Proposals from the NAMELESS team were submitted to Round 1 of the Builder Prop House. Following our continued work, nyc (NAMELESS YOUTH CLUB) has decided to aggregate our proposals and showcase the benefit to the Builder DAO ecosystem via an on-chain prop.
Benefits to Builder DAO:
- Priority Access to IRL events for BuilderDAO members
- Promotion of BuilderDAO artwork, memes, and mission at premier venues in NYC and across the globe
- Open Source 21_SVG Art generator tool with tutorial-style guides to facilitate others in creating their own nounish art
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nyc is an IRL events machine and community impact network - unmasking web3’s potential for social good.
BuilderBox Shark Tank (8:00 & 33:30 min) shout out to @toady_hawk & @profwerder for hosting and letting us present.
What Have We Been Doing?
NAMELESS 2023 New Years Event @ Hard Rock Hotel in Times Square
NAMELESS Brand Launch, Halloween Party, & Miami Art Basel
Attune to how the decentralized proliferation of a meme has created the most passionate communities in the Web3 space, for months nyc, short for NAMELESS YOUTH CLUB, has been working on building the foundations of a nouns inspired DAO from scratch.
The impeccably timed emergence of the Zora Builder Tool has not only allowed the revolutionary Nouns Protocol to be accessed by many, but has been a gift from above that will allow our collective to shift our focus to growing WITH the Nouns & Zora communities and to refine our own community-oriented missions.
Since its brand launch in August 2022, NAMELESS has hosted a series of branded events, philanthropic sports tournaments, and had its upcoming generative NFT art collection exhibited at Miami Art Basel.
Most recently, NAMELESS hosted a NYE extravaganza at the historic Hard Rock Hotel in Times Square (pictured above).
We plan to launch our DAO with Nouns Builder in Q1 of 2023 and envision a protocol empowering holders to dream up, plan, and execute events they want to be a part of, and then use the proceeds of those events to give back to their community in meaningful ways.
As such, our goal in using the Nouns Builder tool is to grow and upgrade the experience of our community: from being passionate audience members to becoming passionate participants, co-owners, and co-creators of their experience.
Proposed Governance & Treasury Flow Diagram
Foundational Pillars
SMILES: Holistic health and wellness education
WAVES: Fostering creative output in digital spaces and IRL
SWISH: Community-building through sport
Artwork
Q1 Launch Event Proposal
(In-depth NYFW GALA DECK HERE)
NAMELESS Merchandise Pop-Up Activation @ Bowery Showroom followed by NAMELESS Branded New York Fashion Week Gala Event @ The Williamsburg Hotel (TBD)
We will work with our partners at The Williamsburg Hotel & Bowery Showroom to create a massive marketing opportunity for the NAMELESS and Nouns Builder brands at a premier New York City venue space.
Objective: Use the funds from ticket revenue and merchandise sales to fund our philanthropic SMILES Initiative and contribute to the collective treasury.
Proposed Date: Saturday, February 11th 2023
IRL Pop-Up Location: Bowery Showroom
Night Gala Venue: The Williamsburg Hotel (TBD)
IRL Audience: 1500-2000 (21-29 age range)
Projected Social Media Reach: 10,000,000+
2022 Pop-Up Video @Bowery Showroom
2022 NYFW Gala Promotional Video @Wburg Hotel
NAMELESS NYFW Merch
Pop-Up & Gala Locations
Located on 57 Stanton Street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, NAMELESS will partner with established next-gen retail space and content creators to propagate the NAMELESS mission, sell merchandise, and raise brand awareness via both IRL and digital marketing mediums.
One night - three spaces (The Ballroom, Water Tower, & Mirror Bar) made to curate unique attendee experience with brand activations throughout the venue & premier musical acts.
Located on 96 Wythe Ave in the heart of Williamsburg BK.
SMILES Initiative
(In-depth SMILES DECK HERE)
NAMELESS will provide on-site dental cleaning in a mobile branded truck. The consultations will be provided to underserved New Yorkers.
Purpose: Provides an opportunity for NAMELESS to achieve its goal of providing holistic health and education to its community.
NAMELESS will use the funds generated from the NYFW to rent a mobile health truck as part of our SMILES initiative. Inside of the truck will be a functional space for a hygienist to provide services to individuals.
We will partner with Health First, a nonprofit organization serving New York State with the largest medicaid/medicare membership in NY. Health First will also help us procure a hygienist as well as coordinate locations for the mobile health truck to be parked.
NAMELESS Physical NFT Token
NAMELESS TS-TEX Soccer Jersey with winning NFT Auction # on the back. Once a NAMELESS NFT auction has been settled, holders have the option of claiming a custom 1-of-1 NAMELESS jersey. Jerseys are produced/sourced in Germany, with a 2-5 week production time.
The NAMELESS jersey will feature an embedded chip to link the physical clothing item to its respective on-chain NFT. The floor price of each NFT will be based on the costs associated with production and shipping of each piece.
NAMELESS 21_SVG Nounish Art Generator
The NAMELESS team has developed the 21_SVG engine which NAMELESS plans to share with the rest of the Nouns Builder ecosystem.
An end-to-end platform for generative art that harnesses the power of machine learning to create customized, pixelated images which can change color while preserving the original depth and complexity of the image. Through a novel palette generating algorithm, any image file can be parsed into a series of SVG components with a corresponding color mapping. Using K-Means algorithms, a default color palette can be extracted according to user specifications and complexity.
Color palettes can then be generated using the default, enabling users to enter any amount of colors they would like, and rebuild the original image with a brand new color palette that preserves the shading and depth of the original.
This engine provides a powerful tool for custom NFT art that is fully compatible with the Nouns DAO Builder tool.
How Does it Work?
21_SVG allows users to input any .png or .jpeg image file and set certain parameters to get a new output image in a .svg format.
Choose any image file to pixelate
The degree of color smoothing (how many different colors in output image)
The size of pixelated blocks
Hex color codes used for generating full color palettes for each unique NFT
Our engine will then return a zip file containing the inputted art with new color styles in a format ready for uploading to the Nouns DAO Builder tool. This helpful tool will be available online for anyone with an image and a dream to start their own nounish DAO!
21_SVG Demo Video
The most important facet of the 21_SVG platform is flexibility. While this example shows Nameless Youth Club’s use of the platform, any image can be used in 21_SVG and can help NFT projects easily scale their artwork creation and iteration.
Using 21_SVG for multiple mask variations for mock-up Nameless NFTs:
Art Generator Roadmap
Development has already begun on the NAMELESS 21_SVG engine. Using the engine, NAMELESS was able to generate their testnet Nouns Builder DAO and construction has begun on a web app for use on nameless.nyc.
We expect to have a polished UI on nameless.nyc for community engagement in Q1 2023. Here users will be able to make NAMELESS style art components from any image file.
Immediate next steps involve improving the 21_SVG engine by adding K-NN, CNNs and other machine learning algorithms to enhance performance across a wider range of image complexities and properties. A DAO’s specific configuration can be used by developers to easily build new components, but also by the community to “Namelessify”, “Nounsify” or “Any-DAO-You-Choosify” an image.
By Q2 2023, we hope to make 21_SVG a fully open-source projectthat is maintained by the NAMELESS DAO, but widely used and contributed to by anyone. This would include the development of usable software packages for 21_SVG image generation, as well as replicable web-app templates for DAO websites looking to integrate 21_SVG.
As adoption grows, we would also like to create community engagement around 21_SVG through an application which can aggregate 21_SVG configurations and artwork outputs. A space where DAOs using 21_SVG can be highlighted, and their art styles easily shared and interacted with.
The ultimate goal is to provide a tool for DAO member engagement, where components can be created, tested, and proposed by any member. We hope that adoption of the 21_SVG platform will engage, enhance and inspire other projects that hope to make generative, on-chain art fun and accessible to all. We look forward to working with the Nouns Builder community to help test, enhance and expand usage of 21_SVG.
NAMELESS Collaborators & Partner Organizations:@BoweryShowroom @notgoodcompany
Past NAMELESS Partners:StreetFC, The Williamsburg Hotel, Playground App, StreetFC, Leveling the Playing Field, Schoolyard Social, Topo Chico
Our Links
GITHUB: NAMELESS Github
WEBSITE URL: nameless.nyc
INSTAGRAM: @nameless.nyc
TWITTER: @nameless_nyc
Treasury Breakdown
20 ETH Total
- 8 ETH to support the NAMELESS team for continued development (website development, UI for 21_SVG Art Generator, open sourcing code/licensing, content creation, marketing)
- 5 ETH for Launch Event with Builder & NAMELESS Branding
- 5 ETH to kickstart SMILES Mobile Health Truck and other philanthropic initiatives
- 2 ETH for business filing and legal counsel (thank you to David_M_Kerr for highlighting the importance of this process)
to nyctreasury.eth // 0xfA30680753BD88F26936580425E8bA2b41D76755
Team
Stin Hatch - Software Engineer & Data Guy
Experience in smart contract development, data science and AI. Currently working 9-5 in DeFi, but believes that blockchain can and will be so much more. Some have called him a Creative.
Oscar - Full Stack Blockchain Engineer
Experienced in developing smart contracts and full stack decentralized applications. Casual Kodak Black listener.
Ness - Frontend Engineer & Designer
Software Engineer in the Healthcare sector and passionate about creating exciting and engaging user experiences.
Raffi Souren - Outbound Product Manager @ IBM Automation
Raffi is a serial entrepreneur, music lover and analytical thinker. He has 10+ years of experience in event management and DJing.
Jake Au Jus - Protocol Program Manager @ Gauntlet
Jake is currently leading Integrations and Client Management for the largest DeFI protocols with Gauntlet, the premier data science B2DAO partner in crypto.
Rackem - Former Tech Consultant @ Accenture & Master of Sports Management
Building the intersection of sports + web3.
Techno Gatsby - Operations @ UnitedMasters
Assisting creatives and putting an end to prehistoric record labels. Passionate about music and film, sustainability and community
Silky - Sound Selector, Dreamer, Carnivore
Event enjoyer. Link Marine. Future stay at home dad.
Jonna - Lead Editor, 2nd Unit Director, Assistant Creative Director
Currently leading long form content creation at REVOLT, where he plays a pivotal role producing award winning TV and digital shows. 8+ years experience in the entertainment industry and talent management.
D’Aundre - Strategic Account Manager @ Elevance Health
Avid operator and investor. With 5+ years of Healthcare experience in strategy, operational implementation, go to market & product advisory; he has been in the Crypto space since 2017. He is passionate about new developments in Web3 & Crypto.
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