0xae65e700…46c0sent to0xb6d1eb1a…dab3·#19,015,714·view on Etherscan
(noun40 voting via agora)
a well maintained onchain contributor/fan database + a platform for subjective attestations are the foundation we need to build a sybil resistant identity system within nouns. we NEED to get out of a world where nouners/delegates are needed to vote on everything. we should have the whole nouns citizen base ("true fans" "nouns folk" or whatever we call this group of ppl that really care about nouns beyond their financial incentive) to vote on things. we can start small (like micro grants), but we can't let anyone vote. we also can't let a trivially fakeable set of ppl to vote. nouns karma's work is the foundation for that type of development.
what i would ask from the proposer is to not just build the onchain database and attestation system hope someone uses it. you should be ACTIVELY looking to make it used for an economic system of consequence within nouns. specifically i think you should provide a set of addresses that you think are sybil-resistant for different use cases.
(you mentioned nouns.zone but i don't know spam is really an issue on farcaster these days since the warpcast team improved the system)
two use cases i see are:
1. bound is trying to get a prize pool going (the initial prop failed but i hope we can get another one up soon; growing the nouns minting economy is important!). if the prize pool emerges then there will start to be attempts to juice the mint numbers to win more of the prize pool. if you could provide a sybil resistant set of addresses here to help count mints by true fans rather than bots for the purpose of the prize pool distribution calculation then i would consider that a meaningful use of nouns karma's work.
2. you could talk to seneca (for advice) to see if we can get some sort of infinite round or regular round for small grants going that again true fans vote for rather than nouners/delegates. this would be a big win since we haven't had a nouns funding mechanism voted on by nouns fans rather than nouners and if it works it could really help make nouns more democratic and scale governance further as well.
if something like #1 or #2 materializes in the next 4 months i would consider this prop a success and be willing to continue to fund. if it doesn't and nouns karma is a thing that exists but isn't used to support any type of economic system of consequence within the nouns world after 4 months then i would likely not. just a note for the proposer is that nouns is at times hard to navigate b/c it's headless. there's no company or foundation that you can talk to. that's what makes it both hard but also special! hope you can find your way around this world and make nouns karma the foundation of important economic systems within our world.