The Ticker is $ZORA

We are excited to announce $ZORA, a memecoin for the Zora community, launching in spring 2025.

We believe crypto can make the internet free and valuable. That's why we’ve built Zora—an easy, fun and rewarding place to coin your content. We are honored to celebrate the community that has made Zora what it is today. This is an exciting milestone for Zora and everyone who has been on this journey with us.

Since before we were even formally Zora, we have been on a multiyear journey of the best way to bring creativity onchain through tokenization.

To take a look back at our history:

• 2019: We experimented with tokenizing physical goods as digital fashion house Saint Fame.
• 2020: We productized the Saint Fame concept. Zora was created as a way for artists, musicians, and designers to continue to tokenize physical goods. Notably, the first project released with Zora was $TAPE, a token that could be redeemed for a limited-edition set of 100 cassette tapes by DJ and producer RAC.
• 2021: We built auction houses for artists to sell 1/1 artworks, including Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst for their project Holly+. A particularly large moment for us was when the original DOGE meme was auctioned with Zora, earning 1696 ETH, making it the highest selling meme at the time.
• 2022: Launched the onchain NFT marketplace protocol; a composable, immutable, universally accessible and censorship-resistant secondary marketplace for media.
• 2023: We introduced more powerful tools to help creators bring their imagination onchain with Open Editions, which were used to create projects such as Jack Butcher's Checks and Opepen.
• 2024: The release of the Zora app placed us as a leader in the emerging onchain social category. We made it easy for creators to mint their media on mobile.

Today, Zora continues empowering onchain creativity with new tools by making it simple for anyone to turn their content into instantly tradeable coins.

Over this time, Zora has had over 2.4M+ collectors and 618K+ creators generate $27.7M+ in rewards while content on Zora has driven $376M+ in secondary volume.

Zora’s product and protocol innovations have also been widely adopted—our ecosystem includes teams building exciting consumer apps using powerful SDKs with an integrated business and distribution model. Today, Zora protocol supports Base, Zora Network, OP Mainnet, Arbitrum One, Ethereum, and Blast, to power apps from Artrun's artcoin marketplace to Songcamp's collective experimental music studio, and Surreal's content discovery network, among others.

What started as an experiment six years ago has turned into something larger than we could have imagined. Thank you to everyone who has realized the vision of Zora with us this far.

$ZORA Details and Allocation

In commemoration of the Zora ecosystem’s continuous support, $ZORA is planned to launch with a total supply of 10,000,000,000 on Base. $ZORA is for fun only and does not entitle its holders to any governance rights or a claim on any equity ownership in Zora or its products.

$ZORA is planned to be allocated as follows:

The first snapshot was taken today, March 3, 2025 at 9am EST/2pm UTC, and a second snapshot will be taken three days before $ZORA goes live this spring.

Claim details and additional information will be announced at a later date. For more information on our tokenomics and unlocking schedules, please visit our support page here.

To start creating on Zora, complete your profile, coin your content, and have fun at zora.co.

This moment celebrates Zora’s belief in more open and equitable systems for creators and fundamentally rediscovering the power of the internet.

Ours truly,

Reminders

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Disclaimer

The information provided in this communication may be subject to change without prior notice, and is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell, solicitation to buy, or financial advice, regarding any securities, tokens, or other financial instruments. This communication is not intended to be a solicitation anywhere not permitted by applicable law.