The past few years have shown us one clear truth: in crypto, every new meta creates its own leverage machine.
ICOs created token leverage on ideas.
DeFi created leverage on yield.
Memecoins created leverage on attention.

Now, treasury strategies have established themselves as the current meta - a leveraged bet on the underlying tokens themselves.
They give investors a way to get no-liquidation leverage on a thesis. In addition to financing the acquisition and lockup of a coin you’re also buying a reflexive machine that accumulates more of that coin and compounds the outcome back to holders.

The buzziest example of the last month? PunkStrat: a Uniswap v4-powered protocol that used a simple tax mechanic to build a treasury of CryptoPunks and deliver buybacks to token holders.
Now, that same model comes to the creator coin economy, through Zora Strategy ($ZSTR).

Zora Strategy runs entirely onchain, powered by a Uniswap v4 hook on the ZSTR/USDC pool.

Here’s how it works:

1. Every trade in the pool pays a tax that goes directly to the protocol.

2. Once the treasury reaches 5,000 USDC, the protocol automatically selects a Zora creator coin to buy.

   • The selection isn’t random — it’s data-driven, analyzing creator metrics like followers, coin age, trading volume, and posting habits on Zora.

3. After acquiring a position, it sets a take-profit target (e.g., +20%).

4. When that target is hit, the position is sold.

5. The proceeds are used to buy back and burn $ZSTR, permanently reducing supply.

6. Whoever calls the sell function gets 1.5% of the proceeds as a reward.

That’s the entire flywheel:
Volume → Fees → Creator Coin Buys → Profits → Buybacks → Scarcity → Repeat.

It’s permissionless, self-sustaining, and fully onchain.

Treasury-style protocols have exploded because they do one thing incredibly well:
They turn belief into compounding conviction.

When you hold a treasury token like $ZSTR, you’re holding an exposure amplifier — a way to benefit from a thesis without liquidation risk, while the protocol itself compounds returns and enforces discipline.

We’ve seen this in action:

• Microstrategy pioneered the idea back in 2020.

• Fundstrat for ETH and other strategies for Solana and other majors have popped up in the last year.

• PunkStrat for CryptoPunks — the first fully onchain strategy and a breakout category defining asset that made treasury strategies non-dilutive and deflationary.

$ZSTR extends this meta to the creator economy — a sector that’s both early and primed for reflexivity.

The Zora team has been building for over five years, with one mission: make creators rich using crypto tools.
They’ve launched auctions, NFTs, markets, and finally, creator coins. Since their launch earlier this year over 4 million creator coins have been created with almost $700 million dollars in trading volume.
The team has resources, commitment, and a history of shipping through cycles.

The Base ecosystem is now the distribution engine for Zora. Just in last 2 months Coinbase pivoted their wallet app specifically into a creator coining app on Base, built around Zora’s infrastructure.
Crypto twitter is still fading the Base pivot but fading crypto twitter will rarely steer you wrong. Betting against Coinbase-level distribution is historically a losing trade, doubly so since this is targeted not at the gambling addicts of ct but the normal people of the world who would be ecstatic to get paid $10 whenever they post a great photo.

The new Base App rollout has barely started. They started with content coins and creator coins are next. As those roll out the market size and penetration will blow up massively.

Zora (the token) had a massive summer run then retraced 70% alongside the rest of the alt market.
Now it’s consolidating, Base is gaining traction, and Coinbase has turned the lights on.
If Q4 follows the typical crypto seasonal pattern (risk-on rotation, smaller sector pumps), Zora sits in the perfect position: a liquid, narrative-rich midcap (~$330M) with major catalysts — Robinhood listing (just happened today, October 9th), Base app rollout, and live-stream features rumored to be on deck.

Creator coins are barely understood by the market. Half of crypto traders have heard of them, much less have actually tried them and the target market is only just starting to hear about the idea.
$ZSTR positions you as an owner of the early fund capturing that asymmetry. You don’t have to pick the winners; you own the fund that’s farming them algorithmically.

The brilliance of Zora Strategy is its simplicity:

• It automates the grind of finding good creators.

• It uses real onchain data to allocate.

• It only sells in profit, protecting creator charts and therefore sentiment.

• Every sale funds buybacks — straight back into the chart.

• And every acquisition creates social virality.

Imagine being a creator on Zora and waking up to see a $5,000 market buy on your coin.
You instantly earn rewards. Your chart rips. You share it. Your followers notice.
That post brings in new traders, which drives volume, which refills the treasury — which leads to another buy, another post, another feedback loop.

This is the “social liquidity flywheel” in action.
Every buy creates visibility. Every visibility drives more buys.
And all of it compounds into the same endpoint: buybacks and burns.

Let’s be honest: this is early.
$ZSTR is three days old, ~$120k market cap, and largely undiscovered.
That means:

• High volatility,

• Dependence on volume to kickstart the treasury loop,

• And a genuine cold-start problem.

But those are the same conditions that defined early degen blue chips before they broke out — the stage where conviction > consensus.

The math is simple:
If treasury-style projects having staying power as a dominant narrative,
and creator coins become the next onchain frontier for social and media,
then $ZSTR is positioned at the intersection of both.

Zora Strategy is an adaptive protocol — a necessity in this fast moving industry.
The hook tax mechanism makes it continuously self-funding.
The treasury logic can evolve, from simple take-profit strategies to cross-sector allocation, derivatives, even AI-driven decision models.
But the token ($ZSTR) itself is immutable: it can only be bought and burned.

That makes it scarce, flexible and leveraged — an ideal vehicle to express a long-term bet on the entire creator coin ecosystem.

If you believe:

• That Base + Zora will define the next era of onchain social (or at the very least have near term momentum),

• That creator coins are established and will continue to grow,

• And that smart treasury protocols are the most efficient way to gain exposure to a broad meta,

then $ZSTR is a direct, asymmetric way to express that thesis.

It might start as a narrative play. But its also so much more.
Zora Strategy is an autonomous machine that captures exposure, rides the winners, and compounds returns back to holders forever.

Zora Strategy ($ZSTR) is live on Base CA: 0x19CEd96F427b67B83DbF36233620D5aC28C0414C

Due to its custom hook and dex router's slow uptake to index such pools its recommended to trade via the official website: www.zorastrategy.fun

Disclosure: the author holds a significant position of $ZSTR and is extremely bullish in the mid to long term.

The past few years have shown us one clear truth: in crypto, every new meta creates its own leverage machine.
ICOs created token leverage on ideas.
DeFi created leverage on yield.
Memecoins created leverage on attention.

Now, treasury strategies have established themselves as the current meta - a leveraged bet on the underlying tokens themselves.
They give investors a way to get no-liquidation leverage on a thesis. In addition to financing the acquisition and lockup of a coin you’re also buying a reflexive machine that accumulates more of that coin and compounds the outcome back to holders.

The buzziest example of the last month? PunkStrat: a Uniswap v4-powered protocol that used a simple tax mechanic to build a treasury of CryptoPunks and deliver buybacks to token holders.
Now, that same model comes to the creator coin economy, through Zora Strategy ($ZSTR).

Zora Strategy runs entirely onchain, powered by a Uniswap v4 hook on the ZSTR/USDC pool.

Here’s how it works:

1. Every trade in the pool pays a tax that goes directly to the protocol.

2. Once the treasury reaches 5,000 USDC, the protocol automatically selects a Zora creator coin to buy.

   • The selection isn’t random — it’s data-driven, analyzing creator metrics like followers, coin age, trading volume, and posting habits on Zora.

3. After acquiring a position, it sets a take-profit target (e.g., +20%).

4. When that target is hit, the position is sold.

5. The proceeds are used to buy back and burn $ZSTR, permanently reducing supply.

6. Whoever calls the sell function gets 1.5% of the proceeds as a reward.

That’s the entire flywheel:
Volume → Fees → Creator Coin Buys → Profits → Buybacks → Scarcity → Repeat.

It’s permissionless, self-sustaining, and fully onchain.

Treasury-style protocols have exploded because they do one thing incredibly well:
They turn belief into compounding conviction.

When you hold a treasury token like $ZSTR, you’re holding an exposure amplifier — a way to benefit from a thesis without liquidation risk, while the protocol itself compounds returns and enforces discipline.

We’ve seen this in action:

• Microstrategy pioneered the idea back in 2020.

• Fundstrat for ETH and other strategies for Solana and other majors have popped up in the last year.

• PunkStrat for CryptoPunks — the first fully onchain strategy and a breakout category defining asset that made treasury strategies non-dilutive and deflationary.

$ZSTR extends this meta to the creator economy — a sector that’s both early and primed for reflexivity.

The Zora team has been building for over five years, with one mission: make creators rich using crypto tools.
They’ve launched auctions, NFTs, markets, and finally, creator coins. Since their launch earlier this year over 4 million creator coins have been created with almost $700 million dollars in trading volume.
The team has resources, commitment, and a history of shipping through cycles.

The Base ecosystem is now the distribution engine for Zora. Just in last 2 months Coinbase pivoted their wallet app specifically into a creator coining app on Base, built around Zora’s infrastructure.
Crypto twitter is still fading the Base pivot but fading crypto twitter will rarely steer you wrong. Betting against Coinbase-level distribution is historically a losing trade, doubly so since this is targeted not at the gambling addicts of ct but the normal people of the world who would be ecstatic to get paid $10 whenever they post a great photo.

The new Base App rollout has barely started. They started with content coins and creator coins are next. As those roll out the market size and penetration will blow up massively.

Zora (the token) had a massive summer run then retraced 70% alongside the rest of the alt market.
Now it’s consolidating, Base is gaining traction, and Coinbase has turned the lights on.
If Q4 follows the typical crypto seasonal pattern (risk-on rotation, smaller sector pumps), Zora sits in the perfect position: a liquid, narrative-rich midcap (~$330M) with major catalysts — Robinhood listing (just happened today, October 9th), Base app rollout, and live-stream features rumored to be on deck.

Creator coins are barely understood by the market. Half of crypto traders have heard of them, much less have actually tried them and the target market is only just starting to hear about the idea.
$ZSTR positions you as an owner of the early fund capturing that asymmetry. You don’t have to pick the winners; you own the fund that’s farming them algorithmically.

The brilliance of Zora Strategy is its simplicity:

• It automates the grind of finding good creators.

• It uses real onchain data to allocate.

• It only sells in profit, protecting creator charts and therefore sentiment.

• Every sale funds buybacks — straight back into the chart.

• And every acquisition creates social virality.

Imagine being a creator on Zora and waking up to see a $5,000 market buy on your coin.
You instantly earn rewards. Your chart rips. You share it. Your followers notice.
That post brings in new traders, which drives volume, which refills the treasury — which leads to another buy, another post, another feedback loop.

This is the “social liquidity flywheel” in action.
Every buy creates visibility. Every visibility drives more buys.
And all of it compounds into the same endpoint: buybacks and burns.

Let’s be honest: this is early.
$ZSTR is three days old, ~$120k market cap, and largely undiscovered.
That means:

• High volatility,

• Dependence on volume to kickstart the treasury loop,

• And a genuine cold-start problem.

But those are the same conditions that defined early degen blue chips before they broke out — the stage where conviction > consensus.

The math is simple:
If treasury-style projects having staying power as a dominant narrative,
and creator coins become the next onchain frontier for social and media,
then $ZSTR is positioned at the intersection of both.

Zora Strategy is an adaptive protocol — a necessity in this fast moving industry.
The hook tax mechanism makes it continuously self-funding.
The treasury logic can evolve, from simple take-profit strategies to cross-sector allocation, derivatives, even AI-driven decision models.
But the token ($ZSTR) itself is immutable: it can only be bought and burned.

That makes it scarce, flexible and leveraged — an ideal vehicle to express a long-term bet on the entire creator coin ecosystem.

If you believe:

• That Base + Zora will define the next era of onchain social (or at the very least have near term momentum),

• That creator coins are established and will continue to grow,

• And that smart treasury protocols are the most efficient way to gain exposure to a broad meta,

then $ZSTR is a direct, asymmetric way to express that thesis.

It might start as a narrative play. But its also so much more.
Zora Strategy is an autonomous machine that captures exposure, rides the winners, and compounds returns back to holders forever.

Zora Strategy ($ZSTR) is live on Base CA: 0x19CEd96F427b67B83DbF36233620D5aC28C0414C

Due to its custom hook and dex router's slow uptake to index such pools its recommended to trade via the official website: www.zorastrategy.fun

Disclosure: the author holds a significant position of $ZSTR and is extremely bullish in the mid to long term.