“I’ve heard a lot of great things about this show, so it’s an honor to be on” - Kevin Rose 03/07/23

TL;DR

A proven team, committed to providing value and reach for Lil Nouns DAO, via a weekly twitter spaces show and podcast. This proposal follows on from successfully funded on-chain proposals Proposal 68 and Proposal 94, and looks to continue funding for a further three months.

What is The Lil Nouns Show?

• The Lil Nouns Show is a weekly Lil Nouns centered twitter spaces show, hosted on The Noun Square #SoapBox.
• The show consists of a team of four co-hosts who also take on the roles of researchers, operations and guest bookings.
• The show looks to position itself as the customer facing ‘front of house’ for Lil Nouns DAO.
• Operating mainly on Twitter, we look to provide a platform for other like-minded communities to come speak with our community and also teach those communities about Lil Nouns. The ultimate aim being to onboard and increase awareness of the DAO.

Prior Funding

• Lil Funding - We have completed a one month, four episode pilot in which we received retro funding at a cost to the DAO of 0.125 ETH per host, per episode. Totalling 2 ETH.
• On Chain Proposal - Proposal 68 was an on chain proposal to Lil Nouns DAO that passed 1185 votes to 334. A total of 47 unique addresses voted ‘for’ with just 4 addresses voting ‘against’ making it one of the most successful proposals in Lil Nouns DAO history. There were no abstain votes recorded.
• On Chain Proposal - Proposal 94 was an on chain second term funding proposal to Lil Nouns DAO that passed 1506 votes to 337. This proposal gained more votes than the previous one and as a percentage performed better than our first proposal. A good sign that we are doing things of value!

What have we been doing?

We feel like we have achieved a lot in our first 6 months of running spaces for the Lil Nouns community. When we started this show, we envisaged it being a focal point for the community to engage with not only other Lil Nouns holders, but also with the wider space in general. We have introduced many other communities to Lil Nouns holders and this has been seen by those communities either engaging with Lil Nouns via twitter and discord, or by buying a token and getting involved in governance.

What are we going to do next?

Lil Nouns is currently at a juncture. The bear market has stalled the progress of many projects and this can be seen in the treasury amount. That being said, Lil Nouns as a DAO have decided upon a path to boost Nouns holdings up to 15 (soon to be 16). Taking into account the ETH spent on the procurement of those Nouns, Lil Nouns is in a healthy position. Our role as the outward face of the DAO will not change, we will try to leverage our positions to keep our brand in the face of some of the most active communities in the space. It is a responsibility we as TLNS hosts are very passionate about and hopefully this has been continually demonstrated to the DAO members. The DAO will not continue to function as an entity if nobody is a part of it or indeed, knows about it. We will continue to encourage voter participation on all of our shows and explain in detail, how important it is to the survival of the project we all love.

The Lil Nouns Show format

We currently run a 2/3 to 1/3 structure on our shows. We like to invite a guest from outside of the community (another community/individual) who we think would provide value to the Lil Nouns audience but also allow us to profile Lil Nouns to them. This section of the show usually takes up 2/3 of our show time. To date, we have hosted the following external guests:

• Kevin Rose - PROOF and Moonbirds Founder
• Zeneca - Founder and CEO of Zen Academy and The 333 Club (booked as a guest for Ep. 4 on Halloween)
• Nonfungiblenoah - Brand Lead for CryptoPunkz and HowlerzNFT Founder
• Henry the Grape - CyberKongz Community Manager
• MotivateMe - Community Manager for Cryptoadz
• mfers - Community Managers and community
• Stoopid Buddy - Burbank based animation studio
• SquiggleDAO - Chromie Squiggle DAO
• Gian the Rios - Web3 Biz Dev & Marketing Director for SwapBox
• Ryan Carson - Host of Daily Dose twitter spaces show.
• Toby Lasso - Founder of Nocturnal and manager of Vinnie Hager and various artists
• Josie Bellini - Founder & Artist of CyberBrokers
• OnChainMonkey - Founding Team
• n00uns - Founders of Solana Nouns
• OtakuJake - Founder of Uniqly
• Jose Vasconez - Senior Manager of NFTs at Paramount Pictures
• DarrenSRS - Building Open Metaverse with Punk6529
• Sekure D - Artist/Founder of RoboGhosts and brand advisor to Jordan, Nike and Adidas
• Andrei - Founder of BotFrens

The last 1/3 of the show is reserved for us, our community and allows us to platform those Lil Nouners who are building in the community that want to come up and tell people all about it.

Aside from guests hosted, here are some other things we are proud of:

• 3337 listeners over 11 shows

• The #1 listened to #SoapBox show on The Noun Square.

The Lil Nouns Show team

Team Bios

• April - I’m April, a web3 enthusiast who has been exploring the NFT space since August 2021, yet to my detriment I only properly dove into the Nouns ecosystem well into 2022. Since then I have become obsessed with how this dream of an open-source brand can succeed. Outside of this world my background is in PR & communications (in-house & agency side) having worked for many years in Amsterdam and London, before following my other passion (skiing) and moving to the other side of the world. When I’m not chatting about Nouns, you’ll find me hanging with Moonbirds & Creatures.
• Cardno - I entered the space at the back end of 2021, around Christmas time. I initially became aware of NFTs through the visibility on twitter of BAYC (of course) and after falling into the ‘Fast Food Punks’ discord, (strange, I know) I found myself on a call with the founder within 10 minutes and being given an NFT 101 chat from him. I was onboarded. Since then, I have been a moderator of various projects such as 3Landers, Chimpers and Lorem. I have also been the host of the official 3Landers twitter spaces show. I am currently a signer for Lil Funding Gnosis wallet in Lil Nouns and have just seen out a term as a Lil Representative.
• Crxsher - I entered the space in February 2021, first in crypto, then in NFTs on Harmony, and finally in Ethereum in April. My first purchase was a piece of Sandbox land, which I then traded for two BAYC Apes, and the rest is history. I’ve had a few successes, made many mistakes, but what has never wavered is my belief that Web3 constitutes a major shift in how the world will interact in the future. I’m a frequent guest on many Twitter spaces in addition to co-hosting the 3Landers spaces, hoping to share, engage, learn and grow as we move forward in NFTs. I’m most active these days in BAYC, Ghxsts, Chimpers, Zen Academy and Lil Nouns, although you’ll find me engaging in several others as well.
• English - I entered this space as a research consultant for a friend who was looking to leverage their musical IP assets in web 3. Upon my research I engaged with multiple communities and ended up moderating for 3landers and Lorem. I am currently working with a web2 gaming company looking to launch their first nft project.

Social media handles:

• Twitter: @april_xyz_ Discord: april || pinklobster.eth#5026
• Twitter: @CardnoNFT Discord: Cardno#0446
• Twitter: @CryptoCrusher6 Discord: Crxsher#3174
• Twitter: @EnglishNFTea Discord: English#0943

Compensation Model

Contest rewards, art & miscellaneous expenses:

• 0.0420 ETH x 14 for the weekly giveaway

Team reward:

• April - Co-Host / Guest Booking / Operations - 5 ETH
• Cardno - Co-Host / Operations / Guest Booking - 5 ETH
• Crxsher - Co-Host / Guest Booking 1.5 ETH
• English - Main Host / Guest Booking 5 ETH
• 14 Episodes running from 1 May - 31 Jul 2023 (one TLNS show each week).

Total

17.088 ETH (Less than previous proposal)

If anyone has any questions regarding this proposal, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with one of us via the discord or twitter handles above, and we will be happy to answer any questions prior to you voting.