Nouns DAO

👋 Introduction

About HackQuest

• HackQuest is a one-stop, self-guided Web3 developer education platform. As the largest developer education platform, HackQuest has over 800k users and 200 advocates. HackQuest offers expert-curated learning paths with on-chain certificates co-issued by leading Web3 ecosystems including Solana, Arbitrum, Mantle Network, Linea, and Sui. Community builders are supported beyond through co-learning camps, meet-ups, hackathons, accelerators.
• The HackQuest core team is made up of ex-Meta & Duolingo engineers, CMU Ph.D. researchers, and builders who have worked together for over five years across multiple education technology startups.
• Official Website: https://www.hackquest.io/ Read More about HackQuest:
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/douglaslaney/2025/08/30/the-staffing-economics-of-hackathons-and-on-chain-credentials/
• https://www.hackquest.io/blog/2024-HackQuest-Impact-Report

🌍 HackQuest Proposal: Nouns Education - Learning Track on HackQuest

Our goal is to build a continuous talent pipeline to introduce curious builders to Nouns’s tech stack and community, helping them take their first steps into the ecosystem.

1. A self-guided, online Nouns learning track for developers

Budget Required $20,000 for Nouns Learning Track

Module 1 — Intro to NounsDAO & Client Incentive Program

• Content:
• What is NounsDAO? Daily auction mechanism, open governance, and CC0 art culture. Overview of the Client Incentive Program: why NounsDAO funds public goods apps and how developers can build incentivized clients. Tour of the monorepo (`nouns-webapp`, `nouns-sdk`, `nouns-api`).

Mission: Fork the repo and run `nouns-webapp` locally.

Module 2 — Developer Environment & Tech Stack Content:

• PNPM workspaces, Turborepo build system.
• TypeScript + React stack and Netlify deployment.

Mission: Launch `nouns-webapp` in dev mode and screenshot the local auction page.

Module 3 — Noun Art Engine Content:

• How traits (heads, glasses, bodies, backgrounds) are stored on-chain.
• Use `nouns-sdk` image utils to generate deterministic SVGs.

Mission: Build a “Random Noun Generator” and share your generated Noun.

Module 4 — Querying Auction & History Data Content:

• AuctionHouse contracts: daily minting + settlement.
• Queries with `nouns-api`:
• Current live auction state (bid, end time).
• Historical auction records.
• Historical Noun avatars.

Mission: Display today’s live auction countdown AND render a gallery of 5 past Nouns with their winning bid history.

Module 5 — DAO Proposals, Candidates & Governance Queries Content:

• How proposals are created, tracked, and executed.
• Querying:
• Proposal list + status.
• Candidate submissions.
• Voter lists, voting weight, and delegated voting power.

Mission: Build a proposal dashboard showing: last 5 proposals, their current status, the top 5 voters by weight, and who delegated to them.

Module 6 — Write Interactions: Auctions & Governance Content:

• Start an auction: how to integrate auction creation.
• Settle an auction: trigger settlement and start the next day’s auction.
• Create proposals/candidates: submit on-chain with parameters.
• Vote & delegate: how to cast votes directly or delegate power.
• Execution flow: what happens once a proposal passes.

Mission: Trigger settlement of a completed auction and launch the next. Submit a mock proposal to testnet. Delegate your voting power to a friend’s wallet and verify on the voter list.

Module 7 — Extending the Webapp Content:

• How to extend `nouns-webapp` with new features.
• Examples: proposal filters, dark mode, “delegate explorer.”

Mission: Add a new UI feature (e.g. “Sort voters by delegated weight” or “Proposal filter by status”) and share your repo link.

*Please note that the full learning track will be available in both English and Mandarin;

🙌Partnership Case Study: Arbitrum X HackQuest: https://x.com/arbitrum/status/1795053585220206765 Linea X HackQuest: https://x.com/LineaBuild/status/1798838601444413650 Sonic Labs X HackQuest: https://x.com/SonicLabs/status/1885317573467922591