gramajo/nouns-proposals huggingface dataset:
# Raise Fork Threshold to 30%

This proposal raises the fork threshold to 30% (from 10%) and returns the fork period to 7 days (from 3.5 days).

We lowered the fork threshold from 20% to 10% back in [Prop 384](https://www.nouns.camp/proposals/384). The intentions back then was to: 
* Make it easier for long-time nouners to fork if they felt fundamentally misaligned with the direction Nouns was accelerating towards in season 3 (post-fork 0).
* Reduce the daily treasury leak to arbitrageurs by making arb easier (and thus more competitive) while figuring out thoughtful acceleration of spend to lower BV naturally.

Now, a month and a half later, we've mostly cleared those intentions:
* [Fork 1](https://nouns.wtf/fork/1) occurred and long-time nouners that felt fundamentally misaligned (such as poap and beautifulnfts) joined the fork. We're not seeing additional forks being initiated by long-time nouners.
* Book value has been lowered from the mid-30 ETH range to mid-20 ETH range through important bets on [Gnars ($300k)](https://www.nouns.camp/proposals/382), [Nouns Stories + Stoopid Buddy ($1.8M)](https://www.nouns.camp/proposals/397), [Protocol Guild Animation Film ($400k)](https://www.nouns.camp/proposals/407), [Nounish ($1M)](https://www.nouns.camp/proposals/413), [Messhup's Graphic Novel ($100k)](https://www.nouns.camp/proposals/423), [Rise of Blus ($1.1M)](https://www.nouns.camp/proposals/425), and likely [The Nouns Square ($270k)](https://www.nouns.camp/proposals/434). Happy with these high conviction bets.

Now that we don't really need to worry about (for the time being) fundamentally misaligned long-time nouners being stuck in the DAO, we're in a position of mostly just dealing with arbitrageurs.

I wouldn't be a proponent of raising the fork threshold if that meant arbitraguers would just accumulate more Nouns for longer, but given that the BV is now already lower, [arb modelling by the Verbs team](https://mirror.xyz/verbsteam.eth/W4gaOrp6NC6jopc6vGsGuhz3o4ej0G_0TFhBlcLed94) is showing that if we raise the fork threshold to 30% the expected BV at next fork would be in the low-10 ETH range, which means that if the true market clearing price is above that then we should start seeing real buyers outbid the arbitrageurs immediately.

We could just wait out a few more months for BV to naturally lower and the problem to resolve itself, but the benefits of adding new DAO members and getting true price discovery sooner in my opinion outweighs the governance overhead of adjusting the fork threshold and thus I propose we raise the fork threshold to 30% now.

Outcome: EXECUTED
# 🔥 The Burn: pause for now

## TLDR

1. Support dealing with the arb with current protocol nobs.
2. Pull audit funds back to the USDC payer contract.

## Description

The original burn design was meant to mitigate the arb in the short term, and it did so by burning BV in excess of recent auction prices immediately, with no delay.

The spec changed to give voters more coordination time, and that led to the burn no longer mitigating short term arb.

We spent time discussing additional changes to combine with the burn, e.g. require noun age to fork, and decided it’s all too complex and the problem can be solved with existing tools.

We wrote [the arb analysis post](https://mirror.xyz/verbsteam.eth/W4gaOrp6NC6jopc6vGsGuhz3o4ej0G_0TFhBlcLed94) after this realization, hoping to provide voters with a framework on how to take action with protocol as it currently is.

Since the burn in its current spec doesn’t solve the arb and seems to have lost some consensus and momentum, we suggest dropping it at least until the current arb problem is dramatically mitigated, i.e. BV is equal-ish to natural demand.

Once we’re in that reality we can revisit the value of adding the burn and certainly do so if there’s enough energy behind it!

## Transaction
Withdraw the audit funds from the Tech Grants multisig back to the Payer contract, which is where the DAO holds USDC to fund proposals.


Thanks!
the verbs ⌐◨-◨

Outcome: EXECUTED
# Nouns DAO V3.1 Minor Fix

## TLDR

- We deployed V3 with the same Vote with Refund bug [we fixed in V2.1](https://www.nouns.camp/proposals/169).
- This proposal upgrades the DAO with a minor fix.
- This version is not audited; we’re confident enough with the internal review we conducted.

## Fix summary

Change the refund destination such that multisig voters that pay for gas get refunded, rather than sending the refund to the multisig contract. Technically, this change involves refunding tx.origin instead of msg.sender.

Exact changes can be seen in [this pull request](https://github.com/nounsDAO/nouns-monorepo/pull/813).

Because this change is very minor, we're not going through an official audit process. This change has been reviewed by solimander.

## Why this happened

We started work on V3 before the V2.1 fix, and V3 is in different files so syncing the master branch into the V3 branch did not apply the fix to V3 code.

Here’s a short sequence of events:

1. September 22, 2022 [v3 branch]: the branch that later becomes DAO V3 is created with initial code experiments.
2. October 25, 2022 [dao 2.1 branch]: refund bug fixed.
3. November 2, 2022 [v3 branch]: we sync from master and create a new DAO V3 file.
4. November 9, 2022 [master] refund fix merged into master, to be deployed.
5. January 4, 2023 [v3 branch] we sync from master, the refund fix is updated in the DAO V2 file, but we are focused on V3 and do not examine the merge carefully and miss the opportunity to copy the fix into V3.
6. January 11, 2023 [v3 branch] we split DAO V3 into library files to overcome the contract size limit; this change makes the bug harder to discover, as we lose the ability to directly compare V3 to V2 line for line, as we still could have done between V2 and V1.

Another problem was that we did not copy or change all V1/V2 tests to test V3; most of the tests were copied to run on V3 as well, but we dropped the ball on the gas refund test.

## How we’re preventing it from happening again

1. Make sure tests are always running against the latest version.
2. When merging a fix to master, make sure to correctly merge it into any open branch.

Running all tests on the latest version is the most important takeaway. As part of working on this fix we made sure all DAO tests are now running on the latest version, and removed old duplicate tests that were testing older versions. We believe we’ve reduced the chances of this happening again significantly.

The second point is helpful as an extra layer of safety, mostly helpful if we don’t have sufficient tests or failed to run all tests against the latest version we’re working on. We will certainly be more mindful in future merges.

## Transaction

The transaction sets the DAO proxy implementation to be the fixed version deployed at [0xe3caa436461DBa00CFBE1749148C9fa7FA1F5344](https://etherscan.io/address/0xe3caa436461dba00cfbe1749148c9fa7fa1f5344).

Thanks,

the verbs ⌐◨-◨

Outcome: EXECUTED
# The Many Hats of Ben - a documentary about Benbodhi.⌐◨-◨ ✦₊

# The Many Hats of Ben
*(working title)*

**TL;DR**
![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/S1Ci311Qp.jpg)
**Discover the transformative power of Nouns DAO through the journey of Benbodhi**

Ben spent a few months lurking in the original Nouns Discord before saying anything.
Now, he is one of the most devoted and loved members of the community, a funded prop builder, and even co-founder of a fork of Nouns.

**Short documentary film (20 minutes) | Budget: $48,970 USDC**

---

**THE PLAN**
The Nouns DAO community is about the passionate individuals behind it.
With this documentary series, we aim to spotlight these inspiring journeys.
First up, Benbodhi.
![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/Byly9yJma.jpg)
*Ben with hxnzΞ, Gami and Aubtoshi @ SXSW Sydney*

We'll track Ben's story and his daily schedule, which occasionally includes working 16+ hours a day on some of our favorite Nouns projects:
* Nouncil
* TNS
* Gnars DAO
* Alps DAO
* Prop 218
![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/Hkg7PiH0zp.gif)
*as part of proposal 218, the largest ⌐◨-◨ in the world were manufactured.*


**THE SCHEDULE**
We will deliver the final cut within 3 to 4 months of being funded.
Around February 2024 with filming scheduled for late November 2023.

**THE ASK - $48,970 USDC**
![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/rykpUyJmp.png)



**THE FUTURE**
We have reached out to a few of our favourite Nounish builders, devs and artists and ultimately decided to start small with only one documentary for now.

We will move on to other stories after we deliver Ben’s and the community is happy with the result.

If  successful, we will make new proposals for the following stages:
* Stage 01 - Australian Wave: Gami, Mr. Seaks, TBD
* Stage 02 - Brazilian Storm: JP, Vlad, TBD
* Stage 03 - USA, Canada: TBD
* Stage 04 - Latin America: TBD 
* Stage 05 - Europe: TBD
* Stage 06 - Asia/Japan: TBD

This is a 2 to 3-year plan and the idea is to save on budget and time by having the same film crew shoot more than one story in each continent.

**Please get in touch with us if you have suggestions of people/places/projects we should be considering.**

Also, since all the material will be cc0, we can think of it as building blocks of a feature-length documentary in the not-so-distant future.
And anything else anyone wants to build with it.



---

**THE TEAM**
We are essentially the same crew from “Non-fungible Aotearoa”.
Proposal 405 funded us to submit the documentary to 50+ film festivals:
[https://nouns.wtf/vote/405](https://nouns.wtf/vote/405)

Leo Clark (Director/Producer)
[https://warpcast.com/leoclark.eth](https://warpcast.com/leoclark.eth)

Simon Ogston (Director of Photography)
[https://www.bellbirdpictures.co.nz/](https://www.bellbirdpictures.co.nz/)

Foothead (VFX Artist)
[http://www.foothead.net/](http://www.foothead.net/)

Jonathan Crayford (Music composer)
[https://www.jonathancrayford.com/](https://www.jonathancrayford.com/)

DOP
[https://www.departmentofpost.com/](https://www.departmentofpost.com/)
One of the most important post-production facilities in New Zealand.



Thank you for reading 🙏
Let’s make more art in Season 3 🫡

Outcome: DEFEATED
# NounSwap: Swap Noun 853 for Noun 330 from the Noun Treasury

This proposal seeks to swap Noun 853 for Noun 330 from the Nouns DAO treasury.

## General Rationale for swapping Nouns: 
Noun owners might seek a swap for various reasons, including:
- **Aesthetic Preference**: Seeking a Noun that resonates more with personal artistic tastes or visual preferences.
- **Trait Alignment**: Aiming to align with Nouns that reflect specific traits or characteristics resonating with the owner's personality, interests, or collection strategy.
- **Community Engagement**: Enhancing personal connection and engagement with the Nouns DAO community through ownership of a Noun that resonates more strongly on a personal level.


## Benefits of swapping to the DAO:
Swapping Nouns can offer several advantages to the DAO:
- **Community Diversity:** Encourages a treasury that mirrors the diverse tastes and interests of the Nouns community.
- **Active Participation:** Owners who feel a stronger personal connection to their Nouns are often more engaged and active in DAO initiatives.
- **Dynamic Treasury:** Regular swaps keep the treasury dynamic and reflective of current community preferences and trends.


## Conclusion
This proposal aims to enrich both the individual Noun owner's experience and the overall diversity of the Nouns DAO Treasury through a strategic swap, enhancing engagement and more alignment within the community.


## This Prop was created using NounSwap.
NounSwap is a tool built for the Nourish communities by [Paperclip Labs](https://paperclip.xyz/). It allows Noun owners easily create proposals to swap their Nouns for Nouns in the treasury. It serves purely as a facilitation tool for proposal creation. NounSwap does not have contracts and does not take custody of any Nouns at any time. You can check it out at [nounswap.wtf](nounswap.wtf).

Outcome: DEFEATED
# NounSwap: Swap Noun 933 for Noun 482 from the Noun Treasury

This proposal seeks to swap Noun 933 for Noun 482 from the Nouns DAO treasury.

## General Rationale for swapping Nouns: 
Noun owners might seek a swap for various reasons, including:
- **Aesthetic Preference**: Seeking a Noun that resonates more with personal artistic tastes or visual preferences.
- **Trait Alignment**: Aiming to align with Nouns that reflect specific traits or characteristics resonating with the owner's personality, interests, or collection strategy.
- **Community Engagement**: Enhancing personal connection and engagement with the Nouns DAO community through ownership of a Noun that resonates more strongly on a personal level.


## Benefits of swapping to the DAO:
Swapping Nouns can offer several advantages to the DAO:
- **Community Diversity:** Encourages a treasury that mirrors the diverse tastes and interests of the Nouns community.
- **Active Participation:** Owners who feel a stronger personal connection to their Nouns are often more engaged and active in DAO initiatives.
- **Dynamic Treasury:** Regular swaps keep the treasury dynamic and reflective of current community preferences and trends.


## Conclusion
This proposal aims to enrich both the individual Noun owner's experience and the overall diversity of the Nouns DAO Treasury through a strategic swap, enhancing engagement and more alignment within the community.


## This Prop was created using NounSwap.
NounSwap is a tool built for the Nourish communities by [Paperclip Labs](https://paperclip.xyz/). It allows Noun owners easily create proposals to swap their Nouns for Nouns in the treasury. It serves purely as a facilitation tool for proposal creation. NounSwap does not have contracts and does not take custody of any Nouns at any time. You can check it out at [nounswap.wtf](nounswap.wtf).

Outcome: DEFEATED
# Gift a Noun to Nounish Founders: wiz

**tl;dr - Honor early founders of nounish communities: wiz**

This is the first of a set of proposals to gift Nouns to the founders of the first three Nouns forks who proliferated Nouns via unique iterations of nounish DAOs which evolved into the largest nounish communities today.

I feel the reputation of these founders precedes them, so I'll be brief. These three founders were very early builders in the Nouns ecosystem, without them the most active nounish communities today would not exist. Not only were they behind the earliest iterations of the Nouns auction and DAO structure, they have continued to contribute to the ecosystem as time has gone on.

As devoted builders in the nouniverse, they have proven their value and alignment with the DAO and would be ideal candidates to receive Nouns. 

![](https://i.postimg.cc/Gtj2qQ99/Sy-Yin-N-M6.png)
[*Source (h/t MikeGood, Lil Nouner)*](https://twitter.com/GoodBeats/status/1706019634246213811)

These communities **far** exceed the size of the community of Nouners. The majority of people who are active in the Nouns ecosystem are involved through one of these sub-DAO communities.


---

## [wiz](https://twitter.com/0xWiz_)

* Founder of: 
    * [Wizards DAO](https://www.wizardsdao.com/)
        * The first Nouns fork (launched January 11, 2022)
        * Utilized the Nouns auction mechanism but not onchain governance
        * Originally auctioned 5 Wizards per day, reduced over time to 1 per day. Maximum supply since launch of 2,000.
        * Uses completely unique art - centered around the Wizard hat (akin to noggles)
    * [Federation.wtf](https://www.federation.wtf/) 
        * Cross-DAO Governance Platform
        * Governance Pools
        * Nouns Auction Auto-Bidder
    * [Bound.wtf](https://www.bound.wtf/) 
        * An experiment that allows anyone to create NFTs that are economically linked to Nouns onchain
* Nouns Proposal [229](https://nouns.wtf/vote/229)
* Winner of Prop House [Governance Client Round](https://prop.house/nouns/nouns-governance-clients)
* Elected as a [Nouns Gardener](https://prop.house/nouns/gardener-selection/8307)

![](https://i.postimg.cc/Dfp8NCz3/HJCid-Eu-M6.png)

![](https://i.postimg.cc/kGHGt5Hg/r1-TPVdz6.png)
*Wizard #0*

---

Summary of transactions:

[Noun 684](https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0x9c8ff314c9bc7f6e59a9d9225fb22946427edc03/684) to oxwiz.eth: 0x13eEf4EF8FCa471f242ab0F8F49A3dB6017aDA33
![image.png](https://i.postimg.cc/zvhwB4d6/Screenshot-2023-12-05-at-10-06-17-PM.png)

⌐◨-◨

Outcome: EXECUTED
# Camp funding for 2024

As of December 2023, [nouns.camp](http://nouns.camp/) is the leading Nouns governance client, with over 50% of all votes cast from Camp. In total, roughly 700 successful votes and 300 other onchain actions have been submitted via Camp. We average around 100 visitors and 500 page views per day. [1]

We recently launched the ability to [create](https://nouns.camp/new) proposals and candidates via Camp — a step towards our near/midterm goal to reach feature parity with nouns.wtf and improve every single aspect of the Nouns governance experience.

Looking further ahead, we're excited to iterate on onchain touchpoints (eg video proposals) to expand the governance meta and reach new audiences. Among other things, we also want to make it easier for teams to build on Nouns and plan to help maintain Nouns contract subgraphs.

As for deeper running motivations, we believe impressive internal software can help attract both talent and true fans to Nouns, effectively growing our corner of the internet, and we intend for Camp to be a shining example of crypto infrastructure.

Camp is built by Obvious, Inc., a Delaware C-corp led by krel and backed by VCs like Y Combinator. We're making a bet on Nouns as an emergent platform, and as of 2024, 100% of our resources go into building Camp. The founding team consists of [krel](https://warpcast.com/krel.eth), [olli](https://warpcast.com/olli), and [prego](https://warpcast.com/pedropregueiro) (full-time on Camp from January).

**Funding request**

- 50 eth as retro funding for the work done on Camp [so far](https://github.com/obvious-inc/frontend-monorepo/commits/main).
- A payment stream of $33k USDC per month for the entirety of 2024 (12 months). We commit to providing regular status updates via Propdates.
- **Total:** $396k USDC + 50 eth

**Notes**

[1] The numbers provided are best estimates. We're doing work to improve our metrics tracking going forward.

Outcome: EXECUTED
# Reward the Builders Round

**TL;DR** - *Run a single Prop House to reward 3 Builders with a Noun each to get more “long-term aligned players” participating in governance.*

This is inspired by the [Nouner Scout Round](https://www.nouns.camp/proposals/422), and many of the details can stay the same. As Seneca said, one of our goals is to create a stable environment that *** "***attracts long-term aligned participants rather than arbitrageurs.” There are perhaps no better long-term aligned players than folks who have continuously contributed to Nouns without a direct stake in the DAO.

The ideal winners would be contributors who have participated in meaningful proposals in Nouns DAO, but do not have a Noun yet. Contributors can use their proposals to share their previous work, but it should ideally speak for itself.

### Tentative Round Parameters: 

-  A one-week period for submitting proposals.
-  A one-week period for voting.
- Open submission for all (with basic criteria to avoid spam).
- Voting conducted by Nouns voters.
- The three proposers with the highest votes get a Noun (the winner with the most votes picks first)

### Which Nouns? 
![](https://i.ibb.co/Y3C78Ld/Screenshot-2023-12-13-at-09-07-10.png)
I suggest Nouns 862, 912, 913.

### Logistics:

The Nouns will be escrowed in a 2/3 safe managed by martin, wag, and krel. 0x674D19c2B8892064ECfc5c2e5Ba61ad061DdD217

### Timeline:

This will most likely start the first week of January.

Outcome: EXECUTED
# Data Contract Minor Upgrade

## TLDR

- In V3 we introduced a data contract where people post candidates onchain (using events).
- There’s a minor bug where we charge the candidate creation fee in case of an update to a live proposal.
- There’s also a minor UX issue where the data contract allows candidates with more than 10 txs, while the DAO has a hard limit at 10.
- This proposal upgrades the data contract with minor fixes for both issues.
- This version is not audited; This side contract is not part of the core nouns contract, hence the risk is very low.

## Fix summary

In V3 we introduced a data contract where people post candidates onchain (using events). Accounts with zero votes need to pay a small spam-protection fee to create a candidate.

We use the create candidate function also as part of the flow of updating an onchain proposal that was created with signatures, as a means of collecting signatures again for the update.

The primary bug is that we charge the candidate creation fee in this proposal update flow, when in fact we don’t want to charge it. The fix is not charging the candidate creation fee when the candidate is explicitly created in order to update an existing proposal, and the proposal meets certain conditions: it’s in the Updatable state, the candidate creator and the proposal proposer are the same account, and the proposal has at least one signer.

The secondary issue is that candidates can be created with an invalid amount of transactions, leading to bad UX when people try to convert these candidates to proposals. The DAO’s rules for transactions are: (1) there must be at least one transaction, and (2) there must be at most ten transactions. With this fix the data contract enforces the same rules so users get pushback early on.

Exact changes can be seen in [this pull request](https://github.com/nounsDAO/nouns-monorepo/pull/816).

Because this change is for a side contract, which doesn’t have any access to the core nouns contracts,, we're not going through an official audit process. This change has been reviewed by solimander.

## Transaction

The transaction sets the data contract proxy implementation to be the fixed version deployed [here](https://etherscan.io/address/0x624efaba6e7df177ad8ca5bee3bd62f78b304b6e#code).

Thanks,

the verbs ⌐◨-◨

Outcome: EXECUTED
# NounSwap v1: Swap Noun 933 + 0 WETH for Noun 826 from the Nouns Treasury

## Summary
                
This proposal seeks to swap **Noun 933 + 0 WETH** for **Noun 826** from the Nouns DAO treasury.
                  
Noun 933   
![Noun 933](https://noun-api.com/beta/pfp?background=0&body=24&accessory=17&head=139&glasses=5&size=200)

Noun 826   
![Noun 826](https://noun-api.com/beta/pfp?background=0&body=10&accessory=135&head=172&glasses=3&size=200)

---

## Rationale for Swap

*This rationale is directly from the creator of the proposal*

Ive never owned/worn a  different color 

---

## This Prop was created using NounSwap.

[NounSwap](nounswap.wtf) is a tool built for the Nouns communities by [Paperclip Labs](https://paperclip.xyz/). It allows Noun owners to easily create proposals to swap their Noun for a Noun in the DAO treasury. It serves purely as a facilitation tool for proposal creation. NounSwap does not have contracts and does not take custody of any Nouns or tokens at any time.

Outcome: CANCELLED