At Builder DAO, we've been staying focused on the essential work that keeps the protocol running -maintaining administration, managing contributor coordination, addressing community issues and bugs, and supporting the core technical infrastructure behind the scenes. While most of what we do isn’t flashy, it’s the foundation that enables dozens of communities to build, govern, and grow onchain with confidence. With that said, we’re excited to dig into this month’s community updates!
In this Tech Pod update, we share our progress on long-awaited features like treasury support for tokens and NFTs, clearer UX for delegations, and a major overhaul of our documentation to better serve both new users and contributors. We’ve also rolled out smoother third-party integrations (Wallet Connect proposals), bug fixes, and various UX enhancements. All thanks to your ongoing community feedback. While turnout at our last product session was low, we’ve received constructive and insightful feedback from individual community members. This led us to prioritise legacy support for Droposals and gave us insight to desired use cases for Nouns Builder today and in the future. With our first residency coming to an end and so much more features in the backlog, we are excited to share that we would like to re-run. We’re currently working on a proposal to renew our residency and are keen to get the roadmap for the next months straight.
After a low turnout at our last product session (1 person joined for ~5 minutes), we want to ensure that the next session is actually needed and desired by the community. If you intend to join us on Thursday, August 07, 2025 at 12:00 PM (EST), confirm your attendance explicitly or sign up to this Luma event https://lu.ma/4lib29q7.
Review of roadmap delivery
Feedback on updated documentation
Droposals, content gallery, Farcaster mini app
Feature requests, protocol updates, usability
Nounish template site community RFP
Hooks, utils as NPM packages
Streams and user profiles
If you have tooling not listed above, this is your opportunity to make it top of mind.
We are actively working on making hooks and utils available through an NPM package
You wished for Droposals - here they come. We welcome feedback for tailoring this functionality.
SwarthyHatter has been actively working with us and recently shared feedback from The Park DAO, join the conversation here https://criticus.notion.site/The-Park-Dao-22fe03c2c4518053816ff6074a3652d3
Our residency is coming to an end, and we would like to continue improving Nouns Builder. Watch out for our proposal and share your feedback.
Have a feature request or bug? Let us know!
Allowing users to view and send non-native assets from their DAO's treasury was a much desired features, which is now available on production and staging. If you're facing issues with the functionality, let us know!
You can now connect to and interact with third party apps as a DAO, using Wallet Connect. We also made the sending of NFTs and tokens explicit through the introduction of the respective proposal templates.
We just published a significant overhaul of the existing documentation. The documentation was regrouped into an onboarding guide for new users, a user guide, and a contributor guide. We also incorporated Satori's Knowledge Base, and added links and references to improve navigation in the Nouns Builder ecosystem. Please share your feedback and documentation requests!
In our second Community Product Session, we focused on aligning on documentation needs and prioritised the aspects that needed updating or had to be added. Read up on the full board here. For a quick overview, see the outcomes of the session below.
ERC-20s, ERC-721s, and ERC-1155s are now displayed in and can be sent from the treasury
You can now connect and make proposals for 3rd party apps using Wallet Connect Proposals
Delegations and voter data are now explicitly shown on the UI
The user experience for connected Gnosis Safes was improved by disabling DAO creation
Execution timestamps and block explorer links are shown throughout the app
All networks are now supported on staging
Performance and UX improvements through media size limitations and improved copy
Propdates can now be published for specific milestones
Major documentation update here
Stoked! My doc is gonna be screened at the Cinematheque of MAM in Rio 🇧🇷 Proud to see Gnars making moves in the global art scene. Skate keeps opening doors and building bridges 🛹🎥🌍 https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/9bd2e3f9-9d3a-4246-3814-6dc4dfcff400/original
It happened! Gratitude to the Gnars family for believing and being part of this. Thank you to everyone who voted and believed. Proposal 89 successfully completed. Photos and videos from this memorable day coming soon. ⌐◨-◨ /gnars /nouns /basednouns /base /based-br https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/ed7237f0-f7c2-4114-3690-7f7c4bcd6900/original https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/2d654978-ca78-4442-dd7f-7b8a68c13a00/original
Action Sports Onchain Culture’s 🤝 /gnars just rolled into the most iconic skate game of all time 🤘Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4, as part of Bob Burnquist’s avatar. That’s super sick. 👾 Keep it gnarly, keep it Nounish ⌐◨-◨ https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/32b8677f-04c8-4836-b3d6-167a4f5db900/original https://farcaster.xyz/benbodhi/0x7321cb54
How to support Gnars. - Collect a Gnar - Vote on proposals - Collect Droposals (the best) - Curate Gnars Flows (soon) - Add Gnars Miniapp and Turn on notifications - Make Gnars Meetings productive - Collect Gnarly Zora Coins What did I forget ? and how many of those have you done already ?
You might see things you’ve never seen before, only in the Gnarly News. Keep it nounish. ⌐◨-◨ https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/b5973f03-86cb-4176-365e-28c90ca5f600/original
Throwback to one of the first skate sessions I hosted over the past few years. This one was in Idyllwild during the second FWB FEST. The year before, FWB had raised funds to rebuild part of the skatepark, which came about because of a town flyer someone saw that was asking for money to rebuild the halfpipe. We funded the whole project in three days via crypto and the town was able to make repairs that year. This is the kinda thing that keeps me in this space. Lightning fast impact…just because we can. Shoutout to @thepark @davidtphung ⚡️ https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/999d8015-40fd-4692-8ee6-cc017155f700/original
https://zora.co/coin/base:0x7f167ab3868b4113ff98cb97099286ba5878432e?referrer=0x41cb654d1f47913acab158a8199191d160dabe4a Carving on @zora https://zora.co/coin/base:0x7f167ab3868b4113ff98cb97099286ba5878432e?referrer=0x41cb654d1f47913acab158a8199191d160dabe4a
Flying high, staying nounish. 🦅🤘 @marinioac soaring at the last Copa Rio
Stoked to be flying up to Canada to judge this weekends Jackalopefest! If your around Toronto come by it’s a free event @bobburnquist & I will be cruising around https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/2f9071ab-e3fa-450c-b1ec-c88528a4a900/original https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/9b7faf6e-708f-4c86-3a8a-f64393d15900/original
📢 NDA is Hosting a Side Event at ETH Enugu — Let’s Build This Together!✨ Hey @everyone We’re excited to announce that NDA will be hosting a side event at ETH Enugu a moment to connect, onboard new members and rep the onchain culture in style! To make this event happen, we’ve launched a community fundraiser via Farcaster! If you’ve been impacted by the work we do or want to support the movement, now’s the time. 🙌 🔗 Support here: https://crowdfund.seedclub.com/c/cmdhrocux02vrsr0tl8xn1sto 🗓 Event Info: 📍 ETH Enugu (Nigeria) 📅 Aug 15–17, 2025 🎯 NDA Side Event: IRL creative vibes, NFT showcase, artist showcase, onboarding, panel convos, and more! 🎯 Total Goal: $600 Every contribution gets us closer to making this IRL activation impactful. Let’s show up for our community, amplify the culture, and create https://crowdfund.seedclub.com/c/cmdhrocux02vrsr0tl8xn1sto
Monday evening /ndafrica community calls are happening in the Nouns DAO Africa discord : - https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/5748c564-fdca-4523-22a9-86e7a94af900/original https://discord.gg/QvuDgm9v
New Proposal to vote on: Onchain Summer Glow-Up; an initiative to support artists for onchain Summer by @toadyhawk.eth . https://nouns.build/dao/base/0x8de71d80ee2c4700bc9d4f8031a2504ca93f7088/vote/37/
Massive thank you to everyone who played today, our host @nounishprof / @gmfarcaster and sponsors @purple / @reserve Here's some clips of today's game, if you haven't played yet - join us next week for another game Congrats to todays winners who each took home $50 each
Are you listening…
Slow and Steady wins the race
Thank you to everyone who took time to nominate artists for our upcoming Yellow Spotlights series by @zerorightsmedia. We have prepared a ranked ballot vote for Yellow holders to derive a short list and your voice is needed! Please check the official Yellow Cabal group chat for instructions and the link to cast your vote. Voting closes Friday. 🫡 https://farcaster.xyz/toadyhawk.eth/0x0fa72d20
Hey Yellow fam! Just jumped into the Nouns Supporter Art Contest on @phi with a character design I had fun making — hope you dig it! https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/42eb7c5c-6857-4ee7-285d-8bb36209c500/original https://phi.box/mint/8453-173/8453-2101
Badges incoming. @basednouns 🤝 @hydrexfi
It's a great day to TBA and sweep DarkNOUNs! ⌐⬛️-⬛️ Update: 26 until 0.5 ETH fp🏴 29 until 1 ETH fp🏴 36 until 6 ETH fp🏴 1K collection. 352 holders and more than 100 off the market. https://b891d14d436694bb9a7feeba91730b95.ipfscdn.io/ipfs/QmXUng6zLkPhgnSzjutgx3ptd3EKxaN7XCKUFjkQh8Y5kd https://opensea.io/collection/darknouns-1
Seems its $BNKR week, now we have a @deployer trait on auction with the degen frosting https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/ea661b43-77e3-41df-55d4-006cfa5a0f00/original https://nouns.build/dao/base/0x4faf3113d5030ba1e3b557a1e204c85edf373373/281
COOOLD 🥵🥶 I just won a treat from the @itsai /icecream Machine! Check it out https://warpcast.com/miniapps/n8SLH5CXltOd/freezerverse https://opensea.io/assets/base/0x6c6f24d8a02e321611f8821ee8c3f2de70f53efb/223
finding it on a friday
grammy camp at studio 7 ⌐◨-◨ grammy museum and fridays at the park ORG working together all week. fun talk from patrick olguin today, happy friday https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/e5edb230-d12e-4b2f-1eb1-a04bda347f00/original
Working on the NEWSSTANDS book layouts 🗞️ feels good to play around with these printed proofs and create pairings. Im looking at a Nov 2025 release. Excited to share more of the process soon. https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/f4afbb6e-a86c-4cf6-515c-dc640ca30300/original
Office hours are at 2:00pm ET on Tuesdays. The weekly Builder Office Hours call hosted by Prof Werder is your chance to ask all of your Builder DAO and Nouns Builder questions! Prof is taking a break this month, and Office Hours will pick back up when she returns. Register your interest in the next call today, August 5th at 2:00pm ET in Discord.
The Tech Pod will also be hosting Tech Office Hours once per week on Thursdays at 12:00pm ET. If you have any tech-related questions, suggestions, or otherwise, please stop by to chat with them. You can register your interest in the event in the next call on July 31st, at 12:00pm in Discord.
In addition to the weekly office hours, the Builder bi-monthly call takes place on Thursdays at 5:00pm ET, the next call is scheduled for August 7th. You can register your interest in Discord here. This past Builder monthly meeting occurred on June 24th, the agenda is below and the recording is in our Discord here. You can also find a summary and notes from the call in the Builder DAO Notion database here.
The Builder Channel on Farcaster displays a feed of activity from members of Builder, including casts and onchain activity such as auctions, proposals, and votes.
Farcaster is a great way to keep up to date with your fellow Builders! Head to your Farcaster client of choice, such as Warpcast, and sign up today. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out for assistance!
There are 5 smart contracts for each DAO built on the Nouns Builder protocol: NFT, Auction House, Governor, Treasury and Metadata. You can see them on the Smart Contracts tab here.
DAOs Created on Builder Protocol: 3,480 DAOs Created (+1)
Nouns Builder Deployed: 1,302 DAOs Deployed
DAOs income from Auctions: 663 ETH (+1)
Nouns Builder Proposals: 1,494 Total Proposals (+25)
Cumulative Unique Voters: 9,621 Voters (+225)
Unique Voters (5 week moving average): 40.0 Voters (-6.6)
This week's featured DAO built on Builder is Nouns DAO Africa! Nouns DAO Africa is an initiative created to connect the Nouns ecosystem with Africa, bringing builders from different cultural backgrounds together to work on public goods that promote positive change across the continent. With a permissionless approach, Nouns DAO Africa encourages its members to organize, build, and fund projects that bring Nounish Public Goods to Africa. Daily NFT auctions on Base support these actions, with all proceeds going to the treasury for governance by token holders.
Website/auctions: http://www.nounsdaoafrica.wtf/
Discord: https://discord.gg/YjetBmXqz9
devs PSA: @nouns/sdk v1.0.0 now includes wagmi bindings (react + VanillaJs) for all the main contracts https://www.npmjs.com/package/@nouns/sdk
1/ OneSafe.io/web3 just set up the first known neobank account under Wyoming’s DAO-friendly DUNA structure for /nouns with help from @ethsign Now, Nouns can: ✅ Send fiat ✅ Off-ramp crypto ✅ Pay bills with a card ✅ Operate like any real-world company Here’s how it went down👇 https://OneSafe.io/web3
Remember when you arrived in a city for the first time and wanted to see if there were nounish folks around? That’s why nounspot.com is for builders too. If you register as a “people” instead of a “place” or “thing” 👇 1. You’ll only show the city, not a full address, for safety reasons 2. You’ll get a “get in touch” button instead of “get directions,” so you can say hi 3. You’ll appear green on the map Add the Mini App and put yourself on the map! https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/72dd9113-555b-49c5-a5c2-3da7da083a00/original https://nounspot.com
@benbodhi keeps on going 🤘 Awesome news! “Benbodhi: Decoded” is now part of Film3 Festival 2025’s official selection. The festival will be in San Francisco, Sunday, August 24th, during the last day of the Onchain Summit. https://www.film3fest.xyz/#abou https://www.onchainsummit.io/ https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/6897e720-2a4c-4f27-100f-3c8c74373000/original
Big update for Quack and Lola today! https://meetquack.com/ai Read all about the why behind this big day in the post from @atrium below and don’t forgot to follow @meetquack Sending out some $tipn to the best creations people post here https://farcaster.xyz/atrium/0xc8a66ac8 https://meetquack.com/ai
the biggest exchange in the world is celebrating their birthday at the coolest crypto hub in the world probably nothing https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/ddd6c475-bc4b-4856-b2d5-53605f874d00/original https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/fe5d8349-2183-4e2f-5c58-a2a5b1214000/original
Nouns made an appearance in the movie M3GAN 2.0, not sure why but we'll take it ⌐◨-◨ h/t to @ohantheman for spotting
Rock ⌐◨-◨ on your hoodie strings with this CC0 3d printing file https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/e370fd76-4d65-427b-823a-1f3643a8ce00/original https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/38c1bcd5-0898-4bce-6861-8f32bf159500/original https://makerworld.com/models/1615744
From New York to Platohedro . My mother-in-law has brought me these gifts that @bigshotklim had sent and that were waiting in New York. https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/3e8b8ab2-32d7-4320-b3f4-ace949561400/original
$Nouns should become a creator coin on Zora. We vote on what to mint. But everything is paired against $nouns @jacob
I made mistakes last year, but I didn’t expect sending those nogs to the treasury would have been one of them. That allocation has been implicity voted through prop 711 and a few months ago, after the stop of our stream, I have been publicly asked from the proposer to put that allocation in the treasury. My plan for those nogs was still the same of what was in our prop and I would have put them in the treasury and double them anyway, but it’s quite ironic that they’ve been taken by the same person who wanted them there. But I accept it. Btw, we are going through this and nogs will succeed. We accept this outcome and we will use it to truly restart from the foundations. 2 days ago I got a long dm from the proposer which I really appreciated and I’m confident that in 6 months, maybe even a year, we will all look back at this period like something necessary to reach the success nogs and our nounish products are going to have. Thanks everyone. ⌐◨-◨
I spy ⌐◨-◨ https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/62e84a8b-380f-4bc7-9716-29ffddace900/original
Happy Wednesday Nouners 🐈 Our Mini-Shelters are still going strong—providing food, warmth, and safety to stray cats across Asia. https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/07c168bc-53eb-4715-ce9b-5d1c164ae700/original https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/536c974d-4eeb-4559-6bec-2cff3c684700/original
⌐◨-◨ Sight the pov of putting noggles on https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/fa009fb5-bcfd-4f44-7758-c75bd5c6d000/original https://manifold.xyz/@fattybuthappyeth/id/4182515952
Me and @jessyjeanne are going to drop a cool song. ⌐◨-◨ 20th July exclusive on @audius 20th August on all platforms It's called "Burger and Fries" the perfect combo for this summer. 🍔🍟 Produced by Lvcky Kid from @xpeedcorp You can use the Audio on Tiktok and Instagram 🎵
📰Here’s what @lilnouns is doing in Esports this July! i) Lil Nouns' Dota 2 team is competing at NADCL Season 9. https://liquipedia.net/dota2/North_American_Dota_Challengers_League/Season_9 ii) Lil Nouns continues to host weekly Dota2 tournaments for women in Asia and Oceania. https://x.com/ChompixGaming/status/1924728318428921941 https://www.dotabuff.com/esports/leagues/16387 iii) Lil Nouns is backing Project Flippi, a Smash Melee machine that captures epic combos and auto-uploads them to YouTube. Flippi also rewards players with USDC for their standout clips. https://www.youtube.com/@ProjectFlippi iv) Lil Nouns is sponsoring a content creator to head to Japan as a reporter for the Nounsvitational. https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/25d20b9e-80a4-4c82-3656-f63da61e3700/original https://nouns.gg/c/lilnouns/rounds/lilnouns-japan
Smashers are pitching their proposals for the Nounsvitational round in our weekly community call ⌐◨-◨ https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/d842f887-0722-4f25-d0bc-05c7bc6dc700/original https://nouns.gg/discord https://nouns.gg/c/nouns-gg/rounds/japan-round-1
Concrete Gnome head trait that covers all traits besides the Noggles and background color? cc @tmfa https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/6fbdb1b1-2c92-4ddb-a75d-f901911cbe00/original https://farcaster.xyz/noundry/0x779cebe0
Throwback Thursday https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/baf4b789-cea1-4be6-6592-86e457a4fd00/original
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