ConstitutionDAO But for the Apocalypse: Solana NFT Project Aims to Buy Nuclear Bunker

Bear in mind when ConstitutionDAO tried (and failed) to purchase a duplicate of the U.S. Structure? Nicely, 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 throughout the Chilly Conflict in Rutland, England. To do that, 100,000 Billionaire Bunker Membership NFTs will probably be supplied on the market at $14 a pop in an try to lift $1.4 million, with NFT holders forming a decentralized autonomous organization or DAO collective that can vote on what to do with the property.

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

Planning permission has already been secured for the positioning by its present house owners to show it right into a luxurious residence 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 fashioned in late 2021 in an try to purchase a copy of the U.S. Constitution at public sale.

Regardless of elevating about $47 million to additional such goals, the DAO didn’t win the public sale, dropping out to billionaire Citadel CEO Ken Griffin. ConstitutionDAO ultimately refunded its individuals, which Meatbags has additionally pledged to do if it might’t safe the aforementioned bunker or an alternate website inside six months of its bid being rejected.

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

Robert, the pseudonymous co-founder and CEO of Meatbags creator Lifeless Bruv, instructed 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 website elsewhere, too.

“We’re assured we’ll be capable of 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 can permit the newly fashioned DAO to vote on what will probably be achieved with the property.

“I suppose the thought can be to have the ability to have folks come to the property, keep on it. Both I feel it can flip right into a vacationer attraction, or I feel it might additionally go down the route of being an insane property on Airbnb,” Robert instructed Decrypt. “In the end, it’ll come right down to what the DAO votes [for].”

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

Other than taking part within the DAO, Billionaire Bunker Membership holders may even obtain an on-chain land deed verifying that they personal a share of the bunker, and will probably be invited to a gap social gathering.

Robert claims to have reached out to the auctioneers through e-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 currently listed for a information value of over £650,000 (or about $862,000) plus charges. Meatbags goals to lift $1.4 million so it might 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 will probably be used.

Billionaire Bunker Membership NFTs will go on sale on Monday at 8am ET, with customers in a position to buy utilizing Solana Pay or bank card through the Dead Bruv web site. 

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

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

Edited by Andrew Hayward