Lil Nouns DAO

rocketman here - after a conversation with dot, we’d like to improve and ship the VRGDA auction upgrade to ETH Mainnet.

UI of the the MVP, deployed last year as lilsandbox.wtf. You can read more about the motivations for the VRGDA in prop 64 here.

Plan

We’re requesting 6.5 ETH to:

• Improve the VRGDA contract UX and sniping experience
• Design and build an improved UI
• Audit the contracts with 0x52. (~2.5 ETH)
• Implement any fixes stemming from the audit

Details

Barebones scaffolding for the VRGDA experiment was built and tested alongside the community in Prop 64. Our plan is to build on this MVP in a way that improves the UX, and makes it easier to get the Lil Noun you want within the block time constraints. Currently, the Lil Sandbox contracts change the Lil Noun every block, which makes it nearly impossible to get the Lil you want.

Similar to Robo Nouns, we will improve the UX of sniping Lil Nouns by introducing a pool of past Lil Nouns you can snipe from.

We will upgrade the Lil Sandbox contracts to add this additional pool functionality, and ensure the changes fit together in a safe way.

We also plan to upgrade the UI to show this pool in a clean and intuitive way.

Audit

0x52 charges $8k for a 3 day audit. (~2.5 ETH). The proposed changes would fit within the 750 nsloc limit.

Timeline

April

• Build upgrades and comprehensive tests for the VRGDA contracts.

• Design and build new UI to handle the Lil Nouns pool.

• Collaborate with the community to get feedback on the design direction and UX.

May

• Deploy on Sepolia Testnet with new UI.

• Audit with 0x52.

• Implement any required changes from the audit

• Ship upgrades to mainnet.

Team

My partner Wojciech and I have built many things in the Nouns space, including Vrbs DAO, House of Nouns, and That’s Gnarly to name a few. Most recently, we shipped the Revolution protocol, a new version of Nouns DAO that makes earning a vote more accessible. We’re happy to answer questions in the Discord or on Twitter.

Thanks for reading, stay nounish.

– rocketman