# Investigation | Things you should know about zora

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**Published on:** 2022-05-11
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Recently I have been reading documents and zines about Zora and have compiled some important information. There may be something of interest to you.IntroductionZORA is a decentralized protocol where anyone can permisionlessly buy and sell NFTs. Also, it can be used as a public domain tool, ZORA provides developer tools such as indexer, NFT Rendering, Subgraph, ZDK. so anyone can view and contribute to every aspect of the protocol.Latest FundingSince the release of ZORA's first white paper on January 1, 2021, and continuing to this day, the community has grown and been recognized by the industry's investment community, with Haun Ventures leading Zora's latest $50 million fundraising campaign. On its first anniversary, Zora has released zorbs as a first anniversary gift and token for early supporters.Latest versionZORA is now available in its latest version ZORA V3 .ZORA V3 includes some novel mechanisms that incentivize platforms built on the protocol, as well as a groundbreaking modular architectural design that allows for a permissionless system that can continue to deploy new versions. New market types, gas efficiency, finder's fee, modular architecture, DAO and ZORF were introduced.Module and Protocol architecturein operating ZORA's composability, invariance, universal accessibility, censorship resistance and reduced migration costs during migration as well as ensuring that developers outside of ZORA continue to use any version of the ZORA contract. ZORA's module and protocol architecture enables marketplace contracts that do not require trusted deployment, leveraging shared transport assistants to reduce user migration costs while allowing developers to not worry about underlying changes.EMBEDIf you are Creators, Collectors, Media, then you can use ZORA's EMBED. Use ZORA to embed your nft toolkit anywhere on the internet. With EMBED, any ZORA-listed NFT gets the access it deserves by displaying on any blog, website, collection , or portfolio.AuctionsCreate your own NFT auction house with ZORA. As an artist, you will want to create a permissionless auction house for your artwork. You can launch your own permissionless auction house using the ZORA protocol, or customise it specifically to suit the creative designs and unique ideas of your clients.Multiple functionsThe difference between Zora and opensea, lookrare and x2y2 is that they only provide a trading platform and the authority of the platform is always in the hands of the platform owner. Zora, on the other hand, is both a marketplace for NFT trading and a basic tool for the underlying NFT marketplace. Zora provides many tools for technical developers to use, and you can set up the features you want, set your auctions, royalties, etc. according to your needs.Finders-feeZora offers an interesting feature regarding finder-fee. If a user has set a finder-fee on their auction item, then you can share it via the auction item interface and if the highest bidder is bidding via the share interface, you can get your finder-fee when the sale is finally completed.What else can be done?Even if you are a beginner, you can easily use Zora to mint your favourite images, audio, video, documents into NFTs and then sell or auction your NFTs on Zora, and you can also buy your favourite artists' work on the Zora marketplace. If you are a group and want to crowdfund your NFTs on Zora, you can post your favourite NFTs to partybid for crowdfunding.Useful linksHow to create an account https://support.zora.co/en/collections/3143836-getting-startedHow to mint https://support.zora.co/en/collections/3143933-minting-on-zoraHow to buy https://support.zora.co/en/collections/3143938-buying-on-zoraHow to sell https://support.zora.co/en/collections/3143937-selling-on-zoraZora Zine https://zine.zora.co/Discord https://discord.gg/tJBtCYCRZjTwitter https://twitter.com/ourZORAConclusionThanks to Gillian for her help and support, Zora As an open, positive, enthusiastic and innovative project, If you have any new ideas or topics you can come and talk about them on the zora discord, everyone is very welcome here.

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