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Gnars are a new way to fund extreme athletes

We prefer a world where kids aren't sold energy drinks by their heroes. So as a community of action sports enthusiasts, we've formed a DAO to rethink how extreme athletes get sponsored.

Gnars are NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain

Based on Nouns open source and CC0 artwork, they're stored fully on-chain with no external dependencies. Each one gets you a DAO vote and memberships are available at auction, forever.

Gnars are dedicated to supporting the artistry of extreme athletes

News and Updates

Settle.wtf is Live

Huge thanks to @0xMulf for his work on adapting Lil Block Party for Gnars! You can now visit Settle.wtf to see a preview of what the next Gnar will look like if settled during the current block. If you’ve ever had a desire for a specific head or style, keep your eyes out for them to pop up and be quick to settle or that Gnar might disappear forever!

Frontend and Protocol Updates

Volky has been hard at work on all sorts of gnarly updates! The first ones you may have already noticed on the website: a counter with the number of auctions until the next Gnarving, current auction duration, and a link to settle.wtf to pick the next Gnar. Soon you’ll see proposals and governance within our frontend app rather than having to navigate to Snapshot. Along with these final app updates we will be transitioning to a fully on-chain DAO and migrating the treasury away from our current Safe and Reality setup. [1] [2]

Alternative Minting on That’s Gnarly

That’s Gnarly has been updated with alternate methods for minting to help save you money on gas fees! You can now mint editions using credit card or with MATIC/ETH on Polygon and completely avoid the gas costs of minting on Ethereum mainnet.

Treasury Jump

While doing some following up for proposal tracking I discovered that we had unused funds from projects we were working on last year that fell off our radar. Check out Gami’s post in discord for the full details.

Proposals

Upcoming

We have lots of exciting proposal ideas constantly in the works. Please take a look and give feedback in the discord forum!

Active

Onboarding Abuga Aroni

This proposal requested 1 Gnar to onboard Abuga Aroni to Gnars DAO.

Proposal

Onboard Raicca Ventura

This proposal requested 1 Gnar to onboard Raicca Venture to Gnars DAO.

Proposal

Passed

That's Gnarly Onboarding GnarsNFTs Request

This proposal requested additional Gnars NFTs to be utilized as drop rewards on That’s Gnarly.

Discord Thread | Proposal

Surfguru educational campaign to onboard holders into GnarsDAO

This proposal is for an educational campaign in partnership with Surfguru to educate people and onboard more athletes into Gnars DAO.

Discord Thread | Proposal

Ground Catch x Gnars Skate Tournament in the Philippines

This proposal requested 2.5 ETH for a multi-day skate tournament and onboarding event in the Philippines.

Discord Thread | Proposal

Community Highlights

Gnarcaster Invites🤘

Farcaster is a decentralized social network founded by Dan Romero, who has provided a bunch of invites to Gami to distribute among the community! If you’re interested in joining, please reach out on twitter or discord and we’ll make sure to get you in touch. [1]

Noggle Decks

Will Dias, the creator of the iconic noggle decks, is looking for suggestions for his future creations. He’s already made so many amazing boards, what will be next? [1]

Gnars Jam Sessions Podcast

Be sure to tune in every Thursday night at 8:00pm EST to catch the Jam Session live in action! Don’t stress if you can’t make it, all episodes will be published as a podcast for you to stream at your convenience.

Daily Drop at Gnar O’ Clock!

Every day on That’s Gnarly a new open edition drops at Gnar O’ Clock (9:30pm EST / 2:30am UTC) and hosts a live show on The Noun Square!

SkateHive and the Gnars Shredding Report

Check out the latest Gnars Shredding Report published on SkateHive! If you haven’t yet, be sure to check out SkateHive and SurfHive, where you can publish content and get paid for it!

Banner Artist

This week’s banner art was designed by Ilustradora!

That’s Gnarly Highlights

Here are the top 3 submissions from this past week along with a personal favorite.

1- Gnarly compilation featuring Luiz Hadad on fire at Saquarema by crisciacesconetto

2 - Hardflip fs noseslide by 3rd-eye.eth

3 - Asymetrical Surfboard - JetSki Stepoff Gnarly Beach Break by zima_ardrp

4 - Training 🥷 by sunnypires

In Other Nouns

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This week on Prop House ⬇️ Source

Keep up to date on votes with reasons at voter.wtf. Source
Check out this clip from training for the world’s first triple backflip in a wheelchair, sponsored by Proposal 256. Source
Synthetic continues to drop sneak peeks of their clothing that merge digital with physical. Source
The latest update on the work the Verbs are doing for Nouns. Source
The Noun Square’s NOMO Nouns have collaborated with Dawn wallet to bring Nomo’s to the masses. Source