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

What is something that has surprised you about Zora?

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How both hard and fun it has been to work on

I am suprised by how fast other dApps (like Farcaster) are integrating with Zora

Protocol rewards are genius - I see big things coming

How it dare changing the rules of the game regarding app chains

a few things that Zora has pulled off that I find surprising/impressive:
- pivot from the (narrow) NFT marketplace mental model to a much broader mental model of onchain creator tools
- Zora L2 as the defacto “art chain”
- making creators money by default + even for free mints thanks to protocol rewards

How it always manages to stay fresh and on top of its game in this fast-paced arena, where so many others have gone stale.

as someone who works at zora: 
how empowered everyone is to pursue ideas

as a product:
how important big little details are when it comes to delighting users

How open, honest and honest easy it is to talk with people on the team given the historically cool and mysterious branding.

After Virgil Abloh passed his team open sourced his early visions for a curation led DAO and Zora is cited in that paper

After Virgil Abloh passed his team open sourced his early visions for a curation led DAO and Zora is cited in that paper 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/sgrtgh3zbhidpu5/“SKYSCRAPER”%20V2%2004.06.2021.pdf?dl=0

This year I noticed one interesting thing: Zora is involved with nearly every significant NFT activity. 
Just name a few:
Opepen and Checks
Base onchain summer
Nouns

I’m surprised how long it took me to fully appreciate the vision

great to see how Zora has reinvented itself coming from the previous Zora marketplace !

The support on latin american artists... thanks on that!

Adoption for project milestone based NFTs. 

Did not think of that use case and love it.

the willingness to experiment & quality of the people working there

How long it took for the culture of Zora to catch on... And how long it's still taking in some ways