Billionaire Collector Adam Weitsman and Moonbirds’ Spencer Gordon-Sand Turn Up for Doginal Dogs at DDNYC 2026

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September 2026

Two of the most recognized names in NFTs showed up for Doginal Dogs at DDNYC 2026. Adam Weitsman, the billionaire entrepreneur and prolific NFT collector, and Spencer Gordon-Sand, CEO of Orange Cap Games and the driving force behind the Moonbirds revival, both attended the event’s Sky Party in New York, spent time with the Doginal Dogs team and community, and came away publicly enthusiastic.

For a collection that began as a free mint in January 2024, drawing figures of this stature is a marker of how far the community has come. It also captured a theme the night kept returning to: builders and collectors from across the NFT space supporting one another, rather than competing in silos.

Adam Weitsman’s Testimonial

Weitsman, whose net worth is estimated between $1.2 and $1.5 billion, owns Upstate Shredding, Weitsman Recycling, one of the largest privately held scrap metal processors in the country, and is among the most active NFT collectors in the world, with a collection that has included Bored Apes, Otherside NFTs, Moonbirds, and rare Pudgy Penguins. In July 2026 he joined the Yuga Labs board of directors. He is also a well-known philanthropist across upstate New York.

After the Sky Party, held at TAO, he shared his reaction publicly. “I have been to a lot of events in my life but the @doginaldogs after party at Tao tonight was so next level,” he wrote, adding that “every detail on point” and that “the community is deep, loyal and passionate.” He closed by saying he was “very proud to be a part of this amazing family.”

Spencer Gordon-Sand and the Doginal Dogs Legends Verdict

Spencer Gordon-Sand brought a builder’s eye. Through Orange Cap Games, he leads the Moonbirds IP and built Vibes, a Pudgy Penguins trading card game that has generated millions in revenue, so when he examined Doginal Dogs Legends, the community’s hand-drawn trading card game, his assessment carried real weight.

At the event, Spencer opened a pack of Doginal Dogs Legends and looked closely at the cards, praising the production quality and how well the set was made. Coming from someone who builds premium trading card games for a living, that endorsement of the craft behind Rise of the Pack is a meaningful external validation of a product the Doginal Dogs team spent nearly two years developing.

The conversation, by attendees’ accounts, went beyond one project. The message was that the whole space can win together, that strong products and strong communities lift the entire category, and that builders supporting builders is how NFTs move forward. For two figures tied to Yuga Labs and Moonbirds to spend the night engaging genuinely with a Dogecoin-based community is exactly that idea in practice.

Builders Supporting Builders

The optics of the evening told the story: a scrap-metal billionaire and Yuga board member, the CEO behind the Moonbirds revival, and the Doginal Dogs team and community, all in one room, comparing notes and cheering each other on. In a market that spent years pitting projects against one another, that kind of cross-pollination is a healthier signal than any floor price.

For Doginal Dogs, it was validation from the top of the space. For the NFT category as a whole, it was a glimpse of what maturity looks like: the biggest collectors and most ambitious builders showing up for a community that started from nothing and built something real.

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