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Today, we're launching Nouns Grants (nounsgrants.com), a new product from the team behind Camp.

Nouns Grants is our shot at reimagining Nouns as a leading grantmaking org. It's a vision of Nouns where our unique, community-driven grant process stands at the center, and everything else is secondary.

We want to be the best in the world at getting funds into good hands, at scale. That is our mission. It's how we make an impact and uplift Nouns as a symbol for a better future. It's how we find a deeper purpose in everything we do.

We believe Nouns is only as valuable as our grantmaking process — our ability to attract, evaluate and fund good people and projects, and our consistency and predictability in growing these operations over time.

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building /camp (nouns.camp) and nounsgrants.com

Practically speaking, Nouns Grants is a new interface for creating proposals. It turns the typical open-ended DAO proposal into a straightforward application form that anyone can get through.

The new format makes use of video, a standardized application form, and a flat grant amount. We believe it's imperative that we make our operations more metrics-driven, proposals easier to evaluate, and that we push applicants towards authenticity.

With Nouns Grants, we're taking a first step to demonstrate Nouns as an effective capital allocator, with a solid understanding of our own growth levers and ready for scale.

When we first set out to build Nouns Grants, one of our design goals was to completely remove crypto touchpoints for the end-user. While Nouns Camp is a crypto-native product built for an internal audience, we wanted to take Grants in the completely opposite direction. The result is an application process where anyone with an internet connection can apply for a grant, regardless of crypto familiarity or technical know-how.

We use email signup (Privy) and smart wallet creation (Coinbase) at the moment the user applies. This setup allows us to sponsor gas fees and, using delegated actions, circumvents the need to introduce foreign concepts like candidate promotion or transaction failure to the end user.

Next steps —

Today's launch is not the final form of Nouns Grants. It's a starting point for Nouns as the world's leading grantmaking org.

We need your help to get nounsgrants.com in front of people so we can learn, iterate, and improve. Share it with your audience and followers, friends, and family. Your contributions truly make a difference, and the further we can reach outside of the crypto-sphere, the better. Thank you <3

AMA —

I'm doing an AMA/community call on Nouns Grants and our vision for Nouns today (Friday), 4 PM ET: https://discord.gg/JGPeHwnJ. 

(If there's demand, we'll do another one next week.)

Looking forward to share more of our thought process!

We want to be the best in the world at getting funds into good hands, at scale. That is our mission. It's how we make an impact and uplift Nouns as a symbol for a better future. It's how we find a deeper purpose in everything we do.

We believe Nouns is only as valuable as our grantmaking process — our ability to attract, evaluate and fund good people and projects, and our consistency and predictability in growing these operations over time.

Read more: https://nounsgrants.com/voters

obsessed with /nouns | motion designer | katy perry fan | producing @nogglers | playing @playdna 👾

happy to add! current gallery kinda haphazard

yes creates a candi and even a prop eventually

looking beautiful! just missing a Nouns House pic 😅 jokes aside, does it create a candidate automatically? Nouns is lucky to have you, Krel!

@base builder #001; onchain cities w/ OAK & city3

ty jesse

while its not using base, the coinbase smart wallet advances was one of the main inspirations for going down this specific route

its just a new interface, same treasury, same gov process

(for now, things can change as needs and bottlenecks arise ofc)

Does this also mean that there is a new source of income to apply for grants or just switching the thought process around how treasury money is applied 

Does the DUNA now allow for nouns to apply for grant funding that it can give out?

Buidl the change you wish to see in the world. Customize your space on /nounspace, download @shapeshift, donate on @giveth, pick up @trashnfts #bestdayever

Back to Nounish roots, I like it. Hope you’re able to get some funding to give it a chance. 💛

Super interested! Thank you Krel & team ☺️ see you at the call

perfect amount for a nouns bench in central park

I like baking /goodbread and building apps on web3 protocols. DevRel @ ENS Labs. gregskril.com

perfect amount for a nouns bench in central park https://www.centralparknyc.org/giving/adopt-a-bench

Definitely going to read up on this over the weekend to see if Impact Concerts might fit the criteria!!!🫡✌️