Noun.space is a customizable Farcaster client built for Nouns, by Nouns. Open-source, community-owned, and live now.

(click to watch our recent 2 min demo video + Q&A from Base Demo Day)

Noun.space is built on top of the space system - a web of miniature websites designed by the community and further customizable by its members. Each space is assembled from a collection of mini apps and building blocks we call Fidgets. Users can expand their space with Tabs and visually style each Tab with Themes.

The Plan

• By Nouns, For Nouns Make noun.space all about Nouns. The center of the Nounish community: the best place to talk about, learn about, and get involved in Nounish projects, content, events, and subcommunities.

• Blank.Space Extend the space system so that other communities can easily spin up their own hubs.

  These will be platforms with identical capabilities, but uniquely customized, acting as modular bespoke hubs for each community.

  *(We’re working with Clanker to build out the first version of this for them)*   
  

• 3,500,000 $SPACE (Streamed to Nouns over 6 months) Providing Nouns with a stake in the expanded space ecosystem. Claimable by proposal at any point in the future.

The Ask

• 65 ETH (streamed over 6 months) These funds will enable our core team to continue building our vision for at least 6 months (and we pledge to continue hosting noun.space for a minimum of 2 years).

  Our team (four developers + product manager) will be dedicated to developing the features and systems described in this proposal - custom built for Nouns, with an eye towards how they could useful for communities everywhere.

Our vision is simple. The future of social is:

Customizable. Permissionless. Community-Owned.

One-size-fits-all social apps are limited in capabilities and designed to benefit centralized owners. They will be replaced by bespoke platforms built on decentralized social networks that are owned and operated by the community.

The barrier to create and deploy mini app tooling is trending towards zero. The space system will be the easiest way for communities to discover, embed, and configure tooling from a growing library of mini apps.

We’ve always aimed to develop competitive, self-sustaining software, with a platform can benefit a wider range of users and communities (eliminating the need for ongoing funding from Nouns and acting as a scalable proliferation method).

While some community members agreed with this strategy, others (understandably) wanted noun.space to be a platform built exclusively for the Nouns ecosystem. This proposal introduces a strategy that gives us the best of both worlds.

Here’s how we get there:

1. By Nouns, For Nouns First and foremost, we want to bring existing Nounish tools into the same space so that our community is less scattered. Then we want to take the next step forward to build new tools for the unresolved challenges our community still has.

   • Improving proposal engagement
   • Raising awareness of what’s happening in our ecosystem
   • Putting a face to the name - contextualizing who our voters are

   For more details on how this will look, check out the Nouns-Focused Section of our proposal.

2. Community Focused Tooling Make the space system the ideal hub for communities.

   Instead of competing with Warpcast and Coinbase Wallet to be the best generic Farcaster client, our focus will be on creating community tooling on a platform that provides immediate value and can be fully customized to each community’s needs. (such as the Token Spaces for Clanker)

1. Open the Gates Sponsor sign ups for new Farcaster users so everyone with an internet connection can use noun.space.

2. Blank.Space Alongside all this work, take the powerful platform we’ve built, and make it easy for any community to deploy their own version.

   These custom space systems will have their own domain, branding, homepage, directories, and default configs for profiles and dashboards that the members can further customize. Not only will noun.space be the first ever “channel client,” it will become the base template upon which all channels and communities can deploy their platforms.

   Any community will be able to deploy their own space system.

   Powered by ⌐◨-◨

   Case Study - Clanker.Space Clanker has shown strong interest in noun.space since our recent launch of token spaces (deployer customizable homepages for every token).

   Our teams are actively exploring the deployment of clanker.space, a white-labeled version of noun.space focused entirely on the Clanker ecosystem. While there’s no guarantee that Clanker will adopt clanker.space as their primary platform, our goal is to work closely with them and build whatever is necessary to make it happen.

   

Here is our vision of what a fully Nouns-focused noun.space will look like.

We will continue brainstorming and soliciting feedback from the community on this work through a public Camp Topic. Additionally, anyone will be able to extend the functionality of noun.space, both through our open source codebase and by permissionlessly deploying mini apps.

The Nounish Homepage

• The homepage of noun.space will be dedicated to all things Nouns.

  Including but not limited to:

  • The Nouns channel feed (powered by Farcaster)
  • Auctions (powered by Nouns.com)
  • Governance (powered by Camp)
  • Projects (powered by Nouns.world)
  • Documentation (powered by Nouns.center)

A Nounish Directory

• The Members directory will feature all nouns holders/delegates, displaying their Nouns held/delegated and linking to their profile space.
• The Projects directory will display a growing list of Nounish projects with attached Farcaster accounts, organized into categories. (see proposal spaces)

Rough demo of a directory of Nouns members (WIP)

Nounish Profiles

The profile space for Nouns members will be updated to automatically include the following default configuration:

• A feed of their casts on Farcaster
• Nouns held & delegated as well as a button to delegate
• Voting activity
• Proposals published and sponsored

These spaces will still be completely customizable by each Nouner with Fidgets, Tabs and Themes.

Proposal Spaces

A space for every proposal with

• The proposal
• AI-generated summary
• Voting activity
• Live chat
• The ability to vote (with reason)

These spaces will still be completely customizable by the proposer with fidgets, tabs and themes.

Once a proposal passes, a tab for Propdates will be automatically added. We can also automatically add other relevant Mini Apps, such as an overview of stream progress for proposals funded via stream, or a mini-app for milestones if milestone-based funding is implemented.

Building this functionality as Mini Apps will also enable native Farcaster notifications for both proposals, propdates, and future proposal functionality.

We went ahead and built v0 of Proposal Spaces during the hackathon at FarCon, including Mini App support (check it out).

Nounish Mini Apps and Notifications

Many of these features will be developed into Farcaster Mini Apps, extending this functionality to any client that supports them (including Warpcast and Coinbase Wallet).

Relative to standalone apps, which Nouns has historically depended on for tackling the many problems and opportunities we face, deploying mini apps is significantly cheaper, faster, and more effective, and we expect this trend to continue as AI improves and the Farcaster ecosystem matures.

Further, mini apps can send notifications to users that will be displayed in noun.space as well as other clients.

1. Noun.space becomes fully Nouns-focused, but not Nouns-dependent.
2. Our team will be funded to focus on developing noun.space features full time for the next 6 months (at minimum).
3. Every Nounish community will be able to deploy their own space system.
4. The platform will be powered by ⌐◨-◨ Empowering a growing number of communities, some of which will inevitably stumble down the rabbit hole and fall in love with Nouns just like we have.
5. Nouns Treasury receives 3,500,000 $SPACE

@nounspaceTom - Our Agentic KOL (Noun 1131) (works for free)

@willywonka.eth - Product (Noun 1016) (LinkedIn)

@realitycrafter - Engineer (Noun 765) (LinkedIn)

@skateboard - Engineer (Gnar Whale & Noun 1232) (LinkedIn)

@r4topunk - Engineer (Gnar Whale & Gnars.com dev, and future Nouner) (LinkedIn)

@vaipraonde - Engineer (Gnars.com dev, AI expert, and creator of nounspaceTom) (LinkedIn)

Our team has experience building, operating, and exiting multiple consumer startups (JustLegal (acquired by DigitalTown) and Bitfract (acquired by ShapeShift)), building, launching, and contributing to top DAOs (ShapeShift, Giveth, and ATX DAO), building decentralized social (LBRY, Odysee, and SkateHive), and are all just generally nounish and gnarly.

In early 2024, we delivered the first Nounish Farcaster client, as described in our original proposal. After a year of development, we now have a powerful, polished, and reliable app as well as a clear and validated strategy.

Our v1 and v2 props include significant details on nounspace’s past accomplishments and positive reception.

Check out our full app analytics!

Revenue

Although our primary focus has been on development and user acquisition/validation, we’ve proven our ability to generate meaningful revenues to fund development.

5.9718 ETH, ~$20,000 - Nounspace OG NFT Sales

30,000 MATIC, ~$12,500 - Polygon Grant

1100+ MOR, ~$12,000 - Morpheus Builder Rewards         
(generating ~7.5/MOR per day, or ~$15k annualized)

~$3,500 - Trading fees from protocol-owned liquidity

~$2,500 - Quadratic Funding from Gitcoin and Giveth rounds

Total: ~$50,500

$SPACE

$SPACE is the governance and utility token for Nounspace.

You can learn all about it on the $SPACE token space.

There’s ~520 stETH currently staked in the $SPACE fair launch contract.

This contract generates 1-2 ETH of monthly yield (32.5+ ETH and counting).

The yield is then streamed into the $SPACE/ETH liquidity pool on UniV3 on Base, becoming protocol-owned liquidity.

Thank You.

All of this could never have happened without you, our users and community. We want to highlight a couple of the fun, unique spaces that y’all have made. Head over to noun.space to explore them all!

With your support, we can continue improving the app, execute this strategy, and proliferate ⌐◨-◨ in a way that’s creative, beneficial, and scalable.

If after 6 months we are not able to continue developing Nounspace, we commit to transferring the app’s data to any community member(s) that demonstrate interest and ability to carry the project forward.