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# GLITCH 2025 - Future of Art & Governance
# TL;DR
We are requesting 20,000 USC to fund the GLITCH 2025 residency, in order to: (1) Finalise and deploy Aminals, a revolutionary non-ownable NFT protocol that will be adorned with Nouns genetics, creating new revenue streams for Nouns DAO; (2) Embed Nouns into an emerging creative-tech community through active collaboration, not passive sponsorship; (3) Research new economic models for NFTs that align with Nounish values (CC0, public goods, anti-speculation)
# Cross-Pollination between Nouns & GLITCH
## (1) Aminals: An experiment in Non-Speculative NFTs
**What are Aminals?**
[Aminals](https://aminals-v4.pages.dev/) are blockchain-based lifeforms that **cannot be owned,** bought, or sold. Instead:
- They form **"attachment relationships**" (love) with people who feed them cryptocurrency
- They **reproduce** when fed enough cryptocurrency, passing genetics to offspring
- When two Aminals reproduce, an auction decides the newborn's genes.
- Voting power in this auction comes from the "love" felt by the two parents towards the voter (love-o-cracy): If the parents are deeply attached to you, your vote on its child's genetics is very powerful. If parents barely know you, your vote is weak.
- The **new Aminal is born** with the 8 winning genes.
- At the moment of birth, it receives its inheritance: 10% of Parent A's treasury + 10% of Parent B's treasury.
- This inheritance is immediately and automatically divided into 8 equal shares and distributed as a royalty payment to the on-chain owners of the 8 winning Gene NFTs.
- Genetics owners earn royalties when their traits are inherited—creating sustainable funding without speculation
**Why This is Nounish:**
- **CC0 spirit:** Aminals can't be owned, eliminating speculation and exploitation
- **Proliferation through reproduction:** Akin to Nouns' daily auctions
- **Community governance:** Love-o-cracy prioritize earned participation over plutocracy
- In a love-o-cracy, voting power comes from care, not token holdings: the more you feed an Aminal, the more the Aminal loves you, giving you more influence on its behaviours and evolutionary dynamics
- Every action that you request from an Aminal costs you their love (because Aminals will like you less, every time you ask them to do anything)
- Love is also necessary in order to vote on the traits that will be inherited by the baby Aminal when two Aminals reproduce: the more love the parents have for you, the greater the influence you have on their progeny
- **Revenue without ownership**: Genetics royalties as new funding model for public goods
During GLITCH, we will:
- **In- person development sprint** to finalise Aminals with input from the best artists and engineers in the space
- D**eploy Aminals with Nouns genes** (e.g. Noogles)
- NB: we are in touch by e-boy (early Nouns designers)
- **Assign Nouns gene NFTs to Nouns DAO**
- Nouns DAO benefits because it gets a direct cash royalty every time the community uses its collective "love" to vote for Noggles to be inherited by a newborn Aminal.
- This turns the Nouns brand into a perpetual, automated revenue stream powered by the Aminals ecosystem.
- **Open-source the entire protocol** for other DAOs to fork and experiment with
- **Document the economic model** in a public research brief (see below) Code Status: Deployment ready (see GitHub), awaiting community testing and genetics design.
## (2) Bring two Nouns delegates embedded full-time during the residency
- Ivo Entchev
- TBD
More details about the GLITCH residency can be read on our [previous proposal](https://www.nouns.camp/proposals/871)
**Deliverables**:
- Real relationships: 2 weeks of co-living = genuine bonds, not transactional networking
- **Run workshops** on Nouns governance, CC0, and public goods funding
- **Facilitate collaborations** between Glitchers and Nouns projects (rounds.wtf, flows.wtf)
- **Documentation** for the Nouns community (weekly updates, video diaries)
- **Bring Glitchers to Nouns**: Invite artists/builders to Nouns Cons or other Nouns events
## (3) Research: New economic models for crypto-art and NFTs
**Deliverable: A public research brief analyzing Aminals as a case study for:**
- Anti-speculative NFT economics (royalties without ownership)
- Care-based governance models (love-o-cracy vs. token voting)
- Proliferation strategies (reproduction vs. minting)
- Sustainability for public goods (revenue without extraction)
**Academic Validation:**
- Co-authored with researchers at [BlockchainGov](https://blockchaingov.eu)
- Peer-reviewed working paper submitted to DAO/governance conferences
- Acknowledgment: "Supported by Nouns DAO" in all outputs
**Practical Value:**
- Gives Nouns community new mental models for thinking about NFT economics
- Maintain Nouns as leader in innovative NFT design
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# Budget Breakdown (20,000 USDC)
- **GLITCH sponsorship fee**: $10,000 = Access to residency, lodging, meals for 2 delegates
- **Smart contract audit**: $4,000 = Security review before mainnet deployment
- **(e-boy) Nouns genetics design:** $3,000 = Custom Nouns-themed traits for Aminals
- **Research/documentation**: $2,000 = RA time for brief, video editing, community content
- **Contingency**: $1,000 = Travel, unexpected technical costs
## Team:
- P**rimavera De Filippi:** Legal / governance scholar at CNRS and Harvard University, exploring the intersection between law, governance and technology, focusing specifically on the legal and political implications of blockchain technology. Co-author of the books “Blockchain and the Law” (published in 2018 by Harvard University Press) and “Blockchain Governance” (published in 2024 by MIT Press). Principal Investigator of a 5 years long European-funded project “Blockchain Gov” (https://blockchaingov.eu) aimed at investigating the governance dynamics in blockchain communities from a legal, governance, and ethnographic lens.
- **Jake Hartnell:** Co-Founder of Layer and DAO DAO (previously start Juno Network and Stargaze). Obsessed with governance, building “Intelligent Protocols” and using AVS to facilitate AI-based computation for blockchain systems.
- **Will Papper:** Co-founder of Syndicate Protocol. Previously Product Manager at Proxy. Passionate about Ethereum since the 2014 presale.
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## Response to Previous Concerns
This proposal is a follow-up to a [previous proposal.](https://www.nouns.camp/proposals/871) We address the comments below:
- Noun 40's comment: "Are Nouns fans falling in love with Glitch? Are Glitch fans falling in love with Nouns?"
- Yes, because we're building something together that neither community could build alone. Aminals is Nounish in spirit (CC0, proliferation, governance) but designed at Glitch (experimental, artistic, boundary-pushing). The royalties flow back to Nouns DAO. The research informs future Nouns strategy. The relationships last beyond the residency.
- "The prop doesn't explain clearly what Nouns would get for 20k USDC."
- Revenue via genetics royalties + open-source protocol + research brief + embedded delegates
- “I've seen zero attempt for any cross pollination... so I'm against."
- We're committing to updates during residency, post-residency AMA, integration plan with measurable outcomes, and 2 full-time delegates embedded for co-creation.
- "The two communities aren't a great fit / merging didn't quite happen."
- We believe the two communities have very aligned values and ideologies. Nouns DAO has always been about experimentation, proliferation, and public goods. GLITCH - and Aminals in particular - embodies these values in a radically new way: removing speculation while creating sustainable revenue, replacing plutocracy with care, and open-sourcing everything for others to build on. Together, we want to co-develop infrastructure for post-speculative NFTs that will benefit Nouns and the crypto-art ecosystem as a whole
- "Would be all for it if it were a bit more robust on deliverables."
- Hopefully, we have articulated much clearer deliverables !