Prop House Special: Nouns Combinator round 1
Summaries of all submitted proposals in one single article.
Discord dashboard with the same summaries but categorized can be found here.
Summaries:
Solar Punk
Creating an NFT for renewable energy.
The utility for this project is endless from discounts on solar, advertising/referral bonuses, rewarding people a cryptocurrency for every kilowatt hour of solar they produce while staking the NFT, solar hedge fund/ DAO for solar tax credits.
Nouns Almanac Airdrop for Nouns Owners
Nouns almanac is a coffee table book featuring individual nouns up until Noun 326. Each Noun has a full-page feature including unique traits, commentary and buyer details as at the publication date. The Nouns Almanac is a physical note of record and a snapshot in time. If this proposal passes, the proposer will send a physical book to every Noun owner.
Nouns Rings
Commissioning a luxury designer to produce 100 sterling silver rings.
NOUNTRIS
Nountris is a fast paced chaotic 2D Tetris-style game with a modern action style twist and retro pixel art graphics. The proposers also want to auction Nountris avatar NFTs, the owners of which will have in-game perks and will help fund the game development.
Anounimals, Everyones First NFT
This project aims to create a crypto/NFT onboarding site using Nouns as folks’ "first NFT". The website would take new users through creating a wallet, getting funds from a wallet, minting, and include educational resources on the basics of crypto, NFTs (with Nouns as the example), and an FAQ.
The Future of Automating DEX Swaps
Conveyor Labs is building the first fully decentralized & trustless protocol to automate DEX swaps for DeFi traders. Their protocol is able to securely act as the automated middleman between the tokens that a user holds in their wallet, and the DEX LP's they already swap on. Short pitch video.
Tropical Years
The proposer wants to create On Kawara-style date art NFTs (current date painted on a single color background). An unlimited number of mints daily, price 0.08 ETH. Funds would go towards hiring engineers and designers to get the smart contract and website built.
Biomine
Biomine is a blockchain-powered health monitoring and research ecosystem built by the people, for the people.
VC DAO
A web3 venture fund that is managed and backed by a DAO. The tokens value acts as an index representing the AUM which can be redeemed by burning the projects token.
Chubie - Tokenized content creator's time NFTs.
Chubie Labs is creating a web3 version of cameo.com - integrating “time NFT” and DAO. They tokenize Content creator's time in NFTs. Buyers can redeem it for a zoom call, a personalized video and much more. Pitch deck.
NOUNS at Decentraland
This project aims to create a place for nouns to chill at Decentraland (including land purchase), create a minigame/quest and distribute nouns glasses wearabels to players.
nounsgame.wtf
A Nouns-based CC0 game and engine. This project aims to align game development tooling to the Nouns spirit, by releasing all work, to the greatest extent possible, as CC0 - this means anyone can make, mix, and re-master their own games from the codebase, and proliferate Nouns across gaming devices.
Nouns Pet Mania- virtual pet game
A virtual pet game (tamagochi like) on ios and android featuring Nouns as characters. Funding will be used for community marketing to drive initial installs as well as potential game expansion such as multiplayer features.
Nouns Academy ( Soul Bound Token/Non-transferable NFT as Reward and First NFT )
Providing basic education on Web3 using Nouns SBT/Non-Transferrable NFTs as rewards and first NFT.
⌐◨-◨ Emoji portrait DAPP ⌐◨-◨
An NFT DAPP to recreate Nouns by using only emojis, where Noun holders can either recreate any image from emojis or create their Nouns from emojis.
NFTR, the first NFT name registry
NFTR allows NFT owners to name their NFTs with unique names. Like ENS but for NFTs.
Nouns Mechanism for Brain Longevity & Curing Alzheimer's
Cherubs DAO is a Web3 global impact investment collective, inspired by the Nouns DAO mechanism, seeking to disrupt how innovation happens and translates into impact outcomes at scale in medical science, specifically brain longevity. They aim to shorten the time to “slay the Alzheimer’s dragon” and accelerate advancements in overall brain longevity. The grant would enable the project to put their art on chain, complete testing, art modifications and launch preparations.
Earth.fm - like nouns but for natural soundscapes - fundraising for reforestation & preservation
Developing a platform to showcase rare natural soundscapes with the help of professional field recordists, turn them into gorgeous unique NFTs with the help of different artists, and auction them, using the money raised to support the protection and restoration of natural ecosystems, empowering local communities and fighting climate change.
Nouns University
Nouns University is a place of learning for those who are interested in Nouns. It will consist of an interactive online course to promote a streamlined system for someone new to the community to get involved as quickly and efficiently as possible. It will be free to all participants and will contain only cc0 content to align with Nounish building principles.
"Hotly anticipated, soon-to-debut, digital K-pop boyband, EXE, signs deal with Nouns Glasses"
EXE is a digital K-pop boyband that is preparing to debut (their music and their NFTs). This proposal is for EXE to sport Nouns glasses in an ad campaign that marries digital and IRL to help both onboard new users to web3 and spread the word about Nouns and the band.
Nouns Town: a printed, illustrated coloring book about Nouns, public goods and CC0
This project aims to create (write, illustrate, print and send) NounsTown - a visually fun book. This funding will make the physical book free (plus shipping) to nouns holders via request (or sent to another person as a gift), it will also be free for all via printable pdf.
NOUNS NEWS EXTENDED SEASON WITH @AUBTOSHI AS ANCHOR PERSON
Based on Maty’s weekly Newsletter, AI-generated avatars will deliver the hottest Nouns news weekly in less than 5 minutes. The team plans to scan Aubtoshi’s face and upper body and transform her into their own exclusive Nouns News AI anchor person. Plus, they will add a new “News on The Ground” segment with her reporting from NFT events around the US.
Bringing the first NFT AMM to market - AssetMerge
AssetMerge is an automated market maker for NFTs that allows instant swaps between any ERC721 and ERC20 asset. When AssetMerge creates a DAO in future, Nouns would be allocated any a share of tokens equivelent to at least the value of any ETH received.
Nocode Nouns template for anyone to start & run a Nouns fork on Stationx.network
Stationx.network is a no-code platform with pre-defined, tested and audited templates that allow anyone to deploy DAOs of any use case and start managing it on the platform. This project aims at creating a NounsDAO inspired template for DAO creation.
UnApe - Web 3.0 portal and community to help onboarding Web 2 and people from LA
Building a new community that will support and effectively help traditional companies mostly from Brazil with Ecological and charitable missions.
The definitive web3 Creative Marketing+Branding house
A branding consultancy looking to build a web3 presence and new clients - this proposal would fund 5 complete Brand Strategies for the first 5 Nouns projects, a after that, all Nouns get "friends and family" discount forever, not just on Brand Strategy but on every one of thrit services.
Nouns x Hologram: use Nouns NFT over video
Hologram Labs transform entire collections of static PFPs into dynamic, face-tracked avatars that can be readily used on video calls like Google Meet, Zoom and Discord.
A Bot Fren for the Nouns DAO
A Nouns DAO bot that shares activity from the dao contract including proposals, votes, governance data etc. Their bots can already share sales, mints, collection stats, and a bunch of other interesting data. However, they would like to give voice to the Nouns DAO contract itself and make a bot that shares contract events.
Stickers - Every Day at Noun o’clock
A webpage that lets you connect your wallet and use your NFTs to create a collage, add images and videos from Unsplash, Youtube etc and share it and start again the next day - every day at Noun o’clock. With 100% on-chain SVG and HTML
The Nouns Game – Cryptographic scavenger hunt
The Nouns Game will consist of a handful of multi-step cryptographic puzzles & scavenger hunts that the player will have to decipher/decode/figure out. The game will be token gated (Nouns and extensions), fully on-chain (all data from the game will be applied into the metadata of the NFT) and every player will receive a POAP.
Lil Noun Pet - a virtual pet app for iOS
A nounish virtual pet to take care of and enjoy on your iPhone. Think Tamagotchi, but with Lil Nouns cc0 artwork! Each Lil Noun is randomly generated when the pet is hatched.
UNSTOPPABLE API
The data around Nouns, such as attributes, bids, sales can be used to create new applications and provide interesting insights about NounsDAO. Currently, there is no easy access to retrieve the data. Nouns API will enable faster app development and growth of nouns ecosystem. Likewise, availability of API will help integrate NounsDAO with other services.
The NOUNS Gallery
A collaborative dictiogallery where each noun is translated to a piece of art. The goal is to prioritize quality, singularity and long-term vision, including emerging and established artists with different perspectives.
Making Nouns Composable on blockchain
Making all onchain NFT composable, start with Nouns. Based on which, they hope to build an open, welcoming and fun Metaverse.
Nounagotchis
An experiment in encouraging governance participation by visually upgrading your Nounagotchi on-chain based on participation in a Nounagotchi DAO vote or Nouns DAO vote. So depending on your participation, your Nounagotchi will languish or continue to improve.
Bounties for Minting Noun Heads
Noun Seek is a piece of infrastructure that will allow both seekers and settlers to come together to mint desirable Nouns for auction. The contract and web app will allow anyone to put up a reward for minting a specific Noun trait (such as a head) and distribute the reward to the auction settler who successfully mints a Noun with the desired trait. Anyone can add funds for a new or existing bounty, and they will be able to specify which Noun Id the bounty should apply to.
200K Nouns Coasters in Parisian bars/restaurants
Distribute 200k nouns coasters to 1,000 bars/restaurants in Paris.
Nounimators: 3D Models ready for animating in Blender.
Nounimators wants to make it extremely accessible for anyone to learn and practice 3D animation. They are doing this by making 3D models that are rigged and ready for animating in Blender.
Stoned Nouns Cannabis Brand - speed up
Proposal to speed up (they won a 5 eth launchpad round) the creation of the Stoned Nouns Cannabis Brand, a brand born on the metaverse to provide CBD nounish products in real life, branded with the iconic nouns glasses and the Stoned Nouns images.
Nouns Pinterest
Decentralized image sharing and content aggregation application, where users will comment and interact with Nouns.
I think this proposal is trying to participate in the Nouns Client Prop Round (per on-chain prop 103) and this proposal may therefore be posted in the wrong House.
WASD Character controls for 3D Nouns
Implementing a character control script and camera movement to make 3dnouns.com (Prop 2) into a mini online game.
Build a scalable version of the Nouns Playground
Creating free and scalable version of nouns playground for other collections to utilize.
Augier.Art x Nouns DAO (Private Sale of Basquiat & Keith Haring Artworks)
Augier sells physical fine art on the blockchain. They are approaching Nouns with the opportunity to purchase two historically significant pieces of fine art (Haring, Basquiat) in a completely crypto-native process, supporting real-world fine art galleries that are struggling to cope with the residual impact of COVID-19 on their business.
Noun Games - Web3 Gaming Platform - noun.games
Nounish gaming platform and a suite of Nounish on chain browser games for the Nouns community. The proposal includes new games, on chain leaderboards, social integrations, and a games submission portal for other Nounish game makers.
ABCs with Nouns
Web app that uses Nouns to teach the ABCs. Each letter in the alphabet will have its own screen, displaying a Noun with a head trait name that begins with the visible letter.
Nouns Ceramics Lab
Web3 Ceramics Studio that will explore what it means to be Nounish through quarterly Ceramic Collection Drops
Nounable: One Nounish Good, Every Day, Forever.
Nounable is a store where one nounish good, or “a nounable”, is sold, every day, forever. An experimental attempt to describe what a “nounish” physical good is and what they could be by exploring the way goods are ideated, produced, and distributed.
A Beakthrough NFT Marketplace Inspired By The Nouns Model
The proposers have created a new type of auction specifically optimized for selling NFTs and are seeking funding to build a NFT marketplace that will implement this innovative auction model while functioning as the frontend of a DAO whose mission is to capture the economic surplus this marketplace will generate to invest it in the development of a universal utility layer for NFTs.
LUXNouns Physical Luxury Noun items
NFT Collection of physical Luxury Nouns items: Rings, pendants and pins with precious stones (emeralds, rubies, sapphires and diamonds). The NFTs will have to be burned in order to be redeemed as a physical goods.
Nouns Fair @ ETH MX (or how we plan to boost the NounsDAO Amigos community).
A Nouns activation for ~1,000 attendees @ ETH MX + future contests and activities run by NounsDAO Amigos (nounish community of Spanish speakers).