Builder DAO

Background

Neokry is currently serving as the Resident Engineer under Builder Proposal #38 and is requesting a 3-month extension. Prior to submitting this proposal onchain, Neokry also shared a draft proposal and has gathered extensive feedback from fellow DAO members.

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Major contributions from the last 3 months

New Features

• Added dynamic OG images in **https://github.com/ourzora/nouns-builder/pull/153**

• Added founders allocation to the about page in **https://github.com/ourzora/nouns-builder/pull/168**

• Added profile pages in https://github.com/ourzora/nouns-builder/pull/249

• Added a decode calldata endpoint in **https://github.com/ourzora/nouns-builder/pull/202**

• Improved data fetching and caching in **https://github.com/ourzora/nouns-builder/pull/242**

• Improved delegation / voting UX in **https://github.com/ourzora/nouns-builder/pull/253**

Proposal Improvements

• Added proposal votes **https://github.com/ourzora/nouns-builder/pull/216**

• Added droposal proposal template in **https://github.com/ourzora/nouns-builder/pull/199**

• Added replace artwork proposal template in **https://github.com/ourzora/nouns-builder/pull/230**

• Added voter participation rate in **https://github.com/ourzora/nouns-builder/pull/232**

• Updated proposal creation flow in **https://github.com/ourzora/nouns-builder/pull/191**

Bugfixes

• Fixed open graph and Twitter metadata in **https://github.com/ourzora/nouns-builder/pull/138**

• Fixed server-side error handling on the explore and DAO pages in **https://github.com/ourzora/nouns-builder/pull/179**

• Fixed proposal description formatting in **https://github.com/ourzora/nouns-builder/pull/188**

View full release notes here **https://github.com/ourzora/nouns-builder/releases**

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Goals for the next 3 months

Scaling our protocol + transition to L2

Short term:

• Replace Zora API dependencies with subgraph

• Rework the frontend to support any EVM-compatible rollup for nouns.build or community deployments

• Handle L2 deployments on all major EVM-compatible rollups

Medium term:

• Build protocol upgrades/extensions to allow opt-in migration of current DAOs to L2s

• Conduct an audit on the new protocol via Code4rena

Long term:

• Explore the potential for hybrid L2 → L1 systems for DAOs that prefer to keep NFTs on L1

Scaling our engineering community

Nouns Builder open source infinite rounds for community frontend work

• Open round to fund nouns.build frontend work

  • Community devs make contributions then submit to the infinite round for funding

  • Funding based on # of merged prs / issue impact

• Onboard new developers to the frontend repo, review code submissions, and ensure that winners have submitted valid pull requests

Nouns Builder hack week dev track

• Have community developers experiment with different scaling solutions for our protocol

  • Initial migration implementations

  • Hybrid L2 → L1 system ideas

  • Alternate solutions

• Onboard new developers to the protocol repo and judge protocol extensions/upgrades

Regular Product and Engineering public sessions

• Sessions hosted by Neokry and Isaac that cover current product and engineering developments and are open to the community

• These sessions allow the community to gain insight into the Nouns Builder product discussions / roadmap and to ask questions / provide input

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Funding Request

• $16,830 USD / Month for 3 months (9 ETH/ month)

• Total of $50,490 USDC streamed via Sablier (Total ~27 ETH @ $1873 ETH/USD price)

Changes made to original draft based on DAO feedback:

- Removing token compensation (6 Builder tokens) to prevent voting power centralization and accrual of influence through residencies

- Increasing USDC compensation from 8.5ETH to 9ETH to account for expanded residency scope that mainly includes critical solidity work for successful L2 transition

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Multisig

*The equivalent of ~$55k (to absorb potential volatility in ETH from time period between submission and execution) would be sent to a multisig as outlined below. They would then convert $50,490 worth of ETH to USDC, set up the Sablier stream and then send back the remaining ETH to the DAO.

Gnosis Safe to handle Neokry’s transaction:

• 0x0bFcef6f9389d209D8D943ebA2893156fb5Ea929

Signers:

• zaak.eth: 0x77ac30452890E5210CB334f601a0A6E8F0A5201B

• neokry.eth: 0x04bfb0034F24E424489F566f32D1f57647469f9E

• thenounishprof.eth: 0xCEEd9585854F12F81A0103861b83b995A64AD915

Recipient:

• neokry.eth: 0x04bfb0034F24E424489F566f32D1f57647469f9E