The Bali security audit contest, hosted by Sherlock, is now in full swing. Running through December 1st, this crucial phase in our impending upgrades is essential for guaranteeing the security of our code. Participants are engaged in a comprehensive review of the contracts, identifying potential vulnerabilities for our devs to address. For those interested in the contest's progress, you can follow along here.

Prop Submission Threshold

Currently, a user must own or be delegated 2 Builder tokens to submit proposals. Do you think this is an acceptable threshold or would you like to see this requirement lowered to 1 token? Contribute to the discussion on Farcaster at the cast by Prof Werder below, or in the Discord thread here.

Mints by Builders

Builder DAO members Chris Carella and deebee have active mints on Zora, show them some love!

Purple x LearnWeb3

LearnWeb3, a leading web3 developer community, is gearing up for its Decentralized Intelligence Season 2 Hackathon in Q1 2024. The event, focusing on AI and Crypto, follows the success of its first season and aims to attract over 500 hackers and 50+ projects. Purple has recently passed a proposal to co-sponsor the event, contributing $5,000 USDC to the bounties. Check out the proposal and more details on the event here.

BLVKHVND Updates

A member of BLVKHVND has built an app that lets you generate banners in the unique BLVKHVND style. Give it a try at creators.blvkhvnd.wtf! They've also begun accepting applications for new content creators, you can submit your application here.

ENERGY Contributes to Model-WIP

ENERGY recently passed Proposal 11 (a revised version of Proposal 9) contributing 0.5 ETH to the MODEL-WIP crowdfund campaign on Fabric. MODEL-WIP is a community project to crowdfund the creation, usage, and collective ownership of a unique generative image model. More specifically, they are going to commission an artist to produce a body of work, train an image generation model on that work, and monetize the model by making it freely usable within SOURCE. You can learn more about SOURCE here and the project as a whole in the thread below.

BasedNouns Drop

The Based Nouns mint is live and they're already nearing 1,000 mints! Check out the announcement below.

Public Work Session

The Tech Pod will hold public work sessions every other Thursday at 9:00 pm ET (1:00 am UTC). If you have any questions about the work they are doing or ways you can contribute, please feel free to pop in and join them during this session! You can find the latest work session notes and recordings here on GitHub.

Builder DAO Meetings

The weekly Builder Office Hours call hosted by Prof Werder is every Wednesday at 4:00pm ET. Prof will be available to answer all of your Builder DAO and Nouns Builder questions! Register your interest in the next Office Hours call on November 29th at 4:00pm ET in Discord here.

Builder Channel on Farcaster

The Builder Channel on Farcaster displays a feed of activity from members of Builder including casts and onchain activity such as auctions, proposals, and votes. You can also now see the DAO feed directly on the nouns.build website by clicking 'Feed' as shown in the screenshot below!

Builder DAO Fun Fact

Builder token 0 is owned by ZORA, creators of Nouns Builder.

Protocol Stats

DAOs Launched on Builder Protocol: 183 DAOs Created (ETH, OP, Base)

Nouns Builder Deployed: 116 DAOs Deployed (ETH)

DAOs income from Auctions: 519 ETH (ETH)

Nouns Builder Proposals: 630 Total Proposals (ETH)

Source

Proposals

Passed

• Proposal 83 - Farconnect at Devconnect Sponsorship
• Proposal 82 - Bali Upgrade Audit Funding Request
• Proposal 81 - Builder DAO and Nouns Builder Protocol Onchain Data update by sealaunch
• Proposal 80 - Help The Yellow Collective Become a Shining Example of What is Possible on Nouns Builder with L2s

Defeated

• Proposal 84 - Creating a Guidance Rubric for Builder DAO

Built on Builder

This week's featured DAO built on the Builder protocol is Purple DAO! Purple is a DAO whose goal is to proliferate and expand the Farcaster protocol and ecosystem. They fund small grants and retroactive rewards via Prop House and larger onchain proposals which proliferate Farcaster and/or build on top of the protocol. They recently upgraded their token artwork, so all tokens after #365 feature the Season 2 artwork commissioned in Prop 35 and deployed in Prop 45.

Website: https://purple.construction/

Auctions: https://nouns.build/dao/ethereum/0xa45662638e9f3bbb7a6fecb4b17853b7ba0f3a60