Spotlight curates ideas and experiments worth collecting. Every week, the Forefront community curates a new capsule in an effort to highlight great work and support creators publishing onchain.

CAPSULE 007: With Zora Rewards, free mints can now be profitable for creators. With L2s, they can be almost too easy to collect for fans and community members. What new behaviors does the free mint unlock? How is it changing the way that creators interact with their communities? Do free mints fundamentally change the nature of collecting as we know it?

These are ideas and experiments worth collecting. Collect to support creators publishing onchain.

Based in Curation

Essays can be open editions too. In this piece, tylr explores the resonance between consumer-crypto principles and curation, while highlighting Base's potential as a home for consumer-oriented yet decentralized products. This is well worth the read for anyone building in consumer crypto, and serves as a meaningful experiment for distribution of written work.

Meme

Memes are a higher order level idea. There can be many different competing ideas that are actually aligned under a shared meme. For example, an industry is a meme, and a company is a particular instance of an idea within that meme. We're just scratching the surface of what it means to organize at the meme level.

Onchain Summer Energy

In celebration of Onchain Summer, proceeds from this free mint go toward funding ENERGY: a public arts collective on Zora. The token unlocks the power of Zora’s protocol fees in creating meaningful funding for creators and communities while reaching wide audiences for collecting.

UFO

Speaking of funding creators, UFO is at the frontier of onchain podcasting and audio. This piece from UFO Club is also a free mint meant to support the creators of the podcast and the broader community of listeners and artists. The art direction of the UFO brand makes this a must-collect.

CULTURE AT PLAY

BLVKHVND is creating an emerging ecosystem for onchain esports organizations. After breaking history as the first DAO to win a professional world championship, the team is driven to make the HVND fully owned and stewarded by everyone on the internet to build upon that success. Free mints are one way to drive value back to the community, and collecting this token is a show of support for the future of esports.

A PERSONAL MANIFESTO

What if tokens could make firm our values? Embedding your belief system onchain is one way to ensure that folks interacting with you understand your personal philosophy as a creator – forever. Jesse’s manifesto sets a precedent, and serves as a guiding light for other creators and builders on Base.

Onchain Summer

ThePark is an onchain music collective. The group produced this song in celebration of Onchain Summer and put it onchain. Collecting the NFT is a collection of a moment in time, and a signal of resonance toward the emerging culture of collective creation happening across the blockchain.

Summer Zorb

Zora x Base collabed on this Summer Zorb. Again a free mint, and again a moment in time in celebration of the onchain activity of August 2023. Summer Zorbs will likely be a landmark moment for the mass transition of creative energy onchain from L1s to L2s.

Spotlight curates ideas and experiments worth collecting. Every week, the Forefront community curates a new capsule in an effort to highlight great work and support creators publishing onchain.

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