Tokens create open markets for attention.
Open markets allow billions of dollars in platform ad revenues to flow through the creator economy and not just to a few corporations.
Thank you Solana for giving me the stage to share Zora's vision and opportunity at Accelerate 2025!
Cursor MCP integrations are getting so good
you can stop shipping products as versioned releases
and start live streaming products as a broadcast
ship as fast as you can think
Introducing CDPod—where we go under the hood with builders shaping the crypto ecosystem.
In the first episode, we spoke with tyson, CTO and Co-Founder of $zora, about how coining works, composability in crypto, the challenges of building in Web3, and much more.
Zora is a cryptonative social network.
We've designed and implemented a simple and powerful token system.
+ $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 system.
Recursive and composable value discovery
Each token pair (ETH ↔︎ ZORA ↔︎ CREATOR ↔︎ POST) enables participation and exposure at any level of granularity
30 minutes before zora made the announcement, tyson jumped on 11AM to break the news of their latest release to align collectors & creators.
"We're introducing creator coins. What ends up happening is a creator coin that acts as an index of all of the posts by a creator
huge cognitive dissonance between my replies being filled with hatred about coining content and creator coins and $zora being the most downloaded onchain social app in the world right now
Great piece on Tokens vs. Equity from Variant.
This was top of mind when launching $zora, here's the model we have now:
+ Quote pair: connect all the value of creators and posts into $zora
+ Fees: revenue that can be used for Labs, Rewards, buybacks etc.
The $zora creator flywheel in action.
tinysoul made a viral post, and since it’s paired in their coin it it shot them up to number #5 on the leaderboard.