Hottest News
Nouns Esports making moves across the globe
Nouns Esports now also includes a european Pokémon Unite team. What’s more, they already managed to win the Grand Finals! That means they will be competing in the Pokemon UNITE World Championship 2022 in London.
NYC mural completed
A drone shot can be found here - Discord link.
Community
The Nouniverse
Chowies NFTs featuring Noggles - Discord.
Nounfall - nounish genart experiment - Discord.
Tamagochi-style nouns game by Nouns 3D - Discord.
Ideas and proposals
Idea - building a school in Ghana - Discord.
Nouns University - Pre-proposal discussion. Please critique! - Discourse.
Delegations and krel - Discourse.
SMALL GRANTS: FI Board Game - Discourse.
Proposal: Scale the Nouns community on Fam - Discourse.
Small Grants: Nouns Dinner Series - Discourse.
Small Grants: Translation to Brazilian Portuguese (Retroactive) - Discourse.
Nouns Wellness App - Pre-proposal discussion - Discourse.
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.
CDT Residency
Update from CDT for past week and half - Discord link.
bunch of Prop House PRs (most of my time)
booked/planning FOMO Nouns pod
Nouns Center
/ideas
page 99% complete with @evets.ethworking on Nouns Center Search v1
Prop House
First LilNouns, NounPunks and Mfer rounds ended! You can find all the wonderful ideas here.
There is also a Nouns Combinator round with a prize of 25 ETH open now!
Story Foundations
Sam Ellis sharing the final pitchbook and story bible for NOUNS! The Animated Series - Discord link.
Rough decks from the Greidiens team - Discord link.
Coffee
Brand exploraiton:
Secret Nouns NYC
Some updates from the team:
The website is up.
All the art has been sent to the printer!
The posters will be pasted on the 20th, and we're working with our photographer, and a video team from Nounish to document it all
Bidder POAP v2
Recap from kick-off meeting - 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 (APAC call) - link
Coral Orca Final Discussion
2 of us have made our views clear in the discord chats already.
Additional: Coral has been around for a long time, one misdemeanour shouldn’t remove him from nouncil, but grants removed makes sense.
Code of conduct
Privileged position - don’t take it for granted
The Defining Triangle: three parties who's interest Nouncillors consider
1. People seeking funding to proliferate Nouns (Prop house applicants)
2. People who own Nouns (Nounders/Nouners)
3. People who represent Noun interests (Nouncillors)It is expected that nouncillors act in the best interests of all parties and that nouncillors don't abuse their position.
Disciplinary Procedures/Options
Instant dismissal mentioned as punishment for gaming votes/cheating going forward
Removal of permissionless grant eligibility (removed for a round or more)
Removal of wag retro rewards eligibility (removed for a round or more)
If you had any grant eligibility removed, could you get it back? - through actions (make up for it) - through time (wait a period of time)
Permissionless Grant
Let's offer it to new nouncillors
Submit a round of ideas
Nouncil vote for top 6 to get 1eth each for their idea
Permissionless grant thread not visible to thaswami, maybe others... is this intended to display only to eligible nouncillors? - Need to add clear Permissionless Grant info to the welcome doc, with links to the docs or embedded.
Voting Participation
New nouncillors weren’t aware of the % expectation of voting to keep “nouncillor in good standing” - let’s make it clear, is it to do with eligibility for rewards?
Maybe now we have the welcome doc, we can make it clear that your voting participation should remain above a certain percentage.
votes witnessed reset or new column "votes witnessed since participation rule" after rule is in place officially.
If no reset, new nouncillors hwo missed some votes recently will take quite a few votes to get back above 69%.
Maybe a different percentage threshold?
If a nouncillor knows in advance that they can’t vote (will be inactive in discord for a known time), their activity level could drop - how to deal with that?
punishment for not voting on the prop - unable to vote on the next prop? Doesn't seem like punishment.
Multi-Sig
We could break 24hr time into 6hr blocks, having 2 signers in each 6hr timezone block so there’s rollover into any timezone. 2 of 8 wallet.
How to decide signers? - Would allow for a combo of entirely different people to sign off - what's the risk?
Reward to be one of the 8 signers? Maybe a Discord role?
Optics is good for “governance status” if you can be trusted with a multi sig.
Easiest option right now without taking on much more trust dynamic is 1 more person added to make 2 of 4.
Make sure they're in the most relevant timezone to sync with existing holders and/or timely voting.
Reminder to make some nominations for the Wag Retro Rewards.
All Noucil call notes can be found here.
Nouncil now votes with these nouns.
Nouner section
Long discussion on lido, treasury diversification, stablecoins, etc - Discord link.
Nouns Weekly Call - US:
Coin Center Dinner Recap
Really nice dinner, a polished event, great to meet other Nouners
Discussed biggest litigation wins and losses from the past year
The theme was “Everything is fine” dog on fire meme: things are crazy but we continue to move forward
First DAO to sponsor the event
Klim was able to get us some Noggles for the table, big hit
Treasury Management / Bear Market Strategy
Discussed months ago, no strong interest/consensus at the time
Being a volatile asset ETH could still drawdown further
I would support an OTC swap of st.ETH for ETH
I think Lido is a risk for ecosystem
Would be good to have a small part (~5%) of the treasury in a USD stable coin for proposers that want USD, 5% seems to be consensus, someone should put on-chain
If there is an appetite for more, let’s put up a snapshot proposal with execution strategy to gauge sentiment
Moon Beans Prop - link
Still feels expensive to fund this operation just for glasses branding, goal should be proliferating Nouns - not Moonbeans
Can we make the branding fully nounish? Noun beans?
Noun Cow art on the front? Or a baked bean noun?
Not convinced the current proposal & cost is worth it for the DAO proliferation-wise
Are baked beans that big over there? - Yes, they are much more of a staple product in the UK vs other parts of the world
Gnars Update - https://gnars.com/nft-nyc-2022/
Heading to NFT NYC from Sydney next week
Two OG Skaters found their way through memes - link and link
Reached out through Gnars Discord, shared stories of how they found NFTs & Nouns, they are locked into board and clothing sponsors, but can put stickers on their board
Looking for an artist that could spray a mural in a skatebowl
1 pool at a time series has potential to throw down some nounish artwork
Opportunity for sponsorship in future extreme sporting events
Fitz Frames
Make custom frames through an app
Can we do something nounish in the app? - How visible would nouns be? How aware would people be that NounsDAO made this happen?
Vision2Learn gets decent press pick up from where they engage, Nouns would be a good story
We’re pretty flexible with the proposal
Put a noun on the side of the glasses? Other branding ideas?
We’d like to mine the DAO for ideas and collaborate
Would hope this brings significant attention to Nouns brand/art based on the cost
Have concerns on the cost being almost 7% of our treasury with the recent market
It's 6% of treasury today, but it's also just 17 auctions' proceeds
I would want to see the marketing/press/proliferation aspects included in the proposal
Previous proposal was 3 schools in Ohio, this next proposal would have impact on communities across the country
Could we stream payments across the initiative? Current plan for 50%/50%
All call notes can be found here.
On-chain proposals
90. GOAT CLUB's Nounish Meme Factory - Executed.
91. # Nouns DAO esports - Pokémon Unite expansion & BLVKHVND partnership trial - Executed.
92. David Horvath / Nouns Studio1 extension - Executed.
93. Nouns Bidder POAP V2 - Executed.
94. Nouns cc0 Space Image Bank - Executed.
95. Nouns @ Art Basel (Basel, Switzerland) - Queued.
96.Protect Treasury (down $43M since April) - Canceled.
97.MOOØNBEANS: Nouns Baked Beans - Active.
Noun sales
New nouns from this week:
Average auction price: 105 ETH
OpenSea floor: 94 ETH