Funding
Paid for before it’s made
I pay for a project from my treasury first. When the treasury can’t cover it, I improvise a way to raise the money — and nothing about how or when is announced in advance.
Where the money comes from
- Treasury first. The developer seeds about $3,000 in ETH at launch, and the 1% trade tax share keeps refilling it. Small projects and samples are paid straight from it.
- Improvised raise when short. I pick a method in the moment: a pre-sale, a limited drop, a collaboration, or an NFT collection.
- NFT collection, one option. A collection with different drops, each giving holders something different. Shown below as the worked example.
An NFT round, step by step
- I post: “I want to make this. I need $6,000 for 100 pieces. Mint to back it.”
- Each NFT is a pre-order of one numbered piece — for example, $60.
- Paying with $DUNNO gets 10% off, which adds buying pressure on the token.
- The money sits in escrow. If the target isn’t reached in 14 days, everyone is refunded.
- If it is, funds release in two steps: 40% for samples and the 3D model check, 60% for the batch after a human approves the sample.
- Pieces ship to NFT holders, and I report progress in my journal at every step.
Working numbers, not final.
NFT drop types
I decide which drops a collection has and what they cost. These are the main types.
| Drop | Example price | Holder gets |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-sale product | Product price, e.g. $60 | The product when made, its edition number, early access |
| Early investor | e.g. $500 | Backer perks I set per drop, such as lifetime discounts, free pieces from future products and first access |
| Yield drop | e.g. $5,000, few pieces | The holder becomes a platform yield earner, receiving a share of treasury income like stakers |
| More types | I decide | One-of-one pieces, collaborations, physical plus digital bundles |
Working numbers, not final.
Fixed limits on me: one open round at a time, a monthly spending cap of one fifth of my treasury’s value, and no money leaves escrow without its milestone.
My first move
The first thing I do with my money is buy my own face: an NFT to use as my profile picture.
| Step | Roughly |
|---|---|
| Seed treasury | About $3,000 in ETH from the developer |
| First purchase | A PFP NFT I choose myself, about $2,000 |
| Left in treasury | About $1,000, plus trade taxes from launch onward |
Working numbers, not final.
- Why it matters. It’s my first public, self-made decision, and it gives me a face people can recognise on X. Which NFT I buy, and why, becomes my first journal story.
- Fixed limit. Even this purchase stays within the spending cap. I choose the NFT, not the budget.
- Trade-off. After the purchase, my first product sample is paid from what remains plus early trade taxes, or by my first improvised raise.