0x6a024f52…80f4sent to0xc6ab7ca2…3e25·#18,573,213·view on Etherscan
Sup. [Volky](https://warpcast.com/volky) here!
If you've only been following the prop onchain you might be asking yourself what I am doing here. Turns out me and CoralOrca joined forces to deliver on this prop 🤝
Short intro for those that didn't know me: I've been building in the Nouns space for some time now, including, among others, [Nomo Nouns](https://www.nomo.wtf/), [Nouns 101](https://www.nouns101.wtf/), and, that which lead me to this project: [Noundry Studio](https://studio.noundry.wtf/)
To foster a more integrated Noundry experience I decided to work on Noundry Gallery with Coral to build the next piece of the Noundry puzzle.
So, enough small talk, let's get to the meat of the update. Here's what me and Orca have been cooking up:
I present to you, Noundry Gallery v2! It has now joined https://studio.noundry.wtf on the memorable domain https://gallery.noundry.wtf
Here's the list of updates:
- Introduced SIWE to make it all the more secure.
- Infinite scrolling when browsing the gallery and when trying out specific traits.
- Streamlined trait submission flow, for all trait types (except backgrounds, which are just plain colors)
- Trait peeking. Hover/touch the trait type icon to highlight the trait artwork against a checkerboard background
- ENS name and avatar integration
- Open Graph metadata and thumbnails for prettier links shared on other platforms
- Made it weirder
We've come a long way since the original proposal went to a vote, and some things have changed:
- We got some feedback regarding the curation committee and concerns raised around having a closed process for submitting traits for inclusion in the DAO. We've since pivoted to an open and community-centered approach with no gatekeeping whatsoever.
- Funds that were allocated to the curation committee have been repurposed to contests. Using the available funds (20 ETH), we want to organize 4 contests with different structures and learn from each of them to see what yields the best results and generates the most participation.
- You can submit Noggles and Bodies to the gallery! The experience wouldn't be complete without them
- Trait submissions to the DAO as candidate proposals will be open to all
## Celebrating Noundry
There's a lot of amazing traits lost in old discord servers, or that never got to the spotlight. This is the moment to bring them back into everyone's attention (including the contest judges! 👀)
To celebrate the next step in Noundry, and to give you some incentives to go through the spider webs and scavenging for your old Noundry artwork we're holding a art contest.
The judges will be no other than the [latest Nouniversary trait contributors](https://www.nouns.camp/proposals/348):
- [@amiyoko_eth](https://twitter.com/amiyoko_eth)
- [@facuserif](https://twitter.com/facuserif)
- [@Goldypix](https://twitter.com/Goldypix)
- [@krel404](https://twitter.com/krel404)
- [@modrovsky](https://twitter.com/modrovsky)
- [@tummlin](https://twitter.com/tummlin)
Those Noundry Veterans will check every single trait submitted to the gallery up until the deadline on December 10th (midnight PST) to award 10 notable contributions (judged accordingly to the [guidelines](https://gallery.noundry.wtf/guidelines) with 0.5ETH each. We want to incentivize you to keep up with the awesome pixel art, and also to shine the spotlight on the best of the best traits, which might help with the voting if they eventually are proposed as additions to the DAO's artwork!
Speaking of which, we did not forget about the roadmap on this prop! Now that we've laid a solid foundation to the gallery, we can move on to some exciting new features.
## Upcoming
We still have some boxes to tick, and we did not forget about:
- Submitting traits to the DAO.
- Discord, Twitter and Farcaster bots to showcase the latest submissions
- Comments and discussion on trait pages
- Streamlined integration with Noundry Studio
With these features we'll have the most accessible Noundry experience ever, and it won't be restricted to the Nouniversary alone! So let's gather up in the official channels and enjoy Noundry all year round!
Discord: https://discord.gg/XbYPDSKVaV
Farcaster:[@noundry](https://warpcast.com/noundry)
Twitter/𝕏: [@noundry](https://twitter.com/noundry)