My knee jerk reaction to content coins was:
- hyperfinancialization bad
- its turning social media into pumpfun

while theres truth to that, the benefits outweigh the costs...

🤌 CURATION 🤌

in the age of AI slop & yap incentives,
noise is the no.1 problem on social media

Zora solves it by turning curators into investors.

Instead of expecting free labor sorting through all the slop - they turn it into a game of searching for gold

Not to mention all the downstream effects of fans able to invest in favorite creators & creators able to quantify contributions to their success..... 👀

On a crusade to spread the gospel of The World Computer by transmuting case studies into purple pills like 👇
https://builtonethereum.network

How does any of this create value that doesn't primarily get extracted away from creature & curators unless they are master traders watching the charts?

Speculative value creation only rewards value extractors. 

Isn't that the lesson about liquidity pools that we've learned? 

Curation is the path forward, I agree. But I just don't see how speculating on content/creator coins gets us there.

For better or worse, i think theres no better way to solve noise..

Second best would be for every like to be a simple tip + contribution log, but that makes it too one-sided of a relationship

All other person-coin projects failed, but none had tight integration with social media, so maaaaaaybe this time is different

That's true but I can't help but wonder if we will see it or if the extraction loop will always cut it short before it can get there.

Maybe speculation has a place in the discovery process, but the value creation, capture, and distribution I think needs to be something more tangible and solid in order to be sustainable.

Time will tell I guess!
For now, we‘ve only seen degens gambling on people who are already popular, resulting in pumps & dumps

What we havent seen is actual fans religiously collecting their favorite artist‘s coins, while the creator slowly comes up into famehood