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Wikipedia presence and an article in National Geographic
A new National Geographic article “Two new species of see-through frog named in Ecuador” mentions the glass frog named after Nouns DAO - Hyalinobatrachium nouns. The article also directly links to Nouns DAO twitter account. Link.
Following this article and the official scientific paper describing the discovery of these new glass frogs, a member of the community created a Wikipedia page for both Nouns DAO and the new glass frog.
Photos by J.Culebras.
Nouns Acquisition Committee
A proposal to set up a committee with the goal of acquiring Nouns has successfully passed. The NAC has not been idle and has already managed to buy a few Nouns this week!
Nouns at Metaverse Fashion Week
Danit has successfully showcased her fashion designs on the catwalk of Metaverse Fashion Week (MVFW) in Decentraland.
Community
The Nouniverse
World of Noun by JM - WoN reimagines Nouns and other CC0 personas as famous NFT projects like Doodles, Deadfellaz, & XCOPY - Discord link.
Nounish swag now available in Bigshot Klim´s shop - Discord link.
NickNutts by GamingDuck Studios - Discord link.
EvilNouns by SubNouns.wtf - Discord link.
SneakPeaks from Nouneby´s - Discord link.
Train number 4 by carboncell - Discord link.
Another masterpiece by Brandon Mighty on SuperRare.
Proposal Ideas
Gnars x Nouns Athletes by Gami - Discourse link.
This proposal aims to facilitate a co-op between Nouns Athletes and Gnars, a community of action sports enthusiasts ready to expand beyond skateboarding, to all extreme sports.
Nouns.Space by ROPLAK - a free to mint collection with 1 million nous is live on Polygon - Discord link.
Sponsoring one of the first educational NFT events in Germany by niftynaut - Discourse link.
Web3 IRL community play by Jajja - Discourse link.
Possible revival of the hackathon - 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.
Nouncil now votes with five delegated nouns, you can check them out here.
Projects
Nouns iOS app
The iOS app is getting closer to the finish line, you can see a preview video here - Discord link.
Skatepark
The design contest ended with almost 100 entries! The nouners are now voting for their favorites and we should see the results in a few days!
Grants And Retro Funding
Komorebi88 is expanding the Small Grants into Japan, he is now working with almost 30 artists and has shared some of the art in Discord - link.
Full list of Nouns DAO small grants.
Prop House
The next funding round is starting in two days - Tuesday, March 29th.
This time there will be 3 winners with a prize of 3 ETH for each of them.
Nouns Stories
YANIS shared a video of one of the background paintings from ‘The Wizard’s Hat’ - Discord link.
3D Printed Fashion
Danit has successfully showcased her fashion designs on the catwalk of Metaverse Fashion Week (MVFW) in Decentraland.
Marketplace
The marketplace proposal is now on-chain. Link.
Space Noun
DANIT shared the feedback she got from the community survey:
Dressed in an astronaut suit
Not wearing a helmet
Nouns DAO logo on the front side
Should have “CC0” written on it (mentioned many times)
Some notable feedback: should be playful & fun, instantly recognizable, brightly colored
These are the nouns that were most voted to be sent to space:
These nouns were submitted for consideration:
Luxury Sunglasses
Few updates from Salvio on twitter.
Nouner section
Nouns Weekly Call - US: link.
BlockbusterDAO Studios - Discourse link.
Well-written proposal, might be an experiment worth trying
Is there a need to hire experts to review proposals?
We’ve funded lots of little experiments, proposals so far are not things that are going to take us all the way, we need to ladder up to engage with bigger companies.
Toadz
There might be an opportunity to partner in a way that is mutually beneficial to both projects and the larger CC0 community
Toadz Community is looking for comfort, leadership, continuity, they have a lot of members and less capital, Nouns have relatively few members and a lot of capital
We could delegate a Noun to the Toadz community
What is the benefit of coming together?
Fomo Nouns Mobile App - Discourse link
Talks about the costs
Adding Traits
To be sortable/searchable on marketplace, OS, eventually other sites
Devil’s Advocate: There’s no hierarchy of what noun is best, what isn't - not focusing on rarity
Technical lift is trivial, swapping out descriptor contractor for other things in a few months and could maybe do at that point if the DAO is interested?
General Tidbits
In the future, if we get proposals where we don’t have the expertise in-house to adequately DD/review, we can use treasury funds to have a 3rd party/expert review the proposal for us and provide insight.
How do we get more accountability for these proposals?
Need proof of concept, focus on deliverables and milestones
We should hire some folks to help with operational tasks
We should hire as many crypto-native full-time people to work on the DAO as possible
Adding more heads?
Adding X Retiring assets
What would be the cadence? Yearly on anniversary?
Should a head leave for every new head that comes in?
Beer Garden - Discourse link
Budweiser may be interested
Technical Grants & Financialization Development
Similar to Small Grants, but a small pod being focused on these areas
Should we do a hackathon to attract engineers/developers into the space?
Pod that comes up with interesting things to build/do, or to review technical small grants proposals
Will, Vapeape, 9999, Brennan are interested
Nouns Weekly Call - International: link.
How can we get big, audacious, proposals? Why aren’t we getting more bold and ambitious proposals?
Should we seek artists/builders proactively? Creators with a large audience? Passive = marketing, Active = biz dev.
Marketing will come organically anyway overtime as the meme proliferates, biz dev we should do more actively, have a few people dedicated to getting big creators to work with us
We should have a running Wishlist of what we would like to see built. Like the moonshots channel but as a running list that we publish to the world.
Spitballing an initial proposal wishlist - will continue next call
Get a AAA Hollywood person to write a script
Buy some iconic cultural artifacts.
Nouns headquarter - like SOHO house
Name a stadium or an arena, like crypto.com and ftx did.
MMA/UFC guys to put a tattoo on their chest
Feature nouns in gaming; Could go to Nintendo/Sega for a nouns game.
Making a movie with the Lego movie producer?
Machi’s cousin produced the Lego movies and much more
He also has right back studios, maybe we could create a coworking space - so nouners in town in LA can stop by our own studios
“Everything is awesome” song is a great example of memetic power of a song from Lego movies
Mission statement?
Not sure what we represent as the DAO, what are Nouns? What is our mission - hard to build when you don’t know what it represents
Should we let it grow organically? Should we wait for a bigger group? Should we have a mission statement to accelerate our growth?
Making more mistakes
Big budget and not enough experiments. We should be more open to spending it on high-risk experiments.
General
A conversation about creating a short video to establish an indentity for Nouns DAO - Discord link.
Proposals
Nouns Acquisition Committee - Executed.
Retain builder to work on nouns.wtf for 6 months - Active.
Marketplace Pod Proposal - Active.
Noun sales
New nouns from this week:
Average auction price: 76.5 ETH
OpenSea floor: 80 ETH