TL;DR: A public gallery for a thousand community-sourced Nouns traits to blossom. A proposal that generates more proposals.

Have a look at the first iteration of noundry-gallery.wtf

IDEA

BEYOND DISCORD

The Noundry channel on Discord is one of the coolest places in the nouniverse, where dozens of artists share Nouns designs and riff off each other. However, it is somewhat niche, and not enough people are aware of it.

To address that, we want to create a public-facing gallery that will help us attract more artists and community's traits.

PROP #348

This idea took shape while considering the anniversary prop #348, when Goldy and team self-organised and stepped forward with some really nice traits. Thanks to them, Nouns had the opportunity to showcase its unique ability to redefine itself through user-generated content.

However, the fact that they were the only ones to submit a proposal, despite the vibrant activity in the Noundry channel, highlights the need to make it easier for anyone to submit traits at anytime.

We took inspiration from #348 votes with reason and started building to solve this.

Noun40: "1-Invite heads and accessories to be submitted whenever to a public place (have it be known that if your art gets included on the anniversary art update then you'll likely win X eth in retro funding enforced by tradition) 2-Invite competition for curation through a mandated PH round 1-2 months ahead of anniversary. The mandated round selects the winning curation and includes a meaningful eth prize to incentivize and compensate for the work involved. 3-The winning curation team submits the art update prop to coincide with the anniversary (given the legitimacy through the mandated PH round, it will likely pass)"

4156: "(imho) the last step of removing the training wheels from the noundry should be the death of the convention that artwork only gets updated once per year and 8 traits at a time. It's a competitive advantage of nouns that the artwork is upgradable and the metaphor is open enough to support infinite heads, and we should be maximizing this advantage by engaging with artists, famous or anon, in every country, to make the heads collection as vast and high quality as we can. think of this as the Nouns version of the chain with the most proof of work. This could be especially important post v3. if many instances of Nounsdao have permissionless pools of capital, artists and collectors will be attracted to the instance that accumulates the most cultural capital, and new heads and other traits are an important part of this process"

NOUNDRY GALLERY

Light mode

Noundry-gallery.wtf lets anyone with a wallet upload their 32x32 transparent pngs for head and accessory traits.Submit your traits, style them using existing NounsDAO assets, and share them with the community.

No strings attached: you retain all rights to your art until you choose to submit it to the DAO through a candidate proposal. If the proposal is approved, and your artwork is added to the collection, it will become CC0.

Note: We were reluctant on having glasses due to a potential high impact on the collection, but we might bring them back to satisfy other subDAOs.

FIRST VERSION

So far we've implemented:

• Wallet connect
• Style your traits with nounsDAO assets and publish them to the homepage and your profile page
• Favorite traits
• Sort traits by name, creation date, artists and likes
• Sort through community members by names, total likes received, sign-up date and total traits submitted
• Evaluate traits by combining them with nounsDAO assets by hitting the “generate” button on the trait page
• Edit your profile page and connect your Twitter account
• Dark/Light mode

"Generate" on the trait page to test different combos

Community page with sorting mechanisms

NEXT FEATURES

• Submit candidate proposal form: in a few clicks, select eligible traits from the site, generate images, encode traits using Run-length encoding (RLE) and wallet sign a release form to make the trait CC0 if/when integrated with NounsDAO. This will output the transaction copy-pasta and the markdown, giving you all the necessary elements to create a proposal easily (see mockup below). OR/AND
• Autosubmit to the candidate proposal endpoint on Nouns.wtf using Nouns SDK and skip the markdown copy-pasta if that is a desirable option
• Create a commission page where anyone can set up competition for a given trait ( 0.5 ETH for the best “Golf” or “Boat-anchor” trait for ex)
• Twitter, Farcaster and Discord bots letting us know when new traits are uploaded
• Integration with Volky’s Noundry Studio (Create an “Upload to Gallery” button to directly open the "Upload Trait" modal on noundry-gallery.wtf.)
• Ability to comment under each traits
• Enable ENS avatars and usernames

"Submit to DAO" current mockup: Select trait, write a small description, generate sequential glasses and body color matrice to test combos, define compensation, attach release form, generate transaction with RLE encoding, and save markdown

We want to leave room to learn from the community and see what features are desirable.

Budget: 21 ETH

CURATION

NOUNDRY COMMITTEE

10 Prop House elected curators NFT mockup

While Noundry gallery can also be used for any subDAOs, when it comes to NounsDAO, we believe we should set up a process that guarantees quality and brand alignement. These pixels -along with the smart contract- support the treasury, and we should be considerate about what we choose to integrate with the current collection.

We suggest implementing a multi-step open process with a Prop House elected committee, akin to what large art institutions would employ, albeit executed on-chain.

We plan to conduct a Prop House round to elect 10 curators who will have the responsibility of selecting traits over the next 6 months. Each curator will receive a curator NFT and will be able to use their NFT to like traits on the platform.

If a trait receives likes from 8 curators or more, a 0.1ETH prize will be unlocked, and the trait can then be selected and proposed on-chain using the Submit to DAO page. While curators can post their own traits, they are not allowed to like their own submissions.

Budget: 10 ETH

ARTISTS REWARDS

Artists will get 0.1 ETH prizes when they receive more than 8 likes from curators. This budget is intended to attract artists and reach a critical mass, making the platform more appealing. With a 10 ETH budget, we can create 100 prizes.

If the experiment is successful after 6 months, we can consider repeating the process.

Budget: 10 ETH

MORE

If other DAOs or Nounish projects are interested in using this platform, we could explore implementing workflows to facilitate their participation. Consider, for example, the recent 'Gardeners' concept from Nouns 40; it could be readily sourced from the community.

CONCLUSION

Noundry-gallery.wtf wants to help curate the great work and energy coming from the Noundry channel. I hope that in the future we can see many cool Nounish traits emerge from anons, community members, or even renowned artists.

Thank you for reading this prop. If approved, we will implement this next set of features in 3 months time and start the curation program in January 2024.

Total Budget: 41 ETH

Any questions or comments, feel free to reach out on twitter: @Coralorca

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About me One of the first nounish builder - started in June 2021 and never looked back. I have been all in on NounsDAO over the past two years. Nouns has fully captured my attention and I think it is the most exciting project ever. Here for the infinite work of art and the community driven game. Previous props: #2 3D Nouns, #126 John Hamon , #182 AR Filters