Nouns Amigos is dedicated to empowering builders and creators, shifting mindsets through innovation, and offering a platform for building in one's native language. Over the past year, we established the Nouns community in Spanish, transforming its members into active builders through Prop House rounds. Looking ahead, Nouns Amigos aims to maintain this positive trajectory by continuing Prop House rounds, introducing Amigo Infinite Rounds, and leveraging the Amigo Squad to facilitate community activities and provide support to builders.
Nouns Amigos is requesting 120 ETH to support the growth and diversification of the Nouns community for the next six months.
Nouns Amigos is the Nouns community in Spanish. We are a group of builders on a mission to expand the reach of Nouns, fostering a nounish mindset among creators across Latin America and beyond.
Empowering builders and creators: In the realm of Web3 in Latin America, Nouns Amigos is an opportunity for learning and seizing the opportunity to become entrepreneurs, builders, and creators. It offers individuals the chance to address challenges that were once considered overwhelming within their respective country contexts. Nouns Amigos presents a unique opportunity for individuals to access funding and pursue what truly matters to them while creating connections with an online community that has no borders.
Shifting mindsets through innovation: We firmly believe that Nouns embodies innovation, a commitment to doing things differently, and a spirit of disruption. We believe Nouns Amigos can play an important role in changing mindsets and attracting talented builders.
Building in your first language: Beyond learning about Web3, many individuals in Latin America grapple with a significant language barrier. Nouns Amigos aims to bridge this gap by facilitating building in one's first language, creating an inclusive space for exploration and growth.
What Has Nouns Amigos Achieved so far?
Nouns Amigos kicked off in June 2022 with weekly Twitter Spaces, featuring interviews with nounish folks building cool projects. The community started to grow week by week thanks to offline (IRL events), online (Twitter, Instagram, Discord), and onchain interactions (AMIGO token, Prop House rounds).
Nouns Amigos evolved from an idea to a community of builders. Every day, we're spreading the meme across countries like Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Chile, Guatemala, Spain, the USA, and beyond.
In January 2023, Nouns Amigos created its own house in Prop House, becoming the primary source of funding for Spanish speakers who want to build with Nouns. In each round, winning builders not only receive an ETH award to bring their ideas to life but also gain an AMIGO token. This token allows them to cast votes in future rounds and decide who to award next.
So far, Nouns Amigos has run 11 rounds in which the community decided to award the following:
As well as a dozen IRL meetups, photo and meme contests, Nouns Amigos nounniversary cakes, and more!
This is what all Prop House rounds look like in numbers:
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To interact in Prop House rounds, Nouns Amigos created its AMIGO token ↗︎. Every prop winner gets an AMIGO token. This token has voting rights to decide who gets awarded every round, giving the community decision-making power. Overall, we've seen excellent results with this model and will continue with it, subject to change in the future if needed.
The traits are based on the original ones from Nouns with new heads and accessories representing Latam. We added the ñ into Nouns.
We want to help builders build the Nounish way
Nouns Amigos wants to consolidate a community of builders creating public goods, technology, art, design, sports, science, social impact, and more. We want to inspire people to become nounish, find their builder path and create positive value in and outside the web3 ecosystem.
We believe we can achieve this by empowering the community and giving them the resources and guidance to foster their inner nounish builder.
Prop House as an onboarding mechanism
Prop House is a crucial entry point for builders to test fun and fresh ideas. These rounds will help builders get a sense of what the community is willing to experiment with, encouraging people to work hard on paper before building. Prop House is a fun way to motivate people to explore their builder side, get hands-on, and participate in voting in Nouns Amigos.
We want to double down our efforts with Prop House rounds to reach more builders challenging them to put their ideas to play and get into the builder's path.
We plan to run open and mandated rounds. The frequency will be twice monthly for six months in a 7-day-proposing/5-day-voting schedule.
Nouns Amigos Infinite Rounds as a low/mid-tier growing mechanism
Amigo Infinite Rounds is the awarding mechanism to help the community grow their ideas to the next level. Recognizing a lack of mid-sized awarding mechanisms within Nouns, we've identified a challenge faced by talented Nouns Amigos builders in advancing their ideas. Our aim is to create this new mechanism for this underserved cohort of builders, enabling them to push their ideas further. We aim to experiment with these Infinite Rounds to achieve the following:
These awards will have the shape of infinite rounds in Prop House. The decision-making process for awarding proposals, with a maximum of 2.5 ETH per proposal, will be voted with the infiniteAmigo token.
Amigo Squad as an executing driving force
A significant part of the success of Nouns Amigos is due to its builders. They put all the ideas and necessary execution to build nounish projects in different veins. Nouns Amigos Squad has been crucial to getting the community together week by week by hosting dozens of Twitter spaces and community calls, issuing hundreds of attendance badges as well as open editions to commemorate special moments.
The Amigo Squad has been in the background, ensuring builders succeed by facilitating information, feedback, and resources. All this work is based on 1:1 and group interactions with the community. We've seen this has worked well, improving the builders' path.
The Amigo Squad aims to foster an environment where community members are not only enthusiastic about Noun's vision but also empowered and motivated to take ownership. Our ultimate goal is for the squad to become obsolete in the near future, as the community becomes self-driven.
Compensation will be assigned via stream of funds.
Funding Nouns Amigos is essential for the growth and diversification of the Nouns community. This group focuses on Spanish speakers in Latin America and beyond, significantly broadening Nouns' reach. We've proven capability in community development and empowerment through Prop House, demonstrating an impressive knack for transforming ideas into actions, which aligns perfectly with Nouns' mission.
Nouns Amigos is dedicated to attracting high-quality builders and promoting Nouns in new regions, strengthening its global presence. Establishing a blueprint for emerging Nouns communities sparks inspiration for others to embark on their own Nouns journey.
Supporting Nouns Amigos fosters a diverse, vibrant, and innovative future for the Nouns ecosystem.
We are requesting 120 ETH to boost the Nouns Amigos community for the next 6 months. Here is the breakdown of funds and proposed transactions.