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Bring the grails home
June 10, 2026. Down 29. OG Anunoby tips in a miss with 1.2 seconds left, the largest comeback in Finals history, and the run that ended a 53-year title drought. Josh Hart grabbed the ball. The league told him no: it was already promised to the auction block. The moment belonged to the players and the fans. The artifact is about to belong to whoever writes the biggest check.
We're the check.
GardenDAO is a futarchy-governed DAO on Solana raising to bid on the greatest relics of the 2026 Finals, beginning with the Game 4 game-used ball (Sotheby's Lot 3), and extending to Finals-debut and game-worn jerseys, the game-used net, and panels of the Garden floor, across Sotheby's three NBA Finals sales (June 30–July 20). We're building it with two people who've done this before: Rob Petrozzo, co-founder of Rally, which pioneered fractional, community-owned blue-chip collectibles, from Michael Jordan game-worn pieces to museum-grade memorabilia, and Tzvi Wiesel, co-founder of BAXUS, the pioneer in tokenizing rare collectibles on Solana. If we win, the relics get authenticated, insured, and vaulted to museum standard, then put on public display, not locked in a safe.
How the raise works
Our activation target is $2M. But the ball alone is appraised at $2.5–4.5M, so $2M is the floor that turns the DAO on, not the war chest that wins. The more we get committed, the more we bring home:
- $2M, Activation. DAO spins up, treasury locks, the acquisition proposal goes live. (Below this, everyone is refunded.)
- ~$3M, The Ball. Enough to contend for Lot 3, the reason we exist.
- $4–5M, The Matched Set. The ball + OG Anunoby's Game 4 game-worn jersey, the same play, a paired artifact.
- $6M+, The Grail Basket. Add the championship-core jerseys, the net, court panels, and a blue-chip hedge.
Use of Funds
- Acquisitions (majority of treasury): held in escrow, released only if the community's acquisition proposal passes the decision market.
- Custody, authentication & insurance: on a win, relics are authenticated, insured, and vaulted to museum standard, the playbook this team has run on seven-figure collectibles.
- Legal, ops & launch: wrapper, counsel, Sotheby's registration, and marketing, mostly one-time.
Unused acquisition funds return to the treasury automatically.
Roadmap & Milestones
- Day 0: Raise opens.
- Day ~4: Raise closes; DAO spins up; treasury locked.
- Day ~4: "Acquisition mandate" proposal goes live, authorize the DAO's bidding wrapper a total budget and a ranked target list across all three sales; unused returned.
- Day ~7: Proposal resolves. If PASS, funds unlock; bidding begins.
- June 30–July 20: the DAO works the closings across Premier + Weekly II & III.
- If we win the ball: authenticate → insure → vault → public display tour. Governance picks the next grail.
- If we lose a lot: the treasury and the community persist. We hunt the next one.
Market & Differentiation
Game-used "moment" memorabilia is repricing fast, Michael Jordan's 1998 Finals jersey sold for $10.1M at Sotheby's, and trophy artifacts sit at the top. We're built to do what ConstitutionDAO couldn't: gas-free instant settlement on Solana; a team that has actually sourced, authenticated, custodied, and shared ownership of seven-figure collectibles; and futarchy governance, so the bid ceiling is set by a market, not a mob. We govern the entity that holds the relics, backers hold governance, not a promise.
Read this before you back us
This is not a deposit and not an investment contract. If the acquisition proposal fails, or if we lose a lot, you are not automatically refunded, you hold a governance token, and any return of funds requires a proposal to pass the decision market. Tokens are not equity, debt, or an ownership claim on any relic, and confer no fiduciary rights. "GardenDAO" is a brand, not an affiliation with any team, arena, or league. Participate only with money you can lose.