Assertion Supported AI assessment confidence: 95% certainty 5/5 debate potential 1/5

PleasrDAO originated from a tweet by PoolTogether co-founder Leighton Cusack

People Pleaser · Why DAOs Matter for Digital Art · May 27, 2021 · at 5:05

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Digital artist pplpleasr explains the origin story of PleasrDAO during a talk at the a16z NFT Summit.

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“What was so special about this NFT sale was that a bunch of my supporters, or I guess you can call them fans got together and formed a DAO specifically for the purpose of buying this NFT. And it started with one tweet from Leighton Cusack, who was the co-founder of PoolTogether, which is another DeFi protocol which then turned into a Twitter thread and then a Telegram group and then eventually formed PleaserDAO.”

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The claim, plainly

PleasrDAO was originally formed by supporters specifically to purchase pplpleasr's Uniswap NFT following a tweet by PoolTogether co-founder Leighton Cusack.

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Assessment

Public social media archives and independent contemporary reporting confirm that Leighton Cusack, co-founder of PoolTogether, tweeted on March 25, 2021 proposing to create a quick DAO to bid on pplpleasr's Uniswap V3 NFT. This tweet directly led to the formation of PleasrDAO by a group of supporters and crypto community members who pooled funds and subsequently won the auction on March 27, 2021.

March 25, 2021 tweet by Leighton Cusack (@lay2000lbs) proposing a 'quick DAO' to bid on the NFT
Contemporary reports from The Block, Decrypt, and Bankless confirming Cusack's tweet was the catalyst for forming PleasrDAO

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[1] businessinsider.com [2] theblock.co [3] youtube.com [4] medium.com [5] iq.wiki [6] decrypt.co [7] decrypt.co [8] thedefiant.io

Leighton Cusack PleasrDAO tweet pplpleasr Uniswap v3 NFT PleasrDAO origin Leighton Cusack tweet Uniswap NFT pplpleasr "lay2000lbs" "March 25" "2021" pplpleasr OR DAO OR Uniswap

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