Hottest News
What is nounish?
Community
The Nouniverse
LilNouns launched! - web link.
GnarsDAO website is live! - web link.
FloriNouns mint is live! - Twitter link.
Chain Runners with noggles! - Twitter link.
Interview with Nounsfes (Noun 245) by Victor (Club Notaro) - Youtube link.
The Noundry
The results of Chaos-monkey and See-no-evil monkey head contests by Noun12 are in!
You can see the community-submitted assets in this experimental version of Playground - link.
Ideas and proposals
Idea to partner with a newspaper to feature daily noun every day for a month -Discord.
Persian nounish carpet - Discourse.
Your Physical & Digital NFT drops in the Metaverse with Boson Protocol - Discourse.
100K Free Glasses For Kids v2 - Discourse.
The Nouniversary - Discourse.
Nouns On The Ground - NFT NYC Activation! - Discourse.
Nouns DAO - DAO Palace Sponsorship Opportunity - Discourse.
Proposal: Consideration to be added to Prop. 70 - Nouns CC0 Story Foundations & Development - “Sticks & Stones” - Discourse.
(.)(.) NFTitties, a Nouns fork! - Discourse.
Revised proposal: nouns participate in world rally championship - Discourse.
Proposal filmfund.eth - Discourse.
Nouns Mural In Manhattan During NFT NYC - Discourse.
Grants And Retro Funding
Full list of Nouns DAO small grants.
Nouncil
Nouncil: (noun) A special council of Nounish BUIDLers and project leaders working within the framework of NounsDAO to proliferate cc0 and nounish culture.
The first coordinape round is over, total GIVE allocated : 1300.
The results are: JoelCares 393, toadyhawk 378, SideNoun 177, maty 166, cdt 103, Count Boanez 83.
Nouncil Call Notes - link.
Congrats to Lil Nouns and FloriNouns on launches this week!
CoordinApe Retro Round (Toady, Joel)
coordinape round is now open
people should keep track of what they are doing for nouncil (its gonna be hard to do it 3 months back)
Final Feedback for Joel’s Proposal (Discourse) Nouncil Sponsor? (Joel, others)
not much discussion on discourse but joel talked about his proposal in nouner call and in DMs
getting on-chain sponsored by nouncil vs. individual sponsor?
feels like a great prop to go through nouncil
we will do 2 votes
should we put the prop on chain?
what should we vote on the prop?
what if we have more proposals that we want to put on chain? do we create a queue or encourage people to reach out to nouners?
Proposal 74. FIA. Link to Summary from Don. (Req by Prof Werder)
the amount seems big
nouncillors feel like we could get more eyeballs on nouns if we used the money to sponsor the event or do some marketing activation vs. sponsoring a small independent team
do Nouns own the cars? (discord vs discourse info)
not ideal, what do nouns do with them, what about storage etc
Proposal 75 - Nouns X Madhappy (General Discussion)
nouncil is torn on this one, some people think the ask is too high for a “collab”
no ideas/designs shared (just past work), is the dao going to have any control over the designs? are they going to work with the dao or alone?
a bit afraid of scaring away good brands/builders if we say no or push back
would like to see milestones, funding in steps? going through small grants to get designs first?
we could fund the designs first, then the production
what if Nouns did seasonal capsule collections? (clothing pod?)
Nouns Almanac - Nouncil Sponsor? (Mintfaced, cannot attend.)
nouncillors will review the pdf and proposal on their own and we will ask Mintaface to be available for questions
BLOCKS (Sam Ellis)
Sam Ellis is CPO at BLOCKS
he wants to create nouns district and give out plots to nouncillors (google doc shared in nouncil)
Other Items for Discussion: TBD
goals for Q3? - PFP project?
All Noucil call notes can be found here.
Nouncil now votes with seven delegated nouns, you can check them out here.
Projects
iOS App
The team uploaded a new version on Testflight and will be submitting it to Apple soon. They have more features planned after the release. - Discord link.
Free Glasses for Kids
Let’s change the lives of 100,000+ Kids in the most authentic way possible!
Joshua crafted a proposal for the continuation of this project - Discourse link.
Brian Residency
Brian has achieved his goals for April (and more!) and recently posted his goals for May - HackMD link.
FUN Glasses
Packaging design updates - Discord link.
Sunglasses
Cdt Residency
Many updates on nouns.center (including new home page with the wonderful new nounish video) - Discord link.
Prop House
Funding Round 3 has officially ended! The winners (both receiving 5 ETH this time) are:
1. Stoned Nouns Cannabis Brand by @stonednouns
2. Nouns Design System by @m3tamonk & @soondooboop
Nounish Marketing Studio
The builders behind this project already published their first video (see Hottest News).
Esports Team
Nouns have tied for first place in the group! Apparently, instead of playing a tiebreaker match (which is often the case), they did a coinflip and WON! First place in group stage.
r-[#1]-[#1]
Story Foundations
Taco’s character bio by samellis:
Nouner section
Interesting talk about staking and taxes - Discord link.
Nouns Weekly Call - US:
Nounish Friends Collectibles - https://nouns.wtf/vote/72
Stage 1 of 2, Passed with a lot of abstain
Following up on Proposals - Discourse link
Valuable addition, we have some projects who haven’t kept us updated
Want this platform/content available, but we don’t want an “account officer” or any sort of official singular DAO position
FIA World Rally Championships x Nouns - https://nouns.wtf/vote/74
Didn’t get a ton of feedback on discourse/discord, lot of effort into proposal so put on-chain for voting
A lot of ETH and not a ton of background on the team
Think we could get more for less if we were to spend some time and effort in the racing space
Nouns Mural NYC - Discourse link
Worked with us before (Randy’s)
Prop House
How can we fund proposals that dont win prop house but we still want to vote? - Have suggested some to reach out to Small Grants
Can we/should we scale up faster in terms of how many props we’re funding?
Next will be bigger, only 3 so far and experimenting as we go
When we see consistently see good props that aren't getting funded, acts as a gut check for if we should be casting a wider net
100k Glasses for Kids - Discourse link
Prop 12 round 1: vision to learn partnered with an on the ground partner, Site United
Has 120,000 kids slated for the program next year, could be nationwide Sponsor w Metlife
Natural fit w the glasses
Crypto has a lot of scrutinty/negativity recently, this could be a positive on-brand activation
May need multiple nouners/a team interacting with them for such a large proposal, have seen success with repeated engagements and frequent communication between nouns and the companies we partner with
I would support starting with just the glasses (no gift packs) - this alone would still be biggest proposal to date
Nerman Bot - Discourse link
First want to automate discord voting - Any subdao could grab this tool
Can take Configurable % of Nouns emoji reactions to trigger a Nerman post
Bot look up for Nouns, other data points
Would the team be open to working on other higher priority discord bot features if they came up? Proposal timer/reminders come to mind - Yes
Welcome packet/message for new Nouners
Think this could be huge value, potentially subDAOs / DAOs in general
Reducing friction on voting would be win
General Tidbits
Would encourage folks to vote “No” vs. “Abstain” if you don’t think a proposal should be passed
What type of brand/direction are we going in? I’ve seen lots of cute/disney/kids vibe recently
I think we should/are going in all directions
Building toys, cartoons, but also putting a weed noun on the cannabis purveyor’s products
Certain audiences/demographics will resonate w the IP, different communities will embrace
All call notes can be found here.
On-chain proposals
71.Non-fungible Aotearoa: documentary about the artist behind Noun Cats - Executed.
72.NOUNish Friends Stage 1: Collectibles by BigShot - Queued.
73.Nouns Around Town - a Documentary Film Proposal from the makers of Robot Chicken - Queued.
74.Fia World Rally Championship × Nouns - Active.
75.Nouns x Madhappy Apparel - Active.
Noun sales
New nouns from this week:
Average auction price: 94,6 ETH
OpenSea floor: 83 ETH