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

An optimistic case for the new Zora model

1. Everything that can be a token, will be a token. This trend is accelerating because the largest capital market in the world—the US—is finally has a pro-token regulatory environment. (Using coin and token interchangeably here.)

2. If you create digital media, you can immediately can earn money. No bank account, payment process or platform (Zora contracts are a protocol).

3. Additionally, if you create digital media that goes viral, i.e. captures internet-scale attention, you can make a lot of money. Traditionally the only beneficiaries of internet-scale attention are the web2 social media platforms—they monetize via attention (time spent) and they minimally share the upside with the creators.

4. Coins (ERC20) are the most composable primitive in crypto. Order of magnitude more than NFTs (ERC721). Leads to weirder / emergent use cases.

5. Zora open editions fee distribution stack is underrated for curator / app layer monetization.

Farcaster’s growth reminds me of the early days of Twitter, except this time, the incentives and architecture are fundamentally different. The question isn’t whether decentralized social can work, but rather - what’s the inflection point where it has to work?

History suggests networks scale when they hit a ‘pull event’, something that forces mass adoption. What’s that moment for Farcaster? Is it creator monetisation? A breakout app? Something else entirely?

#2 could represent “a moment”. Where clanker has made it easy to create a token, Zora makes it two steps in one — and it won’t be the last.

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

#2 could represent “a moment”. Where clanker has made it easy to create a token, Zora makes it two steps in one — and it won’t be the last.  

https://warpcast.com/alexgarcia/0x744c327c