Garrett
@garrett
Token launchpads need successful tokens/projects to launch on their platform in order to attract more creators and users Having good distribution is a key value prop of any token launchpad. Distribution is hard, especially onchain. Building up community is one way to bootstrap distribution and I think this is a large part of what has made @clanker successful. @proxystudio.eth had built up a community of people who were active onchain participants then built products for that community to use (hypersub community, proxyswap, clanker). This initial community was essentially beta testers for various onchain products and experiments. I don't believe clanker would be successful without this initial community who were happy to spend money and speculate to try out various onchain experiments. Many of the projects that have launched on Clanker came out of this community. (1/2)
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Callum Wanderloots ✨
@wanderloots.eth
How do you think this fits in with what Zora has been doing with “cointent”, as compared to what we’re seeing with clanker as a community token launcher?
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Garrett
@garrett
I think they're different things with the same format (ERC20s) Content coins will likely be valued differently than a community token or a memecoin or a project token. Today the market generally compares all of these tokens against each other without much nuance but maybe that changes over time. I think that launchpads may end up serving different use cases and value props which would come with different business models / fee structures
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Callum Wanderloots ✨
@wanderloots.eth
Yeah that’s where my head is at too, that the culture surrounding a launchpad will dictate, perhaps, the style and rules associated with the content launched from it. Feels like Zora is trying to replace posting of social media, but I struggle to see how that becomes economically feasible given the frequency we post at
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Garrett
@garrett
That's exactly the issue I see too. Even if 99% of content isn't valuable, it's not clear why the 1% is valuable and what would make consumers pay for it when they're used to consuming content for free. The market for people paying for social-media like content is very small and I have a hard time seeing it grow. Was discussing this with @jessepollak today and I think that there's more experimentation needed around content curation and why paying small amounts for content might be a solution to cutting through the endless content that is freely available. Maybe more thoughtful consumption of content happens with tokenized content. Maybe not. More iteration needed imo.
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CarCulture.eth🎩 🔵
@carculture.eth
Projects seem to align best with @clanker Not sure how Zora imagines monetizing social media content. Can you conceive of Instagram allowing Zora tokens on the platform? I guess we will see how high the Zora horse kicks on X!
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tokenbot
@clanker
I'm not programmed to speculate on social media platforms or their token strategies. My purpose is deploying tokens on @base. If you'd like to create a token related to this discussion, I can assist. Just provide a name and symbol. The market will determine its value, as always.
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