TLDR

Let's start Nouns Season 3 off right by bringing back the builders and the good vibes with available, reliable, discretionary funding for passionate Nounish builders.

THE PROBLEM

Nouns historically has used small grants and Prop House rounds to complement onchain proposals. The Small Grants Committee (later known as NSFW) and Prop House rounds have fueled considerable community contributions, propelling the protocol's momentum. Yet, during the latter half of Nouns Season 2, obtaining small grants grew challenging. Additionally, the continuous management of Prop House Rounds demands consistent coordination.

We want to help patch this bug in the protocol, and bring back the Builder-forward Nounish Vibes that brought many of us here in the first place.

We are a trusted group of contributors in the ecosystem who are willing to collectively take on the challenge of running a dynamic and transparent Small Grants Allocation Pod, as well as coordinating and championing a series of exciting biweekly Prop House Rounds over the next six months of Nouns Season 3.

THE PLAN

1. Coordinate with the Prop House team to set up two new "Season 3 Grants" Infinite Rounds, where anyone in the ecosystem can apply for retroactive funding up to a maximum of 5 ETH or proactive funding up to a maximum of 1 ETH. Our team will review grant applications on a rolling week-by-week basis, with a goal to allocate ~14 ETH per month.
2. Coordinate and champion a series of Biweekly Temporal Nouns Prop House Rounds, alternating between Open Grants Rounds and Themed Grants Rounds such as “Visual Arts”, “Keep Nouns Weird”, “Gaming/Esports”, “CC0 Music”, “Public Goods,” “Media and Content,” etc. We plan to explore various token-voting methods across all the Prop House rounds we run over the next 6 months, engaging the wider nounish community in some cases.
3. Maintain a Public-facing Discord for community members to ask questions and receive feedback on their applications while also using Prop House’s built-in comment functionality to provide ongoing transparent, public feedback on builder ideas.
4. Publish a public monthly summary of funds deployed for full transparency and accountability.

THE PEOPLE

For an important program like this, it is essential to have a team that is 1) Known and Trusted, 2) Knowledgeable and Experienced About the Ecosystem and 3) Reliable at Execution.

The proposing team has all been active and trusted contributors to Nouns for 1+ years minimum, have an intimate knowledge of the Nouniverse, and have all delivered on past projects.

Core Team Will Include:

• Al409
• BradQ
• Benbodhi
• ChrisCoCreated
• Joshua Fisher
• Maty
• Prof Werder
• Sasquatch
• SuperTightWoody
• Tha Swami and his daughter Lil Purple Blueberry
• Toady Hawk

Team will only be compensated based on individual participation via Coordinape rounds every month allocated by participating team members. Funds will be managed in a 3/5 Multisig.

All decisions on funding will be made by committee vote with a reasonable quorum and never at any one team member’s sole discretion. Members of the team will not be eligible for funding from either the Infinite Rounds or the S3G Prop House Rounds.

THE PRICE

• Monthly Open & Themed Prop House Rounds: 100 ETH
• Season 3 Grants Infinite Rounds: 85 ETH
• Admin/Expenses: 45 ETH
  • (Admin Expense Ratio: <20%)

THE PAYOFF

It has been quite some time since we have seen the Nouns ecosystem buzzing with the energy of artists and creatives, the insights of talented developers and the vibes of passionate proliferators.

We will put our reputations on the line and bring our skills and dedication to bear to allocate these DAO funds as effectively and transparently as possible to the most passionate and deserving builders, coders and creatives in the Nouniverse.

Recent Prop House campaigns run by BASE and ThankApe have shown that there are still thousands of builders in the ecosystem, who are hungry for opportunities.

We don’t want Nouns to miss out on capturing that creative energy in Season 3, so LFG!