On the night of the 16th, Skat7 & Jazz x 7capas turned Palermo into a fully-rendered nounish multiverse, glitching between IRL chaos and onchain lore-building. This wasn’t just a pre-conference get-together it was a side-quest event spawned directly from a Gnars proposal, executed in collaboration with our homies at 7capas Magazine, and tuned perfectly for the cross-pollinated ecosystem of skaters, artists, coders, and onchain culture degenerates.

The setup hit different: Nogglesrail going feral, a live band shredding harder than half the skaters, DJ cooking loops like they were deploying smart contracts, merch tables going full mempool congestion, runway fits dripping nounish energy, and a cash-for-tricks protocol that triggered real-time lore upgrades with every landed maneuver.
At some point, the spot stopped being real life and fully morphed into a physics-exploit showcase. “Gnarly” isn’t even in the same namespace.

But the real alpha?
The Argentinian local scene pulled up HEAVY.
The cash-tricks sessions were stamped by expressive, high-signal tricks everything from textbook fundamentals to borderline-illegal stunts—rewarded with fiat cash, nounish bounties (toy drops, Noggles, and assorted artifacts), and Higher tees adding wearable metadata to the night.

Moments like these illustrate why skate culture and onchain culture are more interoperable than people think. Both are open, remixable, collaborative, and driven by decentralized micro communities pushing boundaries. GNARgentina became a proof-of-work demonstration of how physical subcultures can bootstrap onchain identity, value transfer, and collective lore without sacrificing their rawness or underground integrity.

Shoutout to the mysterious nounish legend who showed up with ~30 purple Farcaster-style squaroids and dropped them like some benevolent opt-in airdrop. Also respect to every photographer and creator capturing and re-minting the night across neighboring networks because without them, the lore doesn’t propagate.

If Devconnect was the conference, this was the pre-mint.
A convergence of underground art, skate physics, community primitives, and onchain ethos
GNARgentina: where subcultures sync.

• Especial Video by 0xp: The Shredder Who Renders Reality

• Skateboard Pictures by Guil

• Sky Cast

• Lil Nouns Post

While the cash-for-tricks arena was already bending reality, Lil Nouns DAO deployed its own parallel upgrade: an IRL fashion protocol compiled directly from a successfully executed proposal. The result? A Lil Nouns Fashion Walk, stitched together through cross-DAO collaboration and powered by one of the most crucial creative forces in the nounish universe: Gnericvibes.

Flying in from Nigeria, Gnericvibes dropped a payload of handcrafted design, modular textures, and weird-beautiful nounish couture. It wasn’t just fashion—it was a high-bandwidth cultural transmission. Each piece carried the entropy, craft, and decentralized aesthetic that Lil Nouns has been encoding onchain, now rendered in fabric instead of pixels.

Developers, artists, skaters, and nounish misfits from across the ecosystem stepped into the runway flow, turning the plaza into a dynamic mixed-reality buffer zone where code culture met street culture with no friction. The walk unfolded inside the cash-for-tricks event, amplifying the environment rather than interrupting it almost like a sidechain validating the main chain in real time.

The vibe:
raw, collaborative, borderless.
Exactly what happens when onchain communities empower creators to bring their visions into the physical layer.

This wasn’t merely a fashion show. It was a demonstration of how DAOs can fund, coordinate, and activate globally distributed artists to generate multi-sensory lore that loops back into onchain identity. A confirmation that nounish culture thrives in hybrid environments half IRL, half protocol, fully community-summoned.

Lil Nouns didn’t just walk the runway.
They upgraded the plaza’s firmware.

In Palermo, a different kind of blockspace emerged, not onchain, but IRL. A Hacker House pulsing with Builder DAO, Gnars DAO, Nounspace contributors, and assorted nounish legends who drifted in and out like packets routing through an open network. This wasn’t a retreat; it was an always-on collaborative node humming with code, skateboards, and the type of energy you only get when subcultures converge with aligned incentives.

Every morning, the shredders deployed. Boards under arm, they’d roll out from the House toward Devconnect or detour to some curb, ledge, or micro-spot for a quick trick to prime the nervous system before a long talk. This hybrid routine... land a trick, deploy a contract, merge a PR, grab a coffee, repeat, became the unofficial operating system of the crew.

The house itself was the result of a Builder DAO proposal, executing its mandate exactly as intended on the Nouns Builder stack: enable communities to self-organize, create, and ship. And they shipped:
code, vibecode, artwork, skate edits, surf missions, crypto lore, and enough late-night munchies and caffeine to power a mid-sized L2.

What made the house special wasn’t just the cohabitation, it was the cross-DAO interoperability, a living example of what decentralized culture looks like when communities actually bridge instead of silo. Builder DAO’s dev squad jammed next to Gnars riders, alongside Nounspace creators drafting new primitives, all cross-pollinating like a multidimensional commit history.

And they’re not done.
In the coming days, the crew will co-host at the Nouns stand in the Green Station at Devconnect, plus roll out something special inside the Hacker House itself ... a drop, a hack, a vibe… still under wraps, but already radiating lore potential.

S/O benedictvs, silently anchoring half of this chaos.

This is how culture gets built:
one trick, one commit, one collaborative house at a time.

• Day 2 Devconnect by Willywonka

• Willdias Nollie Kickflip for Breakfast

• Skate and Build

As a subDAO of Nouns DAO, Gnars continues developing projects in parallel, pushing the Nounish spirit to its fullest and nurturing this culture.

• Onchain Creators House just wrapped Thanks to the creators and builders who showed up to share content strategies, multi platform distribution tactics, onchain experiments, and mini app developments.

• Nounish Talks

• First Day at Devconnect with Nouns Fair

• Buenos Aires is filled with Based & Nounish statues.

• Octant x Nouns World of Apps

• Chips takes a mental health break

• Nouns Fair & Meet Quack

• Nounish Soap by Nogglesboard

• Nounish Breakdancers

The African shredders pushing the level higher, both on the board and onchain.
Their presence added velocity to the sessions and injected a fresh creative signature into the nounish ecosystem, proof that the emerging global skate–onchain bridge is only getting stronger.

Athlete Monik, a standout Gnars shredder, continues her ris, reaching the Final Stop of the Dream Tour at Praia Mole, Florianópolis (Brazil), and securing 2nd place at the ‘I GREAT DAY IN THE STOKED 2025’. Another well-earned podium, strengthening the momentum of women’s surfing and adding to the growing presence of women shaping culture onchain. Proud to see a Black Brazilian woman surfer representing on the global stage.

• Kickflip in Buenos Aires by @willywonka.eth, spark yours up now!

• Gnarly back cover and special nounish feature on Devcon

• No Skateboarding

• Dave Bachinsky shredding

• Jahkay keep riping at farcaster /gnars

• Gnasym surfboard test by Zimardrp

• Gnars at ETH Floripa

• Garcia Public Goods

• Nounstacle etymology

This drop on Zora archives the first wave of chaos, creativity, and collaboration pulsing through Devconnect Argentina 2025.

Gnars on Zora serves as an onchain index of action sports creators, featuring a curated feed of their work.

Gnars leverages Zora as a tool for both creation and community, blending the raw DIY energy of the streets with the permanence of onchain culture.

At the core are Droposals community-approved works that capture the essence of our collective creativity. Once sanctioned, these pieces are minted as unique ERC-721s: one-of-a-kind cultural artifacts that serve as living proof of our spirit to shred, build, and create.

In parallel, the $GNARS token operates through Zora’s creator-coin model. Each piece of gnarly content becomes linked to an ERC-20 token, anchored back to a creator profile. This lets builders and shredders issue content-specific coins, fusing cultural and economic value directly into $GNARS while keeping the flow dynamic and collaborative.

Together, Droposals and $GNARS form a dual-layered system: rare artworks and fluid creator-coins. This framework doesn’t just fuel the Gnars treasury it equips the community with a DIY publishing tool that empowers skaters, surfers, artists, and builders to take ownership of their creations, both in the streets and onchain, ensuring momentum compounds and value stays in the hands of the culture.

See you soon with the next edition of Gnarly News, family! Let’s shred, create and make even more impact in 2025!

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