In the endless world of Ethereum, Gift of Times by @ManuelLarino became more than an NFT collection it became a quiet legend about patience, art, and the value of time itself. Each piece was like a small memory floating through the blockchain, reminding people that the rarest treasures are not found in speed, but in moments that grow slowly with meaning.
The ones who carried these NFTs were called holders, but true holders were known for more than ownership. They believed in the vision during both silence and hype, protecting the story with loyalty and trust. In a noisy crypto world, they chose patience over fear and community over trends.
And so the tale of Gift of Times continued, block by block, teaching a simple lesson to everyone who entered its universe: time rewards those who believe, create, and stay true to the journey.I hope you got the message… 😉
Deadfellaz launched on August 13, 2021 — Friday the 13th — created by anonymous founders Betty (@betty_nft) and Psych (@psych_nft), a creative duo behind parent studio DFZ Labs.
Psych led the art, and Betty led the brand, community, and operations. The collection of 10,000 undead PFPs minted at 0.025 ETH and sold out on the same day. Betty has spoken publicly about building Deadfellaz to fill a gap she saw in early NFT culture — a project that didn't conform to the male-dominated aesthetics of the time. The result was a cast of inclusive, genderless zombies and a community known as The Horde.
Psych's art draws on horror, punk, anime, and underground pop culture, rendering each Deadfella a green-skinned antihero living on the fringes of a corporate dystopia. Every character is randomly generated across six trait categories — Eyes, Nose, Mouth, Head, Body, and Background — and every trait carries one of three grades: Fresh, Damaged, or Rotten.
Fresh is the most common grade, Damaged is rarer, and Rotten is the rarest, with full Rotten combinations among the most sought-after pieces in the collection. The Horde has organized around this grade system for years, treating it as a shared visual language rather than a number on a rarity chart.
Under DFZ Labs, Deadfellaz became one of the earliest NFT-native brands to break through into mainstream pop culture. The project partnered with Steve Aoki's Dim Mak in 2022 for a fashion capsule featuring skate decks, hoodies, and jackets, and joined forces with DraftKings and the NFLPA that same year to release officially licensed zombified NFTs of NFL players for use in Reignmakers fantasy football.
Additional collaborations have included Wrangler on NFC-chipped vintage denim and Giuseppe Zanotti on metaverse footwear. Betty has been named to NFT Now's NFT100 list of the most influential people in NFTs in both 2022 and 2023.
The Deadfellaz universe has expanded well beyond a single PFP collection. Deadfrenz, a companion project of 13,000 animal-themed NFTs introduced in early 2022, brought the same grade system into a new visual world.
Death Touch, the team's digital trading card game built in partnership with SKALE Labs, is currently in playable alpha on Steam — a simultaneous-deploy card battler set across four lanes, with matches resolving in under five minutes. Through Studios and Shop verticals, the IP continues to scale into apparel, gaming, and original storytelling.
The inclusion of Deadfellaz 7586 in our Flagship Collection recognizes one of the defining NFT-native brands of its generation — a project that turned a genderless zombie PFP into a cultural property spanning fashion, fantasy sports, gaming, and a community known simply as The Horde. Founded on Friday the 13th in 2021, Deadfellaz built a universe where the undead are the anti-heroes, and where Fresh, Damaged, and Rotten became the shared language of an entire ecosystem.
Welcome home, 7586 🌊
AI is amazing for getting working game builds into reality, so you can actually prove it works without wasting all your time & budget on middlemen - but it also removes artists from a product that is seeking to evoke human emotions from human players and I believe we should seek and lay the groundwork for how to use AI as a hybrid tool instead of completely replacing human skill - so the Death Touch development model will be one that uses AI in every single way possible to make it the most badass, deep & entertaining game we can - BUT! For every Death Touch character that gets finalized in alpha, we will be pursuing human artist commissions and human sfx/voice commissions to replace the AI concept assets. The AI sprints, the human touch finalizes it, it’ll be a fast and fun ride.
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@ENICOLL "Metallic flower-like structures are built from stacked petal layers, each with randomized geometry and colour drawn from mineral-inspired palettes. Each of the 256 outputs is a unique infinite animation."
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A lot of talk about acquiring projects - but why not develop your own?
Offer: our in house studio will create a 10k PFP project for you if you sweep and vault 50k USD of @Deadfellaz - conditions apply and teams must be vetted pre-sweep. This is for art and gen-prep only, to be handed over to the founding team. We will have no further involvement, unless that is wanted and agreed upon by both parties.
As a producer of iconic web3 brands, we created a studio side for DFZ a while back to bring all dev in-house & start helping other web3 brands elevate their art, content, gens and design.
DM to chat. One spot only.
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