Full Speed Ahead
At Builder DAO, we've been staying focused on the essential work that keeps the protocol running - maintaining administration, managing contributor coordination, addressing community issues and bugs, and supporting the core technical infrastructure behind the scenes. While most of what we do isn’t flashy, it’s the foundation that enables dozens of communities to build, govern, and grow onchain with confidence. With that said, we’re excited to dig into this month’s community updates!
Builder Tech Pod Updates
In this Tech Pod update, we share our progress on long-awaited features like treasury support for tokens and NFTs, clearer UX for delegations, and a major overhaul of our documentation to better serve both new users and contributors. We’ve also rolled out smoother third-party integrations (Wallet Connect proposals), bug fixes, and various UX enhancements. All thanks to your ongoing community feedback. While turnout at our last product session was low, we’ve received constructive and insightful feedback from individual community members. This led us to prioritise legacy support for Droposals and gave us insight to desired use cases for Nouns Builder today and in the future. With our first residency coming to an end and so much more features in the backlog, we are excited to share that we would like to re-run. We’re currently working on a proposal to renew our residency and are keen to get the roadmap for the next months straight.
What to watch out for
After a low turnout at our last product session (1 person joined for ~5 minutes), we want to ensure that the next session is actually needed and desired by the community. If you intend to join us on Thursday, August 07, 2025 at 12:00 PM (EST), confirm your attendance explicitly or sign up to this Luma event https://lu.ma/4lib29q7 .
Review of roadmap delivery
Feedback on updated documentation
Droposals, content gallery, Farcaster mini app
Feature requests, protocol updates, usability
Nounish template site community RFP
Hooks, utils as NPM packages
Streams and user profiles
If you have tooling not listed above, this is your opportunity to make it top of mind.
We are actively working on making hooks and utils available through an NPM package
You wished for Droposals - here they come. We welcome feedback for tailoring this functionality.
SwarthyHatter has been actively working with us and recently shared feedback from The Park DAO, join the conversation here https://criticus.notion.site/The-Park-Dao-22fe03c2c4518053816ff6074a3652d3
Our residency is coming to an end, and we would like to continue improving Nouns Builder. Watch out for our proposal and share your feedback.
Have a feature request or bug? Let us know!
Introduction of Tokens and NFTs for the treasury
Allowing users to view and send non-native assets from their DAO's treasury was a much desired features, which is now available on production and staging. If you're facing issues with the functionality, let us know!
Tokens Shown
Tokens shown in the Based DAO treasury
NFTs shown
NFTs shown in the Based DAO treasury
New Proposal Types
You can now connect to and interact with third party apps as a DAO, using Wallet Connect. We also made the sending of NFTs and tokens explicit through the introduction of the respective proposal templates.
New Proposal Templates
Documentation Overhaul
We just published a significant overhaul of the existing documentation. The documentation was regrouped into an onboarding guide for new users, a user guide, and a contributor guide. We also incorporated Satori's Knowledge Base, and added links and references to improve navigation in the Nouns Builder ecosystem. Please share your feedback and documentation requests!
Overview of Updated Documentation
Community Product Prioritization Session
In our second Community Product Session, we focused on aligning on documentation needs and prioritised the aspects that needed updating or had to be added. Read up on the full board here. For a quick overview, see the outcomes of the session below.
Outcome of the 2nd Nouns Builder Community Product Session
Changelog
ERC-20s, ERC-721s, and ERC-1155s are now displayed in and can be sent from the treasury
You can now connect and make proposals for 3rd party apps using Wallet Connect Proposals
Delegations and voter data are now explicitly shown on the UI
The user experience for connected Gnosis Safes was improved by disabling DAO creation
Execution timestamps and block explorer links are shown throughout the app
All networks are now supported on staging
Performance and UX improvements through media size limitations and improved copy
Propdates can now be published for specific milestones
Major documentation update here
Protocol Stats
DAOs Created on Builder Protocol: 3,480 DAOs Created (+1)
Nouns Builder Deployed: 1,302 DAOs Deployed
DAOs income from Auctions: 663 ETH (+1)
Nouns Builder Proposals: 1,494 Total Proposals (+25)
Cumulative Unique Voters: 9,621 Voters (+225)
Unique Voters (5 week moving average): 40.0 Voters (-6.6)
Proposals
Active
Passed
Cancelled
Built on Builder
This week's featured DAO built on Builder is Nouns DAO Africa! Nouns DAO Africa is an initiative created to connect the Nouns ecosystem with Africa, bringing builders from different cultural backgrounds together to work on public goods that promote positive change across the continent. With a permissionless approach, Nouns DAO Africa encourages its members to organize, build, and fund projects that bring Nounish Public Goods to Africa. Daily NFT auctions on Base support these actions, with all proceeds going to the treasury for governance by token holders.
Website/auctions: http://www.nounsdaoafrica.wtf/
Discord: https://discord.gg/YjetBmXqz9
In Other Nouns
[Volky on Farcaster
devs PSA: @nouns/sdk v1.0.0 now includes wagmi bindings (react + VanillaJs) for all the main contracts https://www.npmjs.com/package/@nouns/sdk
Farcaster](https://farcaster.xyz/volky.eth/0x3cdde4e9)
[Shei on Farcaster
1/ OneSafe.io/web3 just set up the first known neobank account under Wyoming’s DAO-friendly DUNA structure for /nouns with help from @ethsign
Now, Nouns can: ✅ Send fiat ✅ Off-ramp crypto ✅ Pay bills with a card ✅ Operate like any real-world company
Here’s how it went down👇 https://OneSafe.io/web3
Farcaster](https://farcaster.xyz/0xshei/0xedf4064a)
[jp.⌐◨-◨ on Farcaster
Remember when you arrived in a city for the first time and wanted to see if there were nounish folks around? That’s why nounspot.com is for builders too. If you register as a “people” instead of a “place” or “thing” 👇
You’ll only show the city, not a full address, for safety reasons
You’ll get a “get in touch” button instead of “get directions,” so you can say hi
You’ll appear green on the map
Add the Mini App and put yourself on the map! https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/72dd9113-555b-49c5-a5c2-3da7da083a00/original https://nounspot.com
Farcaster](https://farcaster.xyz/eusoujp/0x21b5b8f2)
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