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Funding Ethereum developers
NounsDAO recently passed a proposal to fund Ethereum contributors with 500 ETH via Protocol Guild Pilot - Proposal link.
New shorts by nounish!
Community
The Nouniverse
Mirakai Scrolls - a CC0 NFT project has noggles as traits! - Twitter.
The Nouns Museum July exhibition - Twitter.
New artist on the block - jheee!
Even more blockheads by Ian - Discord.
Ideas and proposals
Monthly Nouns Comics for mass market release V2 - Discourse.
Prop.house for mandates - Discourse.
Nouns Esports Proposal - Dota Team Extension July-October - Discourse.
John Hamon X Nouns - Discourse.
SMALL GRANT: Nounish Forum - Singapore - Discourse.
Eat, Sleep, Dream Nouns - a Grant program for artists - Discourse.
Retro Funding: Nouns in Chinese - Discourse.
Storytelling Strategy Proposal - Would Love Your Feedback - Discourse.
Noun Dust Smoking (BBQ) Rub Recipe (Small Grants) - Discourse.
Proposal: Nounish Vibe Checks - on-chain sentiment polls - Discourse.
Retro House — Retroactive Reward House - Discourse.
Poker tournament sponsorship - Discord.
Grants And Retro Funding
Full list of Nouns DAO small grants.
The Noundry
The upcoming descriptor update features these changes:
Nouns Clients
Nouns Clients Prop House ending in less than a day - Link.
Prop House
The winner of the first combinator round is 9999 with his idea to build a contract that allows users to create a bounty for minting a specific Noun head - link.
Nouns Physicals
Nounish enamel PFPins by Bigshot are available for purchase! - Discord link.
Noun o Blocks - nounish lego collectibles are now up for auction! - Twitter link.
Projects
You can see an overview of all funded proposals here - Notion link.
Impact Rewards
The deadline for this prop got extended, and a couple of Nouncillors took over the initiative.
Esports Team
Nouns Dota team had a great standing in DPC NA with 6 wins and 1 loss, this meant they had to play 3-way tiebreaker matches with EG and QQ. Unfortunately, they lost both of these matches and thus they won’t be attending Arlington Major. There are multiple tournaments and qualifier matches ahead, you can read more about this in the new on-chain Proposal 112.
Nouns Esports is currently running an art contest! - Twitter link.
Studio 1
Based on David´s update, it seems Nouns sofubi will be displayed in LOFT - Discord.
Moonbeans
The first update from the team is here - Medium link.
TLDR: Working hard on brand identity, storytelling, website, and product development.
Nouns in Rio
You can watch an interview with Leo Clark on the latest NOUNS NEWS episode - YouTube link.
Nouns in Korea
Fiveoceans received cloth samples for the sails! - Discord.
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 is currently wrapping up the Q3 retro reward.
All Noucil call notes can be found here. Nouncil now votes with these nouns.
Nouner section
Nouns Weekly Call:
Proposal 107 - Verse investment / DAO owning equity, Kiran’s google doc
reasons for doing it - good test case/experiment, potential gains
reasons for not doing it - regulatory complexity, a lot of unknowns, second-order effects we don't necessarily think about like dilution of Nouns mission
the funds would be returned if the prop passed but NounsDAO wouldn't find a good way to own equity
Proposal 108 - Protocol Guild
people are generally in favor of funding Ethereum dev/public goods, we already use the infrastructure, giving back seems like the right thing to do
huge ask, 500 ETH from the start, pretty much a charity act/paying a tribute
our money will just go into a bucket with all the other organizations, creating no incentive for the developers to learn about nouns
could we give them Nouns? other protocols funding them also used their native tokens
almost no benefit from Nouns proliferation standpoint
Proposal 109 - Nouns Clothing
same people that did the Creature World clothing
the proposal went through some changes, jacob seems to be open and receptive to changes
still called Nouns Brand, does this send out a wrong signal, make it seem as some sort of official clothing line vs. just one of many projects?
Proposal 110 - Nouns on the Ground
paying Aubtoshi to be a sort of brand ambassador IRL, going out to a bunch of events in US
she has been amazing so far, great energy
travel costs, guerilla marketing
Proposal 111 - Noun 22 Re-Election
small grants turned into a flexible pool or capital vs before it did the same thing that prop house does now
1on1 onboarding calls, hosting nouner calls, NAC, …
basically funding 22 to continue working full time for Nouns, doing what he does now but also open to finding other places where he could add value
RELATED IDEA: we could make a PropHouse-style call for residents / builders
not aimed at a specific person, more of a general idea
promotes healthy competition, potentially lowers the salaries
new people could introduce new ideas
sometimes you can't replace people with just someone that would do the job for a lower salary - people have worked hard on building trust, premium for being early, etc…
extension of the first prop - signing the team all the way to the International (the current proposal ends in a few days)
great results and testimonials so far
the international has millions of viewers
people generally supportive
great artwork, some nouners had a call with the proposer and are confident that they can deliver, good distribution plans
potential profits will be used to buy a Nouns
Funding NounsDAO Brazil - link
first part - setting up the subDAO
second part - running a week-long event in major cities in Brazil
update in discourse
Nouns! Animated Series
could it be done in steps?
industry-standard is doing a pilot first - why the whole show
we could take advantage of market conditions - lots of animators on the market now, offering some stability would go a long way
some potential red flags
the funding amount is very high - is there enough trust at this point?
are we sure the team can execute?
no MVP, asking for the full amount right away
seems they were not very open to suggestions
if we want to make a 2mil creative bet - is this the one?
All call notes can be found here.
On-chain proposals
106.Verbs 6 Month Engagement Extension - Executed.
107.NounsDAO investment in Verse - Executed.
108.Nouns funding the Protocol Guild Pilot - Queued.
109.Nouns Brand (Clothing Brand) ⌐◨-◨ - Queued.
110.NOUNS ON THE GROUND - 6 Month Proliferation Pod - Queued.
111.Re-Elect Noun 22 as a DAO Core Contributor - Queued.
112.Nouns Esports - Dota Extension July - October - Active.
113.Nouns Explainer with Ordinary Folk - Active.
114.Descriptor V2 Upgrade - Active.
Noun sales
New nouns from this week:
Average auction price: 111 ETH
OpenSea floor: 131 ETH