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Organization PleasrDAO – a col…ke <5%) Website pleasr.org (2 July 2026 capture) (https://web.archive.org/web/20260702172551/https://pleasr.org/) – the origin return
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Organization PleasrDAO
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Organization PleasrDAO — a col…asr.org (https://pleasr.org/) – origin returning a Cloudflare 522 (connection timed out) on 17 and 20 September 2026, confirmed to a real browser as well as to a script; last healthy capture is the 2 July 2026 snapshot (https://web.archive.org/web/20260702172551/https://pleasr.org/) Status 🟢 Active
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PleasrDAO is a collector DAO …culture (https://pleasr.org/) (the site's own framing, read from the 2 July 2026 capture (https://web.archive.org/web/20260702172551/https://pleasr.org/) while the origin times out). It is the clearest example o…/wiki/daos/social/nouns-dao) .
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PleasrDAO is a collector DAO (/wiki/daos/
organizations/investment/the-lao) — a group…re a venture DAO (/wiki/daos/organizations/investment/the-lao) buys equi… ConstitutionDAO (/wiki/daos/organizations/social/constitutiondao) and t…reasury of Nouns (/wiki/daos/organizations/social/nouns-dao) . - Modified – Text at Block 3
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PleasrDAO is a collector DAO (/wiki/dao
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Organization PleasrDAO — a collector DAO that acquires and collectively stewards culturally significant digital and physical artifacts Category Collector / cultural-asset DAO (non-DeFi) Founded March–April 2021, organized on Twitter to buy a single NFT Members A few dozen artists, collectors and crypto investors, coordinating purchases by on-chain vote Notable holdings pplpleasr's Uniswap V3 "x*y=k" NFT; Edward Snowden's Stay Free; the original Doge meme NFT; Wu-Tang Clan's Once Upon a Time in Shaolin Fractionalized token $DOG — shares in the Doge NFT sold to the public Backers a16z-led governance-token round, December 2021 (a16z stake <5%) Website pleasr.org (https://pleasr.org/) Status 🟢 Active
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PleasrDAO is a collector DAO (/wiki/dao/ecosystem/the-lao) — a group that pools money on-chain to buy things, then owns and stewards them together. Where a venture DAO (/wiki/dao/ecosystem/the-lao) buys equity and tokens for returns, PleasrDAO buys cultural artifacts: a viral meme, a whistleblower's artwork, a one-of-one album. It began in March 2021 (https://thedefiant.io/i-thought-i-was-living-in-a-simulation-the-story-behind-the-500k-uniswap-nft) when a handful of people coordinated on Twitter to buy a single NFT, and it kept going — turning "a few strangers chipping in for an internet artifact" into a recurring pattern of collective ownership of digital culture (https://pleasr.org/) . It is the clearest example of the collector-DAO archetype, distinct from the failed one-shot crowdfund of ConstitutionDAO (/wiki/dao/ecosystem/constitutiondao) and the creative treasury of Nouns (/wiki/dao/ecosystem/nouns-dao) .
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The collector-DAO thesis: own the artifact together The collector DAO answers a simple question: what if the buyer of a trophy asset were a crowd instead of a whale? A single billionaire can buy a Wu-Tang album and lock it in a vault. A DAO can buy the same album, then argue in public about how to steward it, who gets to hear it, and whether to fractionalize the upside. The asset becomes a shared commons rather than private property. That reframes three things every DAO has to handle: - Acquisition. Members contribute capital to a pooled treasury and vote on what to buy — the same "guild bank" pattern MolochDAO (/wiki/dao/ecosystem/molochdao) pioneered, pointed at cultural assets instead of startups. - Stewardship. Once you own a culturally loaded object, custody, display, and legal restrictions become governance questions — not one owner's whim. - Ownership of the upside. A trophy asset is illiquid and indivisible. PleasrDAO's signature move was to fractionalize it — mint fungible shares so anyone can own a slice and the value can trade.
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The trophies: from a Uniswap ad to a Wu-Tang album PleasrDAO's holdings read like a timeline of 2021 crypto culture, each bought at public auction with a verifiable price: - pplpleasr's "x*y=k" (March 2021). The DAO formed to buy the Taiwanese artist pplpleasr's animated Uniswap V3 teaser (https://decrypt.co/63080/an-ad-for-uniswap-just-sold-for-525000-as-an-nft-heres-why) for ~$525,000 — she donated the proceeds to charity. The purchase created the DAO; the name is a pun on "pleaser." - Edward Snowden's Stay Free (April 16, 2021). Bought for 2,224 ETH (~$5.4 million) (https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2021/04/16/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-sells-nft-for-54m) , with proceeds going to the Freedom of the Press Foundation (https://freedom.press/) — roughly doubling the non-profit's budget overnight. - The Doge NFT (June 2021). The original "doge" meme image, bought for 1,696.9 ETH (~$4 million) (https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/14/andreessen-horowitz-backs-nft-investor-group-behind-one-of-a-kind-wu-tang-clan-album-purchase/) and then fractionalized (below). - Wu-Tang Clan's Once Upon a Time in Shaolin (2021). The single-copy album, bought for $4 million (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_Shaolin) from an entity that had itself bought it from the U.S. Department of Justice — the album was forfeited to the government after Martin Shkreli's 2018 securities-fraud conviction. Under the original terms the recording cannot be commercially exploited until 2103 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_Shaolin) . In December 2021 (https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/14/andreessen-horowitz-backs-nft-investor-group-behind-one-of-a-kind-wu-tang-clan-album-purchase/) an a16z-led round bought governance tokens in the collective (a16z's stake reportedly under 5%), putting institutional capital behind what started as a group chat.
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Fractionalized ownership: the $DOG experiment PleasrDAO's most-copied idea is fractionalization. Having bought the ~$4M Doge NFT, the DAO split it into billions of fungible $DOG tokens (https://www.thearmchairtrader.com/pleasrdao-amber-group-nft-doge-huobi/) and sold them to the public — so the world's most famous meme became an asset anyone could own a sliver of, and its implied value could trade to a nine-figure market cap (https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/14/andreessen-horowitz-backs-nft-investor-group-behind-one-of-a-kind-wu-tang-clan-album-purchase/) . The Wu-Tang album got a gentler version: from June 2024 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_Shaolin) PleasrDAO began selling $1 NFTs, each one accelerating the album's eventual public release by 88 seconds and granting the buyer a five-minute sampler. Fractionalization solves the collector DAO's core tension — a trophy is indivisible and illiquid, but a crowd needs divisible, tradeable ownership. It also exposes a hard governance problem the wiki treats as a first-class topic: once ownership is a freely tradeable token, exit and control (/wiki/dao/concepts/rage-quit-and-exit-rights) acquire a spot price. Whoever accumulates the shares can direct the asset — the market decides who "owns" the culture, and a well-funded buyer can simply purchase a controlling stake. That is precisely the pressure Caper's design is built to resist.
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How Caper approaches this PleasrDAO shows the reach of a collector DAO — and the sharp edge of making ownership a freely tradeable share. Once the Doge NFT is 16.9 billion $DOG tokens, control has a market price: accumulate enough tokens and you steer the asset, no matter what you contributed or who you are. A trophy meant to be a shared commons can be quietly bought into a single pair of hands. A Caper (/wiki/foundations/what-is-a-caper) keeps the tradeable part and adds one that is not for sale. Voting power and treasury exit share (/wiki/dao/concepts/rage-quit-and-exit-rights) are the same quantity — Caper computes both from (t·v) / (V·T) (compute_vote_weight in contracts/src/caper_dao.rs): t is the caper tokens you hold, v is your soulbound proof-of-vote token (/wiki/dao/concepts/soulbound-tokens) , and V/T are the totals. The vote token is minted one-per-vote, has DIVISIBILITY_NONE, and cannot leave the wallet that earned it (its only depositor is the component itself) — so the record of participation is earned and unbuyable. The effect: a large bag of tokens alone can't capture a Caper the way a large bag of $DOG can capture the Doge NFT, because half of the weight (v) is a soulbound history you can't purchase off anyone. Stake still counts — t is a real multiplier, so this is not a "your bag doesn't matter" system — but the decisive, unbuyable factor is the participation you earned, and when you exit, your treasury slice is that same earned weight rather than a share you could have simply bought on the open market.