- Boost its visibility across Paragraph, where the most-supported posts rise to the top.
- Signal that your writing resonates with them.
- Are more likely to share your writing with their friends & followers, helping introduce your writing to new readers.
- Directly support you as a writer, giving you a new way to earn.
How it works for writers
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Enable post coins
- Go to Publication Settings → Monetization.
- Toggle on Post coins (you can also enable & disable coins on individual posts later when publishing a new post).
- Make sure your payout wallet address is set correctly — this is where your earnings from coins will go.
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Make sure coins are enabled when publishing
- In the publishing flow for a new post, make sure to leave the Coin this post toggle on.
- You have the option to pick a ticker symbol (up to 8 characters).
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Readers support your post
- On the post page, readers can support you in-frame by choosing from preset tiers (e.g., Liked it, Loved it, True Believer).
- Each action creates coins for your post and sends direct support to you.
Why coins?
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.
Technical details
Coins are deployed using the Doppler protocol on the Base network. Each post coin is a standard ERC‑20 token with a fixed total supply and fair-launch mechanics. What happens when a coin launches?- Total supply: 1 billion (1,000,000,000) tokens per post coin
- Writer/creator allocation: 10% of the total supply, vested linearly over 1 year
- Transaction fees: 1% of each buy or sell is split as follows:
- 0.475% to the writer/creator
- 0.475% to Paragraph
- 0.05% to the Doppler protocol
- A percentage of every transaction
- Writers/creators receive a portion of the trading fees from anyone buying or selling their coin.
- These are available to claim as soon as they accumulate.
- Appreciation in the value of their their post coins
- Writers/creators receive 10% of the total supply of their own coin.
- If their post gains attention and people continue supporting it (i.e., buying their post coin), the value of their coin can go up. Writers/creators have the opportunity to sell any of their post coins that have vested if there’s enough demand.
- Coins are deployed using Doppler’s
AirlockFactory
contract on Base. - Pricing is powered by a static bonding curve on top of a Uniswap v3 pool, enabling fair pricing and mitigating bot-based sniping.
- You can find the latest smart contract implementation and details on doppler.so.