Hottest news
Winning skateboard designs
Oni shared winning skateboard designs. Look how awesome they are!
The artists should soon expect a message from him!
Third coloring book
The third coloring book by Messhup is now available for download here.
Community
The Nouniverse
NoGoodNouns by metamonk - Discord link.
Nouns origin story by Lost Nouns - Twitter link.
NounGIF - ornamental moving versions of Nouns by moyashamo - Discord link.
Warhol inspired Noun Soup cans by jereserej, with the proceeds going to UkraineDAO - Discord link.
Nouns Nation by fiveoceans - Discord link.
Noun-a-Day project by Ian - a daily brief Twitter account that combines the Noun of the day with an Adjective - Discord link.
First animated nouns by Brandon Mighty - Discord link.
Nounish assets in Hyperloot - Discord link.
Noun Athletes patched by Gami.
More nounish art from Japan - Discord link 1 , 2.
The Noundry
New heads from maty - Discord link.
Ideas and proposals
Sponsoring Ru Paul´s show - Discord link.
Unlocking the Sounds of Nouns - Discourse link.
An idea from skilift - creating a playground with pixel art editor where you could create your own assets - Discord link.
Retroactive Impact Rewards - Discourse link.
Sponzoring muc.xyz, one of Germany’s first ever NFT events - Discourse link.
Reviving Nouns Hackathon - Discourse link.
Nouns Events Committee - Discourse link. Nouns x F1 Miami - Discourse link.
Scaling Councils and incentivizing Prop Builder communities - Discourse link.
“NOUNISH SHORTS” animation festival - Discourse link.
Tennis Champs x 3D Nouns Collab - Discourse link.
Noun O’Talk
Nouncil
Nouncil: (noun) A special council of Nounish BUIDLers and project leaders working within the framework of NounsDAO to proliferate cc0 and nounish culture.
New members will be joining nouncil for the first time since its foundation, for now, it seems the criteria are quite loose and any nounish creator/builder can join.
Nouncil now votes with five delegated nouns, you can check them out here.
Projects
Nouns iOS app
The team has published a new build that is ready to be tested, so if you have an iOS device, head over to this discord link and try it out.
Grants And Retro Funding
Full list of Nouns DAO small grants.
3D Nouns
Download button for the 3D Nouns assets will be published this week - Discord link.
The team is also working on Nounstown with walkable, actionable environment.
Prop House
The current round is ending in two days, so far it has received 24 proposals, you can check all of them out here (Prop house link). I can’t wait to see which of these will win!
Luxury Sunglasses
Salvio posted a prototype sneak peek on Twitter.
Brian residency
The proposal to retain brian as a developer to work on nouns.wtf for 6 months has passed. Per his proposal, Brian will be writing monthly updates. His goal for the next month are (taken from his HackMD post - link):
Nouns.wtf is translated into at least 1 language (starting with Japanese)
The backlog of maintenance tasks carried over from previously residency is cleaned out (mostly things around small bug fixes and restyling various modals)
Nouner section
Nouns Weekly Call - US: link.
Dustin Yellen x Nouns
Do we want to give them a noun?
The optimal approach for the DAO to acquire Nouns long term
NAC has been a successful pilot, but perhaps not the best long term
downsides of “the nounders route” of putting them straight into the DAO - against the initial “1 a day”, some technical complexity, doesn’t allow selection
if a particular noun still needs to be bought, a Nouner could purchase and have the DAO reimburse similar to /w Budweiser
buying from the secondary market
already a limited supply for the public
very important for treasury to have nouns
could Nounders nouns be part of the solution?
Minting Nouns directly
frequency, auditing, burning undesirable nouns
Social Committee / Hurry up Slowly F1 Event
Hurry up Slowly F1 Event (May 5-8) first focus of the committee
200-250k, Nouns Sculptures in high vis areas
Group has worked with FTX, Moonpay, web3 exp, able to do online marketing/promo materials
How do we think of product fit/marketing and how do we spend our money wrt target demographics?
Miami has been hot for Crypto and I think we could get some valuable exposure to relevant audiences here
We can run into this quite a bit as things expand and decentralize, having info on our ideal product market fit, vision, could help future builders/proposers
How do we bring a broader range of different types of people into the DAO and into these calls?
Continue to encourage and support a lot of actions, events, experiments
Work towards achieving critical mass in everything that we do
BlockbusterDAO
good questions from community members (Klim, David Horvath)
discussing on a call with them to learn more
exciting opportunity and we should make sure they have a good experience regardless to encourage others to put forth similar proposals
possible networking
Noun Jingles / Sounds of Nouns
sound great, fun, but feel expensive for the engagement they get
This can be a thing we run into with a lot of builders that don’t have an existing audience
If people build content for nouns, how do we best distribute it?
Potential opportunity for us to grow our social media presence where @nounsdao can eventually be a platform for distro
Discussion on “per-Noun” / one-a-day content, and the potential to encourage/showcase artist interpretations of your Noun
Proliferation perspective vs. added value to noun owners
some nouns having poems, other jingles etc.
What if Nouns.wtf had a section/page to showcase other NFTs or reimagined versions of that Noun
Content created same-day could be available / come with the noun that the auction winner purchases
We could give a % of the auction to artists that created the additional art
Proposal Ideas / Discourse Posts that don’t gain a ton of traction
Scaling problems with following up on posts
Potential builders will have to find at least 1 nouner that is excited enough to champion the proposal and get the attention of the DAO
People in the DAO might be too busy to follow up on ideas
Calladita Film 10E fundraiser - few positive responses but nothing from Nouners, strong sexual content/theme, visibility, possible prop house proposal?
Nouns Weekly Call - International:
no notes from the international call this week
Possibility of creating Nouns x LEGO short film - Discord link.
On-chain proposals
Marketplace Pod Proposal - Queued.
Nouns Events Committee - Active.
Nouns Psychogeography Sculpture with Dustin Yellin - Active.
Additional Funding for Nouns Acquisition Committee -Pending.
Noun sales
New nouns from this week:
Average auction price: 61.5 ETH
OpenSea floor: 67 ETH