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How PleasrDAO bought the rarest album in the world and what happened next 🎧

In 2021, PleasrDAO — a group of collectors and crypto enthusiasts — purchased the only copy of the Wu-Tang Clan album “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” for $4 million 💵

So, what’s the deal with this album?

• 31 tracks recorded in absolute secrecy over 6 years
• The album was conceived as an art object: a single copy, like a painting in a museum
• The disc was packed in a silver case and kept in a safe in Marrakech, like a treasure
• The album can’t be released officially until 2103
• Only private listening sessions for a select few — as stated in the contract

Originally, the album belonged to the controversial pharma mogul Martin Shkreli, who was convicted of fraud. After his arrest, the album was seized and put up for sale 🏷

Fun fact: PleasrDAO made an actual contract with the U.S. Department of Justice to buy the album — a unique instance of a DAO interacting with a government agency on such a level 🏛

So why did PleasrDAO do this?

They didn’t just buy the album as a collectible. Their goal is to liberate the music for the community, holding exclusive listening sessions and sharing snippets with fans. Soon, they plan to tokenize the rights to the album, making it accessible to a broader audience through blockchain 👥

Today, PleasrDAO is gathering the rarest artifacts of the Web3 era and rethinking who should own art in this new digital age. This case is yet another confirmation that DAOs can change the game in many different fields 😎

SYNDICATE TOURNAMENTS 🏆

The first Syndicate Tournament starts now! The leaderboard updates every hour

Event dates:
April 23, 9:00 UTC – April 26, 9:00 UTC

You can find all the tournament info inside the app: go to the “Syndicates” section → “Syndicate Tournament” tab → tap the question mark button ❓

Note: tournament dates and prize pools may vary. We’ll announce each upcoming competition right here in the official channel – so stay tuned 🫶

Winners & prizes

The prize pool depends on your syndicate’s league. Syndicates only compete within their own league. Each league has 10 winning spots. Boosts are awarded to the syndicate creator and apply to the entire syndicate

GIANTS

1st–3rd place
🚀 x30 Boost

4th–6th place
✈️ x20 Boost

7th–10th place
🚗 x10 Boost

LEGENDS

1st–3rd place
🚀 x21 Boost

4th–6th place
✈️ x15 Boost

7th–10th place
🚗 x9 Boost

TEAM

1st–3rd place
🚀 x16 Boost

4th–6th place
✈️ x12 Boost

7th–10th place
🚗 x8 Boost

FAMILY

1st–3rd place
🚀 x13 Boost

4th–6th place
✈️ x9 Boost

7th–10th place
🚗 x7 Boost

NINJA

1st–3rd place
🚀 500,000 $DAO
(to each DAO member, above the limit)

4th–6th place
✈️ 300,000 $DAO

7th–10th place
🚗 100,000 $DAO

Good luck, XDAO family — and may the strongest win! 🥇

Is DAO industry gaining momentum? 📈

One of the most prominent crypto investment funds, a16z, highlights Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) as one of the key growth areas for the crypto market in 2025 — alongside AI, stablecoins, and asset tokenization. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) hints that 2025 will be a pivotal year for DAOs, while Paradigm emphasizes that such projects are “the foundation of the future internet” 🌐

Many of the world’s leading investment firms have already poured tens of millions of dollars into developing DAOs — not just as a concept, but as real technological infrastructure for the future

📌 Just in the past few months:

1️⃣ Pantera Capital invested $7M in Radius — a project building tech to help DAOs become more financially sustainable

2️⃣ Andreessen Horowitz and Standard Crypto invested $140M in Walrus — a decentralized data storage platform based on DAO principles

3️⃣ Union Square Ventures and CoinFund invested $7.6M in Pluralis — a project that combines DAOs and AI to enable collaborative community governance

4️⃣ Specialized fund daos.fun allocated $6.9M to Eido Labs — a startup helping communities manage budgets more effectively using AI and DAO mechanics

According to Cryptorank, over $4.8B has been invested in the crypto industry since the start of the year — with a significant portion going into DAO development as one of the sector’s top priorities 💵

What does this mean? Major funds aren’t just “interested” in DAOs — they’re actively backing them with serious capital. The technology is evolving from an experiment into a strategic priority for venture capital and the next generation of crypto infrastructure 🆕

AMA recap with Alexey Sibirsky (4planet): how DAOs can help the planet 🏕

Yesterday we hosted a live session with Alexey Sibirsky in our CIS community. He shared his incredible journey — from surviving a car crash and being broke in Thailand to launching major eco-projects and building a multi-million follower community 😱

The main topic of the talk was how DAOs can strengthen real-world environmental initiatives. Here are the key takeaways:

📌 How Alexey envisions using DAOs

DAO = transparency, engagement, self-organization

1⃣ Crisis response

Right now, wildfires are raging in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia. Alexey is personally funding volunteer teams. He said:

“If we had a DAO involved, we could not only collect funds together, but also decide collectively where to go, what to buy, and who to support”

2⃣ Support for local eco-groups

“I constantly get messages like ‘Alexey, please help us with funding’. It would be amazing if each local group had a DAO wallet and tools for collective decision-making”

3⃣ The “Kovcheg” project

Alexey is planning to create a private eco-reserve. He’s considering using a DAO to manage the land, resources, and decisions — and potentially to attract funding through tokenization

4⃣ DAO ≠ for everything

For his tree planting business, Alexey isn’t planning to use a DAO yet:

“It’s straightforward — people buy a tree, and I plant it. DAO would add unnecessary complexity. But for public projects — it’s perfect”

📌 What we offered

— DAO as a tool for transparent fund allocation
— Collective decision-making: what to spend on, why, and how
— DAO creation and management directly in Telegram
— Tokenized participation: volunteers and donors can earn rewards
— Grant support for his eco-initiatives
— Legal DAO framework without the need to register a nonprofit

📌 Why this matters and what’s next

DAOs could become the backbone for thousands of grassroots eco-initiatives — where there’s energy and people, but a lack of trust, coordination, and structure ☝🏻

Alexey is open to launching a pilot DAO within 4planet, and we’re already preparing the first tests of how our ecosystem can power this use case. A real-world example of DAO in action — coming soon! 🌳

The mysterious DAO chest ✨

So this is the secret farming method? You now have a chance to win $DAO tokens, boosts, limit increases, and energy recovery — every single day!

Here’s what you can find inside:

💠 From 50K to 1M $DAO
🚀 x25 DAO boost
🔓 +3M $DAO Limit
⚡️ Energy recovery

Opening a chest costs just 100,000 $DAO. Rewards are random — you could win way more than you spend… or lose it all. It’s all about luck 🍀

To join, tap the chest button at the bottom of the main screen

Test your fortune — jump into the game now! 🤞

Time to remind you of all the extra ways to farm $DAO:

1️⃣ Dailies (post a story, claim your daily reward, watch videos)
2️⃣ Complete all available one-time tasks
3️⃣ Hunt the stickerbox in our channel
4️⃣ Mini-games in the community chat (every Monday and Thursday)
5️⃣ *HIDDEN TASK* (you’ll find out about it in the next few days)
6️⃣ Be active in the community chat to earn a separate token airdrop

Not so few after all, huh? 😏

Partner airdrop with ONTON in support of Genesis Onion NFTs 👋🎁

ONTON, in partnership with TON Society and as part of the TON Foundation’s NFT initiative, is launching the biggest NFT drop of 2025 — and it’s all happening on our favorite blockchain ❤️

Owning these NFTs gives you guaranteed access to the $ONION airdrop — ONTON’s native token launching in Q2 2025

How to join and get the airdrop:

1️⃣ Go to the minting app
2️⃣ Spin the wheel for 5 TON
3️⃣ Get a guaranteed Gold, Silver, or Bronze Genesis Onion NFT

— Collect full sets (Gold + Silver + Bronze) to boost your airdrop multiplier
— Unlimited spins available
— All NFT holders will receive the airdrop

This event is time-limited: NFTs will only be available for the next two weeks ⏰

FAST RACE FOR $DAO 💎

Starting April 4, all players have a one-time opportunity to receive 1 million $DAO as a bonus by meeting one of the conditions below. To win, you must have the required amount of $DAO in your personal balance

🎁 The bonus will go to the first 5,000 users who:

• reach 100 million $DAO on their personal balance
• reach 70 million $DAO on their personal balance
• reach 50 million $DAO on their personal balance
• reach 20 million $DAO on their personal balance
• reach 10 million $DAO on their personal balance

To participate, you need to catch the diamond on the main farming screen in the game

A total of 25,000 winners. Farm more tokens and claim your big bonus while you can! 🏆

About TGE and listings — honestly and to the point

Hi everyone!
XDAO co-founders Vlad and Zurab here. We know that many of you are waiting for this moment and asking a lot of questions, and we completely understand you

When we wrote “Q1 2025” — it was exactly a guideline, not a fixed date, since the exact timing does not depend solely on us. There are many factors that influence a successful launch of crypto projects, such as market conditions, exchange terms, news background, and more

From the beginning, our team has done everything to ensure that the preparation for launch goes ahead without major delays — but also without rushing where it could be harmful

As of now:

— The main product is in the final stage of development
— The $DAO tokenomics is being worked out
— Listing and TGE preparations are in an active phase

We are launching a factory of digital organizations — through it, anyone will be able to create a real, full-fledged DAO in just a few clicks. This product will create strong utility for the token and ensure stable demand for it

To receive the airdrop, users will need to complete a final step (as outlined in our roadmap) — to migrate their DAOs created in our app to the TON blockchain. And it’s to the accounts of such real DAOs that we will send the airdrop, as well as provide a pleasant bonus to early users

Timing:

— Farming ends: May
— Product launch: May
— Target window for TGE and listings: May–June

Why didn’t we list the token at the end of Q1?

Because the market is objectively weak

The altcoin index is at its lows. Even large, fundamentally strong projects are showing clearly weak dynamics and launching in the red

We want the launch of $DAO to happen not “on paper schedule” but at a time that brings real benefit to the community and leaves everyone satisfied (otherwise, why did we walk such a long road together?)

TGE is not just a checkbox, but an important step that defines the trajectory of the entire project. And here it’s not about “sticking to the calendar” — but choosing the right moment. The one that gives the project a real push

The market is now in an uncertain phase, and not only memes, but even fundamental coins are deep in the red

We are closely watching the dynamics and don’t want to launch under such conditions. Rushing now would mean devaluing the entire path we’ve already walked. Looking “punctual” at the expense of results — is not our style

XDAO is here for the long term

The team is doing everything to make this a strong start. If you’re only here for a quick airdrop — maybe this is not your project. If you’re waiting for a reason to hate — this is definitely not your project

TONxDAO is not about “take and leave”. We’re not chasing short-term gain. We’re building infrastructure that will last, change the crypto industry, and bring value to a large number of people

Thank you for your trust, we truly feel it
And it will not be in vain

With love for the Сommunity,
the XDAO team

Results of the best DAOs contest 🏆

Our team reviewed a huge number of applications and selected the very best! Here are the TOP 3 DAOs, each winning $500 USDT + 10 million $DAO:

🦮 Animal Care DAO
A nonprofit community where crypto donations are turned into real help for animals. This DAO raises funds for shelters, volunteers, and educational initiatives — working to make the world better for those who can’t ask for help themselves

External communications contact:
@v*ro*ik*k*ras

🌳 Phoenix Garden DAO
An ecological project in agroforestry, beekeeping, and carbon credits, focused on planting the unique Paulownia tree at scale — a fast-growing tree used in carbon offset and ecological restoration projects

External communications contact:
@l**no*_VC

🎵 Muuzy DAO
Muuzy is a bot for generating original music tracks. The team uses their DAO to formalize profit-sharing and distribution of stakes

External communications contact:
@R*m_*ae*

In the coming days, we’ll be sharing more in-depth stories about each of the TOP 3 DAOs

👉🏻 YOU CAN CHECK OUT THE FULL LIST OF WINNERS AND OTHER DAO USE CASES HERE 👈🏻

All winners will be contacted within 3 days to distribute prizes. Keep an eye on your Telegram DMs — especially the account you listed for communications in your application! 📩

What if a DAO bought an NBA team? 🏀

In 2021, Krause House was born — a DAO named after the legendary Chicago Bulls GM 🐃

The idea was simple: fans shouldn’t just watch the games. They should be able to influence the future of the team

The goal was clear from the start: buy a stake in a real NBA team and let the DAO make key decisions — from roster moves to jerseys and stadium choices 🏟

They raised over 1000 ETH ($4M+) in just a few days and started talking to teams and investors 🤑

Turns out, buying into the NBA isn’t that easy. Strict regulations, a closed structure, legal barriers. But that didn’t kill the idea

Instead, they pivoted and bought a stake in Ball Hogs — a team in the BIG3 league, where former NBA stars play. Now the DAO is actually involved in running the club — from roster decisions to fan engagement

Here’s what they’ve done so far:

✅ They became the first DAO in the world to own a pro basketball team
✅ The BIG3 league was founded by Ice Cube (yep, that one)
✅ They’re now going IRL — hosting streetball tournaments, building the first-ever NFT basketball court, and pushing for DAOs to become a real tool in sports
✅ They have their own token, $KRAUSE, used for governance and proposals
✅ Their NBA strategy is simple: show that a DAO can manage assets and become a trusted partner for the league
✅ Their mission? “Difficult by one, achievable by many”

This isn’t just a fan club. It’s a sports organization without a single owner — where the community makes the calls. And while they haven’t made it into the NBA (yet), they’ve already done something bigger: proved that a DAO can work — for real, in the real world, and in real sports 🧠