We've shipped a set of tools that meet writers, developers, and agents wherever they are on that spectrum.

You can now:

• Draft, publish, and manage your Paragraph publication directly from ChatGPT, Claude, or your own agent

• Build on Paragraph with a REST API, TypeScript SDK, CLI, and MCP server

• Sell gated files inside any post with a new micropaywall - to humans or agents

• Package your archive and list it on publish.new so agents can buy it without hitting your site

For writers: publish from ChatGPT or Claude

Most writers we talk to are already using an LLM somewhere in their workflow - for research, outlining, a second pair of eyes on a draft. The friction is everywhere else: switching tabs, copy-pasting into the editor, fighting formatting, scheduling.

We wanted that to go away.

Install our skill (npx skills add paragraph-xyz/skill) or point any MCP-compatible client at our server, and you can do pretty much anything from inside your chat:

• Draft and publish — "Turn this meeting transcript into a post and publish it Thursday at 9am."

• Edit existing posts — "Tighten the intro on my last newsletter."

• Schedule and manage — queue a post, change the cover image, update the slug.

• Check on your publication — subscriber metrics, recent posts, what's in drafts, and much more.

You stay in the tool you're already writing in. Paragraph becomes the place it all lands.

Try it at paragraph.com/agents.

For developers: build on Paragraph

If you want to build on top of Paragraph — a custom reader, a different editor, an agent with its own logic — you now have everything you need.

• REST API - the full surface area: posts, subscribers, publications, analytics.

• TypeScript SDK - typed wrappers over the API for anyone building in TS.

• CLI - scripting and automation without writing code.

• MCP server - plug Paragraph into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP-aware tool.

• Skill - a ready-made agent configuration you can drop into skill-based agent frameworks.

These are the same tools we're building our own AI features on, so the surface area will keep growing as we use it ourselves.

For agents: a way to pay writers

Here's the part we're most curious about.

Agents are starting to read - and increasingly, to buy - things on the web. That's good for writers, but only if there's a clean way to get paid when it happens. Micropayments have tried and stumbled on the internet for years: older payment rails ate most of the revenue, and readers didn't want to stop and make a decision at every paywall.

Two things changed:

• Modern payment protocols like x402 and MPP make tiny on-chain payments practical again.

• Agents don't suffer from decision fatigue. They'll happily pay for a file if it's useful and the price is right.

So we shipped two ways for writers to get paid by agents.

Micropaywalls inside your posts

Upload any digital file - a dataset, a playbook, a high-res version of your images, a prompt library - set a price and a payout wallet, and embed it in a post.

Readers can buy with a credit card or crypto. Agents can buy programmatically using x402 or MPP. You keep writing the way you always have; the sale sits inside the piece.

List your archive on publish.new

We also built a one-click workflow that packages your entire published archive as a markdown .zip, uploads it, and opens a pre-filled listing on publish.new - our AI-native marketplace where humans and agents can buy digital goods.

Title, description, suggested price, payout wallet - all filled in for you. It's the fastest way to turn your back catalog into something agents can discover and buy.

More on the marketplace itself in our earlier post.

Pick your level of autonomy

We don't think there's one right answer for how writers should use AI. Some of you will stay fully hands-on and treat the LLM as a research assistant. Some will hand off drafting, editing, or promotion. A few of you will want to run an autonomous agent that drafts, publishes, responds to replies, and reinvests revenue into growth — and then go for a walk.

All three now work on Paragraph. The same toolkit powers all of them; what changes is how much of the loop you want to keep.

We don't expect to nail this out of the gate. A lot of what we're shipping here is early, and the agent side especially is going to evolve fast. Tell us what's working and what isn't - and what you'd like us to build next - at hello@paragraph.com.

Get started at paragraph.com/agents.

With the onset of AI and the proliferation of agents, we're increasingly seeing agents become new supporters of creators. With this in mind, we built publish.new to experiment with a simple idea: how can we make it as easy as possible to earn from your creativity, with any human or agent being the supporter?

Publish.new is an AI-native marketplace for anything digital: files, guides, prompts, workflows, datasets, ebooks, apps, and any digital good that's useful to people or agents.

Buying & selling for an internet-native audience

Agent adoption across the internet is growing rapidly, with agents autonomously producing & consuming on behalf of users -- creating full-fledged applications, making purchase decisions, and much more.

Most marketplaces are built for humans, meaning it's impossible for agents to transact, earn off their outputs, or access data they might need.

Publish.new is different: it's built natively for humans and agents. Both humans & agents can list anything on the marketplace, via the web, CLI, agent skill, or APIs. Just add a title & set the price and it's available to a global audience.

For purchasing, humans can checkout using a credit card or crypto, with agents completing payment using the x402 and MPP protocols.

No accounts (or wallets) are needed. We support embedded wallets natively, meaning anyone can publish & begin earning in seconds.

Paragraph & publish.new

We're intrigued by the intersection of creativity and agents, and what this might mean for the broader creator economy (including for writing on Paragraph).

Publish.new is built natively for people and agents. List anything useful -- guides, datasets, prompts, files -- and transact from the web or a prompt. Payments are explicit and programmatic, so machine purchases are secure while staying simple for humans.

We’re featuring early examples from writers, developers, and people working at the edge of LLMs and agents. Good early examples show agent use cases: an agent that publishes research and sells it, an agent that buys a dataset and feeds it into a pipeline, or a short paid playbook an agent can purchase and learn from automatically.

If that sounds like you, we'd love to help you get setup & feature your work! Send us a note at hello@paragraph.com, and check out our agent skill to get started.

Try it at https://publish.new and let us know what you think.

Over the past few years, we've heard developers ask for ways to build new tools experiences on top of Paragraph. We've also heard from writers looking for ways to streamline workflows or manage their publication more effectively.

Today we’re excited to make all those things a little easier with the Paragraph API and SDK.

We hope the API & SDK help developers build:

• New & unique experiences for reading (and beyond, to other mediums)

• Better ways to publish and manage your subscriber list

• Ways for readers to discover new voices and great writing

• Features that drive commerce between readers & writers

Below are more details on the functionality of the API & SDK, a trading app we built to showcase its capabilities, and ideas for where the API & SDK may go in the future.

What you can do with the API & SDK

The API and SDK expose a growing set of read and write operations across Paragraph. Here are the things developers can do and why they matter.

• Fetch publication and post data: Access everything you need to build unique reading experiences, search and discovery layers, or a custom site for your publication. Fetch posts from any publication on Paragraph, or fetch posts from our most popular feed.

• Access writer coins and post coins: Retrieve coin metadata, contract addresses, current price, market quotes, holders & more. Use this to power marketplaces, discovery platforms, or features that let readers support writers.

• Execute market flows: Wire up buy and sell flows for writer and post coins, including wallet integration, transaction signing, and order handling. Use this to add commerce to your app or prototype a marketplace quickly.

• Work with users and publications: Get user profiles by wallet, publication details, subscriber counts, and other stateful information. Use these endpoints to build publisher tools, automate workflows, or create custom dashboards.

• Build custom frontends and integrations: Combine read and write endpoints to create analytics dashboards, discovery tools, social integrations, or editor workflows.

• Integrate Paragraph into your product: Let readers subscribe to a publication, read posts, or buy writer coins directly inside your app or website.

A few examples for what's possible:

• Add subscribers to your Paragraph newsletter directly from your own website

• Build your own CMS using Obsidian, Wordpress, Ghost & more, and automatically publish the resulting posts to Paragraph

• Fetch all subscribers to your newsletter and export them to a CSV to perform your own analysis on your newsletter's growth

Below are a few resources to make sure you get the most out of the API and SDK:

• API reference

• TypeScript SDK

• Developer FAQ & documentation

A first example: Paragraph Markets

To show what’s possible, we built a small but fully functional & open source example app: Paragraph Markets.

It’s a simple app where anyone can buy and sell writer coins and post coins from Paragraph publications. This showcases a fundamentally different frontend to Paragraph data: one that's anchored around trading (while also serving as a reference implementation to show how the Paragraph API & SDK can be used).

A few things Paragraph Markets showcases:

• Fetching market data for writer coins

• Displaying price changes over time

• Showing publication metadata and profiles

• Executing onchain buy and sell flows

• Stitching everything together into a clean, minimal UI

And because we want this to be a learning tool, the entire repo is open source: https://github.com/paragraph-xyz/markets.

Feel free to fork it, copy pieces of it, or treat it as a starting point for your own experiments.

How can we make the API & SDK better for you?

We built the API and SDK to empower developers, writers, and readers to build whatever they can imagine and to solve their particular problems. We would love to continue improving and expanding the functionality of these tools with your input.

If you use the API or SDK, let us know:

• What’s missing?

• What’s confusing?

• How could we make it easier to build on Paragraph?

Send a note to hello@paragraph.com or drop a comment below. We'd love to know what you're building and how we can make Paragraph the best place for writers, readers, and developers.

Today we’re shipping three updates designed to find, engage with, and share the writing you care about:

1. Search across Paragraph

2. An improved XMTP integration

3. A better home feed

Introducing search

Perhaps one of the most frequently requested features has now arrived: search is now available on Paragraph! Search now helps you find any writer or post on Paragraph.

This comes at an especially important time: right after we migrated over nearly 1 million posts from over 200,000 writers from Mirror. As an early pioneer in onchain publishing, Mirror was home to some of the best writing on the internet. Search is one of many ways we want those posts to continue being discovered.

What search does today:

• You can search for writers, publication names, post titles, or keywords in the post body.

• You can search for coins, including coin ticker, contract address, and writer.

• You can search across a single publication or across Paragraph as a whole.

Results are ranked by engagement and quality metrics, along with best practices for keyword matching (so you don’t always need an exact phrase).

It goes without saying that this is an early version of search, so please let us know what you think: what you find useful, what doesn't quite work, and broadly how we could improve search and discovery for you.

Revamped XMTP Integration

We've been huge fans of XMTP for a while now: we launched wallet-based delivery in 2023, allowing writers to send their posts to readers by email and by wallet. Both of these are great ways for writers to reach readers and build relationships they fully own.

With the new Base app (“TBA”) now offering DMs powered by XMTP, we've revamped our integration to bring more value to readers and writers: most notifications we send on Paragraph are now also delivered via XMTP, including new posts, writer coin reward notifications, and more. After readers get new post notifications, they can use the Paragraph miniapp to read those posts and support writers directly from their DMs.

These improvements help writers maximize distribution and reach more readers, while letting readers stay on top of new posts and important notifications.

A better home feed

We want the home feed to be a place where you find the latest from writers you care about, discover new great writing tailored to your interests, and to see what your friends are engaging with. We've recently made some big improvements to surface better posts on the home feed and introduce new discovery surfaces on the Explore tab.

What we changed:

• Improved ranking to surface higher quality posts using engagement and monetization signals. For example, we consider how readers interact with a post and how a community supports it.

• Expanded discovery pages, /home and /explore, to make it easier to find new writers and posts.

• More explicit use of coins in discovery: /explore/publications shows top writers based on interest in their writer coin, and similar for /explore/posts and post coins. We're experimenting with using how much a writer or post is attracting support volume as a discovery signal, so the best writers and posts bubble to the top based on interest.

Looking forward, we're planning to make the feed more tailored to you, based on your Farcaster followers and other social graphs. We also want to introduce more variety into the home feed, beyond just posts. Some examples we're excited to show in the home feed:

• Posts that your friends are reading, sharing, commenting on, and supporting.

• Writers that your followers are subscribing to and supporting through writer coins.

• Discussions around posts you've read and supported.

• Introducing different mediums, like audio and short-form video versions of posts.

We're always looking to make our discovery feeds — the home feed in particular — more dynamic and useful. Let us know ideas on how we can improve it for you!

Helping readers find more great writing

Search, a revamped XMTP integration, and the improved home feed are all steps toward the same goal: making it easier for readers to discover writing they’ll love. Try out the new features and let us know what's working and what could be better.

If you have thoughts or ideas on how to improve discovery for you, drop them in the comments or reach us at hello@paragraph.com.

But each day, we feel the shortcomings of paid subscriptions a bit more: deciding how much to charge, what to paywall, what perks to offer. And something about paid subscriptions lacks emotional appeal: it can feel transactional, especially for early supporters.

For many writer & creators, launching a paid subscription is a vulnerable moment. You’re asking for money for your work for the first time. Those first supporters provide tremendous value beyond their dollars. Their early vote of confidence guides writers & creators through the early slog of any creative effort.

Yet paid subscriptions don't really feel emotionally rewarding to early supporters, and they certainly don't allow for any sharing in the upside of the growth they helped spark.

Today, we're introducing writer coins to help solve these problems. We want writer coins to be an easy way for readers to back a writer across all their work, signal they were early, and participate in the writer's growth over time.

How writer coins work

1) Launch your writer coin & make it a moment.

Launching your writer coin is a great opportunity to invite your readers, subscribers, and followers to back your work. There's a decent chance most activity will happen around when you launch your writer coin, so it's important to share your launch with the world.

Some things you could consider as part of that announcement:

• Tell the origin story behind your writing, why you write, and remind folks what you write about.

• Let folks know any ideas you have for how to reward or show your appreciation for those that buy your writer coin.

• Invite your early readers to become early backers.

2) Reward your earliest supporters.

Before you launch, you can send an allocation of your writer coin (~5% of total) to those that have supported you in the past. Rewards are a great way to show your appreciation to those that have supported you in the past, but also to spark early interest and discussion around your writer coin.

We make it easy to send rewards by providing a few out-of-the-box groups to send rewards to:

1. Readers that have collected your posts on Paragraph and Mirror.

2. Readers that have purchased your post coins on Paragraph.

3. With coin pairing, holders of your Zora or Base app creator coins or other ERC 20s.

4. Your current subscribers.

5. Your followers on Farcaster and Base app.

For collectors, supporters, and coin holders, rewards are weighted by how much they've paid you in the past. For each group, you can view each of the recipients and how many coins they will receive. If you prefer, you can uncheck any of the groups from receiving rewards, or skip rewards all together.

3) Pair your coin.

By default, writer coins are paired with Wrapped ETH (WETH), but you can pair with other tokens instead.

If you pair with your Zora or Base app creator coin, both coins grow together in lock-step. This is perfect for artists and creators who write about their work on Paragraph. Plus, pairing lets you automatically share writer coins with your existing creator coin holders.

4) Seamless discovery for readers.

We've woven writer coins naturally into the reading experience:

• Readers will be prompted to buy your writer coin as they browse your publication and read your posts (any “Support” or primary button opens the writer coin purchase flow).

• New subscribers can immediately become backers with one extra tap.

• The purchase flow strips away all the crypto and coin complexity, serving as just a simple way to support.

In addition, a new discovery feed highlights publications backed by writer coins, so your support directly translates into more visibility for their work.

What's next with writer coins

Looking forward, we’re excited to continue building writer coins into a meaningful, long-term way for readers to support writers and share in their growth. Over the coming months we’ll focus on a few key areas:

• Use rewards to encourage valuable behavior. Build reward mechanisms that credit actions that actually help writers grow: impact-generating shares, thoughtful comments & discourse, buying a writer coin & other types of support, all while preventing spam and ill-intentioned behavior.

• Enable repeat buying. Let readers buy a writer coin on a recurring basis so they can continually back a writer & share in their growth, providing a better alternative to paid subscriptions.

• Make buying effortless. Reduce the steps and interactions required to purchase a writer coin, offer strong defaults with some flexibility, and remove unnecessary complexity so supporting a writer is a simple, meaningful action.

Launch your writer coin

Your biggest fans don't just want to read your work. They want to be part of it. Writer coins make that possible, turning your writing journey into something you build together.

To get started, head to your Paragraph dashboard and start the writer coin launch flow.

And explore the discovery feed to find great writers already backed by their communities and support the ones you believe in.

We'd love to hear what you think or any feedback — send a note to hello@paragraph.com.

To make that vision real, we’re focusing all of our energy on improving Paragraph, and bringing the best of Mirror into a single, evolving product. As part of that transition, we’ll be winding down Mirror over the next month or so.

If you've ever written on Mirror, your posts and subscribers will be automatically migrated to Paragraph. Your writing will remain live and readers visiting your Mirror blog will be redirected to your new home on Paragraph. No action by you is required.

Bringing everything together on Paragraph has already allowed us to move faster and experiment more effectively. Over the past few months, we've shipped new ways for readers to support and show their appreciation for their favorite writing:

• Post coins — support ideas they love and share it with the world.

• Remixing — respond to a post & share in the growth of the combined discussion.

• Writer coins — back your favorite writers, beyond a single post.

We’re excited to keep exploring new ways for writers to share meaningful work and be supported by the readers who care about it.

If you have any feedback or questions, send a note to hello@paragraph.com.

It’s been a little over a month since we shipped coins on Paragraph. As we mentioned in that post, we’re trying to find new, meaningful ways for readers to support and show their appreciation for great writing.

There are already several places to write on the internet, from platforms like Medium & Substack, to SaaS products like Ghost, Beehiiv, ConvertKit, and many more. All these platforms offer their own flavor of monetization, all of which have some hard trade-offs:

• Paid subscriptions require full-time writing and can feel transactional;

• Ads require a lot of effort and harm the reader experience;

• Tips and one-off payments rarely scale.

We’ve experimented over the last several years with numerous ways of helping writers earn, from crowdfunds to open edition NFTs.

We’re applying everything we’ve learned to our newest iteration we’re particularly excited about: coins. We hope coins will allow readers to:

• Turn up the volume on an idea that resonates with them.

• Express something about themselves through the writing they back.

• Find others who share their interests or values.

• Show their appreciation for great writing and encourage more of it to exist in the world.

What’s happened so far?

It’s still very early for coins on Paragraph, but we wanted to share a quick update on how things are going so far.

• 9,400 post coins have been created since launch.

• 5,000 readers have supported great writing by purchasing post coins.

• The combined market cap of all post coins exceeds $1.2 million.

• Many writers have said coins have brought them higher earnings than any of their past writing online, including Debbie, Jayme, and ETH Daily.

• Several posts have broken through, reaching wide audiences and gaining significant value. Here are a few examples:

  • The Death of the Yeoman Farmer

  • How 0xDesigner is designing a future we can’t yet imagine

  • A Shitcaster's Guide to Farcaster

  • Drink Tap Water

  • The Mirror that Speaks

  • Base’s Next Chapter

We’ve also launched a few coin-related features and already seen cool use cases:

• Coin pairing — we’ve seen writers pair their post coins with their creator coin and, perhaps even more exciting, community tokens, linking cultural movements with individual efforts.

• Remixing — when you come across a post that resonates with you, remix it and respond with your own post, building on the idea or taking it in a totally new direction. The coins of both posts are linked, so as one grows, both benefit.

We’re about a month from launching writer coins, a way to back writers across all their writing, beyond one post at a time. We imagine writer coins will open up a totally new stream of experimentation.

What we haven’t really tried yet

Our goal was to make coins a lightweight way to support writers instead of a speculative tool. We’ve done this by using approachable language, clear support tiers, and stripping out coin jargon and financial metrics.

But copy changes and subtle UX tweaks can only take you so far. We would love to find ways to lean further into non-speculative motivations:

• Self-expression & community. When readers support a post by buying coins, they could also receive badges, quotes, or limited-edition collectibles (like NFTs) they’d be proud to share. These might include highlighted quotes or images from the post turned into NFTs.

• Utility. Readers needing a certain amount of coins to read a post, comment, join a live discussion, or unlock some type of access.

• Being generous with coins. Finding more ways for coins to flow after a post is published, like rewarding people for reading, sharing, or commenting.

• Writer coins. Opportunity to develop deeper relationships between readers and writers, and to meaningfully reward early supporters. Perhaps there’s also compelling ways to encourage repeat coin purchases over time.

At the same time, we’d be remiss if we didn’t try leaning into speculation as well. But we’ll need to be thoughtful in how we run these experiments to avoid diluting the experience for folks seeking a non-speculative ecosystem.

The road ahead

We’re still in the very early innings of experimenting with coins and, more broadly, how we can help writers feel appreciated and supported in new, meaningful ways.

We’re thrilled by the early traction, but know there’s so much more space to explore, especially around how to unlock non-speculative support at scale.

We’ll keep sharing updates as we learn more. Let us know any questions or feedback in the meantime - send us a note at hello@paragraph.com.

Too much of the internet today rewards the opposite: short-form dunks, quick takedowns, and fleeting hot takes. We believe there’s a better way for ideas to spread — one that rewards thoughtful responses, makes the best discussions easier to find, and sparks even more conversation.

That’s the spirit behind Remixing, our newest feature on Paragraph.

We're rewarding the top 3 remixes of this post with up to $500 - read to the end for details!

A better way for ideas to strengthen & spread

Now, when you come across a post that resonates with you, inspires you, or where you have something of value to contribute, you can remix it and respond with your own post, building on the idea, pushing the conversation further, or taking it in a totally new direction.

When a post is remixed, the original author benefits from their writing being shared with more readers and to see their ideas spark new waves of creativity. The writers that remix the post benefit by tapping into a pre-existing audience and discussion, instantly having their work exposed to more readers.

Also, for those that have a hard time getting into a habit of writing, or feel stuck staring at a blinking cursor, responding to a post by remixing it is a great way to get into a consistent rhythm of writing.

Remixing creates space for ideas to strengthen and spread, while rewarding the people that bring value to the discussion.

How does remixing work?

Remixing is the first extension to our recently released Coins feature, our effort to help writers feel appreciated and rewarded for their hard work.

Here's how to remix a post:

• On any post with a coin, click the "Remix" button at the top.

• In the modal, after you choose "Start remixing", you'll be taken to the Editor to write your remix.

• Once you're done, publish and share your remix.

After you've published your remix, your new post gets its own coin, and that coin is automatically linked to the original post's coin. As either post gains traction, both coins benefit.

• If a popular writer gets people excited about an idea, and you remix it with a great follow-up, your coin is lifted by that momentum.

• If your remix resonates and takes off, the original coin benefits too.

Rather than a system that encourages dunking and take-downs in as little words as possible, we hope this creates a rising-tide-lifts-all-boats dynamic around thoughtful discourse, and powerful incentives for everyone to support each other's work.

We’ve seen firsthand that coins are a powerful way to support writers and signal what’s worth reading. With Remixing, that power becomes collaborative. Writers can now invite others into their creative process and share in the value they create together.

Remix this post!

Remixing is available today for everyone on Paragraph. Just click the Remix button at the top of any post and start writing.

Remixing is one of the first meaningful extensions of coins and we're planning to ship publication-level coins in the next month. But this is just the start — we'll keep exploring new ways to help writers earn from their work and give readers better ways to show appreciation and support.

Remix this post and share your ideas! We’ll reward the top 3 remixes (based on market cap) at noon EST on Friday, August 29th: $500 USDC for 1st, $200 for 2nd, and $100 for 3rd.

We’re excited to see how you use Remixing to build on ideas, grow your audience, and collaborate in new ways. Share any feedback or remixes you publish with us on Twitter, Farcaster, or by sending us a note at hello@paragraph.com.

Previously, starting a second publication — whether for personal writing, company updates, or a side project — meant creating an entirely new account. That came with multiple logins, email addresses, and dashboards. It was clunky and unnecessary friction.

Now, all your writing lives under one roof.

To manage multiple publications or to create a new one, head to the dashboard and click on the dropdown in the top left navigation bar.

Why have multiple publications?

In general, it’s best to keep your writing under one publication, especially if the themes and tone are consistent. But if you’re writing about totally different things (say, startup advice and poetry), it can make sense to split them up.

A simple rule of thumb: put yourself in the reader’s shoes.

When someone subscribes to your newsletter, they build expectations based on what they’ve read. If your next post feels like it may be totally unexpected or less relevant to the reader, that may be a sign it belongs in a different publication.

Already have separate accounts?

If you’ve already created multiple accounts to manage different publications, you can now consolidate them. Here's a step-by-step to bring your publications into a single account:

1. Head to Import/Export in your Settings and export your posts and subscribers from the publication you’d like to move.

2. Import your export file into the desired account and publication:

   1. Sign into the account where you want everything to live;

   2. Make sure you're in or switch to the desired publication;

   3. Head to the import/export settings page;

   4. Import the export file you just downloaded.

3. Once everything looks good, you can delete your old publication and account if you’d like.

If you need any help, send us a note at hello@paragraph.com or tag us on Farcaster.

Why coins?

Great writing has the power to change minds & bring people together, entertain & create new worlds, and shape the future. Despite their cultural impact, writers rarely receive the appreciation — or income — their work merits.

Today’s monetization options come with hard trade-offs: subscriptions require full-time writing and can feel impersonal; ads require a lot of effort & erode the reader experience; and tips & one-off payments rarely scale. We believe there’s room for something new.

Coins are part of our ongoing attempt to expand the idea economy. We hope coins will allow readers to:

• Turn up the volume on an idea that resonates with them.

• Signal something about themselves through the writing they back.

• Find others who share their interests or values.

• Support writing they enjoy and encourage more of it to exist in the world.

All while giving writers new ways to earn and feel like their work matters.

A different approach

We felt like there was an opportunity to try a version of coins that wasn’t rooted in speculation, bending more toward durable, market-expanding motivations. We’ve tried to bring this to life through early versions of the product experience.

For example, in the first iteration of the post page with the side rail to buy coins, here are some of the things we did to keep the lightweight, simple, and focused on supporting the writer:

• Using less financialized terms: "support" instead of "buy", "trade" instead of "sell".

• Trying to reduce the mental overhead with buying coins, providing 3 tiers to choose from, avoiding the need to choose how many coins to buy, consider the price of the coin, and so on.

• Providing a popularity indicator instead of showing the market cap of the post.

We don’t expect to nail this out of the gate, but hope that this is a firm step in a new direction from which we can learn and iterate.

Discovery

Coins also power discovery — we've shipped a new Explore page, where the most-supported posts rise to the top, sending great ideas into wider circulation and inviting more engagement.

As readers back a piece with coins, that support instantly boosts its visibility, creating a virtuous loop in which quality writing climbs the charts while authors earn more for their work. The result is a community-driven feed that surfaces the internet’s best thinking—not because an algorithm said so, but because real people decided it deserves the spotlight.

Where we’re headed

We’ve already received a ton of valuable feedback related to the challenges of coins in helping writers monetize their work. To that end, here are a few areas where we’re excited to experiment:

• Finding the right relationship between coins at a post-, writer-/creator-, and/or project-level.

• Experimenting with economics and incentives (e.g., increasing transaction rev share).

• Designing incentives for long-term holding.

• Post-level remixing, rewards, and new kinds of collaboration.

• Access to read, comment, attend events, etc. tied to coin ownership.

• Combining coins with limited-edition NFTs (or other monetization features).

How to get started

Coins are live on Paragraph right now. To get started, simply connect your wallet & publish a new post.

To learn more, read our documentation on coins, or share your thoughts with us on X or Farcaster.

We're excited to continue experimenting with new economic models to expand the idea economy.

Creating an account, signing in, subscribing to writers, and collecting posts are now faster, simpler, and more secure. We now support multiple sign-in methods, including multi-factor authentication and passkey-based login. We've also deepened our connection with Farcaster, making it easier than ever to find your friends and discover great writing on Paragraph.

Sign-in with Farcaster

You can now create an account and sign in with your Farcaster identity (SIWF), instantly connecting you to your friends and the writers you follow.

Once connected, you’ll start seeing:

• Writers you follow on Farcaster recommended across Paragraph.

• Posts from those writers in your home feed.

• What your friends are reading, discussing, and collecting.

SIWF also ensures you have a cohesive experience on paragraph.com and in the Paragraph mini app on Farcaster.

Even if you don’t sign in with Farcaster, connecting a wallet you use on Farcaster lets us surface people you follow, helping you find friends and discover great writing on Paragraph. You can also see all the writers you follow on Farcaster in your account settings.

We’re only scratching the surface of what’s possible and we’re excited to keep making discovery even better.

Uncovering Magical Moments

Looking forward, we're excited to support embedded wallets, which allows everyone to start with a secure, easy-to-use wallet on Paragraph — no setup, extensions, or seed phrases required.

This makes it much easier for readers to support the writers and writing they love right away. For writers, it means getting paid for your ideas becomes dramatically simpler.

But embedded wallets also open up space for us to try more outside-the-box ideas.

We’ve wondered whether we could allow readers to bring a piece of writing they love onchain — even something published outside of Paragraph — and support it without any action required by the writer. Then perhaps the writer of that posts shows up to find an embedded wallet with funds from all the readers that wanted to show their appreciation.

We're excited to leverage embedded wallets and similar account-related features that help us uncover these types of magical moments.

Focusing On What Matters

This update shores up lots of account-related complexity and issues. But more importantly, it lets us turn our focus to what matters most: helping readers show their appreciation for great writing, enabling new ways for writers to earn for their ideas, and expanding the creative economy in ways that were never possible before.

A special thanks to Privy for helping power the infrastructure behind this. Identity and wallet tooling is incredibly hard to get right — and thanks to that foundation, we can now spend more time building what makes Paragraph unique and valuable.

Let us know any questions or feedback, and stay tuned for more updates & improvements around account infrastructure on Paragraph.

That’s why we’re launching Auto-Crosspost, a new feature that lets you automatically publish your existing newsletter to Paragraph — no extra work, no switching platforms, no moving subscribers.

It’s a simple way to reach a new audience, get more visibility for your writing, spark more discussion around your ideas, and open up new ways for readers to support you.

One post, multiple surfaces

All you need to do is create a Paragraph account and drop in your publication’s RSS feed, and we’ll take care of the rest.

Once you connect your RSS feed, every new post you publish will automatically:

• Appear on your Paragraph publication

• Be sent via email and wallet to any Paragraph subscribers

• Be eligible for minting and other new monetization features

• Reach new readers across Paragraph’s discovery surfaces

You can always edit, hide, or delete any crossposted post, and it's easy to turn off the connection at any time. This feature works with any publishing platform that supports RSS feeds, including Ghost, Medium, Substack, WordPress, Beehiiv, and more.

Future improvements

At launch, you’ll need to manually share crossposted posts to Farcaster to tap into its full benefits. Once shared, your posts will load instantly in the Paragraph mini app and be easy to read, discuss, subscribe to, and collect, all without leaving the social feed.

Soon, writers will be able to sign in with Farcaster and grant write permissions, allowing their crossposted posts to automatically publish to the Farcaster social feed. This is a key ingredient in getting more visibility, reader sharing, discussion, and earnings for your work.

In the coming weeks, we’ll also start sending a stats email after each crossposted post, highlighting the extra views, readers, and revenue you earned by publishing onchain.

Get started in a couple easy steps

We want to help writers get more out of their work without any extra effort. Auto-Crosspost is a first step toward making it easy to publish on Paragraph and tap into all the benefits that come with it.

Here's how to get started:

• Head to paragraph.com and create an account.

• In the publication settings, scroll to the Auto-Crosspost section.

• Paste your publication's RSS feed and click connect.

Your next post (and every post after) will automatically publish to Paragraph, helping you grow your audience and earnings with zero extra lift.

Have questions or feedback? We’d love to hear from you — just drop us a note at hello@paragraph.com.

For writing to have an impact, it needs to be shared, seen, and discussed. But today’s internet makes that harder than ever:

• Paid subscriptions force writers into full-time publishing — a path that isn’t feasible or desirable for many.

• Paywalls restrict readership, limit audience growth, and weaken the reach of important ideas.

• Sponsorships and click-based ads dilute authenticity, harm the reading experience, and distract writers from their craft.

• Platforms maximize ad impressions, not discovery, quality, and thoughtful discourse, creating a continuous race for the bottom.

At Paragraph, we believe in a better way — one where great ideas can thrive without being constrained by today's platforms or limitations. Over the past few years, we’ve been working toward that vision, and along the way, we’ve gained clarity on the future we want to build:

A thriving, open ecosystem where ideas shape the world.

To get there, we need to empower writers and readers to build, share, and own the future of ideas.

With a little more clarity on where we're going, we want to bring more intentionality to how we solve these problems, with an opinion on how the product should work, but also look and feel — to take a stronger stance on what a great, modern reading and writing experience should feel like.

Today, we’re introducing a new look, a new home, and a renewed commitment to what comes next.

Over the past few years, we've shipped a variety of features, focusing on functionality, with less attention on aesthetics or the feel of features. While that made for a solid foundation, we heard feedback that the experience lacked polish, personality, and perspective.

We agreed.

We’re striving to make Paragraph feel more inviting, more intuitive, and more aligned with our vision by refreshing the design across the board:

• A cleaner, more intentional design — new fonts, colors, and an overall improved reading & writing experience.

• A new logo & landing page — subtle but meaningful updates that better reflect who we are and better welcome new readers & writers.

• A warm and cozy dark mode to make long-form reading more enjoyable.

As always, we hope these updates improve the reading and writing experience on Paragraph. But we also hope these updates start to pepper in a little personality.

We’re also moving to a new domain: paragraph.com.

For writers, this move brings a few meaningful benefits:

• Better email delivery to chip away at the constant challenge of making sure your posts reach your reader's inboxes.

• Improved SEO to make it easier for new readers to discover great writing on Paragraph.

• A more welcoming home for new readers and writers, whether or not they’re familiar with crypto or onchain apps.

The switch to paragraph.com also signals our long-term commitment to building Paragraph and playing an active role in building a new home for reading & writing on the internet.

These updates mark the beginning of a deeper commitment to building a more opinionated, thoughtful product. Our goal is to create an experience that’s mote intentional in how it looks, feels, and works. Perhaps most important, these updates complete a major effort to rebuild Paragraph’s foundation, making it easier for us to experiment and ship meaningful features faster.

Looking ahead, our focus is clear: helping writers earn in new and novel ways on the internet. We see this as the key to bringing more writers — and, by extension, more readers — onchain, and ultimately working toward a vibrant ecosystem of ideas and a thriving economy that enables more great writing to be shared.

We’re excited about this next chapter for Paragraph and would love for you to be part of it. Try out the new experience at Paragraph.com and let us know what you think — your feedback and ideas help shape the future of Paragraph and, ultimately, the future of how ideas thrive on the internet.

One of the most valuable aspects of publishing and creating onchain is the power of interoperability. For writers, this means greater control over your audience, better ways for your readers to support your work, and freedom from platform restrictions.

The connection between Paragraph and Farcaster is a powerful example of breaking down these walled gardens. By embracing open protocols and onchain publishing, we’re empowering writers to reach more readers, build stronger communities, and unlock new monetization opportunities.

Today, we’re excited to launch significant improvements to the Paragraph experience on Farcaster.

When we first launched the Paragraph mini-app, it was a lightweight version of the post page — good for quick reading, but missing some key engagement tools. 

Now, we've rebuilt our integration from the ground up, and made it even easier for writers to grow & readers to discover great writing, without ever leaving Farcaster:

• Collect: Readers can now support writers by collecting posts directly from their Farcaster feed, using Warpcast wallet. For writers, this means an opportunity to earn income, receive recognition, and build a more engaged reader base. This is just the beginning — we’ll be introducing new ways for writers to seamlessly earn money and be recognized for their ideas.

• Subscribe: Readers can now subscribe to writers they discover on Farcaster with one tap, allowing writers to develop a deeper, ongoing relationship with their readers.

• Notifications: Readers will get a notification on Farcaster when a writer they subscribe to publishes a new post. This is a major improvement — readers can stay up-to-date without cluttered inboxes, and writers no longer need to worry about overwhelming subscribers with emails.

• Discover: After installing the frame, we'll automatically log you in and display your home feed, where we surface recommended posts based on your subscriptions and who you follow on Farcaster.

For everyone on Farcaster, it's now become much easier to publish & share your long-form writing, grow your audience, develop deeper relationships with your readers, and get paid for your ideas.

Farcaster and other onchain social platforms will always play a crucial role in maximizing readership. High-traffic social feeds — along with their built-in follower graphs — provide a powerful engine for great writing to gain traction. We want Paragraph writers to fully leverage these networks to expand their reach and grow their earnings.

This is just the beginning. We’re excited to continue refining this experience, introducing new engagement features, and making it even easier for writers on Paragraph to grow their audience and better monetize their writing.

Now is the perfect time to start publishing on Paragraph and sharing your work with the Farcaster community. Give it a try and let us know your thoughts — we’re excited to keep improving this experience with your feedback!

Today, we’re rolling out an improved publication homepage so new readers can quickly learn more about the author and find their best writing. We’ve also simplified the theming settings to make Paragraph easier to use for writers and to upgrade the reading experience.

Looking ahead to this year, these updates lay the groundwork for what’s to come: helping writers grow their audience, build deeper relationships with readers, and monetize their work in new ways.

Below are more details on the improved publication homepage and post page. Let us know what you think — find us on Farcaster or send a note to hello@paragraph.xyz.

Your publication homepage is often the first impression readers have of your work, and we’ve reimagined it to help you showcase your writing and connect with your audience more effectively. Here are some of the new theming options for your publication homepage:

• Featured post — highlight your most recent post, your post with the most views, or a post that describes who you are and what you write about.

• Popular posts section — show a handful of your most popular posts so new readers can easily find your best writing.

• Author sidebar — introduce yourself to new readers with a summary of what you write about and links to your social accounts.

We hope the new homepage design gives you the tools to highlight what matters most — your writing — while creating a cleaner, more engaging experience for readers.

The new post page has been redesigned to create a cleaner, more focused reading experience. With fewer dividers, lines, and distractions, it’s all about helping readers stay immersed in your writing. Further, readers can now toggle between light and dark mode for a more comfortable reading experience. The biggest improvements, however, are behind the scenes: the new post page is faster, more reliable, and more scalable.

We’re excited to explore the idea of making the post the atomic unit of value — something that bridges the gap between platforms like Medium (which bundles writers into a platform-wide subscription) and Ghost or Substack (which focus on publication-centric models reliant on recurring subscriptions and sponsorships).

The new post page provides a strong foundation for us to build in this direction. We plan to experiment with a variety of novel monetization features aimed at helping writers earn money for their ideas without having to become a full-time writer. The new post page also allows us to continue iterating on features like the Paragraph mini-app on Farcaster and other ways to help writers reach more readers.

Let us know what you think about the redesign or what you would like to see us work on next year, especially anything related to helping writers grow their readers and monetize their work.

Send a note to hello@paragraph.xyz or find us on Farcaster.

With the Paragraph mini app, when you share a Paragraph post on Farcaster, it becomes an instant-loading article that anyone can read without leaving the app. This seamless experience allows writers to reach a much wider audience and better connect with readers where they are.

Sharing your writing on social platforms like Farcaster is crucial for growing your audience. Not only does it let you engage directly with your readers, but it also makes it easy for them to share your work with their followers. This amplifies your reach and helps you build a stronger connection with your readers.

Views from the Paragraph mini app are included in total "Views" for each post. We plan to show views by platform soon to provide more insight on where your posts are being read.

We’re just getting started with the Paragraph mini app. We’re working on improvements that will help writers grow their subscribers and more effectively monetize, all while keeping the reading experience seamless and enjoyable.

There’s never been a better time to start writing on Paragraph — write your first post, share it to Farcaster, and take advantage of this powerful new way to grow your audience.

We’re big supporters of Coinbase’s efforts to bring the next 1 billion people onchain. Smart wallets are a huge step in the right direction, making it easier and more accessible to create a wallet.

Now, Paragraph can join that effort in making it simple and frictionless for new readers and writers to create a wallet and participate in all the benefits of being onchain.

We're excited to add support for smart wallets as part of the Onchain Summer celebration.

If you're a writer or creator on Paragraph, make sure to submit your project for an opportunity to be featured during Onchain Summer.

To learn more about Onchain Summer, check out this blog post and the weekly roundups from the Onchain Summer newsletter.

https://paragraph.xyz

Onchain Summer

Create, publish and share onchain blogs & newsletters.

Coinbase smart wallets allow people to create a secure, self-custody wallet in seconds using a passkey — no need for seed phrases, private key storage, passwords, or third party app installs.

On Paragraph, smart wallets will benefit writers by ushering in a new wave of readers that can easily participate in the onchain economy. Since a lot of writers, creators, and artists start off as readers and patrons, we believe the growth in readers and patrons will also lead to more people publishing onchain.

Both these dynamics can feed off each other, creating a self-reinforcing growth loop and dramatically expanding the onchain economy.

Here are some the tangible benefits of using a smart wallet:

• The Coinbase Wallet web app allows users to connect multiple wallets and view their onchain assets, including crypto, NFTs, and DeFi positions, in one place.

• Coinbase offers multiple payment methods to buy crypto and fund your wallet, including ACH transfers and transfers from Coinbase.

• Wallets work across major L2s and onchain apps (Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base, BNB, Ethereum L1, Optimism, Polygon, and Zora).

• Passkeys can be set up using hardware devices or cloud-based keychains for cross-device availability.

To learn more about smart wallets, check out this post from the Coinbase blog.

• Paragraph will be taking ownership of the Mirror product

• We've raised $5m from Union Square Ventures & Coinbase Ventures

Both Mirror and Paragraph have always shared a common goal: to empower creators with the tools needed to own direct relationships with their audiences, and to unlock powerful new monetization & distribution models. Now that Paragraph is uniting with Mirror, we'll be positioned to accelerate our mission and expand our support to an even wider array of creators.

I'll continue to be CEO, and Denis Nazarov, the founder of Mirror, will remain as an advisor.

In the nearterm, publishing on both Mirror and Paragraph will continue as usual. We'll be spending the next several months having conversations with creators to determine what a single great choice for onchain publishing might look like.

We're also excited to announce that we've raised $5m, led by Union Square Ventures with participation from Coinbase Ventures. Fred Wilson, Nick Grossman and the rest of the USV team have been thinking about the intersection of publishing & digital ownership for as long as anyone and we're thrilled to not only partner with them, but to also welcome their newsletters to Paragraph.

And, with support from industry leaders like Coinbase and Base, we'll ensure that publishing onchain is as seamless & accessible as possible.

Finally, if any of this sounds exciting for you, we're hiring across engineering, design, & growth roles: https://paragraph.xyz/careers.

Read the corresponding announcement on the Mirror blog.

Historically, word-of-mouth has manifested through endorsements & recommendations. These have typically been manual and lacking incentives.

Starting today, Paragraph creators are able to recommend other newsletters on Paragraph, while getting rewarded for driving quality subscriptions. Whenever a reader subscribes to a newsletter, we'll prompt the reader to optionally explore & subscribe to that newsletter's recommendations.

This encourages readers to discover a wider range of content & also incentivizes a dynamic ecosystem of creators supporting and promoting each other's work. Creators will also get rewarded - immediately & automatically - as part of our referral rewards program, for all quality subscriptions they drive.

Recommendations also work entirely in-frame: readers can now subscribe to a creator (and the other newsletter's that creator recommends) without ever leaving their feed or inbox.

How It Works

As a creator, in your Paragraph dashboard head over to the new Growth tab to begin adding recommendations.

You'll be prompted to enter in Paragraph newsletters you want to recommend, and an optional reason as to why you're recommending them.

As a reader, after subscribing to a newsletter you'll be presented with that newsletter's recommendations. You'll be able to click through to read, or one-click subscribe directly.

Referral Rewards

If a writer recommends another newsletter, their wallet address is set as the referrer for all subscriptions they drive to that newsletter.

Whenever a referred reader take a positive-sum action on that newsletter in the future (such as collecting a post or purchasing a crypto recurring subscription), the original referrer will get paid immediately & automatically in crypto.

Framed Recommendations

Since launching our Paragraph frame, we've driven thousands of organic subscriptions to creators across Farcaster and XMTP.

Paragraph recommendations also work in frames: after subscribing to a newsletter in-frame, readers will be prompted to one-click subscribe to that newsletter's recommendations, without ever leaving their feed or inbox.

We're excited to continue exploring ways to incentivize, reward, & help creators grow meaningfully.

In 2023, we've made great strides in empowering creators to foster new & meaningful connections with their audience, while ensuring that they're always in control and can create, distribute & monetize exactly how they want. We're just getting started, and we're excited with what's in store.

In this post, we're highlighting a few feature launches in 2023 that we're particularly proud of, and showcasing a few things planned for 2024.

Engagement & Distribution

Layer3 Quest Embeds

At Paragraph, we believe readers should not just be passive consumers of content, but instead active participants, rewarded for loyalty and engagement. This can take the form of many different things: from NFT memberships, to collectible content, to in-post engagement.

Layer3 has been incentivizing & gamifying active participation in the form of Quests - users can complete Quests to learn more about a specific protocol or product in web3 and get rewarded in the form of XP and badges.

We're excited to announce that we've added support for Layer3 quest embeds, letting readers complete quests directly within Paragraph posts.

Paragraph creators like Web3Academy are using these quest embeds to turn a one-sided conversation into something more engaging: now, Web3Academy can teach their readers about a web3 product or protocol, and get them to actually interact with the product using a Layer3 quest (while rewarding them for doing so). For example, in their recent post about Sound.xyz, they've embedded a Sound quest.

In addition, Layer3 has been running quests centered on Paragraph creators, like UFO.fm, helping grow their audience. They've driven tens of thousands of mints on Paragraph collectible posts so far.

Intro to UFO - Layer3

Explore UFO's unique fusion of onchain radio, arts, and Web3 innovation.

Start Quest

This integration also illustrates the power of Paragraph's referral rewards - protocols & platforms like Layer3 get rewarded for all traffic they send Paragraph. They've earned over 1 ETH so far via referral rewards, simply for sending users to Paragraph; and will continue earning for as long as the user's they referred keep monetizing on Paragraph.

In 2024, we'll be experimenting with more features that aim to turn passive readers into active participants, fostering an even closer sense of community between creators and their audience.

Wallet Newsletter Delivery with XMTP

In 2023, we launched XMTP-based wallet newsletter delivery. No need to rely on getting into email inboxes - you can send new posts directly to your subscriber's wallets!

In 2024, we'll be improving UX by introducing new layers of customization, and helping onboard even more users to XMTP. We'll also be exploring 1:1 XMTP messages, letting creators engage directly with their biggest fans beyond newsletters.

Metrics & Analytics

In 2023, we've launched a new suite of metrics & analytic features that help creators determine which posts are the most engaging. Creators can now track newsletter open rates, post view counts, time spent by viewers reading posts, and even unsubscribe counts due to specific newsletters so you can fine-tune your content to your audience.

Next year we plan to expand on the metrics dashboard to add graphs of subscribers over time, user engagement journeys, monetization metrics, and more.

Automation and Workflows

In 2023, we introduced support for AI writing assistance in the editor. You can now use the power of AI to generate headlines and ideas, and if you get stuck mid-way through a paragraph, just ask the AI to finish writing it for you.

To aide in bolstering reader engagement, we also launched customizable automated emails, allowing you to schedule delayed thank yous, reminders, coupon codes, and upsells when your readers perform various actions such as subscribe, upgrade to a paid membership, and more.

Theming & Customization

In 2023, we've added a large number of homepage & post-page customizations to truly make your publication your own.

In 2024, we'll be continuing to add new controls for customization & theming, including the much-requested ability to pin posts.

Collaboration & Onboarding

In 2023, we launched several features aimed to helping creators onboard onto Paragraph, and enabling creators to work together as a group.

We launched subscriber import & post import flows, enabling creators to export data from other platforms and migrate to Paragraph seamlessly. In 2024, we'll be expanding our post import flows, making it easier for users to migrate from Mirror and Substack.

We also launched teams & roles - you can add individual writers by either wallet address or email, and give them permission to perform certain actions on your Paragraph newsletter (such as editing a post, but not publishing it). This opens up opportunities for DAOs and larger publications to have guest writers with limited access.

Creator Monetization

Referral Rewards

Our referral rewards program has already been rewarding individuals that share their favourite posts online, & platforms like Layer3 for helping grow Paragraph creators.

In 2024, we'll be greatly expanding this rewards program - we'll be doubling down on eligible reward actions, expanding partners, and displaying reward metrics more prominently across Paragraph.

We'll also be launching a recommendation network: creators can recommend other newsletters and refer their own subscribers, while getting rewarded for doing so.

Recurring Payments & NFT-backed Memberships

In 2023, we added support for recurring payments. Creators have been earning thousands of dollars a month monetizing via fiat recurring payments on Paragraph. Creators can create NFTs that correspond to a recurring membership, letting readers mint and own an on-chain collectible that can grant access to exclusive content directly from the creator.

In early 2024 we'll be adding support for crypto-recurring payments, unlocking additional & permissionless ways for creators to monetize on a recurring basis from their audience. We'll also be launching NFT membership for free subscribers, letting creators build not only a subscriber-base, but a collector-base.