A quiet shift is underway: instead of chasing likes, creators can now mint value. Platforms built on blockchains let you prove ownership of your work and get paid directly in crypto. Zora is one of the simplest on-ramps—think a Instagram style visual feed for images and videos where opening an account and posting are free. Your profile and every post can become its own on-chain asset.
On Zora there are two coin types. The creator coin represents you as a creator and lets supporters back your work. Content coins are minted per post, tying each image or video to its own market. Once there’s some trading activity, both types are routinely visible and tradable on trackers such as DEXScreener or CoinGecko; very low-volume coins may not appear until a few trades happen.
Earning is straightforward in concept. You can hold creator coins—including your own—and sell later if the price rises. As you stay active—posting, minting, and engaging—the platform grants free portions of both your creator coin and your content coins, adding to your holdings at no extra cost. Each trade in your assets generates fees, and a portion goes to you. If you invite others, you also receive a cut associated with activity from your invitees, adding a referral component. Your wallet and profile show how many units of each coin you hold, and income accrues to that same wallet. When you’re ready, you can swap those earnings into assets like ETH or a stablecoin and move funds wherever you manage them.
Right now the feed skews toward memes and digital art, with other formats emerging as you dig. It’s still early, so there’s plenty of white space to claim a niche that isn’t crowded yet. Compared with fast-moving Solana meme markets, Zora trades more leisurely: volumes are often modest and you’ll typically see only a handful of trades per day. That’s the picture in September 2025—and it may speed up as more professional traders arrive.
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Slower doesn’t mean safer. Liquidity can be thin, prices can swing, and losses are possible—sometimes just more slowly. But as a creator you don’t need to trade; just add content and you may see your on-platform income grow. And if you want to trade: This is not financial advice. Do your own research, set a budget, and treat every coin, even the fun ones, as a risky asset.
A live experiment makes this concrete. An active creator experiment (links and invite provided below) shows our creator coins and a meme-style content coin tied to a single surreal image. After about ten days, the holdings were roughly $17.44—small but real, and we always reinvest it to support other artists. OtticArt has started this experiment; so that you can check out our coins and posts to see it in action.
otticart creator coin | ticker $otticart
$otticart is the Zora/Base Network-native coin of otticart (otticmedia), a project creating one-of-a-kind AI visuals—from striking stock photos, memes and bold wall art to bespoke album covers and beautifully weird experiments. Usable, decorative, or daring.
zora profile: http://zora.co/@otticart
live-chart on coingecko:
renelyn art coin | ticker $ren_gwaps
$ren_gwaps is the Zora-native coin of renelyn_art—a Philippines-based creator of tiny AI art beauties, refined stock photos, and elegant wall art.
zora profile: https://zora.co/@renelyn_art
live-chart on coingecko:
meme coin ticker | ticker $gratismonster
The Gratis Monster is a pre-internet meme from a language twist: Dutch “gratis monster” = “free sample,” German = “free monster.” Simple by design. Now it’s on Zora—no longer free—proof that capitalism collects even the most vintage memes.
zora profile: https://zora.co/@gratismonster
live-chart on coingecko:
art post token “benchmates with cucumber head” | ticker $DS003
Absurdism meets street stillness on this park bench. The cucumber head turns the figure into a walking placeholder, while the woman’s ornate dress and lacquer-red heels insist on narrative. A toy-green sidekick punctuates their standoff like a comma. Chain-link geometry and candy hues compress space, converting idle waiting into theater—a sly riff on fashion, identity, and the strange etiquette of being seen together in public.
zora post: benchmates with cucumber head
live-chart on coingecko:
Beyond Zora, a broader on-chain creator economy is forming across social feeds, blogs, video, and launch tools. Together they sketch a future where publishing and getting paid happen in the same tap. If you’re curious, open a free account, post something you love, mint, share your invite link, and monitor your markets. Start tiny, learn fast, and keep your creative compass pointed at the work that matters to you.
