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Full Speed Ahead

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!

Builder Tech Pod 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.

What to watch out for

  • 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!

Introduction of Tokens and NFTs for the treasury

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!

Tokens Shown

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Tokens shown in the Based DAO treasury

NFTs shown

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NFTs shown in the Based DAO treasury

New Proposal Types

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.

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New Proposal Templates

Documentation Overhaul

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!

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Overview of Updated Documentation

Community Product Prioritization Session

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.

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Outcome of the 2nd Nouns Builder Community Product Session

Changelog

  • 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


Gnars

Nouns DAO Africa

Purple

Yellow Collective

Based Nouns

Freezerverse

The Park


Builder DAO Meetings

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.

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Builder Channel on Farcaster

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!

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Builder DAO Fun Fact

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.

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Protocol Stats

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)

Source


Proposals

Active

Passed

Cancelled


Built on Builder

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.

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