Hottest News
Nouns Dota2 continues to annihilate all opponents
In their first DPC match they crushed Evil Geniuses, few days later they managed to annihilate Felt in under 1 hour!
Even more Prop Houses
Prop House introduced Nouns Combinator for 25+ ETH funding rounds (Twitter link) and also a mfer house (Twitter link)!
Announcement of Nouns Prop House round 4 winners - Twitter link.
Community
The Nouniverse
Mash-ups by Greta Gremplin:
Fiveoceans working on checkered motorcycle jacket - Discord.
Sweater mockups by remixr - Discord.
Nouns Run game is live!
Ian experimenting with nounish stamps - Discord.
Nounish lapel pins and cufflinks - Discord.
Nounish enamel mug by Klim - Discord.
VeryNounishAnimals - Discord.
Ideas and proposals
Nouns x Titans of Film3 event - Discourse.
Small Grants: Lil Goblins - Discourse.
NOUNS IN RIO - Nouns to be a part of the 1st Brazilian international NFT exhibition - Discourse.
Dashboard Android App for Lil Nouns and Nouns NFTs - Discourse.
Tech Pod Proposal: Vote Refund - Discourse.
Proposal: Nouns Bidder POAP V2 - Discourse.
Discussion: 1-Click Nouns DAO Builder - Discourse.
Nouns On The Ground - NFT.NYC Update - Discourse.
Sailing PR campaign, Korea Blockchain Week 2022 [6,7 August] - Discourse.
NounsDAO Brazil - Discourse.
WRC Championship x Nouns - Discord.
AR filters by fiveoceans - Discord.
Grants And Retro Funding
Full list of Nouns DAO small grants.
The Noundry
You can see the community-submitted assets in this experimental version of Playground - link.
Projects
You can see an overview of all funded proposals here - Notion link.
Brian Residency
Brian shared a few sneak peeks of the upcoming UI update of nouns.wtf - Discord link.
Fun Glasses
The first batch of fun glasses has been sent to people attending the Coincenter diner and we were able to a lot of awesome people wearing them! - Discord link.
Sunglasses
Nounish Marketing Studio
Big update from the team of prop 64 - Discord link.
Esports Team
Sasquatch published a progress report for the esports prop - Discourse link.
Story Foundations
Sam Ellis sharing character and set exploration designs - Discord link.
Rough decks from the Greidiens team - Discord link.
Coffee
Rough sketches for the coffee brand - Discord link.
Nouncil
Nouncil: (noun) A special council of Nounish BUIDLers and project leaders working within the framework of NounsDAO to proliferate cc0 and nounish culture.
Nouncil Call Notes
No notes this week.
All Noucil call notes can be found here.
Nouncil now votes with thirteen delegated nouns, you can check them out here.
Nouner section
Long discussion on lido, treasury diversification, stablecoins, etc - Discord link.
Nouns Weekly Call - US:
Accountability Update - link
Feel this is valuable work
Pretty good hit rate all things considered
We have done a lot of lump-sum payments up front, would like to see milestone-based payments to keep builders incentivized
This is more overhead for the DAO
Cumbersome payment methods might discourage builders
Reputation plays a role
I think it can go either way, case by case basis
Nouns Brand - link
Pricey, ambitious
Familiar with Creature Collab, high-quality garments
I’m concerned with funding a single team/label as “nouns brand” – this would be 1 of many apparel-related projects that will come to fruition over time, especially if it also includes hiring an unspecified PR agency
When it comes to the creative direction of this prop I think that deleting the glasses frames from the branding this early, while it’s our most recognizable brand asset and proliferation tool seems like an odd move
Android App - link
Need additional cost breakdown, we should be able to copy design from iOS?
Should we be pursuing a dual app solution to only maintain in 1 place?
This might just be focusing on cost efficiency
Can get more granular/unique experiences on each
The Proposal’s timeline is still TBA, and this is an area they missed on with Proposal 6 - estimated 4 months, took 8 months
If we don’t know how long it will take, how do we already know how much it costs?
We should get the iOS code delivered to us for review before considering this proposal. Prop 6 was to deliver an open-source iOS app and we should get the chance to review their code/work before their next prop
Nouns IRL World Art Tour - NYC Mural - link
Feels expensive / not clear on the costs & justification for the team
We already have another mural project being funded for NYC
Very tight timeline and last-minute, details changing over time
Jasper Wong feels like a strong artist and could proliferate within his network
Capital is not scarce for us, proliferation is
Studio 1 / David Horvath Extension - https://nouns.wtf/vote/92
David recharged and ready to keep working, has been a great partner for the DAO thus far
Moonbeans - link
I like the beans aspect itself, feels very nounish
Website and $beans token doesn’t feel like a compelling proliferation for the DAO
It's a pretty funny idea on its own. buy beans and get $BEAN token is fun/interesting. but it's incoherent wrt nouns. feels a bit opportunistic to get us to pay for the whole thing by slapping the glasses on the can
Discourse
Not enough of a dopamine hit to spend time here vs elsewhere
How do we make discourse (or giving feedback on potential proposals) more fun and compelling?
Wish we had a way to highlight/filter proposals intended to go on chain (i.e. noun owner or sponsored)
All call notes can be found here.
On-chain proposals
89.Nouns IRL World Art Tour - NYC Mural - Pending.
90. GOAT CLUB's Nounish Meme Factory - Active.
91. # Nouns DAO esports - Pokémon Unite expansion & BLVKHVND partnership trial - Active.
92. David Horvath / Nouns Studio1 extension - Active.
93. Nouns Bidder POAP V2 - Active.
94. Nouns cc0 Space Image Bank - Active.
95. Nouns @ Art Basel (Basel, Switzerland) - Pending.
Noun sales
New nouns from this week:
Average auction price: 120 ETH
OpenSea floor: 96 ETH