How we created the first crowdfunded lunar mission

Steven Verbraeken
5 min readMay 28, 2021

Sometimes, we can’t expect the elite to do what the laymen want them to do. Promises about going to Mars. Promises about going back to the Moon. All we see is more promises and deadlines getting delayed on and on with no results. Projects to the Moon or Mars aren’t even planned yet — the lack of a roadmap screams “we don’t know what we’re doing”. But this is over now, the people wants to seize control of future space missions, from funding to partners and deadlines. This is, in fact, what we want to achieve at EvilDogeCorp.

The Soviet Union launched the first human, Yuri Gagarin, into space on April 12, 1961, beating both Alan Shepard to space and John Glenn to orbit. Within days of the Soviet achievement, President John F. Kennedy asked Vice President Lyndon Johnson to identify a “space program which promises dramatic results in which we could win.” A little over a month later, on May 25, 1961, Kennedy stood before a joint session of Congress and called for human exploration to the Moon. We want this to happen again, but this time it won’t be the President of the United States calling for “human exploration to the Moon” to serve some obscure anti-Soviet propaganda purposes. This time, this call for human exploration is done standing before the whole of mankind, to serve mankind. This is a chance to show that space exploration doesn’t have to be restricted to military oriented regimes or narcissitic billionaires. Yes we want to go to Mars as a species, but what’s the point in going if getting to Mars implies having to serve in the armed forces or work in an Amazon/Tesla warehouse? At EvilDogeCorp we don’t want to see the future of space exploration as a corporate paradise. We don’t want to see another East India Company deciding what’s legal or not just for corporate interests. At EvilDoge we stand by the values of Honesty, Freedom, Equality before the Law and Fraternity. That’s why we created this project that’s fully transparent with the funds and roadmap, the community will be able to participate in our decisions and no contributor will be left behind. These values will be applied as well as soon as we get into space or when setting our foot on another extraterrestrial body.

What is EvilDoge?

EvilDoge is a BEP20 token (Binance Smart Chain). This token is a classic token in the likes of Shiba Inu, because we believe that we don’t need a Safemoon protocol to secure a Liquidity Pool (liquidity providers can be rewarded by being awarded tokens) and ownership can be renounced immediately. 51% of funds are locked in Deeplock.io, to be released progressively until 2025. It will be done this way as we don’t want to cause too much disruption in our token’s price. The aim of this project is to fund a lunar base mission (current NASA estimates of such a mission are around 30 billion USD). If coins like DogeCoin can reach tens of billions of market cap, why can’t a token with a use case reach this market cap? As soon as we reach our target, a worldwide request for quotation will be launched. All submitting space agencies will be carefully checked in order to have the best project for our mission.

What is EvilDogeCorp?

Once the first milestone is reached and initial funds unblocked, EvilDogeCorp (French non-profit organisation) will be created and will receive its first income for marketing campaigns and recruiting staff from within the space industry. French non-profit organisations are highly regulated with strict sanctions for any attempt of illegal activity. This should provide additional trust in the project and all financial transactions will be approved through laywers and accountants to ensure all proceedings are legal in regards to French law.

Why BEP20?

We chose BEP20 because the fees are much cheaper than in the ERC20 network. Also, we believe that the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus protocol is far better in scalability as well as ecologically speaking.

How high will the market cap of EVL need to go?

So there are 135 billion EVLs, slightly more than Dogecoins but Dogecoins are still being mined. EvilDogeCorp owns 51% of those but they are time-locked which means they can only be swapped once unlocked. They will be unlocked in five batches over the next five years, each time EvilDogeCorp will get 9.6% of the total supply. For the first batch on July 1st 2021, we are aiming for a market cap of $10 million. For the second, a $150 million market cap. For the third, $50 billion. For the fourth, $100 billion. And for the fifth and final batch on January 1st 2025, we’re aiming for the price to hit $1 dollar, which represents a $135 billion market cap. If this all goes to plan this means Evil Doge Corp would receive $28 billion in funding from swapping it’s EVL into Euros. Of course we won’t sell the entire batch of EVL immediately once it is unlocked. Each time we will sell it very gradually over the course of a year to avoid a price drop. And if the time the batch is unlocked the market cap is too far below the target price we set for that batch then we will hold off from swapping it until the price increases sufficiently.

Will you work with Elon Musk or NASA?

We would definitely look into a partnership with national space agencies NASA and the ESA because we will need astronauts to help build the base. If they help us build the base, in return the base could provide housing for their robots and astronauts. So I’m confident there is a deal to be made there. Our objective is to collect enough funds to start reaching out to these agencies and in the end we will sign a contract with the one with the best project and proposals. It could be NASA, ESA or any combination of space agencies.
We will also require third-party transport for the base and robots to travel from earth to the moon. In 2024 we will issue an invitation for proposals to the industry and begin tendering and negotiation phases with these companies, including SpaceX whom I’m sure could be interested, but also with any other companies that could transport the base for us.

Is it illegal? Is it a scam?

It is not illegal and it’s not unethical. That said, everyone that invests in crypto must be aware that they are just swapping tokens for other tokens, in this cas EVL for BNB, and there is always a possibility that the token price goes down to zero.
Quick audits usually say our contract is probably a rug pull but they don’t take into account that we have renounced ownership so no one can access any of the functions. Funds for Evil Doge Corp and the Dev team are time-locked and will only be made available gradually over the next five years.

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Steven Verbraeken

SV is an IT consultant with a wide range of skills from Python to BI. Likes playing guitar, doing pull-ups and Lifetime Movies. Founder of EvilDogeCorp.