Not because they were had high floor prices.

Because they broke new ground on the blockchain in ways that changed the space forever.

Way back before PUMP streamers and BAYC, RTFKT set a precedent by proving that the crypto world could cultivate truly premium brand.

One with taste, restraint, and cultural fluency. One that did not rely on irony, chaos, or financial nihilism to feel relevant. One that was genuinely, legitimately COOL.

When I first came on-chain, I did not learn on-chain brand building from threads or token models. I learned by watching RTFKT operate. How drops were framed. How collaborations were sequenced. How mechanics accumulated rather than reset.

Over a relatively short but intense run, RTFKT introduced patterns the rest of the market would later copy:

• Drops designed as cultural moments rather than transactional mints

• Ownership treated as a long-term relationship, not a one-time sale

• Collaborations used to expand buyer pools, not chase relevance

• Mystery used to sustain momentum instead of static roadmaps

• Taste used as a defensible advantage on-chain

At the time, to those of us who witnessed RTFKT did not feel ahead of crypto. They felt ahead of how the internet itself would organize culture.

Which is why their slowdown after the Nike acquisition mattered. Corporate structures optimize for predictability while crypto-native brands tend to thrive on speed and experimentation. RTFKT learned this the hard way. We all did. And when Nike shut them down, and casuals wrote it off as another PFP scheme turned sideways, real ones knew the tragic truth...the space lost some of the most innovative minds in our market. At a time when we needed them most.

So a few days ago, when Nike publicly announced that it was reselling RTFKT to an undisclosed buyer, the market reacted immediately. Floor prices for CloneX shot up over 200%. Rumors about the identity of this mystery buyer swirled. And for the first time in years, one of the most dedicated and respected subcultures in crypto felt hope.

No product updates. No updated vision or roadmap. Just narrative.

Personally, I'm elated. Why? Because for me, the most valuable thing RTFKT built was not a sneaker, an avatar, or an NFT.

It was a playbook.

What follows is what that playbook teaches, and why it still applies in 2026.

Lesson 1: The Best Collaborations Signal Belonging

RTFKT collaborations worked because they were culturally fluent.

They did not just partner with communities. They embedded insider signals that proved they understood them.

The collaboration with Atari did not just feature branding. It included a playable game of Pong rendered directly into the sneaker. A detail only gaming natives would immediately clock.

The collaboration with CryptoPunks did not offer generic Punk-inspired merch. It produced one-of-one sneakers derived directly from each holder’s exact PFP identity. Traits, colors, quirks included.

These details mattered.

They communicated something important. We are not visiting your culture. We are part of it.

That is why RTFKT collaborations felt like invitations rather than intrusions. .

2026 takeaway:

Collaborations should do more than expand reach. They should demonstrate belonging. If insiders cannot recognize themselves in the execution, the partnership is shallow.

Lesson 2: Design Ecosystems That Reward Attention

During the NFT bull run, great projects rewarded bodlrs for hodling. But RTFKT did something even smarter.

They rewarded them for paying attention.

Owning RTFKT assets meant tracking signals. Watching how drops connected. Noticing patterns across collaborators, lore, mechanics, and timing. The reward was not just financial. It was informational.

If you could correctly anticipate what the next chapter might be, you were often early. And inside the RTFKT ecosystem, being early consistently paid.

This is the distinction most crypto projects miss.

Many reward time held.

RTFKT rewarded interpretation.

They reinforced this by replacing rigid roadmaps with structured curiosity. Partial information. Mystery boxes. Forging events. Teasers without answers.

Instead of telling people what would happen, they gave them enough structure to think. Speculation became engagement. Engagement became retention.

In effect, RTFKT turned attention and our modern taste for conspiracy thinking into leverage.

2026 takeaway:

Do not just reward early entry. Reward insight. The most valuable holders are the ones who notice patterns before others do.

Lesson 3: Engineer Virality Through Cost Signaling

RTFKT understood that virality rarely comes from volume.

It comes from contrast.

They used cost signaling as a distribution strategy.

Early on, they created a Cybertruck sneaker, produced a physical version, and sent it to Elon Musk. When Musk shared images of himself wearing it, distribution followed naturally.

Later, while much of the market relied on templated visuals and recycled formats, RTFKT released highly produced VFX trailers that felt closer to film titles than crypto marketing. The quality gap was obvious.

Then came a move that looked counterintuitive.

After resale prices reached deep six figures, RTFKT partnered with sneaker legend Jeff Staple and priced the Meta Pigeons at one dollar.

That pricing was not about accessibility.

It was about confidence.

It reframed the drop as cultural seeding rather than revenue extraction.

In an AI-saturated market where everything looks the same, this lesson matters more than ever.

2026 takeaway:

Surprise is a distribution advantage. Taste scales when sameness accelerates.

Lesson 4: Turn Your Community Into Your Creative Engine

As RTFKT grew, they did not outsource creativity away from the community.

They pulled the community into the brand.

They hired visual artists and VFX creators directly from their Discord to produce campaign content. They ran contests that invited community members to submit sneaker designs, some of which became official RTFKT collaborations. They treated Discord not as an audience channel, but as a talent network.

Over time, something rare happened.

RTFKT became the place where the best visual artists in crypto wanted to be. People collaborated. People sourced gigs. People built reputations.

This created a flywheel:

• Talented creators joined because the bar was high

• Their work raised the brand’s quality even further

• Higher quality attracted more attention and more talent

Most projects treat their community as consumers.

RTFKT treated theirs as collaborators.

2026 takeaway:

Your best creative partners are often already in your Discord. If you give talented people real opportunity, they will raise your brand faster than any agency ever could.

The RTFKT Playbook for 2026

For builders looking to create durable crypto-native brands:

1. Design collaborations that signal cultural belonging

2. Reward attention and interpretation, not just early entry

3. Engineer virality through contrast and taste

4. Turn your community into your creative engine

The Bottom Line

I have no idea what the future holds for RTFKT. Maybe they fizzle out, maybe they surge and return to Crypto Mt. Rushmore status under new ownership. But as CT debates and speculates on the future floor price of Clone X, builders should focus not on whether RTFKT returns but rather on studying what they already solved years ago.

TLDR; Never fade the blade.

tl;dr: House Protocol is an on-chain exchange where creators auction sponsorship slots to brands, with bids settled in the creator’s own token. Founded by Bill—one of Base’s first native streamers—House solves creator tokens’ biggest problem: they’re treated like memecoins when they should be economies. By giving every creator the infrastructure to monetize attention through their token, House transforms speculation into utility. The brand play (Culture Cartel) packages creators into coordinated “cartels” where campaigns become culture, not just content. This might be the unlock that makes creator tokens actually work.

There’s a debate raging in crypto right now between creator coin maxis and skeptics.

The maxis believe creator tokens are the future—that every creator will eventually have their own economy, that fans will become stakeholders, that ownership will replace subscription models.

The skeptics think creator tokens are just memecoins by another name—pure speculation wrapped in parasocial relationships, destined to rug or fade to zero.

Here’s the uncomfortable truth: they’re both right.

Creator tokens should be the future. We’re living through the golden age of creator brands becoming legitimate business empires. Kylie Jenner turned Instagram influence into a billion-dollar cosmetics company. Martha Stewart built a media empire from recipes and home tips. Mr. Beast is running what’s essentially a CPG conglomerate. Joe Rogan signed a $250M Spotify deal. Jake Paul is promoting boxing matches that rival traditional sports viewership.

Creators aren’t just “influencers” anymore—they’re building real companies, real brands, real economies around their attention and audience trust.

But the skeptics are right too. Because until now, creator tokens have been memecoins by another name. They trade on narrative and speculation. They have no underlying utility. They’re bets on what creator tokens could become, not what they are.

The problem isn’t the concept. It’s the infrastructure. Nobody’s built the rails that turn speculation into utility, that transform coins into economies.

That’s what House Protocol is.

Bill and the First Attention Auction on Base

Bill was one of the first streamers to establish himself on Base with his show “Late Night on Base”—a live stream where he covers crypto culture, interviews builders, and basically became the Johnny Carson of Base chain. But here’s what makes Bill different from every other crypto streamer: he gives a fuck.

Not in the performative “reply guy” way. In the real way. He’s in group chats with his community all day. He responds to DMs. He makes sure everyone who supports him feels seen and appreciated. He’s not building an audience—he’s building a family.

"I don't treat my audience like an audience...I treat them like teammates. I'm in the trenches with them every day, streaming, posting, and building alongside the community. Thats what the bigger VC-backed projects miss. They sit on pedestals and act like brands instead of people." - Bill

The result? Bill has one of the most devoted communities in crypto. These people aren’t passive viewers. They’re evangelists. They promote his show unprompted. They contribute ideas. They show up. They care because Bill cares.

And then Bill started doing something interesting.

Every week, he’d run an auction for a sponsorship slot on his show. Brands could bid for a mention during Late Night on Base. Highest bidder wins. Settlement happens in Bill’s creator token. The idea was inspired by QR Coin’s attention auction model, but Bill made it his own.

Here’s what he noticed: the auction itself became content. His community got hyped about who was bidding. They speculated on final prices. They celebrated when their bags went up because brand demand for Bill’s token increased. The sponsorships weren’t interruptions—they were events.

And Bill thought: what if every creator could do this?

That’s House Protocol.

The Product: Transparent Markets for Attention

Here’s how House actually works:

For Creators:

You connect your wallet. You set up auction parameters for different inventory types:

- 30-second podcast ad read (reserve price: 5,000 of your tokens)

- Dedicated tweet to your 500K followers (reserve price: 10,000 tokens)

- 10-minute stream segment (reserve price: 20,000 tokens)

- Newsletter feature (reserve price: 15,000 tokens)

You launch the auction. It runs for however long you specified (24 hours, 7 days, whatever). Brands place bids. Highest bidder wins. Settlement happens on-chain in your token (with USD-equivalent pricing shown in real-time so everyone knows what bids are actually worth).

You deliver the sponsorship. Your token holders automatically get a share of the deal revenue (if you’ve set that up). Everyone wins.

For Brands:

You browse creators by vertical—Crypto, Gaming, Health, Fashion, etc. You see their reach, engagement, past auction results (transparent price history). You place bids on the slots you want. You can bid on multiple creators simultaneously.

When you win, you pay in the creator’s token (which you can buy directly through House) or USDC. Creator delivers. Deal’s done.

No DM negotiations. No wondering if you overpaid. No agency taking 40% off the top. Just transparent markets.

The Community Alignment Unlock

But here’s the really interesting part—the thing that makes House more than just “influencer marketplace with blockchain.”

When a brand pays in your creator token, they’re not just buying an ad slot. They’re buying advocacy from your entire community.

Think about it:

I hold 50,000 BILL tokens. Nike bids 500,000 BILL for a Late Night on Base sponsorship. Nike wins the auction.

What happens?

I’m suddenly incentivized to help Nike succeed.

Why? Because:

1. Nike’s sponsorship validates that BILL tokens have real utility (good for my bags)

2. More brand deals = more demand for BILL = price goes up (good for my bags)

3. If Nike’s campaign succeeds, they’ll bid again = more token demand (good for my bags)

4. I want Bill to succeed because his success is literally my financial success

So I don’t just tolerate the Nike ad. I amplify it. I share it. I engage with it. I become a micro-influencer for Nike because it’s in my economic interest.

One brand deal becomes 5,000 people pushing your message organically.

This is why the token settlement matters. It’s not just a payment rail. It’s an alignment mechanism that turns audiences into advocates.

Traditional sponsorships: Fans tolerate ads (or skip them)  

House Protocol: Fans celebrate ads and amplify them

That’s a fundamental reframe of how brand sponsorships work.

Culture Cartel: Where Campaigns Become Culture

Most two-sided marketplaces try to serve both sides with the same product. House gets that creators and brands have completely different needs. So they’re building Culture Cartel as the brand-facing vertical.

Here’s the innovation: instead of brands negotiating with 50 individual creators (weeks of DMs, inconsistent pricing, agency fees eating 40%), Culture Cartel organizes creators into curated “cartels”—vertical-specific collectives like Crypto Cartel, Health Cartel, Gaming Cartel.

Want to reach crypto natives? Deploy $100K across the entire Crypto Cartel in one coordinated campaign. All 25 creators launch on the same day. One transaction. Instant cultural saturation.

This isn’t selling ad placements. It’s selling cultural moments. When 25 creators coordinate around your brand simultaneously, you don’t interrupt culture—you become it. And because every creator’s community is economically aligned through token holdings, the amplification is organic and enthusiastic.

When Bill started running weekly auctions on Late Night on Base, he proved something simple but profound: attention can be a transparent market where creators get fair pricing, brands get authentic reach, and communities share in the upside. House scales that model to every creator on-chain, giving creator tokens the utility infrastructure they’ve always needed. Until now, they’ve been speculation. House is the infrastructure that closes that gap. Welcome to the exchange for attention.

Ever since I became a Zora convert earlier this year, I've onboarded dozens of creators onto the app. For many, Zora felt like a rocket at first; then the booster sputtered. You coin, trade, and maybe a few loyal collectors keep coming back, but you feel stuck. Your token value plateaus, your creator brand isn’t growing, and the vibrant Zora scene feels like being dropped into a foreign country with no playbook. on how to navigate it. The thesis is simple: collaboration is the unlock. Creators on Zora are struggling to grow their brands and tokens because they’re working alone. Until Zora and its community make collaboration a core feature, everyone will keep bouncing off that invisible ceiling

The Pattern Everyone Missed

In 2019, ten teenagers with about 100k followers did something revolutionary...they moved in together.

Inside "Hype House," they cohabitated, filmed together, cross promoted one another, and as a result, their joint account hit roughly seven million followers in weeks. More importantly, each individual’s numbers multiplied. The algorithm saw people watching Creator A also liked B and C, and started recommending all of them. Collaboration didn’t cut attention; it compounded it.

What the Data Says

Collaboration isn’t just anecdotal; it’s measurable. A 2023 Influencer Marketing Hub report found that 71 % of creators who partner with others see significant gains in engagement and followersmutualgro.com. Sprout Social notes that collaborative posts are shared and engaged with about 2.5 times more than solo postsmutualgro.com. TikTok’s Duet feature yields a 35 % higher share ratelilachbullock.com, and Instagram’s Collab tool doubles exposure by placing a single post into multiple feedsfastcompany.com. We’re wired to pay attention to connections, not silos.

Scenes > Solo Acts

Collaboration does more than boost numbers; it creates scenes—shared universes audiences can dive into. Joe Rogan’s revolving door of regular guests and Offline TV’s interlinked streams turned listeners into anthropologists of culture. People don’t just follow a creator; they inhabit a world. That’s the magnetism missing from much of Zora’s lonely trade feeds.

Where I Hit the Wall

I tested Zora’s limits when I released Running Wild, an AI‑generated rap about Zora co‑founder Jacob Horne’s horse. It was weird and fun, and it found some fans. Fellow musician x3lijah jumped in to remix. Perfect, right? Two audiences, one collab. But Zora made us pick one account to coin from and figure out revenue splits manually. The lack of native collaboration tooling nearly killed what should have been a simple co‑release.

Here's the Running Wild Remix on my account and here's a duplicate on x3lijah's page.

Plantifulsoul_ai

@AiPlantifulsoul

Running Wild
$Horse has become a rallying cry for the Zora community. It deserves its own anthem. Running Wild out on Songcast now.
@RealMattBond

BOUGHT

zora.co

Running Wild

$Horse has become a rallying cry for the Zora community. It deserves its own anthem. Running Wild out on Songcast now.

3

7:35 AM • Sep 10, 2025

The One‑to‑One Problem

To be clear, I don’t think Zora is intentionally ignoring collaboration. It’s an early‑stage platform juggling a thousand urgent feature requests, and I’m sure multi‑creator coins are somewhere on the roadmap — shoutout to Anthony Volodkin, the Hype Machine founder and underrated product brain now at Zora. The team recently added tagging features and other small upgrades. Still, the current product optimises for creator‑to‑investor transactions. That’s great for early monetisation; it’s lousy for building scenes.

There’s no native way to co‑coin, split revenue, or push the same piece to both audiences. Meanwhile, examples like the Sidemen’s interconnected YouTube channels and gamers on Minecraft’s SMP servers show how interlinked content can become full‑time careers. Collaboration infrastructure rarely appears on the rotating list of repeated requests on X, yet it’s the missing unlock for creators who want to get the most out of Zora professionally, financially and socially.

The Dormant Network Effect

Malcolm Gladwell’s tipping‑point framework asks for the right messengers, message, and context. Zora has the messengers (hungry creators) and the message (tokenised creative monetisation works). It lacks context: the platform architecture that makes collaboration effortless. TikTok’s Duet, Instagram’s Collab, and even YouTube’s new co‑creator tests push content to multiple feedsfastcompany.comgamingcareers.com. When the environment rewards connection, the algorithm responds and culture compounds.

The Hidden Opportunity

Zora has already paid creators tens of millions and generated hundreds of millions in trading volume. That’s proof of concept. The big unlock is turning one‑off coins into ongoing scenes. That means native CollabCoins with automatic splits, algorithms that surface complementary partners, cross‑promotion infrastructure, and group coins that feel like events. Imagine music collectives on Zora building toward Web3 “Avengers” moments, or visual artists and writers co‑crafting tokenised story worlds. The network effects won’t activate until collaboration is a first‑class citizen. Scenes, not solo acts, are the future of Zora.

This wasn’t just marketing—it was distribution architecture disguised as fan service.

1. Scarcity + Status

Monad only seeded 5,000 cards.

That alone created the first loop: who’s in, who’s out. Scarcity generates FOMO. And when scarcity is paired with a badge of status, it becomes irresistible to flex.

The formula is simple: scarcity → status → screenshots → reach.

2. Copy as Dopamine

The copy wasn’t random.

“Eligible.” “Claim.” “OG.”

Crypto natives have been conditioned by airdrops. These words are micro-triggers baked into the culture. Monad weaponized them as dopamine shortcuts—tiny hits that sent people racing to see if they were “in.”

It’s not ad copy. It’s neuro-linguistic distribution.

3. Nominations = Viral Loop

Here’s the masterstroke: if you got a card, you also got the power to nominate someone else.

That transformed each cardholder into a mini-distribution node. Cards weren’t static trophies—they were social capital you could distribute.

And people love to show off social capital.

So the loop runs itself:

• Get card → flex online

• Flex online → people ask for nominations

• Nominate → new person joins loop

• New person flexes → repeat

Every flex advertises the thing that advertises the campaign.

4. Culture Fit

Monad didn’t market at CT—it spoke like CT.

It leaned on Monad Madness lore (Molandak, Chog, Moyaki), rewarded insiders, and winked at outsiders. Even skeptics became participants because the campaign included its critics.

When your community isn’t just your audience but your product surface, you don’t need traditional media buys. The network is the medium.

5. The Founder Playbook

For founders, the Monad stunt is a blueprint. Here’s how to apply it:

1. Pick a screenshotable status object.
   A card, badge, dossier, meme—something thumb-stopping and legible in a timeline.

2. Cap supply, expand access.
   Seed scarcity, then let users expand it through nominations or quests.

3. Embed referral triggers.
   Every cardholder should have agency to share status. That’s your viral loop.

4. Write hot copy.
   Use the words your audience is culturally conditioned to respond to.

5. Tighten latency.
   Loops die in queues. Nominations should resolve instantly.

6. Bridge to product.
   Status objects should unlock something real: beta access, perks, roles.

Don’t Do This

• Don’t pay to spray—authenticity dies fast.

• Don’t gatekeep forever—scarcity needs access ramps.

• Don’t over-financialize—you’ll attract farmers, not fans.

• Don’t stall nominations—viral loops lose energy in purgatory.

Feeling The FOMO for Monad Cards? Make A Monet Card Instead!

Because this is Paragraph and not the Harvard Business Review, I had to throw something dumb in here:

Monet Cards — “A stroke of appreciation for Crypto Twitter.”

If you missed out on a Monad Card like me, ask ChatGPT to make you a Monet card instead and flex your status as a true “OIL G.”

Or…just move on and go touch grass. That’s probably the move actually…

The Takeaway

Monad Cards worked because they transformed status into a self-sustaining loop.

They didn’t buy ads. They didn’t hire armies of shillers. They simply handed people artifacts they wanted to screenshot—and built a growth engine around the one truth that never changes:

In crypto, status is bigger than a flex—it’s distribution.

Well...that's exactly what happened.

For those of us in Zora World, the last few days have felt like watching cultural capital mutate in fast forward:

• First, Slayed announces the first creator index fund → instant explosion.

• Then, Dockerzxbt ships a follow-up in record time → nearly crashes the whole network. (Literally.)

Here's what's happening: enterprising curators aren't just identifying rising talent anymore. They're bundling them into tradeable index funds. In socialfi, if you can forecast culture, you can move markets. Before we know it, the Tumas and Athenas of yesterday may become the Andreesen Horowitzs's of tomorrow.

If you're new to creator coins, think of them as tradable tokens tied to a person's brand and output. Dockerzxbt takes the best of them and packages them into what they call "an index fund for culture"—a single token that spreads your bet across the top talent on Zora.

As Ibu, dockerzxbt's cofounder, told me:

"We're building an on-chain index of the top creators on Zora. Our model makes it easy for anyone to invest in top talent, and we're dedicated to maximizing returns to the community while fueling the growth of the creator economy."

This is exactly the kind of innovation I anticipated would emerge from Zora's creator-first infrastructure. But in my wildest dreams, I never expected to validate my thesis this quickly—or this dramatically.

Docker

@dockerxbt

DOCKER BUYBACK:

$10,000 worth of $docker has been bought back from the open market — the biggest buyback so far.

$2,000 of fees generated over the past 24 hours will now be reinvested into @zora creators.

$docker flywheel.

26

5:13 PM • Aug 9, 2025

Index funds make sense: they bundle exposure, spread risk, and let curators make cultural macro-bets.

But here's the bet that no one is making just yet.

SPICY TAKE: I believe that if funds like Docker succeed, the biggest creators in their portfolios will grow so fast, they’ll become index funds themselves.

We are in the very early stages of The Creator Economy. And yet, we're already seeing it. Think Kylie Jenner’s beauty empire. Martha Stewart’s lifestyle network. Even Trump’s media machine. Each one a holding company for sub-brands, products, and personalities. In Zora terms: the coin is just the ticker — the brand is the portfolio. And as AI continues to evolve, the ability to scale up billion dollar personal brands will only grow .

The Macro Shift — People > Platforms

David Phelps nailed it: “In Web3, platforms succeed by becoming protocols… and people succeed by becoming platforms.”

We’re entering a phase shift:

Audiences trust faces over logos. Joe Rogan is a media empire. Kylie is a consumer products giant. Mr. Beast's channel. Zora’s protocol gives us the first native way to own a slice of their multi-channel brand value.

3. The Creator Brand Indexing Flywheel

Capital → Co-Sign → Audience Growth → Brand Extensions → More Indexable Assets → Back to Capital

• Capital — Funds inject liquidity into promising creators.
  
  

• Co-Sign — Being in a top index is a credibility rocket.
  
  

• Audience Growth — Distribution multiplies attention.
  
  

• Brand Extensions — Merch, podcasts, licensing, events.
  
  

• More Assets — Each extension is indexable itself.
  
  

• Back to Capital — The loop compounds.

4. Why This Is Strategically Inevitable

1. The Patron Protocol
   
   Zora’s auto-minting is a real-time patronage engine. Today it rewards frequent posters. Tomorrow it rewards empire-builders.
   

2. From Cliques to Icons
   
   Today’s hype mints micro-stars. Tomorrow, it bankrolls megastars who transcend the feed.
   

3. First-Mover Lock-In
   
   Institutions will try to bundle creators. Zora can front-run by being the protocol of record for creator-brand investing.

5. The Three Phases of the Bull Case

Phase One — Coin Hype

Niche recognition. Mint mania. Stakeholder vibes.

Phase Two — Creator Brand Indexing

Portfolios built around personas, not sectors. The Kylie Coin doesn’t just track her tweets — it tracks Kylie Inc. Ventures like Dockerzxbt will initially have a head start on competing partner infrastructures (assuming they protect their reputations/trust as fiercely as their portfolios.)

Phase Three — Brand → Culture

Zora becomes as essential to backing a personal brand as VC is to funding a startup.

6. Prediction

Within 24 months, the most valuable coins on Zora won’t belong to the most active posters — they’ll belong to creators whose brand value is exploding off-platform.

Right now, everything happens within the walls of Zora's platform. But the blockchain empowers creators to eventually expand their token ecosystem into the offline and online world, on the path to eventually becoming a 360 fandom universe built on access, ownership, and community. In the past, this kind of thinking was the stuff of pipedreams. But times are changing. Protocols are emerging. And in the Zora era, people are the new platforms.

• - $BONDY

UPDATE:

As I was finalizing this article, dockerzxbt just dropped a game-changing announcement.

They’re deploying a $100,000 DOCKER/wETH liquidity pool on Aerodrome, opening Docker trading to all of Base—not just Zora.

When asked for a comment, Ibu put it like this:

“After we saw the initial traction of Docker, with the fund’s coin running up to a $3 million market cap, we decided to take a huge step and take most of the profits we’d made and put them into a liquidity pool on aerodrome. The pool pairs DOCKER and wETH, which will unlock DOCKER trading for all of Base, not just Zora. The increased fees generated will allow us to dramatically scale up the investments into creators over time.”

Make no mistake...this marks the birth of cross-platform creator capital markets. Docker just became the first creator index to break out of its native platform and tap into the broader DeFi ecosystem. Stay tuned as this story progresses...