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Title Buzzed Bees DAO

TL;DR Save Bees while maintaining & improving the new "Existing Communities" Nouns Builder feature

Description

The Buzzed Bee DAO has 2 very clear objectives.

1. Save the Bees

All surplus ETH generated from Auctions can only be used to directly help IRL bees.

Why

Bees are cute 🐝

They also happen to be extremely important for our ecosystem.

How

In order to further incentivize bidding, the Buzzed Bee DAO will allow Buzzed Bee NFT holders to use their Bee to claim a high-quality, handmade, Bee Themed tshirt. The Bee shirt will also feature an embedded secure chip to implement the EIP-5791 standard in order to link the physical item to our beloved chain.

tshirt techpack

Small version embedded, full resolution here

This tshirt addition means that for every settled auction, the Buzzed Bee DAO incurs some fixed costs. To make sure the DAO is ETH positive, the auction reserve price will be set at the cost of goods (incl. worldwide shipping). Any aditional ETH above the auction reserve price will be allocated to save Bees.

Details on the Tshirt

Initially, everything tshirt related will be executed using the existing Buzzed Bear Hideout DAO infrastructure. The Buzzed Bee DAO reserves the right to end this relationship, change providers, or modify/end the initiative at any time.

Fixed and Predictable costs:

  • Initial tshirt design costs, paid directly to a designer
  • Fabric, paid directly to the provider
  • Hand Assembly, paid directly to craftsman

Variable & Unpredictable costs:

  • Worldwide Shipping
  • Overhead (5%-10%)

Overhead is added in order to build a small treasury to handle any unpredictable costs (shipping issues, production issues, etc...).

All ETH related to tshirt development, production, and shipping will be managed transparently & onchain (when applicable).

We are extremely confident that the inclusion of this high quality physical item will bring more bids & ultimately, help more Bees.

Our Queen Bee

Queen bee

2. Existing Communities feature

The Existing Communities feature will allow any DAO created using the nouns builder to seed an initial list of members.

This feature will allow any off-line, on-line & on-chain community to easily migrate into the nouns-builder ecosystem, infinitely expanding the target audience potential.

Quick Mockup

Feature Mockup

All 20 ETH from this round will be allocated to (1) continue the development, maintenance and improvements of the "Existing Communities" feature (devs, designers, etc...); and (2) any DAO maintenance costs (tool subscriptions and such);

The Buzzed Bees DAO will be the first Nouns Builder DAO to use the Existing Communities feature.

Why is this feature important?

Nouns builder is a truly groundbreaking tool for anyone looking to spin up a new community. Unfortunately, existing communities have no easy way of joining the Nouns Builder Ecosystem.

Quick Example 1: The local chess club already has 20 members. (1) Create a new DAO on nouns-builder with a list of those 20 members; (2) Each chess club member can now freely claim an NFT from the DAO Token. (3) Auction runs as expected but first auctioned tokenID is 21;

Quick Example 2: The PFP project already has 1000 members. (1) Create a new DAO on nouns-builder with a snapshot of those 1000 token holders; (2) Each old token holder can now freely claim an NFT from the DAO Token. (3) Auction runs as expected but first auctioned tokenID is 1001;

Quick Example 3: An artist wants to do a pre-sale of the 100 NFTs before starting a continuous NFT auction. (1) Sell 100 tickets on the pre-sale; (2) Create a new DAO on nouns-builder with a snapshot of those 100 ticket holders; (3) Each old token holder can now freely claim an NFT from the DAO Token. (4) Auction runs as expected but first auctioned tokenID is 101;

When adding an easy way to seed a nouns-builder DAO with a list of members, we unlock a cambrian explosion of possibilities.

Details on the Buzzed Bee DAO & the initial set of community members

The Buzzed Bees DAO will be the first Nouns Builder DAO to use the Existing Communities feature. To seed the list of members, each Buzzed Bear holder will be able to claim a Buzzed Bee & gift a Buzzed Bee to a friend.

The claim process will allow claimers to donate ETH to help the bees. The highest donation during the claim period will receive the Queen Bee unique NFT.

The Buzzed Bear Hideout DAO will be set as a founder & receive 10% of the supply for the first 10 years.

Why us?

Buzzed Bees DAO will be the first fully independent sub-DAO of the Buzzed Bear Hideout, a community-ran DAO created 1+ years ago.

From the Buzzed Bear Hideout Community we can support the Buzzed Bees DAO with:

  • Production, storage & shipping infrastructure for the tshirt
  • Smart Contract Development/Testing/Review
  • Initial veto responsibilities for malicious proposals
  • Any DAO-related maintenance/setup required (Twitter, Discord, Governance, etc...)
  • An initial set of members that are very familiar with how DAOs work, and can hit the ground running

People

  • defijesus.eth - Test Noun Rinkeby Holder, OG SharkDAO member (bid & won Noun #2), full-time DAO for ~2 years, evm peruser.
  • mesk85.eth - Graffiti writer since 2004, digital illustrator, art collector, weed enthusiast, full-time DAO for 1.5 years

Current Progress

  • Buzzed Bees Art done
  • Smart Contract Implementation + Testing (Pull Request)
  • CSV to Merkle Root conversion implementation.
  • Connected address to Merkle Proof implementation.

Art Samples

Artwork made by MESK & Veshpa. Released under CC0.

8 different layers

  • Background
  • Body
  • Legs
  • Eyes
  • Misc.
  • Neck
  • Arms
  • Wings

32 unique attributes overall

Checkout some art samples: Beeeeees

TODO/In Progress

  • Tshirt techpack & initial prototyping
  • Nouns builder integration (front-end development + UX design)
  • Wrapping up the smart contract development + review
  • Buzzed Bee DAO Homepage (FAQ, links to socials, link to Nouns Builder)

In Short:

  1. It's a Noun'ish DAO where all auction funds will go towards helping Bees
  2. There is an existing community that needs to migrated over to a Builder DAO
  3. Buzzed Bees DAO will build, maintain & improve the feature to allow communities to migrate
  4. The initial 20 ETH will be used to build that feature, any surplus + all future ETH goes to helping bees

Credits

ty ccarella for the great summary

ty 21xHR for the all the help

Copyright and related rights waived via CC0.

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