I agree with the general idea. I’ve been thinking about similar ways for quite some time now. This goes hand in hand with some discussions and opinions shared here and there recently. This message was initially intended for the ongoing conversation on the Ark Protocol post and its NFT bridge, which I finally split into two. So I’m putting some quotes from my answer on the other post
I see [… ] NFT bridge, community owned Dao, NFT as a badge, web3 citizen-ship a good way for ATOM to bring something new and big. I’m not talking about flooding atom with low quality random inscriptions but rather creating the first ATOM NFT badge, funded and owned by the community, could have its node or owned Dao and gatekeeping/whitelisting other NFTs from other chains that also act as a badge (i’m already thinking of a few) to be trade or stored on the Hub. This way ATOM stay a center piece of the interchain web3 citizenship narrative without really competing with existing services.
I think the hub should find and fund a team to create and manage our first OG ATOM NFT as official badge for the community. All mint and royalties could be send to a community owned DAO.
You’re talking about a “badge” showing your devotion to the Hub, which could be NFTs. (ex Mad Scientists nft acting like a badge to show your support to Osmosis). Obviously here it’s not about just launching thousands of useless inscription. The badge could be use on the forum if it’s connected to keplr like you’re proposing.
I fully support the hub’s ideology of staying as minimalist as possible and focusing on core infrastructure, yet after all its struggling years, I realize that what ATOM is missing is a unified and dedicated community.
We also had interesting conversations on X with Syed, WestInPeace, Curious__J and others the other night : x.com