“Be water my friend” That is my all-time favorite quote! Even better to hear it when you watch the interview of him saying it.
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Hi,
I am Abimbola from Osun State Nigeria.
I was researching DAOs and Blockchain governance when I discovered Nouns DAO. I got excited when I discovered how the DAO was able to build a community and empower them as well.
Nouns Vision - Their idea of burn to redeem is brilliant. It validate my idea with what my project is doing with Tangible NFTs and real life marketplace.
Nouns DAO Africa - For obvious reasons.
Agora.
FOODNOUNS
Prop House
Brkfst World
Nounish Labs - I love this for the sake of interoperability.
Its humanity’s chance to develop, build and elevate itself.
Greatest showman album, Bandana by Fire boy and Asake ft Fire boy , Burna boy’s albums, Fireboy’s album and Asake’s album.
Hi, I’m idiom-bytes and I’m working on Ocean Nouns, a fork of Nouns DAO as a community-owned fundraising/grants mechanism for projects inside the Ocean Protocol Ecosystem.
I have been leading many aspects of OceanDAO inside Ocean Protocol, and due to the foundation’s grant program sunsetting recently, I thought I would do something for the community.
I decided to launch a Nouns derivative so the community can own and operate their own funding. My self-assigned goal/role for now is to help set the direction/constraints/group. And then, like a hand-grenade, I’m planning to pull the pin, release it, and back off.
I believe Nouns DAO is a fantastic structure for bootstrapping communities, and for operating in an autonomous manner. My hope is that:
- By introducing this primitive to the Ocean Protocol Ecosystem, it can provide funding and accessibility for early-stage teams to access capital.
- By focusing on the values, missions, and product constraints, that we can improve proposal quality and guidance towards sustainable products.
- By using Nouns DAO as a building block, many participants in the ecosystem can now contribute towards writing proposals and helping to stream funds towards teams that are doing good.
The work being delivered via Ocean Nouns includes:
- Founding Group: Currently connecting and bringing together well established participants. I’m the person helping to facilitate everything, but my goal is to be working from the background.
- Mission & framework: Defining the constraints around projects and proposals to accomplish the mission of cash-flow and sustainability.
- Engineering: Working through the code bases & deployment to get this out the door.
- Fundraising: Art assets, deployment to mainnet, live operations. ~4.5k USD raised so far.
- Fundraising: Looking to raise/apply for a grant/retroactive as I move oceannouns forward. I believe it may help me flesh out some designs (like founder funds) which I have not done the complete DD. Everything will be detailed further.
- Art: My colleague (Phd/DigitalArtist) runs an artist collective between Canada & USA, and is a prof in UC of Santa Cruz. He will be the PM on that project. We may use Jetstream to keep it pixel-perfect (I already scraped all the art, file names, etc… and generate the dozens of new items).
You can follow us on twitter.
P.S. If anyone can help me get back onto the nouns Discord that would be awesome (I was kicked off because of recent changes to activity)
Great to meet everyone!
Hi there - my name is shockermandan and I’m the new owner of Noun 524.
What first brought you to Nouns?
I’ve been following Nouns since its inception. I’m a big fan just of the ideas of decentralization in general not DAOs particularly but everything from finance to education and anything else that can be decentralized.
There are plenty of experiments and projects happening in the Nouns ecosystem, which ones are interesting to you?
I’m not quite there yet. Still getting my bearings about me before diving into the projects and experiments. From my perspective I’m most excited about things that would either be cool (subjective) and/or bring value to the brand and ultimately to holders.
If you could teach everyone on Earth one thing about crypto, what would it be?
I copy-pasta’d this format from someone, and I’ll use their response…
That fiat money and governments and corporations are just as made-up as crypto :). It’s memes all the way down, and there’s plenty of room for better memes.
Quick! What’s something Nouns is missing?
Every time I’m involved in something I think to myself WTF “Where’s the Fun?”
What kind of music are you listening to lately?
Usually Hip-Hop, but whatever Spotify tells me to listen to. Childish Gambino, maybe.
Barbarian, Bard, Druid, or Rogue?
Rogue, 100%
shockermandan
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What first brought you to Nouns?
Saw the panel at NFTFest Aus -
There are plenty of experiments and projects happening in the Nouns ecosystem, which ones are interesting to you?
Really interested in the community impact projects -
If you could teach everyone on Earth one thing about crypto, what would it be?
I’m still learning! And still have a long way to go… -
Barbarian, Bard, Druid, or Rogue?
None of the above
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There are plenty of experiments and projects happening in the Nouns ecosystem, which ones are interesting to you?
Proposal 173 sailing Nouns at NFT.NYC is a sweet experiment. -
If you could teach everyone on Earth one thing about crypto, what would it be?
Community. Community. Community. -
Quick! What’s something Nouns is missing?
Motorsports enthusiasts -
What kind of music are you listening to lately?
Jack Harlow -
Barbarian, Bard, Druid, or Rogue?
Ashamed to admit, this is N/A for me.
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Variant has purchased a number of Nouns. As new Nouns owners, we thought it only made sense to introduce ourselves in a Nounish way: via the Introduce Yourself questions. The following are our answers, and elaborate on why we’re so excited to join this community.
What first brought you to Nouns?
It’s hard to pinpoint what first brought us to Nouns, because so many people on our team have interacted with the Nouns community in various ways. What grew our collective excitement, however, was simple: we think it’s one of the most actively engaged, creative communities in all of web3.
In particular, NounsDAO pioneered the following designs for building strong, credibly neutral communities:
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The continuous auction mechanism. One Noun is minted each day in perpetuity, which means there’s an equal opportunity for entry into the community, protected over long periods of time. It also means there’s a continuous source of funding to sustain the project.
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A treasury governed by Noun holders, denominated in ETH. Whereas many projects today sell NFTs for the benefit of a central company, Nouns are sold for ETH that accrues to a treasury governed by Nouns holders. ETH is money, Nouns are governance. While many DAO treasuries are denominated in their native token, unbundling the job of money and governance streamlines NounsDAO’s ability to activate funding for community efforts: using ETH avoids the risk of price-related sell pressure while also ensuring that funding does not result in unnecessary dilution of governance power.
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A CC0 model of open, permissionless tools & design parameters. Doing so creates another equitable access point for community entry by eliminating financial and legal barriers that may normally prevent a project’s users from becoming owners. The benefits are clear: Nouns continue to organically and authentically proliferate faster than its peers because community members feel empowered and supported in their contributions.
Combined, these design choices form the basis of NounsDAO’s self-propagating meme machine: the proceeds from each auction fund the treasury, the treasury funds projects to propagate the meme, and perpetuating the meme increases demand, which in turn funds the treasury. It’s a robust, positive feedback loop. This works because the meme is meaningful: it acts as a continual schelling point for community-driven projects, for everything from public goods efforts to educational workshops to in-person events.
There are plenty of experiments and projects happening in the Nouns ecosystem, which ones are interesting to you?
Nouns’ unique structure, culture of funding public goods, and process governed by user-owners gracefully coordinates economic and social incentives in a way that few other communities have achieved. In particular, the experiments outlined below highlight ways in which Nouns is actively scaling its impact, exemplifying our thesis at Variant that user-owned networks can grow bigger faster, in more sustainable and equitable ways than centralized alternatives.
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Funding for public goods. A second order effect of the self-propagating meme machine is that Nouns can fund public goods, so long as they also serve to raise awareness about the project. Examples include a trash cleanup in Nairobi with people wearing Nouns shirts and the provision of care packages in Nouns-branded bags to children in hospitals. We’re excited to see these efforts continue to scale with Nouns.
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NounsDAO setting a standard for how communities form and evolve. Nouns Builder, for instance, allows anyone to easily deploy a Nounish DAO – i.e. a DAO that uses Nouns’ coordination and mechanism primitives – in minutes. We expect adoption of the NounsDAO design will continue to grow and become a default for decentralized communities.
If you could teach everyone on Earth one thing about crypto, what would it be?
“Crypto represents a potent combo of ideology and incentives, and has a rich and diverse array of ideologies represented therein. One lens to view crypto through is as an experiment in shifting from shareholder to stakeholder primacy” -Li
Quick! What’s something Nouns is missing?
What kind of music are you listening to lately?
- “TikTik bops” -Mason
- “Lake Street Dive, 2000s pop” -Alli
- “Migos” -Spencer
- “Ritviz, Kali Uchis, and Piff Marti” -Medha
- “Interpol, White Lies” -Derek
Barbarian, Bard, Druid, or Rogue?
This post was co-authored by Jesse Walden and Alana Levin. See disclosures.
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@alanalevin You should join us in the Jungle discord, that’s where we do weekly calls with Nouners, Tuesdays at 5:30pm EST. Hope to see you there and (virtually) meet you on the calls!
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Hey everyone, I’m Christian! I’ve been working in branded social content + journalism for about 10 years, five years full-time. I started working full-time in web3 as the lead of content at collective, the creators of House of Nouns. I also manage the House of Nouns Twitter account.
I host the Prop Talk podcast — a voter companion podcast for Nouns — and was recently funded for a trial run of Video Proposal Trailers through Prop House. Both are created with my friend Seth Anderson (@jackwyldes on Twitter).
Twitter @byhardy / Discord byhardy#8888
What first brought you to Nouns?
I definitely remember it launching and was really my first time thinking about how a DAO works, but was way out of my price range. The collective team started getting involved in Lil Nouns, and I followed soon after.
There are plenty of experiments and projects happening in the Nouns ecosystem, which ones are interesting to you?
House of Nouns, of course! I also love The Noun Square — which almost feels like Nouns FM Radio — and all Nounish content creators who aim to get Nouns in front of not only a larger web3 audience, but also the mainstream.
I also love Nouns commitment to AI with the AI Pod. It’s something I want to continue to work to incorporate into my own content.
If you could teach everyone on Earth one thing about crypto, what would it be?
Beyond basic necessities (i.e. food, shelter, clothes), digital ownership is just as valid, if not moreso, than owning a physical item. Today, true digital ownership is only possible with blockchain.
Quick! What’s something Nouns is missing?
Attention from mainstream creators in art, video, music, etc.
What kind of music are you listening to lately?
I listen to John Summit sets when I work all the time. New SZA album is great. Lots of Turnstile always. Daniel Allen. Fred Again. I’m kind of all over the place.
edit: formatting
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- What first brought you to Nouns?
I was attracted by the high quality, pixelated JPGs, it gives me a CryptoPunk vibe. Then, I saw the high quality discourse discussions and feel like this is the right community to be part of.
- There are plenty of experiments and projects happening in the Nouns ecosystem, which ones are interesting to you?
I am interested in DAO Governance practice in general.
- If you could teach everyone on Earth one thing about crypto, what would it be?
Not Your Keys, Not Your Coins.
- Quick! What’s something Nouns is missing?
Some high tech experiment, like ZK, AI, or AR/VR
- What kind of music are you listening to lately?
Experimental Jazz, Electric
- Barbarian, Bard, Druid, or Rogue?
Barbarian
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What first brought you to Nouns?
I research about CC0 and found Nouns DAO -
There are plenty of experiments and projects happening in the Nouns ecosystem, which ones are interesting to you?
I’m interesting about how to decentralize power, democracy ,transparent and public domain on music field
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If you could teach everyone on Earth one thing about crypto, what would it be?
Trust no one . -
Quick! What’s something Nouns is missing?
Local Communities , Web 2 expansion . -
What kind of music are you listening to lately?
l listen fork song from around the world sometime experimental music -
Barbarian, Bard, Druid, or Rogue?
Bard.
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- What first brought you to Nouns?
Kevin Rose podcast - There are plenty of experiments and projects happening in the Nouns ecosystem, which ones are interesting to you?
Curiosity of where such self governance can lead - If you could teach everyone on Earth one thing about crypto, what would it be?
Not your keys - not your crypto - Quick! What’s something Nouns is missing?
Incentives for memebers - What kind of music are you listening to lately?
Latexfauna - Barbarian, Bard, Druid, or Rogue?
o_O
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What first brought you to Nouns?
Hello, I’m Arya. I joined the Nouns community to eventually push a proposal that I have in mind which could really bring good revenue to the Nouns treasury. More personal and professional details about me and the contributors will be in the proposal topic that I look forward to create soon. I wanted to gather as much feedback as I could before going on-chain and hence I joined Discourse. If anyone could help me out to get more involved in the community and to make my idea reach out to as many people as I can, would really appreciate that! -
There are plenty of experiments and projects happening in the Nouns ecosystem, which ones are interesting to you?
One interesting topic I found was about Bonuses to Noun owners from the treasury. Also gave my bit of feedback as a reply. Very interesting replies in the thread. People with contrasting views, but very sensible and creative discussion in my opinion. Another topic I found interesting was about the Nounish Cryptodemocracy ball, it’s a cause we all support - fair, democratic and transparent governance through blockchain. -
If you could teach everyone on Earth one thing about crypto, what would it be?
I would teach people how to own their own crypto without relying on custodians and still not get hacked. Very important to push to crypto ethos forward. -
Quick! What’s something Nouns is missing?
This is the first time I have been on Discourse and haven’t spent enough time to notice anything that is missing in the Nouns community yet. But will definitely answer this in few days if I find something! -
What kind of music are you listening to lately?
LoFi
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Hello All,
My name is Supriyo. I am founder of Atrium.art and Hyy.pe . I’ve been in crypto since 2016 and had the chance to be involved a bunch of crypto native initiatives. At Atrium, we have been trying to build a decentralised production house for extremely high quality cinematic content.
What first brought you to Nouns?
Nouns have always been intriguing since its launch. I saw the first auction go for 600+ eth and the idea of nouns controlling a transparent treasury deployment has been a good and novel governance initiative to follow along. CC0 content is great and in terms of philosophy has a lot of merits. Currently, we have yet to see any real and lasting viral moments of cc0 which goes beyond our bubble and hopefully that changes over time.
There are plenty of experiments and projects happening in the Nouns ecosystem, which ones are interesting to you?
Nouns.build is interesting. Gnars DAO is another one.
If you could teach everyone on Earth one thing about crypto, what would it be?
self-sovereignty.
Quick! What’s something Nouns is missing?
Mainstream and extremely high bar of content being created which can cement Nouns as a timeless brand. Something which people beyond crypto care about. Some really good value experiments are already happening in this regard (See ordinary folks)
What kind of music are you listening to lately?
Lo-fi. Helps consistent hours of productivity.
Barbarian, Bard, Druid, or Rogue?
Definitely Druid.
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Heyah 
been a follower for a while and didn’t know I could get involved until yesterday, when someome commented this this in response to something I suggested…so I figured this would be the perfect place to start?!
What first brought you to Nouns?
• 4156’s Twitter, the art, and of course what Nouns represents
There are plenty of experiments and projects happening in the Nouns ecosystem, which ones are interesting to you?
• All of them? Heh…but seriously the prop house, nounish and the recent holiday efforts
If you could teach everyone on Earth one thing about crypto, what would it be?
• the beneficial impacts that it offers society as a whole
Quick! What’s something Nouns is missing?
• SEO so when ppl search space related terms Nouns shows up at the top of the results, and onboard ppl from web2 into web3 through Nouns; a legitimate & sustainable project
*** What kind of music are you listening to lately?**
• mostly punk rock
Barbarian, Bard, Druid, or Rogue?
•bard
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What first brought you to Nouns?
Nouns Esports
There are plenty of experiments and projects happening in the Nouns ecosystem, which ones are interesting to you?
The Nounish public goods
If you could teach everyone on Earth one thing about crypto, what would it be?
Not your keys,Not your Crypto
Quick! What’s something Nouns is missing?
Supporting music artists
What kind of music are you listening to lately?
Classical
Barbarian, Bard, Druid, or Rogue?
Druid
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Hi! I’m Jesse (jesse.xyz on ENS, jessepollak on Twitter). I’ve worked at Coinbase for the last 6 years, previously ran all of our consumer facing engineering teams (Coinbase, Wallet, Pro) and now lead Protocols, with a focus on Ethereum L1, L2, and onchain infrastructure that accelerate the migration of our products, users, and assets onto natively onchain platforms.
- What first brought you to Nouns?
I’ve been following Nouns for a while, but was waiting for the right Noun to buy. Bought #555 on Christmas Day. #555 resonated because I love tracking snowstorms as an amateur meteorologist (it’s a snowman), am very interested in onchain governance (it has a DAO shirt), and bleed Coinbase blue (blue noggles).
- There are plenty of experiments and projects happening in the Nouns ecosystem, which ones are interesting to you?
I’m interested in the reusability of the Nouns governance infrastructure through things like Prop House and Nounsbuilder. I believe that crypto has the potential to totally overhaul how humans make decisions and work together in groups and see Nouns at the forefront of that today.
- If you could teach everyone on Earth one thing about crypto, what would it be?
I would get everyone an ENS name with a profile picture and have them send money to one friend who lives in another country. Feels like that user experience is a turning point for most people.
- Quick! What’s something Nouns is missing?
I want to see Nouns showing up in the onboarding experience for the next wave of 1B+ crypto users.
- What kind of music are you listening to lately?
My most recently loved song on Spotify is No Smoke by LU KALA.
- Barbarian, Bard, Druid, or Rogue?
Rogue
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Just introducing myself I’m a motivated and dedicated fourth grade teacher with over 10 years of experience in education. Seeking a new challenge in the web 3 community.
Hi! I’m pumey_arts from twitter, an artist from filipinouns, a recently created group for Filipino artists from PH. You can call me pums or pumey. I just joined in discourse to introduce myself as one of the community artists in Nouns, and also encouraging other people to learn and dive in into world of becoming an artist and be part of this amazing community.
- What first brought you to Nouns?
Gnars. I am an artist, previously worked with MLBB and just so happen that I stumbled upon this group of athletes that supports artist as well. They held art contest around august and it was fun! And then it got me curious that Gnars is funding athletes, not similar to other crypto projects that I joined in. Aaaand kinda searched a bit more about Nouns and I was shocked that they support ideas from any people all over the world! I love how they can give chance for people to share ideas and make it into reality. This movement made me think that this is really a good and warm community. - There are plenty of experiments and projects happening in the Nouns ecosystem, which ones are interesting to you?
Proposals funding merch and any other art things that helps spread Nouns. - If you could teach everyone on Earth one thing about crypto, what would it be?
They should join in this community. Regardless of holding a token or not, anyone is welcome to hop in and share ideas to make it happen in a nounish way. - Quick! What’s something Nouns is missing? Hmm… voting system probably? I’d suggest to focus on quality and constructive criticism way of judging anything inside this community. And active participation in voting. I can somehow see votes are less than what I expect from the volume of token holders.
- What kind of music are you listening to lately? Jpop. Anything pop that pumps my mood to draw nounish stuffs.
- Barbarian, Bard, Druid, or Rogue? Druid!
I was going down a tunnel of web 3 NFT based fashion projects and found myself here.
For music I’ve been listening to Tom McDonald lately.
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