New No-Code Tool Allows Anyone to Create Custom Nouns DAOs in Minutes

Nouns DAO is a decentralized collective that funds its CC0 brand through "one a day" NFT avatar auctions. These auctions are automated, onchain, and perpetual thanks to the Nouns protocol. Since its launch last year, dozens of projects have forked off this protocol to create their own custom "Nounish" projects. However, until now, a developer with technical know-how was required to manually conduct and build out these forks.

That's all changing with the launch of Nouns Builder, a new no-code tool by Zora for creating Nouns forks in a DIY fashion. Nouns Builder allows anyone to form a DAO in minutes and sustain it over time through Nouns DAO-like auctions. The technicalities of the process are abstracted away, making it easy for users to jumpstart their own Nounish communities.

The goal is to proliferate the accessibility of the Nounish distribution mechanism and offer DAOs composable and upgradeable infra they can grow and maintain funds through for the long term. The art, auction schedule, and governance can all be customized to fit the needs of the community.

Builder DAO will govern Nouns Builder and proliferate its ecosystem. To kick off and sustain this collective, Builder DAO is launching its own daily auctions through the Nouns Builder system. Zora has proposed Nouns DAO seed Builder DAO's treasury with 1,000 ETH so the project can immediately spring into further development and proliferation activities.

Overall, Nouns Builder is a game-changer in the NFT community. It makes it easy for anyone to launch their own custom Nouns fork, removing the technical obstacles that were previously daunting. The Nounish distribution mechanism is an important NFT primitive that will continue to be experimented on and built around for decades to come, and Nouns Builder is poised to be a catalyst for continued NFT community experiments.