tl;dr -- Encourage creators (artists and devs) to build with Nouns by having a pool of funds held in a Safe for this purpose. The Safe will be used immediately to recognize existing a few creators in our community while also allowing fast funding of small, one-off, or alpha version projects as they appear.
Past and Fast
While Nouns DAO governance works well for larger projects, the multi-step, on-chain proposal process is not ideal for encouraging small, one-off, or alpha versions of projects/tooling. Despite this, many Nouns community members have added to the ecosystem and it would be great to honor their contribution.
To solve both of these issues, we'd like to propose that a pool of capital be sent to a Nouners controlled Safe. A Safe is much quicker mechanism to coordinate and distribute funds. We would like 20 ETH to pilot the pool, with a suggested range of 0.25-2 ETH per project, with the aim of:
- acknowledging, through retroactive funding, past contributions to the Nouns ecosystem
- granting funds for the development of small, one-off, or alpha version projects
- encouraging building and signalling that retroactive funding is a viable way to build on Nouns
Funding Committee
The initial signing committee on the Safe will be:
Noun 12
Noun 16
Noun 22
Noun 32
Nouns DAO
The Safe will require 2 of 4 Nouners to sign, with Nouns DAO acting as a largely symbolic owner and backup.
The committee will monitor the builder community, retroactively fund previous work as it comes up, and receive informal requests/applications for small project grants. The projects and amounts will be at the committee's discretion.
Who to Retro Fund Right Now
In addition to the 20 ETH Safe, we proposal the immediate funding of the following creators:
1 ETHto 12BNoun for developing many projects including Nounspedia, This-or-that, and Synthetic Nouns0.75 ETHto humpstyles for their original, Nouns-based art Abstract Nouns0.75 ETHZeeraffe, JustKiddinc, and WNX for continuing to create one Nouns Vox daily0.25ETH to aaaaaaaaaa for setting up a Dune Analytics Dashboard for Noun Auction stats.
Transaction Details
This proposal will execute the following transactions:
1 ETHsent to12BNoun(0xd77e44F294938472381A587a47F5D836C6290EA3)0.75 ETHsent tohumpstyles(0x4939C898da18b0c1E71DC2A42aa545AD228711B5)0.75 ETHsent to theNouns Voxgroup (0x6Dfa20170603c53220cDD61EA8d7DE9b7Ed725Ef)0.0125 ETHsent toElectronic Frontier Foundation(0x095f1fD53A56C01c76A2a56B7273995Ce915d8C4) on behalf ofaaaaaaaaaa0.0125 ETHsentSave The Children(0xA77a54139b285C5294f24A492B9896c380dDe01D) on behalf ofaaaaaaaaaa20 ETHsent to theRetro Funding/Small Grants Committee's Gnosis Safe(0x2AF21E37928613582734bcBAeaD0919801a4CAcf)0.023ETH sent toNoun 32as reimbursement for creating the Safe (0x6f9e3976fa3b5b22761fe5D635E1f0d9d9aeB85d)0.088ETH sent toNoun 22as reimbursement for submitting the on-chain proposal (0x75ee6eb3d8dacf41ee2e5307090b197d3e1cca6e)