TL;DR

• The most listened to weekly twitter spaces show in the Nouns ecosystem

• 13,101 listeners across 36 shows

• The #1 most listened to #Soapbox on The Noun Square

The outwardly facing mouthpiece of the DAO; providing a platform, via twitter spaces, for our own and external communities to learn from each other, with a view of growing the Lil Nouns brand

What is The Lil Nouns Show?

• The Lil Nouns Show is a weekly Lil Nouns centered twitter spaces show, hosted on The Noun Square to enable us to reach a wider variety of communities.
• 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 and has done so for the last 9 months.

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!
• On Chain Proposal - Proposal 120 was an on chain third funding proposal to Lil Nouns DAO that passed 1226 votes to 477.

What have we been doing?

We have consistently and collectively worked as hard as possible to position Lil Nouns squarely in the thoughts of other like-minded communities, in an effort to keep our DAO visible.

In doing so, we have become the ‘go-to’ weekly show in the Nouns ecosystem to host project founders, artists, proposers and everyone in-between. This is something we are proud of, and we believe this visibility will across web3 will serve us well when the markets pick up.

What are we going to do next?

All the feedback we have received over Term 3 has been overwhelmingly positive. In fact, we have received no negative feedback on our performance from the DAO over this period. That is not to say we can’t do better.

We will remain at our current cadence of one show, every Monday at 6pm EST, throughout the next period of funding. We have had great success in this slot and less for a few changes to accommodate what we regard as great guests, we have remained fairly consistent in this approach.

Since our last funding refill, Lil Nouns has bought a Noun (taking our holdings up to 16) and the treasury has remained fairly stable since our last prop. It was forecast then, that at this point we would have little to no ETH and that Lil Nouns DAO would cease to exist, let alone function. This has turned out to be an incorrect assumption and through projects like The Lil Nouns Show, Lil Nouns has remained relevant at a time when most other NFT projects are disappearing from the space.

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.

In our last prop we said - “The DAO will not continue to function as an entity if nobody is 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.” and we still believe this to be true today.

• We will remain on our usual Monday 6pm EST slot;
• We will continue to expose Lil Nouns to other web3 communities;
• We will engage with those in our community without a voice and give them a stage to speak; and
• We will to be a focal point on twitter for those seeking more information about our DAO

The Lil Nouns Show format

We currently run a 50/50 structure on our shows. We invite a guest from outside of the community who we think would provide value to Lil Nouns DAO, by way of exposure or profile. To date, we have hosted the following external guests:

• Luca Netz - Founder of Pudgy Penguins
• 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
• Pindar Van Arman - Web3 artist and project founder
• Chris PRguitarman - Creator of Nyan Cat
• Vrbs Dao - A newly formed DAO from the y00ts Nouns
• Sloppy Pencil - Former animation supervisor for Rick & Morty
• Skaar - Superrare artist and photographer
• Henry the Grape - CyberKongz Community Manager
• MotivateMe - Community Manager for Cryptoadz
• Andrew Wang - Founder of WebthreeFC
• Josh Ong - Chief Strategy of Kreatorhood and co-founder of Bored Room Ventures
• mfers - Community Managers and community
• Stoopid Buddy - Burbank based animation studio
• Tristan Eaton - Web3 Artist
• Shan - Founder of Project Godjira and Nouner
• 87Bones - Nouner and Nouns Deli / Lil Bevs founder
• Legendary - Web3 writer and twitter spaces host
• 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 second half of the show is reserved for us, our community, and allows us to platform those Lil Nouners who are building in the community and want a platform to tell people all about it.

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.
• Cardno - I entered the space in late 2021. 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, Lorem and Sugartown. I have also been the host of the official 3Landers twitter spaces show. I am currently a signer for the Lil Funding Gnosis wallet in Lil Nouns and have also seen out a term as a Lil Representative.I also am entrusted with the role of ‘League of Lils’ which means I am on the multi sig for the wallet our DAO uses to place its votes with Nouns DAO.
• 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
• Twitter: @CryptoCrusher6 Discord: Crxsher#3174
• Twitter: @EnglishNFTea Discord: English#0943

Compensation Model

Contest rewards, art & miscellaneous expenses:

• 0.0420 ETH x 12 for the weekly giveaway Team reward: April - Co-Host / Guest Booking / Operations - 4.5 ETH Cardno - Co-Host / Operations / Guest Booking - 4.5 ETH Crxsher - Co-Host / Guest Booking 2.5 ETH English - Main Host / Guest Booking 4.5 ETH
• 12 Episodes (one TLNS show each week)

Total

16.504 ETH (a reduced ask from the 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.