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Creator coins
Creator attention becomes tradable. Creator earnings and holder earnings remain separate.
How creator coins work
Creator coins are tradable tokens linked to an author's profile. Content coins are linked to individual posts, such as a photo, video or text. The creator meta brings these markets together: people buy tokens associated with a creator or a particular work.
- Asset
- Tokens associated with a profile or an individual publication.
- Zora format
- ERC-20 tokens: a wallet holds a quantity of interchangeable units of each coin.
- Coin identity
- The network and token contract address identify the asset; its data connects it to a creator and media.
Build the current meta
A creator profile or a piece of content
Participate in growing attention
The creator’s audience
Repeat buyers and creator receipts
Fans and traders; external demand requires evidence
Zora: creator coins and content coins
Zora creates separate markets for a creator’s profile and for individual posts: photos, videos or text.
- Profile
- Each profile has one creator coin; individual posts have their own content coins.
- Creator allocation
- Of a profile coin’s one billion tokens, half goes to the market and half is released to the creator gradually over five years.
- Payments
- Trading rewards are converted into ZORA and sent to the designated recipients.
By default, a content coin trades against its creator’s coin, and the creator coin trades against ZORA. This connects interest in a particular work with the market for the whole profile. Posts created with a custom trading pair use a different pairing asset.
Under the current model for creator and content coins, trading fees go to the creator, apps and participants that helped create the coin or make the trade, and the Zora and Doppler protocols. Part stays in the pool, the reserves of assets used for swaps. The creator earns fees from trading; a buyer acquires a token and can sell it at the available market price.
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Creator coins
Who gets paid
The token buyer, product customer and fee recipient may be different people. The diagram shows what each pays for and receives under the project’s rules.
- 01Payer
Fan or trader
- 02Action
Trades a creator coin or a content coin
- 03Payment or fee
Trading fee
- 04Recipient
Creator, platform and other designated recipients
- 05What the holder receives
A tradeable asset; creator income rights require a separate basis
Money in the market
Fans, traders and liquidity providers.
Money from use
Trading fees; external sales of the creator's services are a separate flow.
Who can earn while the token falls
The creator and platform can collect fees while a coin buyer loses money.
How does a Zora content coin differ from an ERC-721 NFT?
A Zora content coin is an ERC-20 token. A buyer acquires a quantity of that coin, and its units are interchangeable within the same contract. The associated photo or video appears in the coin's media data.
An ERC-721 A token with its own identifier representing a collectible, an in-game item or another digital asset. The blockchain records which address owns the token. records ownership of a specific item identified by its contract address and token ID on that network. The difference is what the wallet holds: a balance of one content coin, or an individually identified NFT.
What connects a coin to its creator and publication?
Zora's coin data is retrieved using the network and contract address. It includes the coin's name and symbol, the creator's profile and associated media.
Separate coin contracts have separate balances and trading histories, even when their posts belong to the same author. The contract address therefore identifies the particular market behind a familiar profile name or image.
Mechanism profile
- What was tokenized
- A creator profile or a post. A creator token and a content token are different assets.
- The promise
- Enter before a creator grows, belong to their community and monetise attention.
- The proposed new buyer
- Fans, content collectors and the creator’s audience.
- How to check demand
- Purchases outside the creator’s close circle. Fees paid to the creator are not returns for holders.
- What worked
- Social distribution, trading and payments to creators.
- Where value becomes misleading
- Popularity was confused with token rights to money; creator fees were presented as holder income.
- Inherited mechanism
- Social tokens, meme launch platforms and commerce around content.
Related tools and ecosystems
Inherited from earlier cycles
Sources
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