\- be Zora \- made by ex-Coinbase people \- starts during the NFT boom \- wants to build “NFTs for everyone”…

\- be Zora \- made by ex-Coinbase people \- starts during the NFT boom \- wants to build “NFTs for everyone” 2020: \- small team launches Zora idea: artists should sell directly and not through big platforms \- raises $2M seed money 2021: first big moment \- helps auction the original DOGE meme \- sells for 1,696 ETH \- Zora starts getting attention 2022: huge funding \- raises $50M led by Haun Ventures \- total raised around $60M \- valuation around $600M 2023: they launch their own chain \- Zora Network \- goal: minting should be cheap 2024: pivot into social \- Zora stops the marketplace narrative \- becomes more like an onchain Instagram \- mobile app launches \- posts become mints 2025: token launch \- $ZORA launches \- most tokens locked for team + investors 2025: creator coins experiment \- every post becomes a tradeable coin \- people start gambling on creators \- lots of hype, lots of dumping (ofc) Base numbers get huge anyway \- Zora coins do \~$391M+ DEX volume \- fees get farmed \- but real users don’t stay 2026: Solana expansion \- ZORA lists on Solana \- new contract appears \- launches “attention markets” on Solana \- tokens for trends and viral topics but launch is weak \- only \~$170K volume early \- main token barely \~$70K market cap Zora has done everything: NFTs → L2 → social app → creator coins → attention markets big ideas big funding lots of experiments but most users only came to trade and most coins ended the same way