Characters is a global, community-run organization that uses money raised by the community to fund open-source technology, art and public-works projects. Characters positively impacts the world by funding ideas and fostering permissionless collaboration.

Ownership in Characters is accessible to anyone. Characters rewards creators, builders, and community participants with money and voting power, and the community builds out the Characters vision, together.

Anyone can earn a living and decision making power in Characters for their efforts.

There's a way for everyone to get involved with Characters. Whether you're an artist, athlete, scientist, professional, academic, engineer, organizer, designer, content creator, educator, worker etc, Characters funds people and projects of all sizes and domains.

If you're excited about Characters, there's a place for you.

Our community raises money through the sale of Characters and votes. The money raised is held in our community treasury, and we collectively decide how to spend it to further our mission.

Artists create Characters, and the community votes on their favorite art piece. Characters artwork is original work and stored directly onchain (not IPFS). Every day, the community chooses the next Character to send to auction.

Character auction proceeds are split between the treasury and the artist behind each Character. Artists who have their art auctioned receive their split of proceeds in the form of BOP and ETH. The proportion of votes and ETH artists receive is configurable by Characters DAO.

BOP are a nontransferable token that tracks your contributions to Characters. Votes can be purchased at any time, by anyone. The price of votes is determined by a continuous VRGDA. On average, 1000 votes are sold every day.

All Character holders are members of Characters DAO. One Character is equal to 1,000 votes. The treasury is controlled exclusively by Character and BOP holders via governance.

Characters is inspired by Nouns. 2 Characters, every day, forever.

Many of the contracts are a fork of Nouns.

Like Nouns, Characters is a community-run organization that uses money raised by the community to fund open-source technology, art and public-works projects.

Characters committed at the protocol level to a targeted issuance of BOP every day through a VRGDA, and an auction of 2 Characters every day, forever.

Characters is CC0. No one owns the brand, and you can use it any way you want, without asking for permission from anyone.

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Characters is important because it incentivizes anyone to help build a positive future for everyone. Instead of working for a corporation with a sole pursuit of profit, you can spend your time and energy growing community-led impact in the world that benefits the public.

Characters empowers you to spend your time building for a better future.

Characters is a collection of emoticons, and it's all about going the extra mile to be silly, playful and expressive in online social interactions.