i am excited by zora's creator coin update. 

imo most "socialfi" attempts to-date have failed because traditional social tokens lack any underlying economics; they are closer to memecoins and just move up and down reflexively, most of the time burj khalifa-ing after the meta shifts on to something new.

zora's update shifts social tokens one step closer to investing in a creator business instead of investing in a creator memecoin, with the first revenues being fees generated from the content coins paired in the creator token.

mechanism-wise this feels like the end state to me, the hard part now (always has been etc.) is growing adoption of the coining behavior - for the above to be true, creators still need to actually coin stuff and traders/investors still need to actually buy content coins. 

gg to the team.

Zora

Wanna give a huge shoutout to @zora for constantly pushing the needle.

The vision for an onchain social app is closer than it's ever been.

The architecture feels right. Being able to buy viral posts and now profiles backed by a platform token is the strongest flywheel we've seen on this concept so far.

What remains now is the quality of content and creators on the network which will inevitably grow in time.

When I coined my Midnight Diner post I was quickly reminded that most people in crypto only care about things going 100x - not necessarily about what the content itself represents.

The same applies to creator coins - where most holders today are buying for a hopeful future gain.

Anyone who's been around the block knows this to be the case and with it a lot of built up stigma and baggage around having your own coin.

All that said - I'm willing to bet that Zora cracks the code in time and that having a coin for your profile doesn't feel as "all-in" as it does today.

We all have Tiktok, Instagram, Twitter and Youtube accounts.

The analog I'm using is that your profile on Zora is like your profile on Instagram.

Still a lot of weight around the first moment of launch but in time we'll come to see that those who consistently use the product will win.

Congrats to the Zora team on launch and to a new chapter for creator coins (a vision many of us have had for 5+ years)!

A social network for the new creator economy.

Already over 1,111 @zora creator coins activated

Dialectic with Jackson Dahl

Zora is a cryptonative social network.

We've designed and implemented a simple and powerful token system that connects it all.

+ $posts paired with $creator 
+ $creators paired with $zora

You can choose to hold and trade at whatever level you'd like: the posts, the creators, the whole ecosystem.

I just activated my creator coin 

zora.co/jacob

Your posts are valuable, now your profile is too.

Creator Coins are now on Zora.

Creator coins are now live on Zora. 

You can explore all of them here:
zora.co/explore/new-creators

I just activated my creator coin on @zora 
Check it out $drukqs

Putting the final finishing touches on this release for creators.

Should be a Happy Friday to round out the week :)

my career path (quote cast with yours!):

1) junior management consultant
2) first employee at Envoy (iPad guest book software); mostly sales
3) biz dev at coinbase, ended up doing a bunch of stuff
4) farcaster

not including summer jobs growing up or campus jobs

my career path

1) waiter at coffee shop
2) data analyst
3) hacking on BTC and ETH projects in college + tweeting about it
4) intern at coinbase, ended up doing a bunch of stuff
5) zora

Notification filtering/tabbing is finally at Zora!

Once you tokenize the most atomic unit you can then tokenize and bundle at every level of abstraction above it. 

In the case of social: 

Start with the posts, then you can tokenize creators, trends and memes that emerge from them with strong flywheels and novel economics.

We’ve been heads down on a new @zora  release. 

It should be a meaningful improvement for creators and traders. 

Excited to be rolling it out this week.

Manipulating this market would be a worthwhile use of $10k-$100k by Israel. 

Spike the odds, disseminate among Iranian dissidents, and encourage revolution.

Im curious to see where manipulation of prediction markets nets out given their increasing prominence as a source of truth. 

For elections—where the odds could have a non zero impact on votes similar to polls—you could see a significant % of campaign advertising spend find its way into just betting on their candidate winning: becoming a literal war of attrition. 

The above line of thinking only makes sense if the perception of current odds has a meaningful impact on voter decision making, but that doesn’t seem that far from reality.

$jacob

@jacob