Re new Zora model:

Artists want to sell something to make an honest living.

Traders want a ticket to buy low and sell high 

The further a platform chases the latter, the less they serve the former.

There's no $1B platform play in art platforms (many have tried: DeviantArt, Gumroad, Patreon, and more).

Plenty of $10-100MM opportunities though.

Founder, designer, & product guy at /basepaint and /eigenlayer

Zora should build what has the highest likelihood of returning 5-10X to their cap table.

That's the only legally kosher answer.

But anyone who thinks there's little difference between making art and launching a token needs to have their head checked (or, better yet, go make some art).

One is a curiosity, as simple as a shitpost fires off while waiting for coffee.
The other is agony. Ecstacy. Taking years for anything substantial. Decades when you include trial and error that goes into the practice.

Cost to post for one is exponentially higher than the other. The math just doesn't pencil out. 

Coins aren't really viable format for art.

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agreed, default format NFTs are kinda garbage for writing. I love/d the Mirror/Paragraph "collect" approach, it felt like a way to bookmark pieces I enjoyed, but even then the content was _secondary_, like a hyperlink to the thing I cared about vs the thing itself.

Absolutely. Zora’s previous model was fine but even that was a tough sell for me. I’m a writer, so my art is different than what a lot of people in this space consider art. But I felt my work was less appreciated despite the extra effort than it would be publishing in lit mags and making nothing.