Background

• https://nounsfarcaster.com/

• https://prop.house/0x767a3bdf2aa3b3201b794927a997fcf4e50d4702/3

We acknowledge that our proposal for the Nouns x Farcaster round is a component of our broader https://lighthouse.cx/ strategy. But we believe that the integration of Nouns and Farcaster into the Lighthouse roadmap sends a strong signal for the importance of governance technology in the broader ecosystem.

While the Nouns are few (263 unique holders at the time of writing), the impact of their governance is by far outsized with a broad impact across the industry.

Our proposal is very narrow in scope, as we believe in building strong governance foundations (accessibility and participation) before exploring the governance meta (trends, social, etc).

For example, @dwr recently stated that 80% of users on FC are on mobile. This is a strong signal that we should be focusing on native clients and experiences over web.

We see governance tooling as a way continue to push the envelope on what is possible with on-chain communities.

The Nounish model of governance (candidates, proposals, rounds, props, signals) has been proven successful as evidenced by the success of the Nouns builder program. From our perspective it is hard to ignore these relationships.

We believe that porting the Nouns model of governance to be natively supported is a stepwise improvement when it comes to Nounish governance. Building a cross-platform native mobile app that is performant and user friendly is non-trivial.

This is further evidenced in our research to date, where interviews we have conducted have indicated that most people struggle to keep up with governance activity and many are indeed part of many DAOs; Nouns, Nounish or otherwise.

TL;DR

- Nouns governance is a proven method of social coordination

- We value:

- Client diversity

- Native mobile experiences

- Aggregating governance meta

- Social integrations