Public Nouns

Public Nouns was itself a wild experiment in public goods that came together through the thought experiments of a bunch of DAO nerds and public good luvers during the summer of 2022 in places all around the world.

Could a group of interested people who might not know each other coordinate to fund wild experiments in the public goods world through decentralized governance?

That was the big question!

Funding experiments in Public Goods
https://publicnouns.wtf/

Come hang at /publicnouns

Even achieving some smaller size of impact with small ETH amounts would be worth giving it a shot.

Over the past 27 months, Public Nouns DAO has aimed to make a meaningful impact in the public goods world.

Public Nouns DAO is made up of many of the best thinkers and builders in the web3 space.

You can get a sense of all the impactful experiments by looking over the DAO proposals here:
https://publicnouns.wtf/vote

The variety is impressive!  The grants include such goals as:
- Public goods art
- Making Ethereum green
- Web3 education
- Feeding the homeless
- Funding Ethereum core development
- All different kinds of Free and Open-source software (“FOSS”)
- DAO research and residencies
- Hackerspaces
- Hyperlocal community-focused public goods research
- Important QF matching pools
- Public scaling infrastructure
- Educational art
- Private voting tech
- Supporting a Tree Planting Guinness World Record achievement!
- Right to privacy
- Hyperactive PGF
- New local PGF Mechanisms
- Open source DeFi infrastructure
- Earth and environmental public goods
- Education DAO’s web3 glossary
- And more

Fun fact, another 0.057882 ETH has been taken in as commissions on PN secondary sales!

Public Nouns currently has 38.58 ETH and is looking to fund more wild experiments in public goods!

With all this said, the most important part of Public Nouns is the group of people that have come together to make this impact.

Thank you to everyone that is a part of the greater Public Nouns community.  

The Public Nouns community is likely one of the most special groups of people that exist on the internet in the world.

If you want to be a part of this impressive community, you can pick up a Public Noun here: https://publicnouns.wtf

Here are some numbers:

💚 155 wallets hold Public Nouns

💛 240 Public Nouns have been purchased

🦾 The highest price ever paid for a Public Noun was 8.69 ETH!

👀 227.58 ETH has been brought into the DAO, which was $$338,582 at historical prices.

🪐 189.05 ETH has been given out as 42 grants to experiments in public goods, $464,467 at historical prices.