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🚨 $HEEBOO Claim Wallet Registration is now open for all Claynosaurz character NFT holders.
The snapshot for holder eligibility has NOT been taken yet!
All OG, Saga, and Popkins will be eligible for the upcoming $HEEBOO allocation. We’ll reveal a snapshot date soon.
Important to do: Assign the Solana wallet you want to receive your allocated $HEEBOO token before token launch at the site below.
Popkins holders must have a Solana wallet assigned to receive their allocation.
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Welcome @Claynosaurz 🎬🦖
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Every major studio is absolutely clueless on how to launch a new IP. Usually its dependent on how big the marketing budget is.
As a marketer, I can tell you their playbooks don’t work anymore. They have no idea how to use social media to build awareness, interest, and community around something new.
Even worse they’ve never stopped to think about how to reward the people who actually help make these franchises successful.
The problem isn’t that original IP is too risky. It’s that the industry has never figured out how to validate demand before investing. Launching without a community is what’s risky, and most studios still don’t know how to build one, let alone foster a healthy one.
There are so many incredible creators with ideas worth sharing, but most of them never get the opportunity because they’re still waiting for someone at a studio to say yes.
That’s the question we kept coming back to. What if every creator had access to the same audience-building playbook we used for Claynosaurz? What if they could prove demand before asking for permission?
That’s why we built HEEBOO.
It’s for creators looking for another path through this crazy industry.
And it’s for the fans that help them along the way. The tastemakers. The people who see something special before everyone else catches on and who believe in the creator’s vision.
We learned this through building Claynosaurz. And we've built an entire business model (and token) around it.
Our goal is to empower the next wave of creators - and reward their early community - with the knowledge and experience we've gained through building with all of you.
Introducing $HEEBOO
The economic layer of fan participation.
Powered by @metaplex on @solana
Learn more: token.heeboo.com/
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A monumental day for the Clayno Community!
The Claynosaurz equity options allocation checker is live.
Check the link below 🔽
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What it means to be a Clayno. 🦕🌋
Over the last four years, I’ve broken bread with the team, travelled to events, built friendships, and created stories and countless memories.
@The_CrimsonClan 🩸my community group, became family and recently enjoyed spending time with the @theboredbunch .
My collection has always come second to supporting an awesome group of people and the idea they believed in.
Some of my favourite moments came from organising meals around the world, where Crimson Clan would host the team. During a lunch in Paris, we were invited to Annecy, where the team would be accepting awards at the world’s premier animation festival.
This time, Crimson were to be hosted at the team’s villa for a BBQ and garden party shared with prospective partners.
Claynosaurz was growing.
We were no longer only at Web3 specific events. We were mixing with studios, directors and the wider animation world.
That was incredible to see, but it also made me wonder whether there would still be a place for us going forward.
As we left Annecy and said our farewells, Cab spoke excitedly about future events and how we’d all still be celebrating together.
I wanted to believe it.
But part of me worried the original community might eventually get drowned out by bigger names, bigger audiences and new fans with more reach.
That fear probably came across as negativity at the time.
Really, it came from seeing where the brand was going, and wondering whether there might come a point where stepping aside would be better than becoming an anchor holding it back.
But here we are, a year later.
Micro episodes are launching, with community Claynos featured and a cool claim system for interaction badges.
A game is set to launch when the moment is right. Vinyl blind boxes are heading into the South Korean and Japanese collector markets.
The brand is growing its audience beyond Web3.
And while all of that has been happening, while the team has been travelling the world and getting into the right rooms for partnerships, they have also clearly been working through a complicated legal and structural path to bring the community into what comes next.
Setting aside 15% of the Claynosaurz brand as equity options for the community gives real meaning to years of belief, support, collecting, creating, travelling and showing up.
It says we are part of what Claynosaurz is and what it becomes.
Not just collecting.
Participating.
Not just watching an entertainment brand grow, but helping give it meaning and being brought along for the journey because we always believed
“it was obvious”. ❤️🔥
Dear holders, collectors, dino enjo0yers
I often feel the word "community" becomes gratuitous.
Every company says they have one. But eventually every founder has to answer: What does your community actually mean to you?
Well this is what it means to me: you didn't just support Claynosaurz; you made it possible.
Everything we've built, and everything we're fortunate enough to build next, begins with this community. It's been the greatest adventure of my life.
When attention is scarce and new projects appear every day, you chose to stick around. You let us experiment. You let us learn. You let us take risks that wouldn't have been possible without your patience. You collected. You built culture. You introduced friends to Claynosaurz. You travelled to meet us around the world. You created art, memes, videos and stories of your own. You answered newcomers' questions before we ever could. You carried this brand into conversations we'd never even know happened. You celebrated the wins and challenged us when we fell short.
You gave us the space to cook and build the company we dreamed of building.
Sometimes it's invisible work, but it's arguably the biggest reason Claynosaurz has reached its current position. No company builds a brand alone. The best they can do is recognize the people who helped build it with them.
So what does real alignment actually look like?
If communities help build a brand, create real value, and give it a fighting chance… shouldn't they have the opportunity to participate in it?
The honest answer is that doing it responsibly is hard.
It means navigating legal, regulatory, and structural challenges that most people never see. It's much easier to say "community first" than it is to redesign your company around that belief. It means doing the hard thing.
It’s a challenge that was worth solving to us, and today we're taking what I think is one of the most meaningful steps we've ever taken as a company. We've set aside 15% of the Claynosaurz brand as equity options for eligible members of this community.
Because ownership means something. It says that we're on the same ship.
As Claynosaurz grows, we're not asking you to simply believe in our future. We're inviting you into it. When we succeed, we succeed together. If we face challenges, we face those together too.
I've always felt that if we truly believed our community was our greatest asset, eventually our actions had to reflect it.
Values are tested when they cost something. Today, it is my absolute privilege to show you ours.
Nic ❤️🔥
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Popular character brand 'Claynosaurz' is ready for its next evolution, launching micro episodes as a step towards its full animated series.
#Claynosaurz #DanielJervis
animationmagazine.net/2026/0…
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We don't shy away from it. We pioneer it, and we make NFTs make sense for creators and collectors. Leading by example, that is the mission.
The Animation Journal wrote a 2-page feature on us (organic), and it's one of my favourite takes. They got it.
"Claynosaurz built the audience first. Who? Through short-form social storytelling, digital collectibles, and direct community relationships, the brand cultivated fandom, tested demand, and generated revenue before a single episode of long-form content on air."
"drives discovery; digital collectibles enable participation; consumer products confer ownership; gaming deepens engagement; animation supplies emotional connection; and licensing delivers scale. The result is [...] a network of entry points, each feeding the others."
"The familiar progression— audience into community, community into collectors, collectors into advocates — becomes a deliberate design rather than a happy accident. The treatment and entity of collectible characters is where the philosophy is most legible to
a licensing audience. The brand frames them not as products but as markers of participation: records of how and when a fan engaged, whether by discovering a character early, attending an event, or supporting a release. Reward loops, set completion, and unlockable experiences convert collecting from passive consumption into an active mechanism of belonging."
Gm everyone 💚
“Built with, not for.”
That line perfectly describes why Claynosaurz is different 🦖
A fandom first IP where the community isn’t just watching from the outside, they’re part of the story, the ecosystem and the long term vision.
This is how real IP gets built.
Get in while it’s still affordable at one point that window will close 😉
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It's time to share the voices of our main characters!
Griffin Burns is the voice behind our fearless and always adventure-chasing lead, Flea.
Known for Jonathan Byers (Stranger Things: Tales From ’85), Muichiro Tokito (Demon Slayer), Childe (Genshin Impact), and many more, Griffin brings Flea's unstoppable energy and imagination to life.
Check out Trix, Bex & Milo's voice actors below.
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Good start to a busy couple of weeks incoming. We've just been featured in The Animation Journal's Annecy issue 😍 (also goes on print)!
Tomorrow, I'm Annecy Festival-bound and have been invited to keynote @claynosaurz for animation execs. Annecy is considered the world's premier global showcase for animation, so, yknow... pretty sick ngl
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Still can't believe we're making a show, couldn't have imagined it when we started 4 years ago. The artists & animators absolute cooked on these episodes. There's so much care involved. And I can't wait to reveal the Clayno voices for the first time!
To the community that have supported us, cheered for us, and co-created with us, THANK YOU. Been a wild, wild trip. We're doing this because of you, and that's not lost on us.
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An Open Letter To @DriftProtocol
In therapy, people are often told to write a letter to their abuser.
Of course, they’re also usually told not to send it.
But this is CT, and people like to read things.
I fell in love with Drift after 10/10.
Watching the entire industry get liquidated over price action that wasn’t real forced me to take a serious look at anyone trying to solve that problem. And at the time, Drift looked like one of the only teams actually trying.
You didn’t liquidate most users that day. Your approach to protecting traders from temporary price dislocation events felt like a breath of fresh air and a much needed step in the right direction for this industry.
So I put my eggs in your basket.
Partly because of PTSD. Partly because of one feature. And partly because after suffering one of the biggest liquidation losses in an event where nearly two million other traders were wiped out too...I probably wasn’t thinking clearly.
But what hurt more than the abused trust was the social capital I burned defending you.
Supporting Drift was not a popular move.
At the time, my reputation in this space had not taken any real hits. And I stuck my neck out for you because I thought I was taking a principled stand on industry progress.
In hindsight, I was putting too much faith in one feature and ignoring the broader risk.
That’s on me.
But what happened next is on you.
I do not blame North Korea.
I blame Drift.
This was not a smart contract exploit. This was not some obscure bug that slipped through an audit. This was human failure. Operational failure. Negligence.
In any other industry, if a key individual acted negligently and that negligence caused a major loss of customer funds, that person would be removed.
If it were a founder or CEO, there would be a resignation.
There would be accountability.
Here?
Nothing.
No public statement that the responsible keyholder stepped down. No confirmation that they were removed. No meaningful acknowledgment that the person trusted with those controls should never be trusted with them again.
That lack of accountability is an insult to every victim of your negligence.
The idea that a business can mishandle admin controls, lose customer funds, and then move forward without individual-level accountability is absurd.
And the insult didn’t stop there.
You floated the idea that token holders staked in the DSM might forfeit their tokens. You even suggested putting it to a vote.
That was not what people signed up for.
This was not a normal bad debt scenario. This was not the type of event that was clearly covered under the terms people accepted when they staked.
You tried to rewrite the rules after the fact.
And those tokens are still not released.
Stop pretending you’re DeFi while holding token holders’ property hostage.
Then came the illusion of a recovery path.
The Tether revenue-backed loan made for a nice PR headline. It created the appearance of movement. But it was based on revenue.
Revenue you don’t have.
Even at pre-exploit levels, it would have taken years to make victims only partially whole.
This was not a major bug that needed to be patched.
This was human error and protocol-level negligence in how admin controls were handled.
And yet you stall.
Your updates are infrequent. The ones you do post are mostly vapor. You are not waiting because you have no choice. You are waiting because it is a strategy.
You are counting on crypto having a short memory.
You are waiting for market optimism to return. You are waiting for the exploit to become old news. You are waiting for a dozen newer exploits to bury yours.
I won’t let you forget.
You are finished, and you know it.
Drift once had a guaranteed place in the Solana ecosystem because traders had very few native alternatives. That is no longer true.
Solana traders who don’t want peer-vs-pool exposure have choices now.
You are no longer essential.
You are no longer inevitable.
And without real accountability, you will never be trusted the same way again.
You’re hoping people forget.
I won’t.
And until you show actual accountability, I won’t let anyone else forget either.
If tokens are going to be forfeited, start with the team allocation. Start with the people responsible. Start with the insiders who created the conditions for this failure.
Public resignations would be a start.
You don’t have to name names. But a public statement saying the person responsible no longer controls what they were clearly unfit to control would be nice.
Put your own money into making users whole.
Stop hiding behind process.
Stop pretending this was just another unfortunate crypto exploit.
It wasn’t.
It was negligence.
I can do a good enough job embarrassing myself from time to time without any help.
But Drift embarrassed me.
And you should be ashamed.
More than you are.
🫡 From the depths —
The White Whale 🐋
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If you're constantly delaying for better market conditions, you're telling the market you're only in for the money
If you're releasing a product because your community trusts you and they're expecting it, do it regardless of what the market looks like (unless you really need the capital)
Tesla doesn't come out and say EV sales are down so we're shelving the new model until next year, they just launch it
The difference is web3 still has a lot of people operating on a "launch now, build later" model
Traditionally it's the opposite, you build, you get the product to a place where its viable and then you bring it to the market
The good actors in this space are still building, the ones who raise hundreds of millions and have nothing to show for it are the reason people are hesitant right now to support real builders.
When teams take that kind of money but can't deliver, it hurts every project that's actually trying to do it right
The model can work, but its very difficult to vet teams before they've delivered anything and that's the exact problem the entire space is dealing with.
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We've sold over 3230 units so far, with two days left!!
I wanna give a massive, heartfelt thanks to everyone that's participated in our inaugurate Blind Box pre-sale. It means a lot to us.
To the project founders that reposted when they didn't have to, you're amazing. A lot of love went into this. I'll get to you (I was travelling for conferences, and if I haven't replied I will).
Remember to redeem your sbt badge! And a reminder the that super-chasers will not be available in retail versions 😤
Collectors collect.
ALT A picture of the Claynosaur Series 1 Blind Box figurines lineup.
