👋 Introducing Agora – the end-to-end governance app for crypto protocols.
We've spent the last 18 months building deeply with top protocols like
@Optimism
,
@UniswapFND
,
@ENS_DAO
...
And starting today, you can get all of the same tools for your community through our new site!
If you're decentralizing your protocol or launching a token, get set up with the best tooling by heading to .
Oh and if you're building on Base, enjoy priority onboarding and exclusive discounts! We love our superchain friends ✨🔵_🔴✨
aaaand Agora for
@nounsdao
is live! find us at:
For voters, Agora provides a way to signal what you'd like to see, in order to influence the direction of the DAO
For builders, Agora lets you understand how voters might view your proposal
Happy Friday – we made some serious improvements to prop voting:
You can now vote for both onchain props & for
@nounsprophouse
on Agora so that you can get all your voting done at once.
gm friends, we're proud to launch the first deployment of Agora for a new DAO – ENS!
is now the best way for ENS holders and voters to find delegates, view their statements, and delegate votes.
To support our long term ambition in building open-source governance tooling to push the space forward, we're excited to announce that we've raised $5M in new funding lead by
@HaunVentures
Read how we're thinking about governance here:
Introducing delegation markets on Agora 🗳💸
Anyone can come bid to become the delegate for
@js_horne
's noun for 3 months.
Vote on proposals, submit your own, join discords, all without needing to own a Noun.
been afk a bunch recently but wanted to share an idea i had for the nouns ecosystem (and beyond) in case someone wants to attempt to implement it (i might try myself when i'm more online in a few weeks)👇
GM Optimists – RPGF3 results have been announced!
🔴 30M in OP
🔴 643 projects applied
🔴 501 projects awarded
Check them out here:
See 🧵 below for some high level stats
We're thrilled to be nominated for Optimism’s upcoming round of Retroactive Public Good Funding! 🎉 Thank you
@b0bby
We wanted to share a bit of what we’ve built, and how we're contributing to public goods on Ethereum and Optimism.
Liquid delegation 💡
- Delegate only a portion of your tokens
- For a fixed time period
- Only for Prop House
- With permission for your delegate to delegate again
- With the right to override if desired
Coming soon to Agora!
Introducing the new Optimism Governance Portal, built by
@nounsagora
. 🏛️
This is the first step toward transitioning to fully on-chain voting and will also serve as our delegate registry.
Small design improvement on Agora:
The size of the FOR / AGAINST bars are now representative of the voting power of each voter, giving viewers a better sense of the composition of the votes!
Check it out live here ✨✨✨
So what's up with
@ENS_DAO
Agora? We're excited to share some major updates we've made to the app over the last few months: first, we've got a brand new proposal creation workflow:
Now you can create both onchain executable proposals and
@SnapshotLabs
social proposals in Agora.
Introducing the Agora Delegation Race – the easiest way to start as a delegate🗳
It's like an election, but for Nouns! Submit your Agora profile as a prop in this special round of
@nounsprophouse
Top 3 props get delegated 1 noun each for 2 months
Hey RetroPGF 3 voters!
As we're entering list making season, we'd like to take a moment to highlight our impact on onchain governance for both OP and beyond for your consideration.
Here's the TL;DR in numbers. Read on to learn more...
Hello friends! Agora is now available for
@Uniswap
delegates.
We're very excited to contribute our tooling towards the stewardship of one of the most important protocols of our time.
⌐◨-◨ 🤝🦄
Listen up, Uniswap community!
Today we have TWO exciting governance announcements for you.
We are launching Uniswap Agora - and celebrating that launch with Uniswap’s first Delegate Race! 🏃🏃🏃
@opmichael_eth
Here’s
@charliecfeng
from
@AgoraGovernance
talking about building infrastructure for onchain governance.
"The interesting thing about Retro PGF is that if it becomes dependable enough... you can create an entire ecosystem where people just do good work."
Want to split your nouns to two separate delegates for onchain and
@nounsprophouse
votes? DM us for the link to try it out!
Yes, liquid delegation is finally launching (in beta for now)!
We're beyond grateful for RetroPGF2 🙏
Thank you for those who voted for us and
@optimismFND
for supporting public goods and making this possible ✨🔴
With this, we gonna keep on building in the public, with the community, and our users
24 hours later, we're up to 0.2ETH as the highest bid for 3 months of delegation, by
@necfas
. good effort from
@john_c_palmer
at 0.0105ETH
2 days left on this auction. what's a vote worth to you?
Announcing: Agora Town Hall Debate 🏛
We'll be hosting a debate on Prop
#170
(NNS Expansion) this week, explaining the prop and offering Nouners an opportunity to discuss and hear alternative viewpoints in public.
Are you interested in advocating for or against
#170
?
Finally, joining our small team of generalist builders are
@andreitr
and
@0xmcg
.
We have high trust and expectations of each other, and offer everyone real product and company ownership. If this sounds exciting to you, check out our jobs page:
little bit of🌶 in the proposals today: prop 205 does the exact same thing as prop 202 by
@js_horne
, except omits the 1ETH reward for the idea.
what do you think? does the idea deserve a reward?
We've been talking about enabling capabilities like ✨
@nounsprophouse
-only delegation✨ for a while now, but I swear we're reaaaaaally close!!
check out this lil demo below for some WIP updates!
Fun to see Nouns and Agora mentioned in this heady comparison article between Arbitrum and Optimism by
@MessariCrypto
's gov lead.
Little by little, Nouns-funded governance infrastructure is accruing attention back to the DAO...
If Nouns is onchain Rome (though we prefer Athens😛 ), then Agora is its public square.
In fact, Agora’s namesake is the Greek word for public square - a gathering space for citizens to conduct meetings, political discussions and commerce.
let me try another analogy for nouns.
nouns as the most forward thinking, public infrastructure focused, onchain city of our time.
nouns as ONCHAIN ROME.
(h/t
@gremplin
for the art below and
@cryptoseneca
for the original rome meme)
Final outcome of the delegate race:
🥇
@7x7x7eth
🥈
@llama
🥉
@jaesmail
Congrats to all the winners who will be getting delegated a noun, and thank you everyone who participated. This was a phenomenal experience!
Heya! Been a while since we've provided an update on Optimism Agora. Behind the scenes, we've been cooking on some major improvements to voting and proposal workflow, as well as a full support of RetroPGF and Citizens House workflows for the upcoming RPGF3!
Read on for deets!
Hey you!
@noun40__
is looking for a Prop-House-only delegate for the🔥22 Nouns🔥 they currently represent. For two months, while they vote onchain, you vote on Prop House
Will you be the one? Tell us about yourself in this Prop House round 💜
ICYMI – we've been quietly working on a bunch of small improvements and bug fixes to . Here's a highlight of a few that we're particularly excited about:
1. We tagged the two addresses with the most nouns as the treasury and fork contract
Since launch 3 weeks ago: we’ve seen 100K+ unique visits and 50K voters on the first test proposal. 🤯 Perhaps the most participated in onchain vote ever!
We're esp glad that major delegates like SNX & GFX can now vote with their multisigs, which was not previously possible
@ripe0x
we're gonna run a lil experiment later this week / early next week to give these folks a bit of an incentive to put their voted to use. stay tuned!
The eagle-eyed among you might have noticed that
@OptimismGov
citizens and RetroPGF projects are already visible on Agora :)
Check out
@basepaint_xyz
, one of our favorite projects from the last few months building on the superchain!
We have applied for
@optimismFND
's retroactive funding round 3!
We believe there should be more apps that are fun to use and not about speculation. Thank you
@BuildOnBase
and OP Stack for enabling BasePaint!
Check out the details here:
Just a single day left to vote on the NNS proposal by
@dotnouns
, and it's down to the wire!
59 for – 59 against
Every single voice matters in this proposal. Go vote!
To support
@UniswapFND
's 1st delegate race,
@a16zcrypto
is delegating up to 3,000,000 UNI.
This delegate race provides a great opportunity to reallocate underutilized power to high-quality new & existing delegates, ultimately strengthening the Uniswap DAO. Check it out below 👇
Introducing vote auction
#3
, where we're doing a double feature special: the winner of this auction will get delegated 2 nouns for 3 months – enough to meet the proposal threshold.
What would you pay for the ability to propose anything to Nouns?
I mostly post about
@BotFrens
and
@basedbits
, but things I work on at
@AgoraGovernance
are next level. Right now, I'm working on the staking + delegation flow for Uniswap governance, and it's looking ✨🦄✨
Interested in bidding for a noun delegation, but missed out on our initial run? Don't worry, we've got three more lined up for you over the next weeks! 🗓️
Jan 23 - 26 : Noun 509 by
@ProfSamovar
Jan 26 - 28 : Noun 78 by
@illiquidjpeg
Jan 31 - 2 : Noun 148 by
@illiquidjpeg
The deployment of Agora is currently up for a vote on
@lilnounsdao
and... at this rate we might end up being the most voted for proposal of all time? 🤯
props to
@anquetil
for putting this up!
Woke up to a nice suprise today:
@eladmallel
@krel404
and
@matyETH
linked to their Agora profiles when pitching themselves as signers of the multisig for prop 143 🤩
Should we make this a feature? vote & tweet a well formatted image of your reason.
What else would you like to see on this image?
cc
@punk4156
and
@WilsonCusack
Why are we doing this?
First because it just makes things easier for voters – but also because an upcoming feature of Agora is "Prophouse-only delegation", which means we'll need a place for Prophouse-only voters to cast votes!
Proper announcement for this coming soon!
gm, you might have noticed that Agora now has a ✨ Proposals view ✨ that lets you view all proposals, read delegates' votes, and cast your own vote!
With this, Agora has all the basic tools a
@nounsdao
delegate would need to govern, all in one place
Congrats to 0x0259...215f for winning the second vote auction for 0.35ETH.
Thank you,
@ProfSamovar
for putting up your vote for this experiment. And hats off to all who participated in this auction:
@anquetil
@jaesmail
and
@js_horne
!
To commemorate the launch of Liquid Delegation, we're issuing an open edition, available to mint over the next two weeks on
@ourZORA
It's called Agora TV – a bit of an old device, so you might have to give it a whack once in a while to change channels 😉
Our work at Agora is often hard to explain – yes we're in crypto, but no not in the way you might think.
Yes we're a startup, but not in the normal way. We're funded by our users via RGPF & more.
Yes, it's weird, but that's why we have a site now :)
Earlier this year, we collaborated on a short film project with our friends at
@nounsdao
and
@StatefulWorks
that donated almost half a million $ to the Protocol Guild in mint proceeds!
Check out the full story here 👇
Just published the Delivery at Dawn wrap up post!
🌟 36k mints
🌟 138 ETH to
@ProtocolGuild
(11th largest all-time contribution!)
Thank you to
@nounsdao
,
@thelinestudio
,
@AgoraGovernance
, the cameo projects, and everyone that supported/minted ❤️
@honkdiddly
@thenounders
honk, if you were looking at Agora instead, you'd have realized that they vote out of vote.nounders.eth instead of the old address now :P
Migration happened around prop 163
🗣️ Next Friday, May 31, the UF will initiate the onchain vote to upgrade the Protocol so that its fee mechanism can reward UNI token holders that have staked and delegated their tokens.
If you are a UNI holder who wants to vote on this proposal, you **must** have your UNI
Nouns has a unique role in the ecosystem as a gathering place around public goods.
I am honored to be a delegate of Noun 123 by
@noun40__
and I will bring forward these ideas within
@nounsdao
.
A thread on my philosophy below 🧵
Just posted a propdate on the
@ProtocolGuild
x
@nounsdao
prop:
TL;DR: We aligned on 3 adjustments to the script:
1. Reframing the PG from Heroes to Stewards
2. Ensuring that Nouns' role is clear
3. Ensuring that we tell a story that could work as a celebration of EIP-4844
Lyra's the leading decentralized options protocol with over $1.4B of trading volume – and now they're welcoming delegates to participate in the governance of their protocol!
Create your profile on Agora to be eligible for token delegation
We want to hear your perspective.
Delegate applications are open! Nominate yourself as a Lyra community delegate and take on this valuable role as we navigate important governance decisions and build the future of derivatives trading, together.
5 easy steps to get involved 👇
3. On candidates, we've dimmed feedback associated with previous versions so that you can tell what someone thinks now vs what they thought before.
Looks like
@brennen_eth
's changed his mind after some price point tweaks. Gifs / $ now appropriate on this prop, nice!
Agora just officially deployed on
@lilnounsdao
! Go check out lil delegates at
During our beta period: a dozen delegates wrote their statement, and even more began to seek delegation.
We'll highlight a few particularly thoughtful ones below 👇
We've officially joined the
@Uniswap
delegate race! 🦄
( ◕‿◕)ノ┻━━━━━━┻
To support the sustainable growth of the Uniswap DAO, we're increasing our contribution as active governance delegates. 🔥
If you're a UNI tokenholder, delegate to SL:
Things
@arbitrum
governance does well: Bottom-up initiatives. People decide they want a thing, then attempt to manifest that in reality.
Thing
@OptimismGov
does well: Law & order. There is due process for disputes, proposals, and allocations. The process is pretty de-politicized
And ofc – can't mention public goods funding without the hat tip to Agora's original funders –
@nounsdao
✨ If you're coming from Optimism and curious about what ⌐◨-◨ are, go check out Nouns!
And of course, we're committed to building Agora into a public infrastructure that anyone in the Ethereum ecosystem can use by being MIT-licensed and open to being forked for anyone to use.
We’re building a weekly-ish gov activity summary bot. What would you like it to track and report on? So far, we’ve got:
Proposal status updates
Votes
Delegation activity
What else?
Congrats nounlius.eth for winning the votes of Noun 78 and Noun 148!
Please reach out to us. Would love to learn more about what you're gonna be up to.
Why? Because we believe that driving delegation is the most concrete lever we can pull to improve Nouns' governance efficacy – concentrating decision in the hands of qualified and engaged voter, and reducing friction for builders.
Builder
@eusou_jp
using Agora to find delegates whose statements align with his prop, and soliciting their vote is exactly what we hoped would happen!
💪💪💪
Ofc this wouldn't be possible without the new and improved version of
@nounsprophouse
, which just launched today.
As well as the generous participation of Nouners
@cryptoseneca
,
@js_horne
, and
@tony_intern
who have volunteered to delegate one noun each.