Builder Reputation, DAO Coordination, and On-Chain Identity with Brian Flynn Noun O' Talk

Today I sit down with Brian Flynn, the CEO and co-founder of RabbitHole. In this episode we discuss on-chain identity and reputation, how DAOs can coordinate better, and then we deep dive into Nouns. We talk about experimenting with governance, lessons learned from Prop House, and much more.

Noun O' Talk is the podcast all about NounsDAO. The host, Christian, interviews members of the DAO and project builders in the ecosystem. We hear about how they came to Nouns, what they're working on, and what they see for the future of Nouns. You can listen to past episodes at nounotalk.com. The cover art is by Messhup of Nounsense and the Lost Nouns team is cdt_eth, 12bnoun, and Messhup.

Chapters:
00:01:14 Brian’s past life as a professional gamer
00:05:11 The value of seeking truth in Brian’s life
00:06:10 Brian’s relationship to writing
00:10:54 Employee #1 at OpenSea
00:11:52 What an average day looks like for Brian
00:13:47 Dapper Labs and early days of RabbitHole
00:16:59 What is RabbitHole
00:18:46 How protocols get involved with RabbitHole
00:21:21 Earning tokens and learning web3 skills with RabbitHole
00:23:33 Keeping up with everything happening in crypto
00:27:00 The issues with reputation and identity today
00:31:03 Demonstration of knowledge with on-chain reputation
00:34:20 Payments and other types of on-chain reputation
00:35:25 Advantages of being doxxed vs pseudonymous
00:37:45 Deciphering what on-chain data is useful to parse for reputation
00:39:25 DAO structure, coordination, and contributor models
00:43:01 How DAOs should attract builders for incentives beyond financial
00:44:47 Prop House, mandate rounds, and other structures for contributors to get initial funding
00:55:25 What is Prop Lot
00:57:22: Brian’s takeaways from Lil Nouns and Nouns proposals
01:01:11 What Brian thinks needs to be built for NounsDAO
01:02:25 NounsDAO and funding public goods
01:05:35 Governance fatigue and delegation
01:11:45 Zero-knowledge proofs and NounsDAO

Topics discussed:
Counterstrike
OpenSea
Rabbithole
Prop House
Nouns Mandates
Prop Lot
Lil Nouns
Nounlets

Relevant links:
Follow Christian on Twitter @cdt_eth
Listen to past episodes: nounotalk.com
To learn more about Nouns: nouns.wtf

Credits:
Hosted by Christian (cdt_eth)
Produced by brileigh.eth and matthewbrooks.eth
Cover art by Messhup
Music by Oh Jeremiah