Update: November 25 at 11:45 am UTC: This article was updated after receiving a clarifying statement from an Azuki DAO spokesperson regarding its token distribution plan.
Azuki DAO, an unofficial decentralized autonomous community organization surrounding the non-fungible token collection of the same name, has announced its name change to “Bean,” as it drops a proposed lawsuit against nft collection founder Zagabond over a $39 million minting matter.
In a statement sent to Cointelegraph, Azuki developers said that DAO will be rebranded as a memecoin project and become part of the ethereum Layer-2 Blast ecosystem. The developers also claim that Bean has also raised $10 million from “prominent investors” for its development and acceleration within the Blast ecosystem.
He proposed Bean memecoin will have a total supply of 1 billion. In a follow-up statement sent to Cointelegraph, Azuki DAO developers said that the current token supply plan shown on their website is “outdated.” The plan previously states that 40% of the tokens are allocated to its treasury, 50% to Azuki DAO members, and 10% to Azuki nft creator Zagabond. The plan also previously stated that minting would only be available to Azuki nft holders, who must do so within 24 hours of the token’s launch or face a “token burn.”
The follow-up statement explains that “50% of the $Bean (token) was allocated to the Azuki DAO community for the Azuki series nft airdrop,” which concluded four months ago. “The remaining chips are still in the direction,” they said. “40% of $Bean (token) was allocated to Bean Treasury and 10% of $Bean was allocated to Zagabond, which is currently still at the address.”
The Azuki nft collection represents 10,000 anime-themed profile pictures (PFPs). In June, Zagabond released a second 10,000 PFP series of the Azuki collection, called “Elementals.” However, immediately after launch, users noticed the close resemblance of PFP Elemental to PFP Azuki, which led to the dilution of the latter through an increase in supply.
The price of Azuki NFTs reportedly dropped by 44% immediately after the release of Elementals. The movement too eth/proposal/0x065ffcc4878fc66b574e8ad23d2c2033d7896c7683457a3f6e3f5e449e637298″ target=”_blank” rel=”noopener nofollow”>motivated a proposed community lawsuit launched by Azuki DAO against creator Zagabond.
“Detailed information regarding financing and a roadmap for future development will be released shortly,” the developers wrote.
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—ZAGABOND.eth (@ZAGABOND) November 21, 2023
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