The NFT marketplace Zora has announced the date of the airdrop.

The total supply of ZORA will be 10 billion coins. Of these, 10%, or 1 billion coins, are allocated for an airdrop to Zora community members.

Zora is one of the leading protocols for coinization and non-fungible coins on Ethereum. The launch of the ZORA coin is expected this month.

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What is known about the launch of the ZORA coin

The Zora team announced the launch date of the ZORA coin - April 23. The first snapshot takes into account user activity from January 1, 2020, to March 3, 2025, while the second one is from March 3 to April 20.

The marketplace developers call the new asset a meme coin, but with real value for the entire ecosystem of the project. According to them, ZORA is the result of six years of experiments during which they tried to integrate creativity into the blockchain through coinization.

A new coin will be launched on the second-level network (L2) Base. According to the tokenomics, the total supply of ZORA is 10 billion coins. The distribution is as follows:

• 20% — for the community;
• 10% — for the airdrop among users recorded in the snapshot from March 3, 2025;
• 5% — liquidity;
• 20% — project treasury;
• 18.9% — for the team;
• 26.1% — to strategic partners of Zora.

Coins for the team and strategic partners of the platform will be frozen for six months and then gradually unlocked over the course of three years.

The meme coin ZORA will be intended only for entertainment purposes, the project team stated. Holders of the coin will not receive governance rights over the protocol.

What is the Zora project known for

Zora is an NFT marketplace that simplifies the process of receiving royalties for creators of digital art. The project is a Web3 social network that also helps creators build communities.

Since its launch in 2020, Zora has achieved significant success. The number of wallets registered on the platform exceeds 2.4 million, and the trading volume of NFTs on the secondary market is $376 million. Meanwhile, over 600,000 content creators on the platform have received rewards totaling more than $27.7 million.

Earlier, another NFT marketplace - OpenSea - announced the launch of the coin and the conduct of an airdrop.

Update from 21.04.2025: information about the launch date of the ZORA coin has been added.

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