# Builder is Buzzing

**Published by:** [Builder Buzz](https://paragraph.com/@builder/)
**Published on:** 2026-06-30
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Builder Buzz is back. It has been a little while since the last update, and there is plenty to catch up on across the Builder ecosystem. Between new funding experiments, ecosystem proposals, product progress, and activity from Builder-based communities, there is a lot moving again. We are excited to bring this newsletter back into a more regular rhythm and use it as a place to share what is shipping, what is forming, and what the community is up to. Stellar Community Fund Builder DAO recently submitted an application to the Stellar Community Fund to explore what Nouns Builder could look like on Stellar. The proposal focuses on bringing the core Builder model to Soroban, including no-code DAO creation, recurring auctions, treasuries, proposal voting, and modular governance contracts built for Stellar communities. The application is now in the Community Vote stage, with results expected in about a week. We are grateful to everyone who helped shape the proposal and excited by the possibility of introducing Builder to a new network of onchain communities. Artizen Fund We also launched the Nouns Builder Fund on Artizen, creating a new way for people to back the contributors, projects, and experiments forming around the protocol. The fund includes a matching pool, so individual contributions can go further and help direct resources toward work that strengthens Builder from the edges. For a protocol that is meant to be used, built upon, and stewarded by many communities, this is an important step towards broad support for our builders. Nouns Builder @nounsbuilder Calling all projects in the Nouns Builder ecosystem ⌐◨-◨ We’ve launched the Nouns Builder Fund on @Artizen to support people building on or around the protocol Read below for more info 2 4:00 PM • May 4, 2026 Devcon Devconnect Buenos Aires was a strong showing for Builder and a meaningful collaboration with Gnars DAO. What started as a shared IRL activation turned into a week of conversations, demos, hacking, community building, and exploration of how Builder can serve creative and action-oriented DAOs. Thanks to everyone who organized, attended, and helped represent the ecosystem on the ground. It was a great reminder that Builder is not just software, but infrastructure for communities that want to coordinate and make things happen. benedictvs @b3nedictvs Day 1 of @nounsbuilder & @gnars_dao at Devconnect: the other kind of 9am meeting, figuring out hacking on 3G, hunting down that coffee at the venue, and enjoying the vibes at the booth 6 2:36 PM • Nov 18, 2025 benedictvs @b3nedictvs Recap of Day 2 @nounsbuilder x @gnars_dao @ @EFDevcon - the sun is finally out in BA and we’re balancing hacking and party. Finally met @Billyjitsu from @katana to enable @willyogo to embed defi interactions into nounspace. 5 6:01 PM • Nov 19, 2025 benedictvs @b3nedictvs Belated recap of day 4 at @EFDevcon - a quiet day in the @nounsbuilder x @gnars_dao camp. @katana challenges are coming along. The evening held Nouns dinner, late night hacking, and cyberpunk vibes only. 10 12:38 AM • Nov 22, 2025 benedictvs @b3nedictvs There’s always a first. Hosted my first @nounsbuilder breakfast today together with @gnars_dao and @katana. Next time, we’ll double down on shilling in IRL. Thank you all for supporting the mission! 3 4:07 AM • Nov 22, 2025 benedictvs @b3nedictvs aaaand that’s a wrap for @gnars_dao x @nounsbuilder @ @EFDevcon. We’ll see you in Mumbai next year. 8 11:52 PM • Nov 22, 2025 Tech Pod: What We've Been (Building) Up To It's been a while. Six months of buidling, to be precise. The last time we sent a newsletter, we were wrapping up the Builder x Gnars Hacker House at Devconnect. It was a wonderful and busy week of spring Buenos Aires that turned into something bigger than a hacker house. Skate & Jazz, Builder Bagels, a Nouns Fair booth, conversations with L2 teams, founders coming together on Telegram, and real conversations about the technical future of Builder. Not bad for a week's work. What started there as an experiment in decentralised collaboration has since turned into something more permanent, setting precedent for where Builder’s technology roadmap is headed. Gnars now formally came onboard as community contributors working with the Tech Pod. Gnars x Builder: From Hacker House to Residency Following Devconnect, we reviewed the Gnars proposal, submitted it to Builder DAO on their behalf, and kicked off a contributor onboarding process. Vlad and r4to are now active contributors under the residency, with a standing Wednesday sync. Their early feedback already shaped the bid-with-comment feature that shipped in April. This week they released the work under the first milestone — a long-awaited update to the Builder DAO template site, including a no-code launcher. @Satori put the Builder DAO Launcher already to the test and you should seriously consider doing the same when spinning up a new DAO. Builder DAO Launcher one-click deploy interface: One-click DAO deployment. No terminal required. Dark Mode is here Another success story on the path to decentralised contributions has been @Satori's engagement in putting out features everyone likes, but never hit the priority threshold compared to infrastructure-related issues. Thanks to his work, Nouns Builder is now available in dark mode and has a fresh and clean about page. Updated About page in dark mode with dynamic content, DAO updates, and stats. Six Months of Shipping Here's a condensed read of what the Tech Pod has shipped since November. There's a lot. November — The Social Feed Goes Live We launched the activity feed with action buttons for global, DAO-specific, and profiles views. DAO search landed on the Explore page. Propdates were migrated to an in-house subgraph. EAS attestation support was added. The infrastructure underpinning Builder's next generation social features was built here. Builder social feed: Where governance meets social. December — Coining Strategy Locked In We settled the dual-protocol coining approach: Clanker for DAO governance coins, Zora for content coins. A standalone Playground page launched to customise artwork before putting up a proposal — one of the longest-standing community requests, finally logged and shipped. Social feed performance improved significantly. Propdates gained retroactive update support. January — Mainnet Integrations The Builder Coining Design Document v1.1 was finalised. Functional previews went live for both Zora Coining and Sablier integrations. We also revamped the Nouns Builder Dune Dashboard for up-to-date cross-chain analytics. February — Coining and Droposals to Production Coining shipped to mainnet. Droposal support moved to production, introducing a Gallery section to DAO pages. Sablier streaming was finalised — you can now stream tokens for recurring contributions and milestones. Minting and share actions were integrated directly into the feed. We judged the Nouns Builder track at ETH Denver and supported two hackathon tracks. Gnars’ Gallery page showing Droposals and Coins all in one place March — Governance Momentum Sablier airdrop proposal type support shipped. Profile customisation now allows users to reorder and hide DAOs from their profile. Proposal "on behalf of" and discussion URL fields were added. A major documentation update went live covering Coining, Droposals, Sablier, the feed, the ERC-721 Redeem Minter, and user profiles. The Farcaster Bot came back online. April — Frontend Overhaul and Contract Groundwork April was dense. On the frontend, we rolled out wallet profile previews throughout the app, favourited DAOs, extra DAO links, bid-with-comment, treasury filter toggles, unified proposal preview UX with rich transaction metadata. On the contract-level, we started upgrading the v2 mainnet. Four new protocol features entered active development: updatable proposals, proposal candidates, deterministic DAO deployments, and Safe registration under DAO treasuries. Wallet profile preview popup on the Builder app (kudos @Satori) May — Mainnet Parity Achieved ETH mainnet was brought to parity with the L2 v2.0.0 deployments. The ERC721 Redeem Minter is now live on mainnet. Dark mode shipped to production (thank you @Satori for your contributions!). A revamped About page is live. A cluster of DAO creation flow bugs were identified and resolved. A Note on Zora Network This was not an easy decision, but there has virtually been no activity on Zora Network for Nouns Builder. For this reason, we are deprecating Zora network support, effective July 15th 2026. There are currently two active DAOs on Zora. We've been in direct contact with both communities to communicate timelines and next steps. The decision reflects where the ecosystem has moved, and where we're focused. Any DAOs or communities with questions should reach out directly. What's Coming Next A few things are currently in development that are worth watching: Gnars' template site features are coming to Builder — the sleek new features developed, tested, and designed under the first milestone of their community contributions. Updatable proposals — a governance-level change letting proposers revise a proposal before it enters voting, with tracked history. Long-standing request, contract work underway. Safes as DAO sub-treasuries — register a Gnosis Safe under a DAO treasury, controllable through governance proposals. Useful for working groups, grants, and operational budgets. (Issue #931, #954) Proposal candidates — outside contributors propose scopes of work and gather DAO support before a full on-chain submission. Mirrors what Nouns has on nouns.wtf. (Issue #930) Improved profiles — Farcaster connection, activity feed filters, delegation from profile, bio and social fields. (Issue #953) Universal search — search across DAOs, profiles, proposals, and auction activity from a single bar. (Issue #952) EAS-based Creator Coin trust attestations — a governance flow for DAOs to mark their creator coin as trusted via EAS. (Issue #951) Our roadmap is open and reflected on the BuilderOSS GitHub project board: Come see what's in flight. That's six months of context. More to come — and now, more regularly. — The Builder Tech Pod Gnars Gnars @gnars_dao GNARS BOUNTIES ARE LIVE gnars.com/community/boun… A new home for clips, tricks, photos, designs, DIY builds, and community-driven creativity. Create the work. Claim the work. Get paid onchain. ↓ 18 3:09 PM • Jun 15, 2026 Gnars @gnars_dao Happy Go Skateboarding Day 07/21 14 10:47 PM • Jun 21, 2026 Nouns.eth @nounsdao Flashback Friday to Nouns appearing in @tonyhawk Pro Skater 3+4 Shoutout to @bobburnquist and @Activision 26 4:57 PM • Jun 19, 2026 Gnars @gnars_dao gm gnars, keep it gnarly. i mean, gnarly af 10 1:33 PM • May 21, 2026 Trizzytrunk.eth ⌐❀-❀ 💐🗑️🎨 @trizzytrunk Skate Jam today, filmed a couple Clips of the homie @gnars_dao 11 1:57 AM • May 24, 2026 Gami @gami_vc Gnarvatars 21 10:46 AM • May 5, 2026 ⌐◨-◨ NounWorks ⌐◨-◨ @NounWorks Let’s do more gnarly shit 15 8:41 PM • May 2, 2026 Gnars @gnars_dao the gnarly skate across Africa crew just reached their 6th country (Botswana ) in Africa, shout out to Jay, Ephraim and Isaac for making History Happen. 24 12:23 AM • Apr 7, 2026 Nouns DAO Africa NounsAfrica @nounsDAOAfrica Looking back at 2025 with a full heart ⌐◨-◨ Nouns Dao Africa's growth isn’t just counted in numbers. It lives in the voices that spoke up, the hands that built, and the people who chose to show up for something greater than themselves. Thank you to the contributors, 12 1:04 PM • Dec 31, 2025 NounsAfrica @nounsDAOAfrica Introducing the Nouns Africa IRL Education & Ecosystem Fund on @Artizen We’re supporting Africa-based, in-person initiatives across: Education Community building Public goods Onchain culture If you’re building real-world programs that onboard people, 20 9:00 AM • Jan 29, 2026 Purple https://farcaster.xyz/chriscocreated/0xed76944f Yellow Collective https://farcaster.xyz/kimmydeuk/0xc42647d8 https://farcaster.xyz/kimmydeuk/0x87fd669e Based Nouns BasedNouns.⌐◨-◨ 🛡️ @basednouns We are ready to mine some Bitcoin on Base! Multi has the hashpower in the queue and ready to go with @BasedMiningCo ⌐- 24 5:18 AM • May 22, 2026 BasedNouns.⌐◨-◨ 🛡️ @basednouns Great to be added to the OG Million Bit Homepage ⌐◨-◨ Thank you to @BitHomepage and whoever in the community got it posted up. Million @BitHomepage Welcome the legendary ⌐◨-◨ @basednouns to the million bit homepage! Plot 342 is a dark square for the DarkNOUNs. Love having legends of @base represented on the canvas. Get yours on millionbithomepage.com 7 1:00 AM • Jun 9, 2026 BasedNouns.⌐◨-◨ 🛡️ @basednouns TY @shape 4 7:23 PM • Feb 18, 2026 The Park thepark.eth @thepark vietta at the park 0 8:16 PM • May 25, 2026 thepark.eth @thepark strings and a reveal 3 7:34 PM • Jun 3, 2026 thepark.eth @thepark bay at the park 7 5:19 PM • Jun 7, 2026 thepark.eth @thepark found an artifact from 2010 in the percussion bin at @differentfur @studio_daddy 8 6:40 PM • Jun 17, 2026 thepark.eth @thepark what’re you listening to on a Friday? find your Friday open.spotify.com Happy Friday ⌐Ⓗ-Ⓕ Playlist · The Park · 155 items · 6K saves 1 5:37 PM • Jun 19, 2026 Kendama DAO https://farcaster.xyz/0xsatori/0x8e39bf41 Builder DAO Meetings The Tech Pod will continue 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 next call on June 25th, at 12:00pm in Discord. In addition to the weekly Tech office hours, the Builder Build bi-weekly call takes place on Tuesdays at 2:00pm ET - the next call is scheduled for July 7th. You can register your interest in Discord here. This past Builder monthly meeting occurred on June 23rd, 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. 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! Follow the @builderbot and receive notifications about governance activity in the DAOs you are a member of! Builder DAO Fun Fact The Builder token art is generative and uploaded within folders in a specific order to ensure proper placement. When creating your DAO art, use the sample folder to assist. Protocol Stats DAOs Created on Builder Protocol: 3,518 DAOs Created Nouns Builder Deployed: 1,311 DAOs Deployed DAOs income from Auctions: 669 ETH Nouns Builder Proposals: 2,950 Total Proposals Cumulative Unique Voters: 11,266 Voters Unique Voters (5 week moving average): 13.6 Voters Source Proposals Passed Proposal 64 - Community Resident Renewal Proposal 62 - Updated description and added links Proposal 61 - Enhance the Official Builder Template and Upstream Feature Batches Proposal 60 - Establish the Nouns Builder Fund on Artizen Proposal 59 - Tech Pod Residency Tapering to 50 Percent Proposal 57 - ETH Colorado 2026 Hackathon And Event Residency Proposal 55 - Re-upped Enable Revenue Positive Streaming Proposals Proposal 54 - CORRECTED ESCROW RELEASE Tech Pod Residency Renewal Through February 2026 Proposal 51 - Co-Hosting a Hacker House or Mini-Hackathon at Devconnect Buenos Aires 2025 Defeated Proposal 58 - Builder Nouns The Documentary Proposal 56 - Nouns Builder Events Coordinator Residency Jan Feb 2026 Proposal 53 - Enable Revenue Positive Streaming Proposals Built on Builder This week's featured DAO built on the Builder protocol is Kendama DAO! Kendama DAO aims to unite and empower kendama communities worldwide. Through the art and play of kendama, a traditional wooden game form Japan, the DAO promotes mindfulness, connection, and a growth mindset. Leveraging onchain coordination, Kendama DAO bridges the gap between traditional kendama culture and modern web3 ecosystems. Auctions: https://nouns.build/dao/base/0xd7d40e5afceabc923b70dd299206155fb330f5ff Website: http://kendama.wtf In Other Nouns OpenSea @opensea Joining OpenSea's Flagship Collection… Nouns by @nounsdao — a fully on-chain, CC0 generative art experiment that auctions one new Noun every 24 hours, forever, with 100% of proceeds flowing to The Nouns treasury. More below 193 8:25 PM • May 28, 2026 Gili Eco Trust @GiliEcoTrust The nogles @nounsdao have been in water for a month and many people enjoying them Not only the people but also the fish and of course corals @jerri_nft 21 1:37 PM • Jun 19, 2026 Gili Eco Trust @GiliEcoTrust The fish are moving in the Nogles and dancing for the Party under the sea! The ocean is saying thank you @nounsdao and @jerri_nft Happy World Ocean Day Party under the sea is happening 15 12:57 PM • Jun 8, 2026 mike good @mikegoodwtf @OppaiCyber and I have been working on an app — Originally inspired by @jackbutcher's Self Checkout Receipts It started as a physical camera with receipt printer, and has since turned into a memory engine anyone can use from their phone. Introducing Gnome.Camera 26 5:59 PM • Apr 9, 2026 gramajo.eth @0xGramajo @nounsdao now has milestone payments powered by SLOW (@z0r0zzz/@src_co_) Linear streams and upfront payments were just the start. Now builders can get paid as they ship. Been wanting this for Nouns forever. When I saw Slow, I knew I had to build it. All open source. 10 3:21 PM • Jun 11, 2026 gramajo.eth @0xGramajo Weekend Project. Introducing @nounsdao Builder Passport ⌐◨-◨ A fully onchain credentialing system built on @eas_eth × Propdates. Builders earn milestone attestations as they ship. Noun holders peer-verify. Just transparent, composable builder reputation directly from the props 8 3:11 PM • May 26, 2026 DEGUMA @Degudhadharma Proposal 930 is done! Cool NOUNS landmark in Indonesia. Thank you for your support all this time. Thank you @nounsdao #nouns 18 4:33 AM • May 18, 2026 itsai ⌐◨-◨ @itsainft FREE is officially live in the @nounsdao ⌐◨-◨ and today, for the first time ever, it appeared in the daily auction huge thanks to everyone who voted, supported and resonated with the idea behind FREE really happy to see this become part of nouns forever 18 3:55 PM • May 18, 2026 Nouns.eth @nounsdao Statement on Proposal 955 paragraph.com Statement on Proposal 955 Statement from the Nouns DAO administrators on Proposal 955 to set an auction reserve price. 72 9:05 PM • Apr 28, 2026 Nouns.eth @nounsdao Proposal 685 delivered 1,005 pairs of glasses to kids from 14kg of recycled plastic! Full article coming soon on @WelcomeToNouns Read the Propdate here: propdates.nouns.wtf/prop/685 63 7:39 PM • Apr 26, 2026 Nouns.World ⌐◨-◨ @WelcomeToNouns N◨UN C◨FFEE [@noun_irl] aninteriormag.com/warkentin-asso… 4065 Glencoe Ave, Ste 100, Marina del Rey, CA 90292 ⌐◨-◨ aninteriormag.com Warkentin Associates mixes high and low design for NOUN Alums of cult coffee brand Menotti's tapped Warkentin Associates to outfit a new day-to-night cafe with an eclectic comfort. 4 11:57 PM • Dec 29, 2025 ens.eth @ensdomains ENS isn’t only for people. Naming contracts with ENS makes DAOs safer, more legible, and easier to integrate. Love seeing @nounsdao and @enscribe_ lead the way here. Enscribe @enscribe_ So @nounsdao has given its contract ecosystem a major UX upgrade... @ensdomains names for every core contract, powered by @enscribe_ and supported by @ens_dao contract naming season! No more guessing what an address does, key contracts become human-readable and verifiable. 148 4:02 PM • Dec 11, 2025 Nouns Fair @NounsFair The Nouns Fair at Devconnect was packed with creativity, builders, and good vibes! Here’s a recap of the week: workshops, live animation, riso, custom tees, talks, and so many nounish moments ⌐◨-◨ #NounsFair @nounsdao @EFDevcon 75 5:30 PM • Dec 2, 2025 Nouns.World ⌐◨-◨ @WelcomeToNouns Somewhere in New Mexico ⌐◨-◨ 17 6:22 PM • Oct 17, 2025 Nouns.eth @nounsdao Masterplan ⌐◨-◨ Mastercard @Mastercard Can you use crypto to pay for pizza? Yes. Crypto cards let you pay just like any other card, while your digital assets power the transaction and are processed in fiat on the Mastercard Network behind the scenes. 21 3:30 PM • Mar 18, 2026 humpty @humpty0x Nouns showed up strong at ETHDenver Through the Onchain Creator Rally, 100+ people found our pop-up activations across the city. Many were discovering @nounsdao for the first time. Others were excited to see how active and alive the community is. Creators designed Noun traits. 81 2:35 PM • Feb 22, 2026 Nouns.eth @nounsdao Print a noggles shaped gravity wine bottle holder ⌐◨-◨ makerworld.com/en/models/2332… by @Fattybuthappyy makerworld.com Noggle Wine Holder - Free 3D Print Model - MakerWorld Download this free 3D print file designed by Fattybuthappy. Nouns glasses ⌐◨-◨ (noggles) shaped wine floating holder decoration 🍷AMS required. 21 6:30 PM • Feb 9, 2026 Nouns.eth @nounsdao Print your !vibe server ⌐- makerworld.com/models/2317043… by @Fattybuthappyy 41 8:31 AM • Feb 6, 2026 duckhead ⌐◨-◨ @_duckhead The first proposal passed at the prophouse was ‘box head noun’. Thanks to the active support of @punk4156 it was a fun experience. This is why the sample for this proposal includes fried horse. There are 20 hours remaining to vote on Proposal 963. ‘One noun. every day forever. ‘ duckhead ⌐◨-◨ @_duckhead Voting for Prop 963 has begun. Due to the strict application process for the Taipei Toy Festival, we secured a booth in advance last year; if this proposal is approved, we will switch to the 'nouns' booth. This is also a proposal regarding the production of 'nouns' soft vinyl 9 9:22 AM • May 3, 2026 Drew @Drewfromweb3 Start A Project With The Lils - 5/5 - FINALE This is the fifth of a 5-part series where I break down what Lil Nouns is, how it works, and why it matters Here's how you can join the Lils This series is funded by @lilnounsdao proposal #353 76 3:12 PM • Mar 6, 2026 Trav @BigTrav205 The Most Productive Party at ETHDenver? ⌐◨-◨ Lil Nouns Coffee Rave Closing Report cc: @lilnounsdao @lilnouners paragraph.com We Spent $8K on a Morning Rave. Here’s What Actually Happened. TLDRLil Nouns Coffee Rave brought ~170 people together at ETHDenver, captured 593 RSVPs, added 29 Discord members, gained 49 Instagram followers during the event window, had 47 POAP collectors, and... 34 1:36 PM • Feb 27, 2026 cardno.eth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @CardnoNFT Some pretty digital and physical collectibles on offer at the @lilnounsdao coffee event in Denver this morning. Link 16 5:07 PM • Feb 21, 2026

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