It's finally time to launch this dang side project

Introducing Noms— a fully onchain, composable art project for making and remixing little characters.

https://noms.build

Here's how it works (thread)

Noms are characters made out of traits — things like glasses, hats, backgrounds, and more.

Each Nom starts as a blank, base NFT. You then add or remove any number of traits, stack them in different orders, and totally customize the look of your lil guy.

It’s like a customizable game avatar, but fully onchain. Your PFP just got a closet.

working on ambush and /noms :: nouns stan

What makes Noms special?

They're built on ERC-6551 — every Nom is a token-bound account that can own other NFTs.

That means your Nom can carry an inventory of traits — mix, match, and swap them anytime. You're not locked into one static image. 

Each Nom is rendered entirely onchain as a composite view of the active traits you’ve attached to your base Nom.

Where do the traits come from?
Noms ships with a trait editor. Artists can create and sell their own trait NFTs — and they get 100% of the sales.

You can define:
Fixed or unlimited supply
Free or paid pricing
Access control (whitelists, token gates)

Traits are organized into collections.

Collections can be:
Private, if you're curating a personal set
Public, if you want anyone to contribute

This means anyone can spin up new trait-based NFT collections — with Noms as the rail.

Nouns

The inspiration comes from /nouns, but where Nouns are fixed, Noms are remixable. You don’t just mint your noun once — you evolve your nom forever.

It’s a new kind of onchain art — collaborative, composable, and alive.

Shoutout to @base 

Noms is deployed on Base and works best with the coinbase smart wallet:

Batching lets you mint + equip traits in a single tx
Paymasters let anyone create traits without paying (or needing) gas

Shoutout to

@martinfor encouraging this project and collaborating on ideas
@jpeg for design help
@andreitr.eth and @zherring for early QA + feedback
@symmetry for collaborating on technical + product design ideas
nouns for forever being a creative inspiration

Also excited to be launching a mini app for Noms later this week.

The plan is to let people create new traits as a mini app and instantly post them to their social graph.

It turns trait creation into a native, viral experience — and helps artists get discovered + collected.