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> Voting for index, he's worked tirelessly on nouns for years with limited funding requests.
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> His contribution is far greater than the request of this proposal.
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> Hopefully, this keeps Index motivated to continue to develop additional project and do the thankless work he does for the Dao.
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> Thanks for everything
Hey everyone - quick update on uplink.
We've completed the frontend migration work to bring uplink 100% onchain via our new protocol. This was a slower process than expected because we needed to ensure backwards compatibility with v1/offchain features that people were still actively using. With the technical heavy lifting and frontend annoyances mostly off our plate, we're excited to get back into the rhythm of rapid iteration, new features, and small improvements everyday.
The funding window / stream has completed but we're still working very hard on the platform and plan to release a bunch of new stuff over the coming months. I'll leave the status as "in-progress" unless advised otherwise.
I plan on following this with a more detailed update that includes the line-item deliverables and detailed usage stats that incorporates all the data we have as soon as I can put it all together. In the meantime, check out the [noun o clock mintboard](https://uplink.wtf/noc/mintboard/0x529b363f7012e0992ba9ab0a6e0c7d3cdc5b0083-8453) for some awesome noun-of-the-day artwork.
We look forward to seeing all the nouns-towners in LA!
Thanks,
Uplink team
## Uplink update:
We've just begun the audit for our new protocol and hope to have it complete by the end of next week. In the meantime, we're putting together a subgraph, js sdk, and refactoring various parts of our UI. Our goal is to integrate all these new components for a launch in mid June.
More soon,
~ uplink team
uplink update
going well:
We've found some version of PMF amongst new base projects, some more successful than others. We've onboarded a total of 260 spaces (organizations / projects) since our prop, including a handful of new & existing nouns-eco projects. We've begun work on our new set of contracts as planned in prop 487 and hope to complete them shortly. A small but successful web2 physical goods company has reached out to us and expressed interest in working with the nouns brand - more on this very soon.
challenges:
The biggest challenge at the moment is the dance of balancing
1) support for the platform as it exists today and needs of users
while
2) developing and planning the new technology that encapsulates our vision for the future of our product
lessons learned:
while there are certainly many incremental improvements that can be made today to enhance and extend the platform as it exists now, we have our sights set on building out our new protocol first. We're aware that this might be an unpopular take in startup land, and could be interpreted as "ignoring our users", but we trust that the key learnings gained through building this product has put us in a position to make this decision with high conviction. More soon.
- uplink team
Coming up for air to post our first update on prop 487!
In our prop, we cited about 20k pageviews and 2k visitors / month. Between interest generated from the proposal process and support from influential builders in the community, we've hit those figures in the last 7 days and are on pace to 4x those stats this month.
Given the rapid influx of new users, our focus in the past week has been overall system health and performance - basically keeping the ship afloat. We plan on spending the next few days doing more of this "housekeeping" work before directing our attention to the new stuff.
In addition, we've released 2 small new features based on user feedback.
1. Admin moderation. While not a permanent solution, this is great for us right now as it allows admins to moderate their spaces without our intervention and keep community spaces clean and relevant.
2. Onchain stats. Each space now has their own view of onchain statistics like generated rewards, total mints / creations, and top contributors.
That's all for now! We'll continue to post updates here and on farcaster. Check out our new [channel](https://warpcast.com/~/channel/uplink) for real time updates!
Hey Nouns, wanted to add some last minute feedback to VWR's as many are still yet to vote. First, I agree that we need to find more tasteful ways to tie attribution back to Nouns. Given that we don't use the noggles in our logo, we've been planning a contest for a shademark that we and other nouns projects can use. We plan on putting that contest up soon and working through other ideas to make this better.
- "Would like to know more on their efforts to reach a wider audience beyond Nouns groups."
As we grow and the app becomes easier to use, the ideal place we want to be is for people to "just get it". For now, we take a "boots on the ground" approach to help communities understand the value prop. Obviously that doesn't scale, but it doesn't have to right now. It's working, and people are learning. Last night we onboarded a new community on base and they are absolutely loving it. They use it to mint their memes onchain and one of the accounts is sharing to their 80k followers. Each group we onboard contributes to the network effect. https://x.com/1CrypticPoet/status/1751764700570738816?s=20. On Friday this cast went semi-viral on farcaster as we were one of the first projects to allow minting via a frame. https://warpcast.com/nickd/0xd578811b
- "I could see myself voting for a revision of this proposal that is more focused and clear about its purpose and what it wants to achieve"
We want to build tools that bring communities onchain. We believe there is incredible value here and there are not many people doing what we are doing. Our proposal, namely the zora upgrades, will make it much easier to introduce new use cases into the mix. How can we add logic that governs more complicated entry requirements beyond simple token gating? Can we require that a user has to RT on twitter to mint? Can we require users to reach a certain number of mints before they can post again? How can we gamify the mint economy? What can happen onchain when they reach 100 mints? These are the types of things that become possible if communities have more control of the knobs, which will be made possible with our new contracts.
- "What is the benefit to Nouns?"
Internally, we take pride in micro-funding nounish creatives and supporting nouns projects that are supporting artists. With better attribution and continued growth, we will continue to drive interest back to the Nouns maindao and subcommunities. The main reason we haven't tackled many maindao specific use cases yet is because it's much easier to experiment at the grassroots level. That being said, there are tons of things we can do at the maindao level now and post prop. We're going to kick this off with the shademark contest, and we're actively planning how we can leverage some of our new features for the dao's benefit. One example of this - If $nogs solidifies itself as a nouns social token, we can potentially use our new features to gamify it's distribution through minting games. Nouns is our home, we know we can have a massively positive impact on the Nouns mission, and we're focused on doing so.
Hey Nouners,
Before the voting process begins, I’d like to share a few thoughts that seem to have resonated with some voters:
Nouns has established an impressive protocol for governing treasuries. This model has given rise to thriving communities, many of which are or will be the places where we aim to enhance and expand our product as a public good.
While dedicated builders have put in substantial effort to develop and strengthen governance and capital allocation technology, the scope of what communities can do onchain at the organization level is relatively limited and unexplored. Our primary focus is advancing this frontier. Success for us means helping these communities explore new ways to organize onchain, and developing new reasons for them to form in the first place.
Thank you!
# uplink.wtf phase 2
### Intro
In our previous proposal we introduced [uplink](https://uplink.wtf), flexible contest infrastructure used by organizations to reward contributors, attract new creatives, and grow their brand. We've continued to iterate - adding multimedia support, [NFT submissions](https://x.com/nickddsn/status/1724151749609435353?s=20), user profiles, support for L2's (base, op, zora), and a new feature we call the [mintboard](https://twitter.com/nickddsn/status/1733188527720923420).
As we journey onwards, we envision a system whereby all user generated content lives onchain, and users can interact with this content by minting to vote, signal, collect, remix, and more.
### Diving deeper
The advent of protocol rewards on Zora has solidified a programmable backend for hosting and distributing user generated content onchain, offering exciting new building blocks that have the potential to change the way communities incentivize creation, organize more efficiently, onboard users, gamify membership, and more.
While outstanding for solo creators, it's still difficult for communities to leverage these building blocks to experiment with new metas. We've helped to ease this by working with Based Management to design the mintboard, which they now use to run their intern program - allowing interns to graduate to management (membership) via cultural capital.
*The mintboard is a communal canvas allowing orgs to create a Zora NFT template that users can mint underneath in 2 clicks. On each mint, protocol rewards are routed to both the creator and organization treasury. Users can level up by reaching a certain # of mints, which can unlock NFT’s, membership, or other onchain rewards.*
Today, communities on uplink use both contests and the mintboard to fuel creation and culture through incentives like reward pools and protocol rewards.
We want to expand the solution space by creating a flexible onchain wrapper that sits atop the Zora 1155 contracts. This wrapper will be responsible for dynamically managing creator permissions and milestone based outcomes, such as claims and rewards. With these 2 additional components, new use cases emerge from capabilities like cooldown periods, tiered onboarding, entry requirements, streaks, quests, points, and more. Not only would this allow us to easily migrate our existing products onchain, but also open the floodgates for further experimentation in both our in-house products and new apps created by other developers.
Our mission is to innovate on the creative layer of crypto. If we succeed, Nouns will unlock new use cases for online communities, and new reasons for them to organize onchain. As champions for public infrastructure and CC0, we believe Nouns is the most value-aligned homebase for our project and the best suited to help us win.
We are kindly requesting 125k / 6 months for us to **implement the protocol** and **iterate our product** to power new ways for communities to organize onchain.
25k upon approval
100k streamed / 6 months
### About us
- Nick - dev
- Weez - design, creative, UX
In prop 215, we were funded with 50 ETH on a 3 month term.
We've seen
- 2k visitors / month
- 20k page views / month
- 2.5k contest submissions
- 160 NFT submissions created on Zora
- 350 Mints generated on Zora
- 21 ETH in contest rewards
And some very gracious support from the ecosystem
- Base grant (5 ETH)
- Based Management grant ($5k)
*Our nounish journey began back in 2021 with SharkDAO, during their early efforts to organize the purchase of some of the initial Nouns tokens. We developed software solutions for the SharkDAO community, graduating from SharkDAO funding to NSFW funding, and ultimately to a successful proposal with Nouns. We are immensely grateful for the support we've received so far and appreciate the community's consideration of this proposal.*
# uplink.wtf phase 2
### Intro
In our previous proposal we introduced [uplink](https://uplink.wtf), flexible contest infrastructure used by organizations to reward contributors, attract new creatives, and grow their brand. We've continued to iterate - adding multimedia support, [NFT submissions](https://x.com/nickddsn/status/1724151749609435353?s=20), user profiles, support for L2's (base, op, zora), and a new feature we call the [mintboard](https://twitter.com/nickddsn/status/1733188527720923420).
As we journey onwards, we envision a system whereby all user generated content lives onchain, and users can interact with this content by minting to vote, signal, collect, remix, and more.
### Diving deeper
The advent of protocol rewards on Zora has solidified a programmable backend for hosting and distributing user generated content onchain, offering exciting new building blocks that have the potential to change the way communities incentivize creation, organize more efficiently, onboard users, gamify membership, and more.
While outstanding for solo creators, it's still difficult for communities to leverage these building blocks to experiment with new metas. We've helped to ease this by working with Based Management to design the mintboard, which they now use to run their intern program - allowing interns to graduate to management (membership) via cultural capital.
*The mintboard is a communal canvas allowing orgs to create a Zora NFT template that users can mint underneath in 2 clicks. On each mint, protocol rewards are routed to both the creator and organization treasury. Users can level up by reaching a certain # of mints, which can unlock NFT’s, membership, or other onchain rewards.*
Today, communities on uplink use both contests and the mintboard to fuel creation and culture through incentives like reward pools and protocol rewards.
We want to expand the solution space by creating a flexible onchain wrapper that sits atop the Zora 1155 contracts. This wrapper will be responsible for dynamically managing creator permissions and milestone based outcomes, such as claims and rewards. With these 2 additional components, new use cases emerge from capabilities like cooldown periods, tiered onboarding, entry requirements, streaks, quests, points, and more. Not only would this allow us to easily migrate our existing products onchain, but also open the floodgates for further experimentation in both our in-house products and new apps created by other developers.
Our mission is to innovate on the creative layer of crypto. If we succeed, Nouns will unlock new use cases for online communities, and new reasons for them to organize onchain. As champions for public infrastructure and CC0, we believe Nouns is the most value-aligned homebase for our project and the best suited to help us win.
We are kindly requesting 125k / 6 months for us to **implement the protocol** and **iterate our product** to power new ways for communities to organize onchain.
25k upon approval
100k streamed / 6 months
### About us
- Nick - dev
- Weez - design, creative, UX
In prop 215, we were funded with 50 ETH on a 3 month term.
We've seen
- 2k visitors / month
- 20k page views / month
- 2.5k contest submissions
- 160 NFT submissions created on Zora
- 350 Mints generated on Zora
- 21 ETH in contest rewards
And some very gracious support from the ecosystem
- Base grant (5 ETH)
- Based Management grant ($5k)
*Our nounish journey began back in 2021 with SharkDAO, during their early efforts to organize the purchase of some of the initial Nouns tokens. We developed software solutions for the SharkDAO community, graduating from SharkDAO funding to NSFW funding, and ultimately to a successful proposal with Nouns. We are immensely grateful for the support we've received so far and appreciate the community's consideration of this proposal.*uplink.wtf-phase-2
We've been pretty quiet the past 2 weeks or so, but we have a few updates we're stoked to share with the community.
# Mintboards
Today we're excited to announce mintboards on [uplink](https://twitter.com/uplinkwtf) - a collective canvas designed in partnership with [based management](https://twitter.com/JoinBasedMgmt) - built on the shoulders of nounsdao, base, and zora.
Mintboards allow users to onboard to online communities via cultural capital and split protocol rewards with community treasuries along the way.
Mintboards work by allowing communities to create zora edition templates. Once a template is created, anyone can use the template to post to the board - abstracting onchain creation to a familiar image / gif / video upload UI.
0.000111 ETH from each mint goes to the community treasury.
0.000333 ETH from each mint goes to the creator.
0.00111 ETH from each mint goes to users who share with their referral address.
The based management team [published a nice writeup](https://lght.mirror.xyz/LKyKmc2vVI4Uh-b6qMu-fy2u6KUKrDJCb3uvL_BFo3w) of how this works and how they plan on using the mintboard.
# Profiles
We shipped profiles, allowing users to claim protocol rewards, discover new artists and their work, and create their player on uplink.
# Redesigns
We redesigned various parts of the platform to include new features and improve the UI.
Check out the first mintboard [here](https://uplink.wtf/basedmanagement/mintboard). If you want to use uplink or have questions feel free to shoot me a DM on [twitter](https://twitter.com/nickddsn).
More soon 🚀🚀🚀
Ship ship ship 🚢🚢🚢
We just launched drops on uplink - creators can now drop their submissions as NFT's on Base via Zora. Here's a [demo](https://twitter.com/nickddsn/status/1724151749609435353).
Hey everyone! Finally getting around to sending out a propdate on prop 215. It's probably been a while since some of you have heard from us, so here's a quick recap:
> Uplink bootstraps brand development by turning observers into super users through the power of co-creation. From art campaigns to open-sourcing new logo design and more, organizations can host creator contests to unlock access to low-cost creative, authentic content and deeper connections with their most passionate supporters. At the same time, supporters gain a novel, immersive, and rewarding way to interact with their favorite organizations. In addition, our services are integrated with the Xitter API, allowing hosts to collect submissions via Twitter for max proliferation.
## Progress
We launched on October 20th with a contest of our own to remix the new platform branding. We received some awesome submissions and officially kicked off the Uplink era. After this contest, we shipped support for video submissions.
*New loading screen by gulamanyow.cc0-gang.eth*
Shortly afterwards, Krause House and TNS jumped on the platform, each hosting a Halloween themed contest with their own unique twists. From our perspective, the TNS contest was a big hit and probably the most successful contest they've run with us to date (going back to our old MVP). An animator from Rick and Morty [submitted](https://twitter.com/SloppyPencil/status/1719187556426780784) and lived streamed his creative process on Twitch. 2 of the winners were video submissions, giving us confidence that video is an important medium for creators on Uplink and worth investing more brain cycles in.
Yesterday we launched integration with assets on Base L2, and later that night Based Management came onboard with a [contest](https://uplink.wtf/basedmanagement/contest/262) of their own.
That pretty much brings us to where we are today. We're (hopefully) launching an awesome new feature by the end of this week. Right now we're aggressively in ship mode - taking feedback from the latest contests and designing new features for our incumbent hosts and creators. Next week we'll spend a bit more time in the onboarding department.
## Usage metrics
Here are some analytics from launch to now (last 30 days). As you can see, visitor influx is tightly coupled with contest activity. We're planning some new features that will bring users in regardless of contest status.
## Wrapping up
I wanted to keep this update short and sweet, but we plan on using Farcaster, updates.wtf, and our Twitter accounts to share the latest - we haven't quite figured out how to balance all 3 of these yet but we're getting there. Also, the site is open for anyone to create a contest. If you're interested or have questions, please [let us know](https://twitter.com/nickddsn).
## Links
* [Website](https://uplink.wtf/)
* [Fun promo video](https://x.com/nickddsn/status/1715499250946068929?s=20)
* [My Twitter](https://twitter.com/nickddsn)
* [Uplink Twitter](https://twitter.com/uplinkwtf)