I’ve used uplink for a variety of things and every experience has been great

LFG Nick & Weez!

shared my feedback with nick via dms and echo what some have mentioned, uplink feels a bit like an extension of other projects, not so much nouns. id like to see the focus be more nouns centric. that said, i see many in the community have had positive experiences w the product and tean and so i see no reason to vote against. good luck!

As someone who has worked directly with Nick & Josh on the mintboard for Based Management, I feel a more in-depth explanation of the potential would be helpful to some on the fence about this vote.

The Mintboard's intent is to provide hyperlocal content and media production with intuitive ux and generous splits built on top of protocol rewards.

Why I believe this will end up mattering for Nouns, Nounish subdaos, and those that would end up inspired by Nouns is three fold:

1. Creative context onchain is highly disorganized and having a location where the inputs can remain chaotic but the output is in one hub is massive for reducing cold start friction from would be content contributors (the people who proliferate the meme)

2. The ability to give creators protocol rewards and simultaneously send a negligible amount of the reward split to dao treasuries allows for a feedback loop that enforces 'good content → good reception → good resources' -- the mintboard tries to abstract away the reality that resources are needed, and instead allows for creativity to blossom and subconsciously pool resources over time

3. There are currently no hyperlocal destinations onchain to jam on creative context and ideas. This is a simple bulletin-board-esque initial prototype that has already shown promise with it's first dao (us at Based Management)

I would encourage those willing to imagine what having a Nouns board that routes rewards to the creator and the Nouns treasury simultaneously would look like - then think of the subdaos like lil nouns, gnars, etc -- this is an opportunity to distill signal and provide networking opportunities to people looking to engage with Nouns onchain.

Next iterations will be related to enhancing ux, allow more configurable dao engagement/rewards for participating on boards, etc

I believe this project hits the core of what public domain and being nounish means

The way this prop is written, it feels more like an extension to Zora than an extension to Nouns. I wish it explained how it interacts with Nouns more clearly.

Reading through the VWRs, it’s clear that the tooling does have good uptake from TNS and is worth funding for that reason. Just wish the proposal made that more clear from the start.

Traction is solid enough to justify this level of funding. I’m not worried about the majority of usage being TNS - almost all tools lean heavily toward a power user in the early days (including Prop House, the Nouns frontends, etc)

After talking with Nick, I think it's worth pursuing this direction and flushing out a more appealing way to get communities together through these on-chain contests.

Hey Nouns, wanted to add some last minute feedback to VWR's as many are still yet to vote. First, I agree that we need to find more tasteful ways to tie attribution back to Nouns. Given that we don't use the noggles in our logo, we've been planning a contest for a shademark that we and other nouns projects can use. We plan on putting that contest up soon and working through other ideas to make this better.

• "Would like to know more on their efforts to reach a wider audience beyond Nouns groups."

As we grow and the app becomes easier to use, the ideal place we want to be is for people to "just get it". For now, we take a "boots on the ground" approach to help communities understand the value prop. Obviously that doesn't scale, but it doesn't have to right now. It's working, and people are learning. Last night we onboarded a new community on base and they are absolutely loving it. They use it to mint their memes onchain and one of the accounts is sharing to their 80k followers. Each group we onboard contributes to the network effect. https://x.com/1CrypticPoet/status/1751764700570738816?s=20. On Friday this cast went semi-viral on farcaster as we were one of the first projects to allow minting via a frame. https://warpcast.com/nickd/0xd578811b

• "I could see myself voting for a revision of this proposal that is more focused and clear about its purpose and what it wants to achieve"

We want to build tools that bring communities onchain. We believe there is incredible value here and there are not many people doing what we are doing. Our proposal, namely the zora upgrades, will make it much easier to introduce new use cases into the mix. How can we add logic that governs more complicated entry requirements beyond simple token gating? Can we require that a user has to RT on twitter to mint? Can we require users to reach a certain number of mints before they can post again? How can we gamify the mint economy? What can happen onchain when they reach 100 mints? These are the types of things that become possible if communities have more control of the knobs, which will be made possible with our new contracts.

• "What is the benefit to Nouns?"

Internally, we take pride in micro-funding nounish creatives and supporting nouns projects that are supporting artists. With better attribution and continued growth, we will continue to drive interest back to the Nouns maindao and subcommunities. The main reason we haven't tackled many maindao specific use cases yet is because it's much easier to experiment at the grassroots level. That being said, there are tons of things we can do at the maindao level now and post prop. We're going to kick this off with the shademark contest, and we're actively planning how we can leverage some of our new features for the dao's benefit. One example of this - If $nogs solidifies itself as a nouns social token, we can potentially use our new features to gamify it's distribution through minting games. Nouns is our home, we know we can have a massively positive impact on the Nouns mission, and we're focused on doing so.

I just don't know how I feel about it. Not going to vote "No", but I won't vote "Yes" either. I'll be actively abstaining in this one.

I think this can be a good initiative and I do trust you and your team member can actually deliver. My problem with this proposal is kinda lack of focus and Nouns benefit. Not that it could not have it, but as of now, this seems something that could be more beneficial to be posted in LilNouns or to get some funding from the yellow collective.

Uplink has become a crucial part of how we manage our art contests at TNS and now The Yellow Collective, which has produced tonnes of amazing community drawn Nounish art and actually helps to archive them all as well. Recently, Nick and co have been making some changes that will allow us to achieve our goals of encouraging our community artists to mint their work for the first time on L2s via Zora, all directly from Uplink and without losing the automatic social sharing aspect that is also important.

While I agree this proposal buried some of the lead in terms of what they’ve been working on, and could have maybe been a bit clearer about future focus, I am overall in favor of letting this team cook in the important area of promoting and enabling Nounish minting culture.

The Amigos made a decision!

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FOR - 3 VOTES

0xmonografia | *"I struggled a bit deciding on this one since the current use case seems limited to only a few Nouns communities that could use Prop House or another platform. However, if Nouns communities have this need/problem it's possible others may have it too.

What makes it attractive to me is the exploration and innovation of how communities can coordinate and do things collectively onchain. Seeing that innovation expanded to a wider audience it's worth it. It makes sense for Nouns to keep pushing for innovation as it has done in the past.

My only advice would be to make it visually Nounish."*

ningunanube | "In favor of creating on-chain infrastructure for communities. Would like to know more on their efforts to reach a wider audience beyond Nouns groups. Also would like to see a nounish detail in the UI, if this is effectively used by new communities, would be cool to show it was funded by Nouns."

mczm3ro | "It was difficult for me to understand the prop and I spent a lot of time analyzing what the impact would be. However, I find the challenge of creating a development that can expand the spectrum of the rewards of Zora's 1155 contracts to the new use cases they pose interesting to me. It will be interesting to see the dynamics that each community can implement from this experiment. I hope they are successful."

AGAINST - 2 VOTES

ABSTAINS - 1 VOTES

As a user of uplink in the past as calabara and recently under the uplink title. I have enjoyed the clean user experience, the dedicated customer service from Nick, and the focused contests (socials capturable by quote tweet cc @tns) and mint-board for community (hacked together a prop house vote for builders round for lils).

I also appreciate how they did keep it focused to small groups garnering specific feedback from these small but diverse groups. build on base. base management. tns.

all those who interacted with the platform appear to be for it.

Struggled to make up my mind on this. Abstaining with similar reason to supriyo. I could see myself voting for a revision of this proposal that is more focused and clear about its purpose and what it wants to achieve.

GG, well played!

Against - Wins

FOR - 0 VOTES

AGAINST - 5 VOTES

peterpandam | "would rather put money towards something besides additional frontend developments"

samscolari | "There are a lot of interesting ideas here, but I would like more details as to what, practically, you are trying to build rather than abstract concepts."

ABSTAINS - 2 VOTES

can see my reason in nouncil, voting here too for zeroweight.eth

Great product, we used it for our last round of voting in Lil Nouns, looking forward to continuing to use it.

The Nouncil has spoken.

We discuss all Nouns proposals every week in our Discord https://discord.gg/fdjJpMeV6K. The calls are public and all are welcome!

You can find previous call recordings here: https://nouncil.notion.site/30328df718424f17a623859018497fc2?v=806b5234a2a34b619c3d5028bcd879f0&pvs=4

For - Wins

FOR - 29 VOTES

borg00000 | "I like this, briefly tested it out, there is a (small) team with clearly defined roles and a product that feels somewhat polished already despite being the bare bones. Ask is reasonable considering there are two people, and hopefully within 6 months this can grow into something more substantial and attract users if the community rallies behind it. I appreciate that it is streamed and hope that monthly updates will be made, and, if not, obviously the stream could be cancelled whereby I think the risk is worth the reward at least for a couple of months to see what happens here. I will be using this."

sqx.pcc | "i have been using it past few days. def worth exploring. runs pretty smooth."

joshuafisher | *"As a Power User of Uplink I really love using this tool and can see lots of ways to make it even better. Nick & Weez have always been great at adapting to the specific needs of contests for TNS and Based Management, even creating a new fully unique mint flow.

Would love to see this keep going and have lots of faith in the team."*

yung_algorithm | "im sorry but i think my first vote (it was my first nouncil vote) included both for and against but i meant to just vote for, i hope my reason didnt get lost, but if it did i basically said that i like adding a layer of group abstraction on top of the zora protocol rewards and excitement around that and i feel optimistic that zora will be cooperative with it as well"

AGAINST - 16 VOTES

ABSTAINS - 1 VOTES

the uplink.wtf team have built a huge number of tools that have been useful for builders on base. they are also nouns aligned. i believe we need more great nouns builders and this crew shows a ton of promise.

https://www.lilnouns.wtf/vote/nounsdao/487/votes

FOR 91 VOTES

0xae4705dC0816ee6d8a13F1C72780Ec5021915Fed | "feels nounish man"

0x2eE0485f71764bcD2062A84d9455688c581B90f8 | "As a user of this. I can see great usage and synergies / healthy competition with bound. Why Not Both."

AGAINST 535 VOTES

0x9e0e9D25a5ED9bc773f91691f0b45599255257B1 | "Expensive prop with unclear ROI. Need detailed success metrics to assess if plan is too ambitious and lacks proven impact."

ABSTAINS 57 VOTES

0xADa31Add8450CA0422983B9a3103633b78938617 | *"LIL NOUNCIL HAS SPOKEN

Delegate to Lil Nouncil here -> https://lilnouns.wtf/delegate?to=lilnouncil.eth"*

• This clearly has some traction it looks like primarily driven by TNS.

• At its core, its trying to do too many things at an early stage. Software early on should be highly opinionated and i couldn't get the vision clearly based on the proposal.

And that's why abstaining.

As the UnfliteredNoun for this month, sponsoring this proposal seemed appropriate given the core responsibility is to bring non-consensus viewpoints to the table. It helps that I like the prop.

Tricky bit of software, this one; heavy overlap with other Nouns funded projects:
Communities can permissionlessly launch their own contests, much like prop.house
They can also launch their own “mint board” with a Zora split contract, much like bound.wtf
The UI and UX flow are solid, using the platform for its intended purposes is straightforward Would be easier for the consensus if we ignored this one but then i wouldn’t be doing my job

What impresses me most is the team. Their last proposal was one year ago. For a team of 2 people to deliver an MVP in 3 months with clear deliverables  in terms of the software itself as well as usage metrics, they asked for $85k, marking the Eth to market at the time of the proposal,  40% of which was streamed via  multi-sig!

I appreciate them delivering a proposal with definitive metrics for success, rather than a “term” with vague ideas of what might be accomplished. There’s a contrast in the level of detail and clarity of deliverables  being provided between this proposal and other recent proposals that I hope is appreciated by voters at large.

While $42.5k per team member is a very modest annual salary in the United States, and the uplink team may have other income streams, rather than asking for more funding at the end of the 3 months, they doubled down with their core group of users to flesh out and iterate the features that were actually driving platform usage for another 9 months. Uplink’s analytics are no joke.

The current proposal is to bring uplink onchain via a Zora smart contract wrapper. I use ChatGPT to make HTML say “Hello World,” so i don’t really know wtf any of that means.
 The ask is $125k with a 6 month deadline for implementation. I grew up in two small, blue-collar family businesses, + ran my own before launching CIty Farmers, So I understand operations and capital flows of 7-8 figure businesses with 10s-100s of employees

For the size and capital flows of an organization like Nouns, a contractor team like uplink’s is a team to double down on. I’m a big fan of getting out of my winner’s way and providing them what they need to keep winning; it’s even better when your winners know how to stretch their resources, over deliver, and know exactly what is next before asking for further support.

 The other thing is how reasonable the ask is. Nouns has been paying fair market value for software development as if we’re a FAANG company that prints money from billions of daily ad impressions.  At the current pace, Nouns will do <$10 million in revenue this year, basically a Series B startup. We either need to get scrappier and more resourceful, or get comfortable seeing the treasury at 0



As part of my participation in the UnfilteredNoun experiment, VWRs will be minted via bound.wtf


https://zora.co/collect/base:0xc3F7EA98C83a147ACe998d6de91CB5612E5CA6fc/4?referrer=0x3E0E21C2B79224308222905a7AfEC7ba229ec1d2