Voting Due for Nouns Prop House – Private Voting Research Sprint

Calling all ZK/cryptography researchers to research solutions to private voting for Nouns DAO and beyond!

3 teams, 3 months, 70K USDC grant per team.

Each team will submit their designs, with their analysis of limitations / benefits, and a working proof-of-concept of their favorite design. Everything will be open source.

To win, your proposal needs to be in the top three, and receive at least 300 votes. Top proposals with under 300 votes will not receive funding.

Step by step:
1. [1 month] Apply, and elaborate on:
– Team members and their background.
– What you’ve done together as a team.
– The broad direction(s) you’re planning to research.
– Your contact information; some teams might be approached by select DAO members to gather more information ahead of the vote.
2. [2 weeks] Nouners vote.
3. [3 months] Top 3 proposals with more than 300 votes get funded and start their 3-month research & design sprint.
5. Share your work with Nouns and the world.

Serious about applying?

Please read the full spec doc. Reach out on Discord, we want to help you with your proposals.

Please apply or spread the word to your researcher friends. We’re very excited for the outcome of this research sprint.

This round is contingent on Nouns DAO voting to fund it (on-chain proposal coming soon).