Gnars DAOGnars is a community-owned skateboarding DAO funding skate culture worldwide.
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What is Gnars?
Gnars is a skateboarding collective and community-owned skate brand. We support skaters, filmmakers, designers, and DIY projects by voting on proposals and funding them with community resources.
If you care about skateboarding culture and want it funded by the people who live it, you're in the right place.
βWill and Zima do a job that not only keeps Gnars social media and media presence alive, they maintain the aesthetics, branding, and awareness for the DAO, and everyone benefits from it.
Keep pushing! β¨β
βGm gm! appreciate bros. I hadnβt voted yet and wanted to respond Delay properly. Also, thanks to everyone who voted and shared honest feedback.
Bless, itβs a bit sad to see you feeling like this. I remember when we helped you and Bless Skateshop through a tougher moment... but thatβs another topic..
On metrics happy to share. But itβs important to note: before this, there wasnβt much beyond X managed by Gami. Farcaster, Instagram, blogs, videos, and activations came from us executing approved proposals. Thatβs the DAO system working, i think.. in a Gnarly Way.
On decentralization, I agree with the principle. The DAO is open, and anyone can propose and execute. Thatβs exactly what we did. Regarding votes and the treasury... I stand by my decisions. You can check my voting history, itβs all there. I act with a clear conscience, that im trying to contribute to the DAO within my principles, skills or vibe... so bro, everything is onchain and transparent for anyone to review.
On self-promotion: I donβt fully see it that way. Iβd invite you to look at our profiles and see if thereβs really self-promotion between me, Zima, Nogenta, and Will, or if weβve been highlighting different shredder, especially those active through DAO proposals... across pages and newsletters, weβre genuinely trying to build content that actually connects with the DAO. And if thereβs room to improve on that, please feel free, brother, to share feedback on Discord, drop it in the channel, or even open a Trello card so we can track it, and when i say we, should be the DAO because this is on Discord.
Also, Iβd invite you to show me again any video or production where you reached out for support. Iβve seen you active on other DAOs like Skatehive, and the βzero supportβ claim doesnβt fully match what I see. I do remember some product proposals.. a board and the Big Shot Kim glasses.. but that was a while ago. More recently, in terms of initiative (like the Gnarly skateshop idea), do you feel it really landed and had strong follow-through with the DAO? I hope this isnβt coming from frustration around the recent Gnars rounds. As you know, the outcome was decided and voted by Nouners.
I do agree Gnars should grow beyond a small circle, bringing in more skaters, shops, and contributors. But for that to happen, itβs important to plug into the flow and system align with the DAO, plan a proposal, get it passed, and deliver it well, or find other ways to contribute consistently beyond proposals. Also bro, gnars it's about Action Sports Onchain, not only Skateboard. Important to say that.
Happy to continue this on Discord...not as an attack, but to better understand this and improve together.β
βINTERESTING MECHANISM FOR REWARDING THE COMMUNITY. I think it risks the investment; it's more of a gift for the community. We need to think of a way to manage it well so that the prizes stay in the hands of different people who participate and do more than just farm dollars and NFTs. I would go for it, but it seems to me that it's something that won't last more than 3 months. These types of programs attract a lot of people but few real ones. Promising less and working more should be what we offer to athletes.β
βI voted AGAINST this prop #119 and hereβs why no bullshit.
Our belived Gnars was born to empower real skaters, crews, skateshops and the entire action sports scene worldwide not to become a recurring self-promotion platform for the same 3 guys as always !!
In their last PodMedia proposal (#97 on 29/08/2025), one of the figures from Podmedia said:
βMore than just creating content, our work is about building bridges and opening real possibilities for shredders. Itβs about inspiring the current and future generations, keeping the community spirit alive and connecting people through a collective energy that transcends borders. Itβs about giving voice to the identity and resistance this community represents, telling stories and highlighting talents that often donβt get the recognition they deserve!! Every project we work on carries this responsibility: strengthening the culture, pushing limits and showing that Gnars is so much more than a sport. Gnars is expression. Gnars is communityβ¦ blah blah blah.β
https://www.gnars.com/proposals/97
For the last 3 years these same builders have been getting sporadic or direct funding to βmaintain the MEDIAβ, but in all that time:
ZERO mentions, ZERO shoutouts, ZERO support for Bless Skateshop here in Brazil and for other people who also participate in the GNARS DAO in BR.
Not a single post on IG, X, Farcaster, Gnarly News or Zora.
(And keep in mind we create content on Zora every single day yet thereβs not one mention of our skateshop, our events, our work teaching web3 to skaters in SΓ£o Paulo, the obstacles we built, or the global pizza party we threw on 22/05 with real decentralized communities like Pizza DAO.)
https://x.com/gnars_dao
https://www.instagram.com/gnarsdao/
https://zora.co/@gnars
Meanwhile this proposal is asking for US$ 3.900 + 11 NFTs (8 of them guaranteed to their own team) to produce content that basically promotes only their stuff, Yanβs videos and their own internal narratives.
'Skate Every Day' sounds cool on paper, but the bulk of the budget and NFTs goes to the same people. As always.
This isn't decentralization, it's treasure hoarding by a closed group.
Even worse: Iβve seen these same guys voting AGAINST other holdersβ proposals calling them βtoo expensiveβ or βnot the right timeβ, preaching treasury saving and blΓ‘blΓ‘blΓ‘β¦ but when itβs for themselves, they ask for high funding to post on social media about themselves or just copy-paste/reblog random stuff from people who arenβt even in the web3 universe (Iβm tired of seeing it over and over) just to chase views. No onboarding, no bringing new athletes into the ecosystem always the same faces. Total, annoying hypocrisy.
The treasury is sitting at 8.76 ETH (~$44k). This money could go to real grants for independent skaters, athlete sponsors, physical events in SP or RJ, collabs with local skateshops like Bless and others, or new shapes on boards.wtf that actually benefit everyone. Instead weβre gonna keep funding 3 more months of self-promotion for the same 3 guys?? Enough !!
Gnars should be bigger than this. If the DAO really wants to grow, it needs to include the people who contribute outside this small inner circle, like a skateshops, crews, regular skaters and artists.
Until that changes, my vote is NO to any proposal that keeps concentrating everything in the same hands.If you want to prove this is good for actually for the community: show real metrics from the last 3 years (views, growth, skaters helped outside your group, number of onboardings, shoutouts to BR skateshops, and a breakdown of how this actually benefits anyone who isnβt part of the Pod Media team).
Bless Skateshop keeps shredding and supporting the scene with or without Gnars.
But Gnars could be so much more if it stopped being an exclusive club for the same 3 figures.
Sk8 or die with real inclusion !!β
