the venture would maintain. Some detractors referred to their group as “a sausage fest”, and their occasions have been identified for a few of its members participating in “a shoey”. This was a follow that concerned a person ingesting a beverage of alternative from one other particular person’s shoe. An overtly frat-boy ritual, and very efficient in solidifying the bonds between its members in an all-male Web3 area.
On a private observe, with the post-feminist gynocentric world we at present discover ourselves in, and being a person myself, I applaud any service or venture that makes an attempt to create an area the place “boys might be boys”. Males have been forgotten by trendy society.
That is one thing that may be noticed by way of well-liked tradition, and the dearth of assist programs for males. The previous exemplified by cartoons like Household Man, or the latter, exemplified by the psychological well being system in lots of nations. That is notably unhappy when you think about, the most important reason for demise in the UK for males beneath 50 is suicide.
Anyway, I digress.
…Again to Web3.
It needs to be famous that whereas DeGods was designed to particularly goal the Crypto Bros demographic, DeLabs’ subsequent venture y00ts was created to enchantment to a wider viewers.