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Lil Nouns Weekly Newsletter #31

January 8, 2023 by Lil Nouns Weekly Filed Under: Lil Nouns

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gm, y’all!

The start of the new year is a good time to reflect on the past year—what went well, what didn’t, and what can be improved (aside from Alameda’s backdoor).

I thought this would be a good time to highlight a bunch of the amazing accomplishments and Lil builders from last year, since the launch of Lil Nouns in May of 2022 (feels like it’s been 8 years, not 8 months, doesn’t it?).

But first, I want to thank each one of you who reads this every week. We now have 250 subscribers, continuing to grow week-over-week, and still maintaining an open rate above 50%. What’s most exciting: this was 100% done through organic growth. And we have some upcoming plans to increase this growth trajectory. 👀

Here’s what we cover in this week’s post:

→ 2022 Highlights!

1/ On-chain Proposals
2/ Lil Funding
3/ Prop House
4/ Nouns Acquired
5/ Other Projects
6/ The Lil Nouns Vision: Graduating Builders

→ Props finished + 2 new Props

→ Prop House: Marketing Round

Alright, let’s dive in.


→ 2022 Highlights!

It’s easy to get caught up in the small optimizations within the DAO (and yes, there are plenty to make). But it’s important to occasionally zoom out and appreciate all the incredible progress we’ve made since the launch of Lil Nouns! Thank you to every builder who has been along for the journey so far, can’t wait to see what the future holds.

7,189 Lil Nouns have been minted, generating over 2,000 ETH in treasury, of which we’ve deployed 1,600+ to fund builders.

There’s SO much to cover, so let’s hop down memory lane…

1/ On-chain Proposals

49 Proposals were passed on-chain, giving out 1,695 ETH to builders.

→ Explore each Proposal in detail (including defeated props)

Here are some highlights:

  • Funding Prop House, Lil Grants and Data/Content Pods

  • Residency for the legend, LilAl409

  • 3,000 Water Purification Educational Kits & Workshops for Students for 20 ETH

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  • Seed Liquidity for Lil Nouns on NFTX

  • Started the Lil Sisters Fund with 38 ETH to support women and non-binary builders

  • Lil Nouns Mini Basketball Production Run

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  • We set a reserve price of .15 ETH

  • Prop Lot v.2: a token-weighted bulletin board for ideas, as an experimental approach to activating members, by giving them a place to post ideas and receive feedback in the form of up/down votes from other members.

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  • We funded the revamp of our onboarding experience with Nouns101.wtf – An Onboarding Experience

  • lilsandbox.wtf was created to test out an innovative VRGDA minting mechanism for Lil Nouns

  • Lil Nouns Show (go follow them on Twitter and join their weekly Spaces) and The Weekly Newsletter (that’s this! 👋)

  • Public infrastructure by Wiz with: Federation

  • And at the end of 2022, we renewed LilAl409. We brought Dot on as our Resident Engineer. And we brought Brook on as our DAO Operator.

2/ Lil Funding

There was 55 ETH and 29 Lil Nouns given out via Lil Funding in 2022.

Fun fact (I had totally forgotten) – I was the first one to be funded with Lil Funding—for the Newsletter!

→ Here is the entire list of 80 builders who have been funded by Lil Funding!

Some of the notable projects funded:

  • Lil Nouns Glasses AR on IG

  • Lil Nouns Blinker Animations

  • Trait Hover on Lilnouns.wtf

  • LilNounsMetrics.com by Data Pod

  • Meet the Lil Nouners Podcast

  • Lil Sidenouns GIFs

  • Sea Launch Dune Dashboard Updates

  • Upvote Interface Design

  • Lil Goblins

  • Twitter Auction Notification Bot

  • Lil Splats

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    splats.eth ⌐ⓝ°ⓒ @splats_wtf
    Enjoy making this LilSplats!

    Really digging the @lilnounsdao designs

    9:09 PM ∙ Jun 13, 2022


    24Likes5Retweets

  • Lil Nouns Trait Finder

  • Lil Nouns Center

  • Lil Nouns Merch

  • Nounsonchain

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    victor solomon @victorsolomon
    💫✨ @nounsonchain
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    3:51 PM ∙ Jan 8, 2023


    36Likes3Retweets

  • Greta Gremplin stickers

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    Greta mother of mash-ups.⌐◨-◨ @Greta_gremplin
    Won the Best Lil Derivative or Art on the Lil Golden Globes Awards. Just want to thank @7x7x7eth @lilnouners @lilnounsdao and all the people that voted on my work for lilnoun stickers/gifs. Thank you!
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    11:44 PM ∙ Aug 9, 2022


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  • PropLot v.1

  • Governance Research Report → DAOresearch.wtf

  • Twitter Spaces with Toady

  • LilBlockParty

  • Music video by Arash

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    Lil Nouners ⌐◨-◨ @lilnouners
    New release by @ArashSlacker ⌐◨-◨ powered by @lilnounsdao

    9:33 AM ∙ Dec 15, 2022


    16Likes7Retweets

  • Motion tracking suit to improve character animations, for MotionDesign

  • The Lil Nouns Show

  • Retro comp to: Brook, Mfrs, Solomon, SQ, Baba, Bk, Al, Dot, and Lil Pizza

3/ Prop House

There have been 11 Prop House rounds with 110 ETH given out to over 100 builders.

→ Explore each Prop House round in detail

Here are some highlights from Prop House-funded projects:

  • Animate Lil Nouns

  • Lil Nouns Coffee

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    drew coffman 𝕚𝕤 𝕠𝕟𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕖 🟢 @drewcoffman
    lil noun meetup at @Menottis ☕️
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    9:37 PM ∙ Jul 2, 2022


    53Likes5Retweets

  • Lil Nouns Asset Library / Tutorial

  • 3D Animated gang

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    CoralOrca.eth ⌐◨-◨ @coralorca
    📽️Thanks to @nounsprophouse + @lilnounsdao🥳

    11:57 AM ∙ Jul 27, 2022


    103Likes19Retweets

  • 100 Nounish hoodies for homeless people

  • Lil Noun Pet – a virtual pet app for iOS

  • 3D animated video

    Twitter avatar for @lilnounsdao

    Lil Nouns ⌐◨-◨ @lilnounsdao
    Lil Nouns prop.house winner @psychdre just dropped an awesome new 3D Lil Nouns animated video.
    Very Lil ⌐◨-◨ish!

    9:54 PM ∙ Jul 22, 2022


    105Likes34Retweets

  • Lil Nouns Metaverse Museum

  • Auction Tracker Chrome extension

  • Nounify Children’s Hearts

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    necfas @necfas
    proliferating ⌐◧-◧ while helping society has to be one of the most satisfactory events I’ve ever had in my life.

    this is just the beginning.

    @mucholovedr

    * ⌐◧-◧ are used to protect the children’s identity

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    2:46 AM ∙ Aug 27, 2022


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  • Lil Nouns cc0 music library

  • A Lil Help From The Skies – By Lil Nouns ⌐◨-◨

    Delivering goods an orphanage in the Dominican Republic
  • Lil Nounisouri in OM

  • Nounified skatepark in Rio

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    nounish ⌐◨-◨ @nounish
    As part of a proposal funded by @lilnounsdao Prop House:

    This old skatepark in Rio was renovated & nounified today by @urielcalomeni, @w3degenerate and friends! ⌐◨-◨

    @nounsprophouse @NounsInRio @nounsbrasil

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    9:34 PM ∙ Aug 27, 2022


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  • Wakeboarding proliferation

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  • Lil Nouns resin toys

  • Perpetual POAP Program

  • 1 Million views on TikTok – find the stickers ⌐◨-◨

  • Care packages for the unhoused in PDX

    Twitter avatar for @lilpizza_eth

    lilpizza.eth @lilpizza_eth
    Swept the backpack floor at GoodWill today. What other floors should I sweep?
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    10:56 PM ∙ Dec 17, 2022


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  • Tool for ROI/ROA measurement

4/ Other Projects

  • Lil Sisters funded → 38 ETH

  • Content Pod funded → 11 ETH

  • Data Pod funded → 15 ETH

  • Lil Reps was started

  • The Inaugural Lil Golden Globe Awards took place

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5/ 15 Nouns Acquired

I remember the excitement and buzz when we acquired our first Noun. Fast-forward to today and we have 15 Nouns in our Treasury. That’s some serious firepower.

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lil dot ⌐◨-◨ @0xSVG
.@lilnounsdao stacking ⌐◨-◨

4:08 PM ∙ Dec 20, 2022


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The last 5 Props on Nouns have had an average of around 225 Votes. So 15 Nouns give us 7% weight in any given Nouns vote.

Lils are coming out of 2022 with the ability to have a big impact.

6/ The Lil Nouns Vision: Graduating Builders

It’s been fun to see folks like Victor Solomon pass a Prop on-chain at Nouns. He started in Lil Nouns with a couple of projects.

A big focus for Lil Nouns in 2023 is graduating builders up from Lil Nouns, helping refine their idea, and supporting them as they go on-chain at Nouns, using our 15 Nouns to vote.

It’ll be fun to see this unfold. If this sounds exciting to you, we’d love to have you come build with us this year! The best first step is to join our Discord (it’s not token-gated).


Let’s quickly recap everything else that happened last week, and we’ll be back to the deeper weekly dives next Sunday.

→ 2 Props finished + 2 new Props

Last week, we had two Props finish and two new Props put on-chain.

Proposal 91 [Active]

Unique IRL Proliferation at 420 Tasty Trivia Events

6.9 ETH to sponsor and brand 420 Tasty Trivia Events as Lil Nounish

Proposal 90 [Defeated]

Extend Nouns Acquisition Commitee Mandate (60 ETH)

Proposal 89 [Succeeded]

Community-Scripted Lil Nouns Video

Proposal 88 [Succeeded]

Retro Prop House

→ Prop House: Marketing Round

Marketing Round
.80 ETH × 3

Ideas that get us exposure are what this round is about! Hit us with your best marketing ideas that you can crush this month! You have 1 Week to think up a potential campaign that will run for the following 1 month after voting ends. Sponsorship to run each campaign will be .8 ETH. Podcast? Meme a day? Newsletter? Spaces? SEO? TikTok? YouTube Shorts? IDK . You do YOU marketers, proliferatooors, and memeooors!

The deadline to submit is tomorrow (Jan 9th)! So get your ideas submitted ASAP!


We will be back to our regularly scheduled posts next Sunday. But I hope you enjoyed this mega post highlighting 2022 within Lil Nouns.


Thank you for reading until the very end. As a token of my appreciation, I am doing a secret giveaway—the first three readers to reply back to this email with their ENS will be sent a Nouniversary 0.

See you next Sunday,
Lil Saturn

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