Submissions for the “DAOs on Base” Prop House round end today! If you are a member of qualifying DAO be sure to submit your application as soon as possible for one of these 1 ETH grants. The prizes for this round were sponsored by Base and are a perfect example of how we can go higher, together.
🔵Based & 🟡Yellow Makes 🟢Green
Speaking of Higher, The Yellow Collective is running an art contest with 50k ↑higher in prizes! Find the full details on Farcaster below.
Ripe is at it again
With some more Higher related news, Ripe has released his latest collection – a profile picture collection titled Optimists. The collection is his attempt to communicate the concept of ‘higher’ in a pfp. Read more on his Farcaster profile below or check out the collection on the secondary market at Highlight here.
Based Opepen Update
Just a quick update on the mint statistics for the Based Opepen permanently open edition by Ripe in the tweet below. These numbers are insane! You can grab one at any time at the Zora page below the tweet.
Energy is Enjoying
Energy will be distributing 1M $enjoy per week to those who share their Zora links in the /enjoyart channel. Enjoy is a new project which has taken a page from the Degen playbook and is enabling users to distribute tokens through tipping via mint comments on Zora.
PURE ENERGY
Mint this free open edition made in collaboration with Energy while you can!
Soul Searching – @lrfaanz
FREE OPEN EDITION on @ourZORA – Ending on 4/29
In Collaboration with @Energy_Onchain
100% of Protocol Rewards go to the DAO to help fund more creative initiatives
Link below 
OP Retro Grants
Are you or your DAO building on Base? Be sure to see if you qualify for OP retro grants and don’t miss your chance to apply if you do!
NOGS are LIVE
The NOGS team has deployed the Party’s LP! Keep your eyes peeled, soon you’ll be able to tip people in NOGS on Farcaster.
Woody’s “Living Room”
Woody’s latest endeavour is an audio/visual experience titled “Living Room” where he is producing songs themed around various projects.
Collect previous week’s songs at: zora.co/@supertightwoo…
The latest song from “Living Room” is now available to stream everywhere + collect using @tybasegod
Collect for 69 $TYBG
zora.co/collect/base:0…
Nouns Artist Program
Submissions for the second round of the Nouns Artist Program have just opened! The team behind the program includes several Builder DAO members. If you’re an artist head over to artistprogram.org and apply today!
.3 eth in small grants for another 20 artists 
Only need to submit a resume as an application and commit to creating cc0 artwork if selected.
More info:
ArtistProgram.org
An exploratory art program through mandated art rounds where selected artists are funded to create and mint cc0 art for Nouns. Selected artists become the voters on future rounds, creating a perpet…
BuilderBox on Unlonely
The BuilderBox show is back on Thursdays at 1:30 pm ET. Prof Werder and Toady Hawk will continue to host, the show will continue to be streamed live on Unlonely and distributed by The Noun Square!
Builder DAO Meetings
The weekly Builder Office Hours call hosted by Prof Werder is your chance to ask all of your Builder DAO and Nouns Builder questions! Register your interest in the next Office Hours call this next Tuesday, April 23rd, at 12:00pm ET in Discord here.
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 May 2nd. You can register your interest in Discord here. This past Builder monthly meeting occurred on April 18th, the agenda can be found below and the recording can be found in our Discord 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. You can also see the DAO feed directly on the nouns.build website by clicking ‘Feed’ as shown in the screenshot below!
It’s 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. Signups are FREE if you are in certain locations. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out for assistance!
Builder DAO Fun Fact
Nouns Builder was retroactively funded by Nouns DAO Proposal 167.
Protocol Stats
DAOs Launched on Builder Protocol: 228 DAOs Created (+3) [ETH, OP, Base, Zora]
Nouns Builder Deployed: 116 DAOs Deployed [ETH]
DAOs income from Auctions: 595 ETH (+6) [ETH, OP, Base]
Nouns Builder Proposals: 909 Total Proposals (+8) [ETH, OP, Base, Zora]
For regular updates, follow the Nouns Builder DAO Bot on Twitter or Farcaster.
Proposals
Passed
Built on Builder
This week’s featured DAO built on the Builder protocol is bitNouns. bitNouns are an expansion DAO based on Lil Nouns DAO, with the aim of exposing more people to Lil Nouns and in turn Nouns DAO. It provides an extremely low barrier of entry into NFTs and the Nounish ecosystem and provides users with the opportunity to learn how Nounish governance works over at Nouns101.wtf.
Website and auctions: https://www.bitnouns.wtf/
Discord: https://discord.gg/lilnouns
