While we’re extremely proud of all the experimentation since Mirror’s genesis, the community has made it clear that what sets Mirror apart are its unique capabilities for sharing ideas that catalyze communities in web3. To that end, we are reaffirming our commitment to creating the best home for web3 publishing. bought a professional basketball team and is working toward buying an NBA team. ) adopted by leading platforms and tools across the ecosystem. how can Mirror best serve the web3 creator community ..read more

Mirror takes subscriptions a step further by centering it around a web3 wallet, rather than an email address. We believe wallets are the fundamental representation of identity in web3, and creators will want to build a community represented by wallets rather than emails. A "hello world" post, whitepaper, or manifesto that marks the genesis of any important project on Mirror can now enable its audience to subscribe, creating a social and economic link between community and project ..read more

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Over the last year, Mirror has built a space for web3 ideas to grow. Thousands of writers – including that laid out his vision for the project. Like Satoshi before him, Vitalik’s whitepaper served as a call to action that inspired a group of believers to help bring his ideas to fruition. This whitepaper has become an invaluable artifact — a foundational text with historical significance. – have used Mirror to introduce their best ideas to the ecosystem. Their voices have made it a vibrant destination for web3 writing ..read more

The GraphQL query is available as a gist , an on-chain decentralized storage layer that makes it so that your posts exist forever (even if Mirror does not ..read more

Editions allow creators to mint a limited supply of identical NFTs at a fixed price, directly on Mirror. There’s an analogy we’ve probably overused by now: If a 1/1 NFT is a Picasso at Sotheby's, Editions are like the thousands of first-edition holographic Charizards released. Since their introduction, Editions minted on Mirror have been used to were designed to address the limitations of the growing NFT marketplace. NFTs gained renown as 1/1 digital artworks, finally allowing digital artists to imbue their works with a rarity previously only associated with traditional art. But with that bake ..read more

While the basis of development is a feed, building this into a Discord bot will help supplement discovery and discussion within the community on a platform that already enforces a tight feedback loop between those two elements ..read more

More than ever, we believe that every creative project starts with a story. Our goal is to make Mirror the best place to share your story with the world and build a highly-engaged community around it, powered by world-class crypto-native tools. . Over the past year, we’ve also launched economic blocks for . Mirror has evolved from a tool for writers to a full-stack web3 creative suite for communities and DAOs ..read more

Like traditional crowdfund platforms, Mirror’s crowdfund feature allows you to raise funds for your latest project. We’ve been most excited to see it used to fund completely new kinds of web3 projects, whether it be a . Unlike traditional, web2 crowdfund platforms, Mirror’s crypto-native crowdfunding gives the tool a disruptive edge. With the application of tokens and NFTs, backers have automatic and permanent stakes in the success of a project. The result is a unique cross between starting an online community and an internet-native company, all in real time and with the simplicity of filling ..read more

has been very popular. Over the past few months, we've spoken with many projects that want to use a similar tool for their communities. We kept hearing this again and again, so we decided to build a standalone tool that anyone on Mirror could use. Today we'd like to introduce: Token Race. A token race is a great way for individuals and DAOs to get their community involved in decision-making. You can use a token race in various ways, such as ..read more