Nouns, Delivery At Dawn, and Collectible Media

Simon argues that Delivery At Dawn, a Nouns-funded animation, shows collectible media can work at larger scale, particularly when sales also fund open source development. The Protocol Guild proposed that Nouns fund a short animation celebrating the EIP 4844 Ethereum upgrade and asked for $400,000. Released as an open edition NFT through Zora with proceeds split 80/20, the project drew over 31,000 collectors who raised about 200 ETH, sending $529,000 to open source developers and $130,000 back to Nouns after the platform fee.