Doodles, the NFT folks, just spilled the beans on who counts as “New Blood” for their upcoming DOOD token giveaway. This is big news for anyone hoping to snag some tokens without owning one of their original digital pictures.
- The “New Blood Fund” aims to bring new participants into the Doodles ecosystem, offering DOOD tokens without requiring ownership of original Doodles NFTs. This fund is the fourth-largest allocation of DOOD tokens.
- Eligibility for the New Blood group includes various communities, such as top traders on BonkBot, pre-order holders of the Solana phone, and Helius stakers. A checker tool will be available for Solana community members to verify eligibility.
- Doodles launched its DOOD token on the Solana blockchain, with a total supply of 10 billion tokens. The token distribution includes allocations for the community, ecosystem growth, the Doodles team, and the New Blood group.
The idea behind this “New Blood Fund” is pretty simple, really. It’s meant to pull fresh faces into the Doodles world. You don’t need a fancy Doodles collectible or anything. And here’s a neat part: if you’re in this group, you don’t even have to sign up to get the tokens. They just show up, apparently. Doodles put this out there on that social media platform everyone calls X now. Funny how names change, isn’t it?
So, who exactly makes the cut for this New Blood group right now? Doodles listed out nine different groups they’ve partnered with. It’s a bit of a mix. We’re talking about the top 50 people who trade a lot on something called BonkBot (that’s a trading tool). It also includes folks who pre-ordered the second version of the Solana phone (yes, crypto phones are a thing). Then there are the top 5,000 people who are staking Helius (that’s like putting crypto to work to help a network). And don’t forget the people who’ve helped out with ElizaOS (an AI agent thing). It’s quite the list, covering different corners of the crypto space.
Now, if you’re a regular person hanging out in the Solana community and wondering if you’re eligible, Doodles says they’ll have a way for you to check “soon.” So, keep an eye out for that checker tool. It’s always good to verify these things, just to be sure.
This New Blood Fund isn’t some tiny afterthought, either. When you look at how all the DOOD tokens are being handed out, this fund is actually the fourth biggest chunk. The Doodles team laid it all out in their plan for the token, which they call a tokenomics roadmap. They said this fund is there to pay for things like helping creators, making deals with other groups, running ads (marketing, you know), and maybe even giving tokens to people who own related digital stuff or win their online contests. The whole point? Get more people involved with Doodles. Makes sense, right?
About the DOOD Token
Doodles first told everyone they were launching a token back in February this year. They decided to build it on Solana (that’s a fast blockchain network). They named it DOOD. Simple enough.
They said there would be a grand total of 10 billion of these DOOD tokens. That’s a lot of tokens! They broke down where they’d all go: 30% for the community (that’s us!), 25% for a fund to help the Doodles world grow (they call it an ecosystem fund), and 17% for the Doodles team themselves. The rest of the tokens? They’ll be split up among things like making it easy to trade the token (liquidity pools), that “new blood” group we just talked about, and the company itself. It’s a whole pie chart of digital money.
Funny thing is, right after they announced the DOOD token, the trading action for the original Doodles NFTs really picked up. Within just a week, the amount of money changing hands for those Doodles pictures jumped to over $16 million. It seems like token news can really get people interested, doesn’t it?
Here’s that post Doodles made about the New Blood stuff:
New Blood Fund eligibility for the DOOD airdrop:
The New Blood Fund is designed to welcome new participants into the Doodles ecosystem who may not currently own a Doodles or other Doodles collectible.
New Blood community members will NOT need to register for the airdrop to receive tokens.
Nine partner communities have been identified to receive a New Blood allocation at the time of the airdrop. These include:
• Top 50 active traders by volume on BonkBot
• Solana Mobile Chapter 2 pre-order holders
• Top 5,000 Helius stakers
• ElizaOS contributors
• And more to be announced soon!We will soon launch a checker to verify eligibility for Solana community members.
https://x.com/doodles/status/1919848701066985675
Doodles itself is one of the older collections of NFTs out there. You know, those unique digital items, often art. This collection has 10,000 different pictures. It first showed up back in October 2021. That feels like ages ago in crypto time, doesn’t it?
Since then, they’ve done some pretty cool things, like teaming up with big names. Remember that time they worked with McDonald’s? They put Doodles art on over 100 million McCafe holiday cups. That’s a lot of cups with little Doodles characters on them! Imagine seeing one of those while grabbing your morning coffee.
Doodles by the Numbers
Looking at the stats, the Doodles NFT collection has quite a few fans. There are over 3,889 people who own at least one of these unique pictures. And when you add up all the trading that’s ever happened with Doodles NFTs, it comes to about 341,900 ETH. In regular money, that’s roughly $606 million. That’s a serious amount of trading volume for some digital drawings.
If you wanted to buy the cheapest Doodles NFT right now, it would cost you about 3.75 ETH. That’s around $6,400. Not exactly pocket change, is it? Even in just one recent week, between April 27 and May 4, the project saw $1.55 million worth of trading. People are still buying and selling these things.
It’s interesting to see how these digital collectibles keep moving and how projects like Doodles are trying to bring in new folks with things like token giveaways. It keeps the whole space buzzing.
Here’s a look at how Ethereum NFT trading volume has been doing overall. Doodles plays a part in that picture.
