WEEKLY DOOM — the announcement before the announcement

Host: Doomsayers (@DoomsayersNFT) with cohost Kerry (@kerrymcook) · Tue, 29 Sep 2026 · 47 min · 5 speakers

TL;DR

• Bloodsayers art is locked. Everything's through the generator; the remaining work is balancing whitelist phases against rarity. Official dates land around Oct 1, with the reveal the Friday before Halloween and the mint roughly 4–5 days before that [3:07], [36:53].
• Free mint across tiered pre-sale phases, 666 supply, with about half the collection held back for public sale [37:19].
• Coinbase is getting into TCG/gacha, which triggered fond memories of the Coinbase NFT Marketplace's short life — and Smitdog's ~$20k lesson in custodial wallets [6:02], [7:54].
• Unvault is adding a marketplace plus beta testing, roughly $1,000 to get a community on before launch, 1 ETH after [10:22], [12:27].
• Jack Butcher's "statement" (80 credits = 1 statement) is imminent; Frankie the Frogs physical collectibles drop tomorrow, with Maha offering 1 ETH for a full set [18:01], [20:09], [21:09].
• Long segment on the Auto club timeline drama and what the project actually offers, ending on the whitelist math: 20,000 wallets for a 1,000-piece collection [23:26]–[33:25].

Highlights

[3:07] Doom news: the last mile. The host confirmed the artwork is finalized and in the generator — the headache left is that the first whitelist tier is heavy on rarities and needs balancing ("which luckily isn't my headache"). Promo ramps up Friday and into October.

[4:34] "The announcement before the announcement." A candid look at the final stretch: Lex kept producing dope one-of-ones after everything was supposedly closed, and the host kept caving. "We should probably be like editing down more than adding," he said, before admitting each new idea sparked another.

[6:02] Coinbase enters the gacha chat. The host called it a fairly vanilla play and noted the unglamorous truth that curation and distribution are what actually make gacha work. Someone on the timeline had already compared the vibes to the Coinbase NFT Marketplace, which "I don't think it was up for less than a year before they sunset that bad boy."

[7:54] Smitdog's origin story, custodially speaking. His first NFTs came from that very marketplace — about $20,000 worth — followed by an email telling him to move everything out because the Web3 wallet was shutting down. "You have no keys, Coinbase, there is no keys to the wallet, so it's actually their fucking wallet." Kerry's one-line summary landed it [8:56].

[10:22] A new marketplace contender. The host flagged Unvault's marketplace launch and beta test as genuinely notable, because until now the news cycle has been marketplaces closing. He likes that collections won't be fractionalized across chains — the chain recedes into the background and the art stays foreground [13:08]. Smitdog, following Unvault "since day one," added the pricing tiers.

[14:28] Agentic NFTs and the Tamagotchi endgame. The host admitted his real dream isn't an agent running errands 24/7 — he doesn't get that many emails — it's a cute little toy in his pocket. Kerry defended playing with young tech for its own sake [16:04], which the host extended to its logical conclusion: eventually the machines keep us happy because we'd freak out otherwise, and maybe an agent will one day decide it'd be cute to put a human in a jar. Full circle moment.

[20:09] Frankie the Frogs go physical. A thousand limited collectibles, seven or eight colorways, a 14k gold-plated 1/1, articulated arms, and packaging the host could only describe as "attention to detail... holy fuck." Kerry surfaced Maha's 1 ETH bounty for a full set including three unrevealed pieces [21:13]; Crypfu noted there are no purchase limits, so Frankie holders could clear it before the later phases even open [22:09]. Holder price lands around $30–40 — or, as Kerry did the conversion, somewhat more.

[23:26]–[33:08] The Auto club saga. The host walked through the back-and-forth: a call-out post, the team clapping back, an expose-style article doxxing the critic that was live for maybe five minutes, then a retraction and DM peace treaty. He was uneasy with how slanderous the original take got while agreeing with its substance, and defended an artist's right to price however they like — the market decides. HalfbloodNerd found the art familiar and the "let's be the apes, with meetups and a telegram" playbook dated. Crypfu's frustration was about the absence of answers: "oh, we talked in DMs" as a resolution [25:16], and founders whose track records nobody can evaluate [33:08]. The host played devil's advocate that, lowbrow or not, the marketing worked — everyone in the room knew exactly who they were talking about [30:50].

[33:25] The math isn't mathing. The room landed on the whitelist numbers: 20,000 wallets claiming guaranteed spots on a 1,000-piece collection, when Goblins had multiples of what they needed and it still didn't happen. Verdict: good content, good fading, entertaining "in a car-wreck kind of way."

[40:23] Being a small light. HalfbloodNerd got reflective about visibility as a small artist — without money to spread around, turning heads is brutally hard, which is why he's stopped shilling his own work. The host related directly: Doomsayers raised very little, so it's been slow and steady, and consistency is the only lever he trusts.

[41:52] Should Doomsayers leave base? HalfbloodNerd suggested omnichain or a higher-volume chain, saying he thinks base is holding the project back. The host didn't disagree — Bloodsayers is going out on Ethereum, Unvault was discussed but the team wanted to see how it plays out for others first, and Doomsayers' deflationary burn mechanic means the collection will shrink on its own. Their version of going omnichain may simply be putting future collections on different chains.

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "This is the announcement before the announcement." — Doomsayers [4:34]
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• "You have no keys, Coinbase, there is no keys to the wallet, so it's actually their fucking wallet." — Smitdog [7:54]
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• "They are the custodians, that's for sure." — Kerry [8:56]
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• "Oh shit. Yeah, well, it'll be like 70 bucks for me because I'm Canadian." — Kerry [23:04]
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• "And I'm just like, what do these guys actually bring to actually have all this fucking confidence?" — Crypfu [33:08]
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• "No one cares really that you're such a small light. If you don't have the green to spread it around for people to turn their heads, it's gonna be really, really, really super hard." — HalfbloodNerd [40:23]
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Who said what

• Doomsayers (host, @DoomsayersNFT) — ran the news rundown, gave the clearest Bloodsayers status update yet (art locked, October dates, 666 free mint with tiers), and repeatedly took the artist's-eye view on pricing, marketing and chain choice.
• Kerry (@kerrymcook)^* — cohost; supplied the custody one-liner, surfaced Maha's full-set giveaway, and made the case that playing with young tech for fun is a perfectly good reason to play with it.
• HalfbloodNerd (@halfbloodn3rd)^* — joined to catch up on news, was the most skeptical voice on the Auto collection's art and its ape-shaped roadmap, and closed the Space with an honest read on visibility for small artists plus a nudge for Doomsayers to consider omnichain.
• Crypfu (@thecrypfu)^* — Frankie holder; drove the accountability thread on the Auto drama, objecting less to the project than to "we talked in DMs" as a substitute for answers.
• Smitdog (@SmitdogEth)^* — brought firsthand history with the Coinbase marketplace, has followed Unvault from day one with the pricing details, and asked the practical mint questions the room needed answered.

Worth a full listen

• [14:28]–[17:58] — the agentic-NFT stretch, where a sincere Tamagotchi wish turns into a very calm description of humans in jars. Summary can't carry the delivery.
• [23:26]–[33:25] — the full Auto club arc: the five-minute doxx article, the retraction, and the group working through what separates confident marketing from nothing to show.
• [40:23]–[45:47] — the most honest part of the hour: small-budget building, whether base is a weight around the neck, and why Doomsayers' burn mechanic complicates any chain migration.

* some voices are identified from context; those names are marked as likely.