@jacob

Heads up We're adding trends into the @zora app and .co website soon. It will be on base and is nicely integrated with the existing creator experience. Some notes 1. I expect this to be met with some combination of disinterest and then some further hate. Fair enough. 2. We will be doing 1bps fees for Trends for the first month. This is the lowest we could safely take them. This is for trader UX, to experiment with the logical extreme of the $zora pairing model, and also like why not it'll be interesting to see. 3. You will be able to pair any of your new posts with any trend. These posts will show in a different section of your profile to delineate between them. The UX is very fun and more simple than it sounds, it’s like a tradable hashtag or TikTok sound. 4. The zorb will return. Expect to see it show back up on social channels. It never changed on the app store so that will remain. 5. Our app usage held up better than expected despite the huge amount of self-inflicted turbulence to start off the year. Moving forward I'm just going to remain centered on our own metrics and what we see vs. overrotating on commentary and other dashboards. 6. If I could go back in time I'd probably just take some time off at the beginning of the year and stay the course: we originally planned to launch Trends on Base. Instead I simply powered ahead after an already crazy year (5 years really), friends and partners shutting down, moving on and publicly pivoting across the space, and I overreacted to the market and commentary across the timeline. This was all somewhat exacerbated by the fun and speed of being able to ship with AI. 7. The Solana team is awesome, the network tech is strong and opinionated and the different tools and teams in the ecosystem are fun and high quality to work with. I hope for us to show up again there in the future in a way that plays more to our strengths and a complimentary way to our existing markets vs. all or nothing. 8. One pivot too far: we've survived and grown by making structural changes to the core experience (e.g. 1/1s to editions, editions to coins) that improve the core experience. This one was an incorrect pattern match that in hindsight I could have known due to the fact that a) it was in a different app and b) I wanted to change the brand. 9. I put our users, community and team through an unnecessary amount of turbulence through the start of the year—I'm sorry about that. I can't guarantee I won't make incorrect bets again in the future but I definitely have some lessons to minimize the pain to the extent possible. One of those lessons is to be more proactive in comms, e.g. like this post you're reading right now. 10. We simply keep building.

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