DeGods

DeGods is a profile-picture (PFP) NFT collection and community brand. It launched on Solana in 2021, spent about a year on Ethereum, and came back to Solana in 2024. The ecosystem now includes the sister collection y00ts, a Solana token called $DEGOD and a collector marketplace called deBay.

The project comes from Los Angeles and uses the motto "Do Everything Great or Die." On its official site, DeGods calls itself "a global community of people that do shit." It is one of the best-known NFT brands to come out of Solana. It is also one of the few that changed chains twice.

What DeGods is

The main collection has 10,000 PFP NFTs of "degenerate" deities dressed in streetwear. It minted on Solana in October 2021. The company behind it is De Labs (often written DeLabs), co-founded by Rohun Vora, who goes by "Frank" or "Frank DeGod." De Labs also runs y00ts, a 15,000-piece collection.

In its early days, DeGods was known for a deflationary design. Holders staked their NFTs to earn $DUST, which had a hard cap of 33.3 million tokens. They could spend $DUST to turn a DeGod into a "DeadGod." Governance ran through the DeDAO, which was funded partly by marketplace royalties. In April 2022 the DAO bought the Killer 3s team in the BIG3 basketball league. The purchase gave holders IP and licensing rights.

Chain history: Solana, Ethereum, Bitcoin and back

Leaving Solana. On December 25, 2022, after the FTX collapse, De Labs announced that DeGods would move to Ethereum and y00ts to Polygon. The move used a one-way burn-and-mint process over the Wormhole bridge: the Solana NFTs were destroyed and identical copies were minted on the new chains. $DUST was bridged too. Polygon Labs gave De Labs a $3 million non-equity grant. CoinDesk reported that before the announcement, the two collections accounted for close to 70% of Solana NFT marketplace volume. The migration finished in 2023.

Bitcoin. Supply had earlier been capped by burning 535 DeGods. In March 2023, those 535 were re-inscribed on Bitcoin as Ordinals, all in a single block. Decrypt covered the move. That is why DeGods now exist as about 9,465 NFTs plus 535 Bitcoin inscriptions.

Returning to Solana. In April 2024, Frank shared a test of NFTs being bridged back to Solana. Soon after, De Labs launched an optional bridge that lets DeGods and y00ts holders choose which chain to hold on. In a later interview with Decrypt, Frank called the 2022 move a mistake made because the community was panicking. He also said art upgrades would stop for good. Today, DeGods trade on Solana, Ethereum and Bitcoin.

The $DEGOD token

In September 2024, De Labs launched $DEGOD [[TOKEN:degod39zqQWzpG6h4b7SJLLTCFE6FeZnZD8BwHBFxaN]], a Solana token meant to bring DeGods, y00ts and $DUST under one asset. It was not airdropped. Instead, holders swap existing ecosystem assets for it. Reported conversion rates were:

• 1 DeGod = 550,000 $DEGOD
• 1 y00t = 120,000 $DEGOD
• 1 $DUST = 36 $DEGOD

Total supply is 10 billion. According to launch coverage, 85% was set aside for NFT holders, 10% for the project's foundation, 3% for a bonding-curve sale, 1% for initial liquidity and 1% for the launch partner, the Solana NFT marketplace Sniper. The bonding-curve allocation sold out within minutes of launch on September 16, 2024. Prices swung sharply in the first days. The official site still offers a $DEGOD conversion tool.

Products today

The official site lists:

• The DeGods and y00ts collections, plus a newer collection called DUSTIES 2.0.
• A custom DeGod creator for personalized PFPs.
• $DEGOD conversion.
• A merch shop.
• A gallery, a global member map and a brand kit (memes and stickers) for community content.
• Experiments such as de/cap, a memecoin trading chat, and an apparel collaboration with Jeff Hamilton.

deBay. In July 2026, DeGods announced deBay, a marketplace of its own at de.xyz. The announcement said it covers "every DeGod, every y00t, every chain," with a buying guide, trait alerts and peer-to-peer trading. The live site shows DeGods, BTC DeGods and y00ts. It has trait filters and rarity breakdowns, floor and volume stats, and an activity feed, with prices in SOL. Listings link out to [[PROJECT:272]] for execution.

Place in the Solana ecosystem

DeGods was one of the flagship collections of Solana's 2021–22 NFT boom. Its move to Ethereum in 2022 was widely seen as a blow to Solana NFTs, and its 2024 return as a vote of confidence. Today it is a multichain brand whose token, main marketplace and much of its trading activity sit on Solana. Its official X account (@DeGodsNFT) was still posting as of September 2026. Community activity runs mainly through its Discord.