Nouns DAO

Intro

In our previous proposal we introduced uplink, flexible contest infrastructure used by organizations to reward contributors, attract new creatives, and grow their brand. We’ve continued to iterate - adding multimedia support, NFT submissions, user profiles, support for L2’s (base, op, zora), and a new feature we call the mintboard.

As we journey onwards, we envision a system whereby all user generated content lives onchain, and users can interact with this content by minting to vote, signal, collect, remix, and more.

Diving deeper

The advent of protocol rewards on Zora has solidified a programmable backend for hosting and distributing user generated content onchain, offering exciting new building blocks that have the potential to change the way communities incentivize creation, organize more efficiently, onboard users, gamify membership, and more.

While outstanding for solo creators, it’s still difficult for communities to leverage these building blocks to experiment with new metas. We’ve helped to ease this by working with Based Management to design the mintboard, which they now use to run their intern program - allowing interns to graduate to management (membership) via cultural capital.

The mintboard is a communal canvas allowing orgs to create a Zora NFT template that users can mint underneath in 2 clicks. On each mint, protocol rewards are routed to both the creator and organization treasury. Users can level up by reaching a certain # of mints, which can unlock NFT’s, membership, or other onchain rewards.

Today, communities on uplink use both contests and the mintboard to fuel creation and culture through incentives like reward pools and protocol rewards.

We want to expand the solution space by creating a flexible onchain wrapper that sits atop the Zora 1155 contracts. This wrapper will be responsible for dynamically managing creator permissions and milestone based outcomes, such as claims and rewards. With these 2 additional components, new use cases emerge from capabilities like cooldown periods, tiered onboarding, entry requirements, streaks, quests, points, and more. Not only would this allow us to easily migrate our existing products onchain, but also open the floodgates for further experimentation in both our in-house products and new apps created by other developers.

Our mission is to innovate on the creative layer of crypto. If we succeed, Nouns will unlock new use cases for online communities, and new reasons for them to organize onchain. As champions for public infrastructure and CC0, we believe Nouns is the most value-aligned homebase for our project and the best suited to help us win.

We are kindly requesting 125k / 6 months for us to implement the protocol and iterate our product to power new ways for communities to organize onchain.

25k upon approval 100k streamed / 6 months

About us

• Nick - dev
• Weez - design, creative, UX

In prop 215, we were funded with 50 ETH on a 3 month term.

We’ve seen

• 2k visitors / month
• 20k page views / month
• 2.5k contest submissions
• 160 NFT submissions created on Zora
• 350 Mints generated on Zora
• 21 ETH in contest rewards

And some very gracious support from the ecosystem

• Base grant (5 ETH)
• Based Management grant ($5k)

Our nounish journey began back in 2021 with SharkDAO, during their early efforts to organize the purchase of some of the initial Nouns tokens. We developed software solutions for the SharkDAO community, graduating from SharkDAO funding to NSFW funding, and ultimately to a successful proposal with Nouns. We are immensely grateful for the support we’ve received so far and appreciate the community’s consideration of this proposal.