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A DAO community funds innovative public goods projects using decentralized governance, ensuring operational expenses are covered independently so all treasury funds directly support experiments.

Public Nouns (https://publicnouns.wtf/) funds experiments in public goods.

The Public Nouns DAO community "lives" on the edges of the normal distribution bell curve allowing it to fund projects and ideas that might otherwise be passed over by most organizations.

Public Nouns DAO uses onchain decentralized governance to coordinate around which ideas to fund.

Borrowing from the Charity:Water model, Public Nouns has a goal to fund any operational expenses separate from the funds that go into the Public Nouns DAO treasury.

By supporting Public Nouns Operations ("pnOps"), you help allow 100% of funds that go into the Public Nouns DAO treasury via sales of Public Nouns to be used to funds experiments in Public Goods.

Public Nouns launched at the end of September 2022, and has raised over 200 ETH in its sales of Public Nouns.

Docs: https://docs.publicnouns.wtf/

Manifesto: https://docs.publicnouns.wtf/manifesto

Funding Operations: The Public Nouns Operations will be funded out of 'pnOps' multisig.

Funding can be used for things like:

  • Kickstarting some early experimentation
  • Bots set-up and operation
  • Spreading awareness through promotion, events, marketing and more
  • Retroactive rewards to contributors
  • Governance gas refunds
  • Hosting and ongoing maintenance
  • and more

The founding orgs of Public Nouns (and original 7 heads) are:

  • MolochDAO (attr: Demon)
  • MetaCartel (attr: Chili)
  • Gitcoin (attr: Bothead)
  • Panvala (attr: Stampee)
  • Radicle (attr: Seedling)
  • CLR.FUND (attr: Bubbles)
  • Optimism (attr: OPossum)

Public Nouns Operations History

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