# Year of the ZABAL - Day 264: what came in for bounty one Thirteen bounties, one a day until ZAOstock. Bounty one closed at 4 pm Eastern today. Here is what people made. ![Zaal Panthaki avatar](https://img.paragraph.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=32,height=32,format=webp/https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/682962ca2ef8db4a03deaa946785c06e.png) Zaal Panthaki September 22, 2026 ![Cover image for Year of the ZABAL - Day 264: what came in for bounty one](https://img.paragraph.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=1600,height=893,format=webp/https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/7bb94cf5bc645b0b9385b8af2b5866b61bd50020f6d080b94a14ddbea2dfb779.jpg) zm year of the zabal day 264 12 days until ZAOstock. The first of 13 bounties closed at 4 pm Eastern today, and this is what came in. ## The ask Make one piece of media for ZAOstock using the brand kit. A poster, a clip, a story, a meme, a flyer, a 15-second pitch to camera, whatever you want. Post it publicly and claim it on the bounty. That was the whole thing, open from last night until 4 pm Eastern today. ## What came in Four entries made the close, from four different people. Two more came in after it. One is a flyer in two sizes, a story and a square, put together from the moose and the cracked cement texture in the kit. One is a banner, submitted in every version its maker made, because they could not decide which one to use. One is a design story from someone who wanted to make a video and ran out of time. And one is a poster that went up on Farcaster rather than X, by someone who wanted to see whether it would bring an audience over from there. ## The pick My pick is the poster. It is built on the kit's orange cracked cement texture with the moose large and clean, and every fact a person needs is on it: Saturday, October 3, 2026, the Franklin Street Parklet in Ellsworth, Maine, music from noon to 6, rain or shine, free, all ages, all 8 acts, and zaostock.com. It reads like a real gig poster rather than a promo graphic, and it is the one entry that went up on Farcaster. That pick has gone to everyone who added to the pot, and they vote to confirm it before it pays out. The vote is open until Wednesday night. The entries that came in after the close are out of today's judging, and their makers are welcome to enter them again tomorrow. [Look at the bounty.](https://poidh.xyz/base/bounty/1409) ## Why we are doing it this way poidh stands for pics or it didn't happen. Someone posts an ask with a reward attached, anyone can answer it by doing the thing and posting the proof, and on an open bounty like this one anyone who wants the ask answered can add to the pot and gets a vote on the pick. Most promotion is paying a platform to put your post in front of people who did not ask for it. This turns that around. Almost all of the money goes to a person, not a platform, and it goes to them for making something. The ask is public, the answers are public, and the pick happens live where anyone can watch, and the people who paid for it get a vote. Kenny from poidh has already added to the pot. If you want the longer version of how we got here, Kenny and I went through it on [BCZ YapZ Episode 19.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFG_34K7Vig) ## Next Bounty two is next. Same ask, one piece of ZAOstock media made with the brand kit, and it closes at 5 pm Eastern tomorrow with the pick named live on Twitch at the close. This round we would most like to see video with sound. [Enter bounty two.](https://poidh.xyz/base/bounty/1410) There is one bounty a day from here until ZAOstock, 13 in all. The kit has audio in it now: a 30-second spot and the 7 minute 39 radio interview from September 10, both on the [brand kit](https://zaostock.com/brand) page with everything else. Everything else you need is there too, from the moose by attabotty to the signage, illustrations, colours and type by Candy of CandyToyBox. Please credit them when you use their work. ZAOstock is a free music festival on Saturday, October 3, 2026, on the Franklin Street Parklet in downtown Ellsworth, Maine, from 12 to 6 pm Eastern. 8 acts on 1 stage, free for all ages. [See the running order.](https://zaostock.com/program) [RSVP for free.](https://ticket.zaostock.com) - BetterCallZaal on behalf of the ZABAL Team ## Subscribe to The ZAO Newsletter The ZAO Newsletter is your daily pulse on the decentralized creator revolution—featuring reflections from the frontlines, updates from our guild, and insights into how artists are reclaiming ownership through tech, community, and impact. Thanks for subscribing. 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