Purpose

The Metaphor team would like to launch an experiment within ENS DAO to see if the community can operationalize a small grants program, similar to the successful Nouns Prop House! I DM’d with that team to see if we could fork their project, it seems they aren’t yet open source and they are currently focused on expanding within the Nouns / NFT community.

Metaphor proposes to the Public Goods Working Group quickly building ENS’s version of this project to allow working groups to setup a low-friction way to ask the DAO for small/starter funding for public goods and/or ecosystem projects. Our theory is that making the funding mechanism straightforward, forced (as in, someone is going to “win” the funds, so might as well put your idea forward), and ideally consistent could result in a good cadence of contribution to the DAO and public goods.

Details

For those that haven’t seen the Nouns Prop House the way it works is like this:

Concept Prototype

https://www.figma.com/proto/Z5hLqYpsbptJrfxBSdruKt/ENS-Small-Grants?node-id=213%3A126&scaling=min-zoom&page-id=15%3A538&starting-point-node-id=80%3A512

Design System

ENS has been working on open-sourcing a design system they’d like us to use!

ENS Design

Implementation

For this initial implementation, our core concern is speed of implementation. We want to get this ready for a working group to use in ~2 weeks. With that in mind, this is how we plan to build this: