The Labo Discord Community is Here!

DRVN Labo is straddling two worlds.

On the one side there’s the smell of fuel, the sensation of lateral Gs, and the comradery of friends and acquaintances sipping coffee and appreciating each other’s project cars.

On the other side is a decentralized network of profile pictures and usernames who compete, collaborate, and commiserate in game lobbies, chat rooms, and social apps 24/7—365.

Yet, there isn’t a community on the planet that brings these worlds together. Well, until The Labo rolled up.

We’re on a mission to create the ultimate car-culture community. Whether you’re into tuning, modifying, and customizing your car IRL—Faithfully follow professional motorsport—Are driven to hone your sim racing skills or indulge in casual racing games—Or are building your onchain dream garage.

The Labo is for everyone who’s heart rate raises even a little when they catch a glimpse of rolling art.

Features

Our Discord server has all the channels and features you’d expect in any gaming or web3 community. Although, we’ve been working to squeeze every ounce of performance out of ours to optimize it for engagement, incentives, and sharing of knowledge.

Forums

Most Discord servers rely on the standard rapid-fire chats. But the online car culture has always thrived in forum environments. That’s why we’re embracing the under-utilized but extremely powerful forum features Discord offers.

You’ll still get your category-specific chats. However, with forum channels members can have more organized and effective conversations.

If you’re a long-time car guy, you’ll feel right at home. And if you’re coming from the web3 or gaming world, we think you’ll enjoy the change of pace.

Initially we will be supporting some of the most popular JDM models such and Nissan S-Chassis, Mitsubishi Evos, and Toyota Supras. But we’ll regularly poll our community to add other popular models as the demand for them emerges.

Engagement Levels

There’s no denying. Car fans are a competitive bunch. And The Labo is a non-stop race for members to level up their profile through engagement, activities, challenges, and collecting. Each major milestone unlocks new roles, rewards, and bragging rights.

Every time to level up a notification will drop in the 🏆️ | achievements channel.

Token Gated Sub-Communities

Our ecosystem is powered by onchain assets. Based Buster Coin (the ticker is $BSTR) holders of different levels will earn entry to exclusive chats. VHCL shareholders will be able to connect with their fellow co-owners. And DRVN Founder’s Club Key holders will get the ultimate access to every corner of the community including direct access to the DRVN Labo team and influence in the project’s trajectory.

Just head over to the 🪙 | holder-verification channel to get started.

DRVN Labo Ecosystem Updates

With DRVN Labo at the wheel of this next-gen car community it’s only natural that The Labo will be the prime spot to get project updates and alpha that will keep you on top of your automotive game.

DRVN Culture Media

As we ramp up our media arm our server will carry all the content we produce. Articles, newsletters, videos, podcasts, livestreams and more. Want to contribute to our media outlet or have your sim racing livestream syndicated? As a member, your foot is in the door!

Channels

Here’s a quick breakdown of just some of the categories & channels we think you’ll love.

Cars & Coffee

Show off your ride or your latest mods and connect with those who appreciate your passion project in the 🚗 ☕️ | cars-n-coffee forum. What’s more, the builds with the most engagement will earn a content feature in the DRVN Culture publication.

dBulletin Forums

We’re bringing back the golden age on online car community with our take on the vBulletin forums. Connect with owners of your specific make and model to share advice, pick up knowledge, and work together to get even the hardest job done. This is how project cars got built before the days of YouTube.

Voice/Video Chats

Connecting with others is way more personal when you can see their face and hear their voice. Many Discord communities offer VCs, but The Labo offers a variety of VCs so members can connect in more specific ways.

For example, kick back and chill with other members in the 🎧️ | Community-VC or use the 🎧️ | F1-hangout and 🎧️ | FD-hangout to connect with fans.

Sim Racing

Speaking of… Discord was designed for gamers, and racing games are one area that car enthusiasts dominate. You’ll find VCs for our two favorite games, 🎧️ | AssettoCorsa-VC and 🎧️ | TD2-VC (Torque Drift 2) to chat with other drivers while sim racing, as well as a general 🎧️ | sim-chat for whatever game you’re tackling.

Or if you’re new to sim racing pop into the 🛞 | sim-chat or ⚙️ | tech-chat to learn from seasoned pros on how to get started in the sport. (Yes, it is definitely a sport!)

Motorsports

Out of the gates we have channels for F1 and Formula Drift fans. As our community grows, we will support more racing series according to demand. Indy, WRC, Formula E… We see you!

Automotive Web3

One of the fastest growing niches in online car culture is the web3 space. And we have a lot of friends in this world. We’ve set up a few channels for you to stay up-to-date and discuss the latest projects at the intersection of cars and crypto. A general chat, and announcements from both us and our partner projects on the topic.

Activities

A community that plays together stays together. That’s why we are planning various weekly events to keep you entertained, engaged, and excited to keep coming back for more.

Live F1 Predictions & Watch Parties:

In partnership with Spredict, we will be livestreaming our F1 picks before every race. This will be a great way to get the details needed to accel in your F1 fantasy league or join us in the action in the Spredict predicition games.

Then once the action begins, members can join the #F1-VC to experience each grand prix with the community.

Partner Project Game Nights

We’ve got some friends we’re looking forward to introducing you to. What better way than to get together and try out their game as a community!? To dial up the fun, every partner game night we hold will include prizes from DRVN Labo and the featured partner.

Social Contests & Raids

The bigger the community the higher we can build. That’s why well will institute regular contests designed to onboard the world. This includes post/thread contests, raids, art, meme, and video contest… And more!

Rewards

In life you’re driven to work hard and earn scratch to indulge in your automotive passions. Likewise, in The Labo, you’ll be driven to be a helpful and engaged member to earn BSTR Points, which can be redeemed for DRVN Labo merch, $BSTR tokens, and prizes from our partner projects.

BSTR Points can be earned by increasing your level, joining activities and challenges, and granted by admins to reward stand-out members.

Beta Bounties

To kick things off we are offering $BSTR pay-outs to members who create an account in the DRVN/VHCLS app and submit valuable feedback or spot bugs in the system. Just drop your findings in the 🔫 | beta-bounties forum channel.

Not only does this help us refine our product, it incentivizes you to get familiar with our brand-new car culture app.

The initial beta bounty will be open for a limited time, but we will reopen it periodically as we push major updates.

Legendary Key Contest

Member incentives just keep rolling! On top of BSTR rewards, we’re holding a race for one lucky member to earn a DRVN Founder’s Club (DFC) Steel Key NFT worth 0.15 ETH!

This puppy is the ultimate VIP pass to the entire DRVN Labo ecosystem including a fractional share of Paul Walker’s Ferrari 360 Modena, a generous BSTR allocation, a limited edition DFC hat, and much MUCH more. For the full details on what the key unlocks visit the DFC page.

For eligibility you’ll need to be one of the first 100 members to hit level 3 and earn the exclusive Legend role. Once we have 100 finishers, we will hold a raffle to award the key to one of these absolute chads.

Your Invite Awaits

This is just the beginning for the ultimate car-culture community. We have much MUCH more planned as the membership expands. If you have ideas to take the experience to the next gear we’d love to hear it in the 💭 | Feedback channel!

As of now, The Labo is open for business! Join the community today and let’s work together to unite and ignite the IRL, online, and onchain car-culture!!!