degent.club

The Decentralized Gentlemen Club: a community-driven ordinal collection of unique Pepes in tuxedos, built on Bitcoin, with a non-custodial mint.

Status: Live since 2026-10-19
Site: degent.club
Source: github.com/DegentClub/degent
As of: 2026-10-20

What it is #

degent.club is the Decentralized Gentlemen Club. In its own words it is "a community-driven 10K ordinal collection of unique Pepes in tuxedos, built on Bitcoin". The collection is 10,000 when fully minted: 4,112 inscribed (as of 2026-09-25 23:24:51 UTC). Its README describes the project as the collection plus "the automated, non-custodial mint that lets anyone add a Degent, up to a block-sized one, from the website with no human in the loop". Each piece is a Degent. The project is maintained by Blockspace Holdings with its community.

Status #

Live at https://degent.club (as of 2026-10-20). It has been public since 2026-10-19 13:36Z. Blockspace Holdings names it one of its three most important holdings, with block.space and scribb.it.

How it works #

The website is one React + Vite app: home, the collection gallery, the Full Block Exhibit, the Atelier, the comic, the blog, the club, and the Degent mint at https://degent.club/mint. The mint and its SDK live in the public DegentClub/degent repository, which builds on a shared platform, DegentClub/scribbit (the platform behind Scribbit), pinned as a git submodule. A minted Degent must meet the club's rules (a square image, a Pepe in a tuxedo with a bowtie, the frame and placard), and the frame and placard are part of the mint's automated art review. Day-to-day changes go through pull requests under lazy consensus; significant ones need an Architecture Decision Record.

Key figures #

4,112 Degents inscribed (as of 2026-09-25 23:24:51 UTC), of 10,000 when fully minted.
In a count on 2026-10-20, the 4,112 inscribed Degents totalled 1.51 GB, and the largest was 3.96 MB.

Glossary #

Architecture Decision Record: How the Degent code makes a significant decision: a new component or service, a change of data flow, a signing or custody model, security architecture, a breaking contract change, or a new dependency on a service the project does not run. An ADR is proposed in a pull request under docs/adr/, open for comment for at least 5 business days, and accepted by the owning team or teams. An accepted ADR is never edited; a later ADR supersedes it.
Atelier: A section of the degent.club website and a service in the Degent code. Its code renders the Degent frame and placard. The code is Apache-2.0, but images it produces that carry the frame and placard may not be published, sold, inscribed or minted as Degents or under the club's marks.
Decentralized Gentlemen Club: The collection and club at degent.club. In its own words, "a community-driven 10K ordinal collection of unique Pepes in tuxedos, built on Bitcoin". The 10K is its size when fully minted, not a count: 10,000 when fully minted, 4,112 inscribed (as of 2026-09-25 23:24:51 UTC).
Degent: A Degent is an inscription in the Decentralized Gentlemen Club collection at degent.club. The club's minting rules (on its site as captured in September 2026) ask for a square JPEG of at least 200KB showing a Pepe character in a tuxedo with a mandatory bowtie, framed, with a placard that says "DEGEN", "DEGENT" or "REGEN" (the frame and placard).
Degent mint: degent.club's "automated, non-custodial mint that lets anyone add a Degent, up to a block-sized one, from the website with no human in the loop", at degent.club/mint. Its service, degent-mint, holds the order state machine, the art review, a policy signer and lanes; degent-mint-sdk holds the rules, domain types and a typed API client. The rules set no cap per wallet: "Mint as many as you want".
frame and placard: The ornamental gold picture frame and the placard reading DEGEN, DEGENT or REGEN that every Degent carries. The club's minting rules require it ("Must be framed and include a placard"), and the Degent mint's automated art review checks it. As a visual design and trade dress it is not licensed (all rights reserved), even where the code that draws it is Apache-2.0.
inscription: Content bound to a sat by ord, carried in a witness envelope. Under BTI's law the inscription is content, not a token: the inscribed sat is the token that claims the bytes.
lazy consensus: The rule for day-to-day changes in the Degent code's governance. Maintainers seek consensus in the pull request review, and silence after a reasonable review period is consent. The owning team's approval plus green CI is enough to merge.

FAQ #

How many Degents are there? #

The collection is 10,000 when fully minted. Today there are 4,112 inscribed (as of 2026-09-25 23:24:51 UTC). The 10,000 is the size of the finished collection, not a count of Degents that exist.

What does a Degent have to look like? #

The club's minting rules ask for a square JPEG of at least 200KB, a Pepe character in a tuxedo with a mandatory bowtie, and the frame with a placard saying "DEGEN", "DEGENT" or "REGEN". You may mint as many as you want.

Why have older pages shown other counts? #

A review of the site found three conflicting counts: the old site's 4,027 minted and 1,470 MB, 4,112 in the collection list, and 4,113 and 1,508 MB in an earlier analysis. It also calls the old "10K = 3+ GB" a projection presented as fact.

Can I use the Degent art or name in my own project? #

No. The code is Apache-2.0 and the docs CC BY 4.0, but the artwork, the comic, the collection's images, the names and the frame and placard are not licensed. A fork must use its own name and art. Using the names to refer to the project is fine.

Who decides changes to the code? #

Each component's owning team reviews and merges by pull request, under lazy consensus. Significant decisions need an Architecture Decision Record. Licensing, trademarks and the Code of Conduct are decided by Blockspace Holdings.