Zora

In celebration of the one-year anniversary of the Zora protocol and the initial release of zorb, we invite you to mint a commemorative NFT for your collection. Minting is open for 20+22 hours on New Years Day and cements your status as an early supporter of Zora.


[zorb.dev](https://zorb.dev/) by [zora.co](https://zora.co).

ZORBS by ZORA

✧ Sparks: a new unit of measurement for Ethereum.

We spend an increasing amount of time dealing with really small numbers onchain.

We need easier words and numbers to make it accessible to more people.

Sparks are simple and energetic.

Read more: https://zora.co/writings/sparks

A lot of thinking went into finding the right word for this. 

We tried a lot, and when we came across Sparks it immediately hit. 

Typing and saying ✧100 is so much nicer than 0.0001 ETH

100 ✨ 

Or 

100 ❇️ 

What is the official Sparks emoji sir?

yep! hopefully not a similar fate though.

I think the difference this time around is that there is a huge number of things priced in ETH, whereas that is not as much the case with BTC.

We'll see though.

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Haha love the planning for 3 ooms of appreciation

i think that would work well for today, but i can see the space living 3 orders of magnitude lower in the next few years. A lot of memecoins are already there for example.

I wonder why did you guys go for the 0.000001 unit specifically? 

thinking about final user UX wouldn't around the 0.0001 unit be more interesting? 

"the mint costs only a negligible 7 sparks" or "✧7" would seem more friendly than "700 sparks" or "✧700".

just ooc what were some of the alternatives?

Such a huge fan of y'alls philosophy and approach to doing things

Thank you (and the Zora team) for being such a big source of inspiration and reflection for the space, sincerely

Respect the thought behind this and hope sparks sticks

10 sparks is about $3. Yeah that’s useful

You can remember the denomination by:
0.0001
sparks

I really like it. In the future I could see people using it as a verb like venmo even. “Spark me later”

Love the thoughts & criteria here. Lots to be learned from that list for other projects. Thanks for sharing!

0.01 = 10000 sparks
Or 
0.001 = 1000 sparks 

These being the more common unit of accounts at this time makes a lot of sense. How do we plan to get this widely adopted?

Sounds interesting. Hopefully it catches on.

Really, really appreciate the research that went into this! I'm a huge fan of having a good word for this denomination ❇️💚 (it sparks joy)!

I totally agree! Finding the perfect word can make such a difference in how something is perceived. And Sparks just has that special touch to it. Typing and saying ✧100 definitely sounds so much cooler than 0.0001 ETH. #wordsmatter #sparksup #positivity