AbstractThis essay presents a design and research articulation of an inter-DAO governance and coordination framework intended for DAOs operating on the Nouns Builder Protocol (nouns.build) and the wider ecosystem of Nounish and forked DAOs. The framework combines Hyperlane’s permissionless Layer 0 cross-chain messaging with the Open Intents Framework’s declarative “intent” abstraction to enable coordination and governance actions across chains without compromising DAO sovereignty. Rather than...

AbstractThis essay presents a design and research articulation of an inter-DAO governance and coordination framework intended for DAOs operating on the Nouns Builder Protocol (nouns.build) and the wider ecosystem of Nounish and forked DAOs. The framework combines Hyperlane’s permissionless Layer 0 cross-chain messaging with the Open Intents Framework’s declarative “intent” abstraction to enable coordination and governance actions across chains without compromising DAO sovereignty. Rather than...

The Builder DAO Coining Initiative was originally proposed as an exploration into how DAOs on Nouns Builder might extend governance into culture. While Builder has always enabled communities to coordinate capital and decisions, the coining proposal asked a deeper question: what would it look like if DAOs could also coordinate creative output, ownership, and distribution onchain, without outsourcing those functions to extractive platforms? From the beginning, coining was framed less as a produ...

The Builder DAO Coining Initiative was originally proposed as an exploration into how DAOs on Nouns Builder might extend governance into culture. While Builder has always enabled communities to coordinate capital and decisions, the coining proposal asked a deeper question: what would it look like if DAOs could also coordinate creative output, ownership, and distribution onchain, without outsourcing those functions to extractive platforms? From the beginning, coining was framed less as a produ...

The DAO is dead. Long Live the DAO!The first generation of DAOs was a revelation. They proved that strangers could coordinate, govern, and build with shared treasuries and shared purpose. They showed the world what decentralized action could look like. But like any early species in a new ecosystem, they were built for an environment that no longer exists. Today, the landscape has shifted. Players have moved on. Communities fracture and reform every day. New governance experiments are appearin...

The DAO is dead. Long Live the DAO!The first generation of DAOs was a revelation. They proved that strangers could coordinate, govern, and build with shared treasuries and shared purpose. They showed the world what decentralized action could look like. But like any early species in a new ecosystem, they were built for an environment that no longer exists. Today, the landscape has shifted. Players have moved on. Communities fracture and reform every day. New governance experiments are appearin...