Keep in mind when ConstitutionDAO tried (and failed) to purchase a replica of the U.S. Structure? Nicely, now there’s a mission aiming to do a lot the identical with a nuclear bunker.
The creators of doomsday-themed Solana mission Meatbags hope to buy a nuclear bunker constructed through the Chilly Warfare in Rutland, England. To do that, 100,000 Billionaire Bunker Membership NFTs shall be supplied on the market at $14 a pop in an try to lift $1.4 million, with NFT holders forming a decentralized autonomous group or DAO collective that can vote on what to do with the property.
The positioning spans 1.4 acres with a nuclear bunker and former reservoir, in response to SDL Property Auctions, and was inbuilt 1960 to behave as a British Royal Observer Corps (ROC) Chilly Warfare monitoring put up. This was one among 1,500 underground monitoring posts constructed throughout the UK, throughout a time of heightened concern of nuclear struggle.
Photograph of the nuclear bunker and reservoir. Picture: SDL Property Auctions.
Planning permission has already been secured for the positioning by its present house owners to show it right into a luxurious house with two flooring of “cathedral-type ceilings,” a big glass frontage, and views throughout the Leicestershire countryside. Meatbags claims to have an estimate on how a lot these plans will price, and the staff has factored this into the NFT elevating value.
The try recollects the well-publicized effort from ConstitutionDAO, which fashioned in late 2021 in an try and buy a replica of the U.S. Structure at public sale.
We’re giving Doomsday Preppers around the globe an opportunity to order their slice of the Billionaire Bunker Membership—a Chilly Warfare artifact and the primary historic web site ever fractionalized into a completely decentralized, community-governed real-world asset on-chain.
— MEATBAGS (@mfmeatbags) April 19, 2025
Regardless of elevating about $47 million to additional such goals, the DAO didn’t win the public sale, shedding out to billionaire Citadel CEO Ken Griffin. ConstitutionDAO ultimately refunded its contributors, which Meatbags has additionally pledged to do if it may possibly’t safe the aforementioned bunker or an alternate web site inside six months of its bid being rejected.
However different DAO-driven efforts have had extra success fulfilling their goals—resembling LinksDAO, which bought the Spey Bay Golf Membership in Scotland in 2023 and is overhauling the positioning.
Robert, the pseudonymous co-founder and CEO of Meatbags creator Useless Bruv, advised Decrypt that the staff has scoped out a few alternate options already, a few of that are additionally in the UK—however they’re open to touchdown a web site elsewhere, too.
“We’re assured we’ll be capable to get our palms on a bunker,” he added.
Photograph of proposed refurbishment of property. Picture: SDL Property Auctions.
Billionaire bunker membership
If the Meatbags collective efficiently purchases the property as the results of the upcoming “Purchase the Bunker” marketing campaign, it can permit the newly fashioned DAO to vote on what shall be completed with the property.
“I suppose the thought could be to have the ability to have individuals come to the property, keep on it. Both I believe it can flip right into a vacationer attraction, or I believe it might additionally go down the route of being an insane property on Airbnb,” Robert advised Decrypt. “Finally, it’ll come right down to what the DAO votes [for].”
Meatbags is a narrative-driven NFT mission about doomsday preppers residing in a world that’s coming to an finish, known as Surviville, which mirrors real-world considerations like struggle tensions, international pandemics, and the rise of highly effective AI. As such, the neighborhood already has its toe on this planet of doomsday prepping—so there’s an opportunity the DAO might vote to make use of the property as a useful bunker if the worst was to occur.
Other than taking part within the DAO, Billionaire Bunker Membership holders may also obtain an on-chain land deed verifying that they personal a share of the bunker, and shall be invited to a gap get together.
Robert claims to have reached out to the auctioneers by way of e mail and mentioned they seem open to the NFT mission shopping for the property. SDL Property Auctions didn’t reply to Decrypt’s request for remark.
The positioning is at present listed for a information value of over £650,000 (or about $862,000) plus charges. Meatbags goals to lift $1.4 million so it may possibly additionally refurbish the place, create wiggle room for negotiating, and pay administration, working, and authorized charges incurred all through the marketing campaign. The DAO will vote on how any remaining funds shall be used.
Billionaire Bunker Membership NFTs will go on sale on Monday at 8am ET, with customers capable of buy utilizing Solana Pay or bank card by way of the Useless Bruv web site.
ConstitutionDAO fell wanting its personal aim, and making an attempt to promote 100,000 NFTs in 2025 at any value may look like a Herculean job. Even so, the staff is assured in its probabilities to tug this off.
“I’m about as optimistic as you might be when betting on crypto and the apocalypse on the identical time,” pseudonymous co-founder and inventive director Psychrome advised Decrypt.
Edited by Andrew Hayward
