Nouns DAO is proposing to become a matching partner for Gitcoin Grants Round 12, commissioning artists to make 5 Moonshot Nouns, with 1 auctioned off to the Gitcoin general fund and 4 going to winners from each GR12 category. Nouns DAO seeks to fund public goods, signal their ethos to the Ethereum, crypto, open source, and builder communities, make it normative for DAOs to support both crypto and real world public goods, market to the types of creators and builders they want to attract, and demonstrate that business should be sealed with NFT miscegenation and crossover events.