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Bud Light commercial that features Noun glasses (and will be shown during SuperBowl) is finally out! They are also running a contest on Twitter.
Proposal: Setting up Nouns Foundation
Setting up a Cayman Foundation Company - a legal entity to address potential legal and regulatory concerns.
Cayman Foundation Companies are considered effectively “ownerless”. Day-to-day management of a Cayman Foundation Company, including the investment of the foundation company’s assets, is conducted by its board of directors in accordance with its memorandum and articles of association.
Proposed budget (note: 420, 69 - nice):
Proposal 37 passed
This change enables Noun owners or delegates to submit Nouns DAO proposals using a single vote until, and including, Noun 399. Without this change, proposals created at Noun 200 and on would require 2 votes.
Projects
Nouns Party
Devloper.eth posted a big update about the future of nouns.party. The team has decided not to add any new features, but they will still be maintaining the site/code and would be happy to hand over the project to an interested team.
I think there are several reasons why the above happened. In general these are the challenges we faced as a team hoping to build long term on this effort.
1. Lack of product market fit.
2. Onerous proposal process.
3. Lack of awareness.
4. Lack of internal support.
5. Lack of large group participation in nouns.
6. Lack of nouns support for subdaos.
Fomo Nouns
Fomonouns.wtf went through quite a few updates over the past month(s), from handling inactive voters and small logo updates to fiddling with the scoring calculation and refilling the ETH pot. There has been a talk about adding an embedded chat (maybe even linked with Nouns discord server) and some form of rarity stats, but we´ll have to wait and see if these ideas ever see the light of day.
One of the community members is also working on an android app for FomoNouns.
Studio1
From the most recent posts, it seems the team behind this project has decided to embrace the one-armed version of Nouns to be turned into sofubi toys.
We should see prototypes from Bigshot Klim in 2 weeks and then the rest of the magic will happen in Japan.
Brave Takeover
There is currently an open proposal for another Brave Sponsored Image Takeover on Superbowl Sunday to coincide with Bud Light spot featuring Noun glasses (noggles). Unfortunately, the time is tight with this one, there are only around 48 hours left to get it done (bring the proposal on-chain and coordinate necessary assets).
The first takeover generated a total of 12.2 million ad impressions, 141,646 clicks, and 71,027 visits to the page lasting 10 seconds or more as reported by Brave’s privacy preserving campaign metrics. As a result of the traffic generated by Brave, the Nouns DAO observed page view traffic increase from the low hundreds to +200,000 views on the day of the takeover. (https://brave.com/nouns-dao/)
Free Glasses For Kids
Big update from Joshua!
Over the last 3 months Sight For All United, along with Fitz Frames has been able to visit 3 grade schools where they tested and fit ~250 kids. All the kids will receive a NounsDAO funded Fitz subscription. Fitz is in the process of fulfilling all the subscriptions now and they will all receive Nouns Frames/Noggles.
Few more people joined the quest of creating proper IRL noun glasses, you can see some of the prototypes in the discord channel already.
Grants And Retro Funding
Refilled FomoNouns, funded nounish gifs, animated stickers, iOS sticker pack, and much more.
Full list of Nouns DAO small grants.
3D Nouns
Coral Orca teased new skateboard animation. The download button on the official website is coming soon as well.
Prop House
The first run of the Prop House Auction is officially over. I’m happy to announce that the first winner is d09 with his proposal to design a set of nouns coffee cups.
Apart from the winner, there are a couple of runner-ups that also received funding (see tweet below). A separate discord for Prop House creators has been set up by Seneca.
Nouns Stories
Our first film has begun pre production! We will announce details about it in the coming days, and share some of the creative process along the way. - Goldy
3D Printed Fashion
DANIT will attend virtual fashion week in Decentraland at the end of March presenting her collection of Nouns-inspired clothing.
Nouns Center
Cdt has hosted a few streams regarding his work on nouns.center, even though the site is not finished yet, you can see some sections already - check out the Project section, for example, to see how fast the Nouniverse is expanding!
Marketplace
The concept of this project is to create a Nouns Marketplace with nouns derivatives (and the original nouns) with a nice UI, that would allow searching and discovery across all derivatives. This has met with some resistance as it raises questions about whether endorsing derivatives (apart from simply helping them get on their feet as it has been until now) is helpful for the original Noun collection. It is very hard to summarize the conversation, but if you are interested in Noun derivatives and their role in the Nouniverse, make sure to scroll all the way up and read it all!
Coloring Book
The first one of three coloring books by Messhup is now finished. You can download the files for free or order a hard copy on Amazon.
Make sure to try your luck in the coloring contest!
Randy´s Donut
A proposal to nounify a giant 32-foot landmark donut statue in Los Angeles with Nouns glasses. The donut is on top of Randy’s Donuts in Inglewood, California.
This Nouns glasses placement involves fabricating an over 30 foot pair of Nouns glasses and placing them directly in front of Randy’s Donut.
Sadly the donut is fully booked during Super Bowl, so this will instead happen in early March.
Space Noun
This will be the first time an NFT character has ever traveled in space. DANIT would like to get community inputs on what the Astronoun that will be 3D printed should look like. See the first render below, more here.
Nouner section
Bitpixi from Cryptovoxels reached out with the proposition of minting a whole island for Nouns. More here.
Talk about photo/video competition. More here.
Talk about larger-scale branding in NYC during NFT NYC. More here.
Nouns Weekly Call Notes topics:
Orca discourse proposal - fund Orcanauts to develop an organizational bootstrapping plan for NounsDAO
Technical Grants Committee - funding of devs building tooling or contracts deemed useful to NounsDAO
Nouns Allocation Committee - committee for buying nouns on behalf of the DAO, this would allow DAO to hold Nouns and use them for collaborations, etc (e.g. the Bud Light collab)
Operations: Identifying & Driving actionables - Oni working on a proposal to request funding for an operations role to help push forward actionables coming out of discord/calls
Superbowl / Marketing - regarding marketing, contest, photos, AR filters.
Let’s do more “donut stuff” -guerilla marketing, silly/loud campaigns, fashion week, PR agency,
IRL Nouns Glasses - exploration of manufacturing IRL glasses
Nouniverse (SubDAOs, derivatives,...)
LostNouns finally launched.
(Closely followed by FoundNouns. )
Nouns Need Names launched.
BrandonMighty launching his collection of Nouns-inspired art on SuperRare right now.
Gnars launching soon.