# Withdraw and Pause
Given the bad actors in the ecosystem trying to drain dormant DAO treasuries, we have decided to withdraw the funds from the treasury back to the team wallet and pause the auctions until further notice.
Big supporter of Farcaster, but this proposal is not a good fit for Builder DAO - I would encourage Chris and Bill to submit this proposal to Nouns DAO or Purple DAO where it might be a better fit.
The "State of the Prop House" call was very helpful for gaining insight into the future of Prop House and where the team is taking it. It would be a good practice for us to have more open calls like this at the DAO.
imho this prop feels directionally correct, but could have benefited from some additional refinement. Some suggestions include leaning into existing infra at the DAO like the Nounish Builders Discord and targeting talent outreach to areas the DAO is focused on, e.g. AI and front-end clients. Looking forward to greeting the new builders to the community!
I struggled with this prop. While I love the team, I don't believe this effort will lead to an optimal outcome for the DAO. Given my recent posts on scaling small grants, I believe Prop 175 takes us in the opposite direction.
- Inefficient capital allocation
The prop asks for 65Ξ to allocate 10Ξ, a ~90% admin overhead.
- Non-scalable approach
The approach appears to revolve around "consulting" services that are very manually intensive and do not scale, unless we want to employ a small army of consultants at the DAO like a Deloitte, Ernst & Young, PwC, KPMG, etc.
- Unnecessary creation of static website tools
We should lean into automated tools like Prop House or AddressBoard. Information repositories already exist in the form of Nouns Center, which is already linked to from the main Nouns website.
- Unclear outcomes or measurements of success
How is success being measured here? What benchmarks would need to be hit so we can decide if we want to fund an effort like this again (or clone it in other areas)?
I encourage the team to discuss this with the builder community and come back with a prop that addresses the broader concerns raised on their efforts.
You can read more on the reasons here:
https://discourse.nouns.wtf/t/on-scaling-small-grants-at-nouns/3080
Love the visuals, but unclear on how we're measuring impact or results on this effort. I'd like to see us as a DAO be more data driven in our OTG/IRL efforts so we can consistently execute on memorable Nounish events.
Maty's work is key to bringing accountability and transparency to Nouns. It will also help move the DAO in a more data-driven direction as the data from his efforts can be fed into other governance clients in the ecosystem. Nouns ❤️ Maty.
We are big fans of Builder and Zora, but we would love to see some traction first or more details on how they would deploy the capital (criteria, vetting, etc). We would encourage the team to provide more details and/or lower their initial ask with the intention to return for a larger ask once there is demonstrable traction in the market.
Although we have reservations on how we're tracking success on this prop (and any IRL prop in general), we're excited to support Stoopid Buddy and Nouns IRL efforts. Going forward, we would like to see more data driven elements such as QR codes or other traditional IRL tools used to measure results. Nothing measured is nothing gained.