A New Chapter for Mirror
Over the past few years, Mirror pioneered a new model for publishing, one rooted in ownership, community, and composability. From crowdfunding and splits to writing NFTs and wallet-native subscriptions, Mirror gave readers, writers, and builders a place to share ideas, launch movements, and form communities. Writing, art, and projects of all kinds were funded onchain in totally new ways, inspiring a new generation of writers and creators. In 2023, Mirror and Paragraph announced plans to combi...
A New Chapter for Mirror
Over the past few years, Mirror pioneered a new model for publishing, one rooted in ownership, community, and composability. From crowdfunding and splits to writing NFTs and wallet-native subscriptions, Mirror gave readers, writers, and builders a place to share ideas, launch movements, and form communities. Writing, art, and projects of all kinds were funded onchain in totally new ways, inspiring a new generation of writers and creators. In 2023, Mirror and Paragraph announced plans to combi...
Mirror and Paragraph Join Forces to Elevate Onchain Publishing
Mirror and Paragraph are joining forces, marking a significant milestone in onchain publishing. Paragraph will take over stewardship of the Mirror product, design system, and brand. Colin Armstrong will be CEO and Denis Nazarov will remain as an advisor. Paragraph is also excited to announce that they’ve raised a $5M fundraising round with investment from Union Square Ventures and Coinbase Ventures. With this new capital and support from industry leaders like Coinbase and USV, Paragraph will ...
Mirror and Paragraph Join Forces to Elevate Onchain Publishing
Mirror and Paragraph are joining forces, marking a significant milestone in onchain publishing. Paragraph will take over stewardship of the Mirror product, design system, and brand. Colin Armstrong will be CEO and Denis Nazarov will remain as an advisor. Paragraph is also excited to announce that they’ve raised a $5M fundraising round with investment from Union Square Ventures and Coinbase Ventures. With this new capital and support from industry leaders like Coinbase and USV, Paragraph will ...
Frame your Mirror
Starting today, you can cast any Mirror URL on Farcaster to automatically turn it into a frame, so your readers can:🔔 one-click subscribe to your publication💸 automatically earn referral rewards for casting Mirror links📖 click to mint or read the whole entryWe’re extremely excited about the growth of the Farcaster community and ecosystem, and to integrate Mirror more closely. Stay tuned for more improvements!
Frame your Mirror
Starting today, you can cast any Mirror URL on Farcaster to automatically turn it into a frame, so your readers can:🔔 one-click subscribe to your publication💸 automatically earn referral rewards for casting Mirror links📖 click to mint or read the whole entryWe’re extremely excited about the growth of the Farcaster community and ecosystem, and to integrate Mirror more closely. Stay tuned for more improvements!
2023 in Review: What’s Writing Good For Anyway?
A lot of writing about GPTs and LLMs in 2023 asked whether writing itself might become obsolete. In the same year, media companies cut 20,342 jobs. 2023 was a year where broadcast feed social networks like Lens, Warpcast, and Bluesky dented X/Twitter’s dominance. Yet despite having more platforms than ever to broadcast one's ideas, more and more people sought smaller, niche communities online. As a web3 publishing protocol built on credibly neutral infrastructure, Mirror is in many ways ...
2023 in Review: What’s Writing Good For Anyway?
A lot of writing about GPTs and LLMs in 2023 asked whether writing itself might become obsolete. In the same year, media companies cut 20,342 jobs. 2023 was a year where broadcast feed social networks like Lens, Warpcast, and Bluesky dented X/Twitter’s dominance. Yet despite having more platforms than ever to broadcast one's ideas, more and more people sought smaller, niche communities online. As a web3 publishing protocol built on credibly neutral infrastructure, Mirror is in many ways ...
Reflections on Content Discovery: Mirror's Evolving Homepage
More writing, music, podcasts, and art is released into the world every day — faster than ever before. How do you keep up with all this new content? How do you separate good ideas from flashes in the pan? How can you keep up with writers with alpha or the artists you admire? This problem of content overload is not unique to web3, but especially challenging given the ubiquity of new information in our industry and so much activity still happening on Twitter/X and Discord. Over the past few mon...
Reflections on Content Discovery: Mirror's Evolving Homepage
More writing, music, podcasts, and art is released into the world every day — faster than ever before. How do you keep up with all this new content? How do you separate good ideas from flashes in the pan? How can you keep up with writers with alpha or the artists you admire? This problem of content overload is not unique to web3, but especially challenging given the ubiquity of new information in our industry and so much activity still happening on Twitter/X and Discord. Over the past few mon...
