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Gnars are a new way to fund extreme athletes

We prefer a world where kids aren’t sold energy drinks by their heroes. So as a community of action sports enthusiasts, we’ve formed a DAO to rethink how extreme athletes get sponsored.

Gnars are NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain

Based on Nouns open source and CC0 artwork, they’re stored fully on-chain with no external dependencies. Each one gets you a DAO vote and memberships are available at auction, forever.

Gnars are dedicated to supporting the artistry of extreme athletes

News and Updates

That’s Gnarly Continues to Deliver

We’ve got a couple updates to That’s Gnarly this week. Most importantly, the introduction of user submitted initiatives! Do you have an organization, charity, or other initiative you’d like to support with portions of your revenue as a creator on the platform? Well now anyone can submit an organization to be included as an option for creators to send a percentage of their revenue to. In addition to initiatives, there have been overhauls to the creator and visionary profile pages. Head over to your profile and check it out!

That’s Gnarly @thatsgnar_ly

Introducing Initiatives 🫂

Every time you mint a clip:

50% goes to athletes.
50% goes to an extreme sports initiative.

Initiatives give athletes the means to uplift their communities.

Here’s how it works. ↓

GnARs Going Global?

Remember those giant skateable noggles? Imagine something like that but anywhere, anytime, all powered by augmented reality on your phone. Sounds pretty cool right? Read more about the idea in the thread below. What kind of objects would you make nounish? Pop in the discord and drop some ideas!

Gnars @gnars_dao

New @nounsdao proposal idea from our nouns-obsessed founder, @0xigami 🛹

GnARs – an AR enabled, global expression session, across social media, where nouns become the terrain as a condition of entry.

$69k prize pool, awesome AR filters, and all submissions via @thatsgnar_ly 🤘

NFT Fest Throwback

A recording of the panel discussion with a bunch of amazingly nounish people including Gami and Benbodhi has been published for those of us who couldn’t make it to NFT Fest. Check it out on YouTube below.

Gnarving Coming Soon

Here’s your weekly reminder that the gnarving is sneaking up on us and will be here in no time! The gnarving is when the duration of each auction doubles, and this time the auction duration is going to increase from 40 to 80 minutes. At the time of this writing, there are 168 auctions left. And don’t forget, the next gnarving will also mark the beginning of auction extensions and the end of sniping! Interested in learning more about how our auctions work? Head over to onboard.wtf.

Proposals

Upcoming

We have lots of exciting proposal ideas constantly in the works. Please take a look and give feedback in the discord forum!

Active

That’s Gnarly Gas Costs + Gas refund for Gami & Rocketman + Gnarly Trivia Prizes
- This proposal is requesting 1.7 ETH to cover Thats Gnarly gas fees for 1 month moving forward, refund Gami + Rocketman for gas costs they have incurred for past drops, and fill the Gnarly Trivia Prize Pool for the next month.
- Discord Thread | Proposal

Passed

Sponsor Rickyday Surftrip in Indonesia to make Gnars Surf Content
- This proposal is seeking funding for the production of content and management of meetups as Ricky travels Indonesia. He’ll be visiting three different islands and proliferating Gnars to the surfers he meets along the way, and hiring a filmmaker to produce content for him.
- Discord Thread | Proposal

Small funding for Gnars Jam Session Retweet Pickers
- This proposal is requesting to reimburse The Noun Square for the past 10 retweet picker prizes on the Gnars Jam Sessions, and to fund the next 10 weeks prizes as well.
- Proposal
Onboarding Elisa Eisenlohr (Paraglider) into Gnars Community
- This proposal is requesting 1 Gnar to onboard paraglider Elisa Eisenlohr into the Gnars community.
- Discord Thread | Proposal

Gnars NFT’s for ETHDenver
- This proposal is to distribute the Gnars NFTs for the ETHDenver event. This was already approved in a previous proposal, but the transaction was not included. Therefore this is just to distribute the NFTs as previously approved.
- Discord Thread | Proposal

Community Highlights

Bob Burnquist’s Debut on That’s Gnarly

The legend himself has submitted his first clip to That’s Gnarly. Check it out here and show some support! Not only has he posted his first clip, his organization Instituto Skate Cuida is now available as an initiative for creators to support.

Quest for Stoken Testing

Play the game and earn prizes! Check out the full article here.

ETHDenver Event

ETHDenver is coming up at the end of the month. If you’re going to be in Denver for the event, be sure to get in touch with Pin Pusher and Vlad. The event details can be found in the poster below.

Gnars Jam Sessions Podcast

Be sure to tune in every Thursday night at 9:00pm EST to catch the Jam Session live in action! Don’t stress if you can’t make it, all episodes will be published as a podcast for you to stream at your convenience.

Daily Drop at Gnar O’Clock!

Every day on That’s Gnarly a new open edition drops at Gnar O’ Clock (9:30pm EST / 2:30am UTC) during a live show on The Noun Square!

SkateHive and the Gnars Shredding Report

Check out the latest Gnars Shredding Report published on SkateHive! If you haven’t yet, be sure to check out SkateHive and SurfHive, where you can publish content and get paid for it!