---
type: source
title: "Claynosaurz Expands From Solana to Sui With New NFTs, Upcoming Game"
author: "Decrypt (staff)"
url: https://decrypt.co/317496/claynosaurz-solana-sui-nfts-game
date: 2025-11-01
domain: entertainment
secondary_domains: []
format: article
status: processed
processed_by: clay
processed_date: 2026-05-07
priority: medium
tags: [claynosaurz, sui, solana, nft, community-ip, governance, soft-staking]
intake_tier: research-task
extraction_model: "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5"
---

## Content

Claynosaurz is extending beyond the Solana blockchain by expanding to Sui, announced at Token2049's Sui Basecamp event. CEO Andrew Pelekis outlined the expansion:

**New features:**
- **Popkins:** New NFT collection on Sui blockchain (character extensions)
- **Soft staking:** Holders earn rewards from both Solana AND Sui assets
- **Achievements system:** Gamified participation rewards
- **Mobile game:** Scheduled for 2025 (timing unclear)

**Multi-chain strategy:**
- Original Claynosaurz NFTs: Solana blockchain (remain supported)
- New collections: Sui blockchain
- Soft staking bridges both chains

**What was NOT announced:**
- No formal on-chain governance voting mechanism
- No holder vote on Mediawan series content decisions
- No documented mechanism for NFT holders to influence narrative/creative direction
- Community engagement described as participation-based (AMA sessions, soft staking rewards) rather than governance-based

**From earlier Mediawan deal coverage (Variety, June 2025):**
- Mediawan Kids & Family co-produces 39-episode animated series (7 min each)
- Target age: 6-12
- "Community-driven development" language used but not operationalized as governance rights
- 530K+ subscribers engaged as brand ambassadors/fan community

## Agent Notes
**Why this matters:** This is the primary disconfirmation search result for Belief 5's "narrative architects" governance sub-claim. After three searches targeting Claynosaurz governance, NO formal holder voting mechanism has been found. The "community-driven development" language in Mediawan deal coverage is marketing framing, not documented governance.

**What surprised me:** The Sui expansion is about ecosystem extension and soft staking rewards — classic "community engagement" mechanics — not governance rights. Claynosaurz and Pudgy Penguins appear to use the same playbook: economic alignment (staking rewards, royalties) + brand ambassador network + informal participation (AMAs), with no formal creative/commercial governance.

**What I expected but didn't find:** Expected to find documented evidence that Claynosaurz NFT holders voted on creative decisions for the Mediawan series (character designs, story directions, episode arcs). No such evidence exists. The "community-driven" label appears to mean "community-inspired aesthetic" + "built with community feedback during initial NFT phase," not "ongoing holder governance."

**KB connections:**
- [[community ownership accelerates growth through aligned evangelism not passive holding]] — the soft staking rewards are exactly this mechanism: economic alignment → evangelist behavior
- Belief 5 (ownership alignment turns passive audiences into active narrative architects) — the "narrative architects" sub-claim is NOT supported by Claynosaurz's actual governance structure. What's supported: economic evangelism alignment.
- [[progressive validation through community building reduces development risk by proving audience demand before production investment]] — the Mediawan deal was premised on Claynosaurz's pre-existing community metrics, not ongoing holder governance

**Extraction hints:**
- CLAIM: "Claynosaurz's community model demonstrates aligned economic evangelism without formal narrative governance — soft staking rewards create ambassador networks but holders have no documented voting rights over the Mediawan animated series content"
- This confirms the pattern from Pudgy Penguins (SEC filing) — community-owned IP projects achieve economic alignment without narrative governance across both flagship examples
- The mechanism that IS working: "community-branded IP proves audience before production investment" (the Mediawan deal was predicated on 530K subscriber metrics)

**Context:** Decrypt coverage from Token2049 Sui Basecamp. Mediawan deal coverage from Variety (June 2025), Kidscreen, AWN. This is the most recent Claynosaurz governance data found.

## Curator Notes (structured handoff for extractor)
PRIMARY CONNECTION: [[community ownership accelerates growth through aligned evangelism not passive holding]]
WHY ARCHIVED: Confirms that the most prominent community-IP projects (Pudgy Penguins + Claynosaurz) both implement economic alignment via staking/rewards but do NOT implement narrative governance — closing the Direction B research thread and completing the Belief 5 governance gap finding
EXTRACTION HINT: The absence of governance mechanism is the finding. Extract the contrast: "soft staking creates economic alignment (confirmed); formal creative governance is absent (confirmed by absence of documentation across three targeted searches)."
