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Both @DeGodsNFT and @y00tsNFT have been quiet since the great chain migrations.

What's going on?

I did some research into De Labs and Dust Labs and how these entities are structured.

This is what I found and what might be coming next for DeGods and Y00ts 🧵👇
2/ There are two main entities behind the NFT projects @DeGodsNFT and @y00tsNFT.

They are Dust Labs and De Labs.

Both work very closely together. They’re probably structured this way for business reasons (that we'll get into)
3/ But for all intents and purposes, both @dust_labs and @delabsxyz are basically one entity.

Dust Labs creates and sells web3 software and De Labs grows the DeGods/Y00ts NFT ecosystems.
4/ Dust Labs builds software. They licence/sell their software to other NFT and web3 projects.

Headed up by @kevindegods, Dust Labs is structured more as a traditional software business.
5/ In September 2022, in a seed round, Dust Labs raised $7million in funding.

On LinkedIn Dust Labs has 10 employees listed.
6/ De Labs takes care of the web3 side of the business and will be the more public facing entity.

@delabsxyz has not raised any significant VC money (yet đź‘€).

The only outside funding they got was a $3 million grant from Polygon.

De Labs has 7 employees listed on LinkedIn.
7/ So that brings us to what we know at present.

Combined both Dust Labs and De Labs have at least 17 employees and $10 million in funding.

And they just migrated their @DeGodsNFT collection to Ethereum and @y00tsNFT to Polygon.
8/ So what's next for DeGods and Y00ts?

A look at their recent job postings, details on their website and what the team has publicly said reveal clues of what to expect...
9/ De Labs is currently on a hiring spree.

Some of their job openings are for some very senior positions, including:
Chief Operations Officer
Director of Growth
Director of Membership Experience
Director of Content
Director of Business Development


10/ The most interesting position their hiring for is “Director of Membership Experience”.

The DeGods/Y00ts team has said for a while that their core product is community. It's reassuring to see that they're doubling down on this.


11/ Another interesting detail is their "Director of Content" position.

One key sentence from the job post is “This person should also have experience in creating viral content and will have a strong grasp of a multi-channel approach towards content.”


12/ This tells me that we’ll start seeing the DeGods/Y00ts brand outside of just Crypto Twitter.

I think of how @pudgypenguins is killing it on other social platforms and how @frankdegods probably wants @DeGodsNFT and @y00tsNFT to move in a similar direction.
13/ There was also a job post by De Labs for a “Staff Illustrator”, who will be working on “Landscapes, character design, and concept art.”

Character design I get but “landscapes” sounds new…

Perhaps their @delabsxyz is wants to build out fuller worlds for their NFT characters
14/ The clues we're getting from their jobs postings reveal that @DeGodsNFT and @y00tsNFTare formalizing their executive team and strategy.

They're entering the big leagues now.
15/ I believe that @delabsxyzis aggressively ramping up their Polygon Launchpad program. Creating niche web3 verticals for new communities.

@y00tsNFT being and anchor point for all these new communities.
16/ They also have an advertising/sponsorship driven monetization strategy in the works.

The below is a screenshot from the @delabsxyzwebsite. You can see it's a form to advertise with them.

Perhaps companies can sponsor certain traits of @y00tsNFT or other NFT collections.
17/ BTC Degods have been playing around with raffles and auctions recently.

@frankdegods has also expressed interest in the @nounsdao revenue model. I think there is a chance that a new NFT project be released, but it can only be obtained via daily auctions, just like Nouns.
18/ A recent retweet by Dust Labs also reveals that they're working on some sort of Metaverse/gaming project with @ZTXofficial.
19/ There is multiple product launches on the horizon.

On the @delabsxyzwebsite, we can also see “coming soon” blocks in their graphics.
20/ There's also some sort of airdrop coming for @DeGodsNFT and @y00tsNFTholders.

The clues were hidden in some of their twitter posts...
21/ DeGods and Y00ts staking points utility is still unknown. But @frankdegods and team have hinted that accruing them will be very valuable.

I can only image that they give priority access to certain mints and experiences.
22/ There's also rumours of an e-commerce store in the works as well, where DeGods/Y00ts holders can use their IP to create and sell their own products and merchandise.

There will be a marketplace fee, but the fee will go to DeDAO (aka the community).
23/ And yes about DeDAO... There's probably plans to launch a DAO that will be community owned and governed by $DUST holders.
24/ I've laid out a lot here as to what's in store for @DeGodsNFT and @y00tsNFT.

At the end of the day, @delabsxyzand @dust_labs are building an ecosystem that makes owning a DeGod and/or Y00t rewarding and something non-holders will want to aspire to.
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