Nouns DAO

Hey all, my name is Christian. Working on Nouns full-time has been an amazing opportunity. I’d like to continue my work for the next 6 months as well. It’s been an incredible learning experience, and I love building projects that serve the DAO and bring joy to the Nouns community.

Overview of what I’ve done the last 6 months:

PROP HOUSE

I spent most of my time working on the complete site redesign. Besides making it more aesthetically pleasing, and cleaning up the codebase (removing unused code as we prepared to open-source it), I worked on new features to increase the overall user experience including: - New homepage with statistics - Dynamic social sharing cards - House & Round pages - Voting progress bar - User proposal progress card - Japanese translations - Rich text editor for prop creation - Search bar for Home, FAQ, House, and Round pages

NOUNS CENTER

The site has received 18K total site visits and is officially linked from the Docs tab of nouns.wtf. It has been forked by 4 NFT communities: Lil Nouns, Mfers, Blitmap, and Forgotten Runes to be used as a tool for their community. I did automation work with Brian to allow for projects and talent to add themselves more easily as the site scales. I also shipped several new pages and updates: - Funding (plus 3 funding guides: proposals, small grants, and prop house) - SubDaos - Dev Center (Docs, APIs, contract links, and Github repos) - Discord Channels - Learn (educational content from Nouncil YouTube) - Ideas - New assets (2 Figma boards, updated color palette, and 3D voxel noggles files) - New homepage

NOUN O’ TALK

I released 14 episodes with 33 guests. They included: - Personal deep dives: 4156, Vape, and Brian Flynn - Communities: the Nouncil and 4 subDAOs - Topical: eSports, Noundry, and NFT NYC - Builders: Fomo Nouns, Design System, Nouns Terminal, and Roko

The pod has garnered ~2,400 downloads. I personally edited all past episodes. I recently brought on 2 producers to increase the quality. The next push will be YouTube. I created a YouTube channel (69 subscribers) so that we can upload full episodes, as well as 3-5 video clips, each week. I am personally a big YouTube user for podcasts and I believe this will be a great way to spread the word about Nouns on a platform we don’t have a huge presence in.

What I plan to work on for the next 6 months:

PROP HOUSE

I will continue developing the Prop House web app. As we prepare for the protocol launch, I will work on fixing bugs and frontend improvements, as I manage the vast majority of the frontend you see. I will add Spanish translations to the site and I will continue to ensure it’s the best tool that it can be.

NOUNS CENTER

I’d like to conduct a Prop House round for a proper redesign of the entire site and lead the development to create a Nouns Center v2. I will add documentation, as in a README with install instructions, and clean up the code to make it fork-friendly for other communities. I aim to implement Search across the entire site for easier access to all the information. I plan to add translations (Japanese & Spanish) too.

NOUN O’ TALK

I will continue to book guests, do my own extensive interview prep, and host the pod itself. I also manage the podcast team (Messhup for art and Matthew & Brileigh, our two producers). Besides the weekly podcast I want to grow and proliferate Nouns via YouTube as I mentioned above. Lastly, I’d like to create a custom site for nounotalk.com.

Funds requested:

$175K* paid over 6 months in USDC which equates to ~132E by todays valuation.

*the equivalent of ~$190k (to absorb potential volatility in ETH from time period between submission and execution) would be sent to a multisig managed by trusted members of the community (Seneca, Steve, and cdt), they would then convert $175k worth of ETH to USDC, set up the stream and then send back the remaining ETH to the DAO.

The safe to handle cdt’s transaction was created at 0xBD910e42a051da2252EB87B6f43d5E6e7cA85E3c.

Signers: seneca: 0xfC9e8dB5E255439F430e058462360Dd52b87cB4f cdt: 0x1Bf87eAd2Fc2A4751CF5Bda011E5Afa320391cc2 steve: 0x7D81478Ad18ad375e53De6F74F3122F6be3499ca

Recipient cdt’s address: 0x1Bf87eAd2Fc2A4751CF5Bda011E5Afa320391cc2