NFT Protocol Zora Sets To Launch A Fun Token Tomorrow April 23

On Apr 22, 2025

Zora, a multi-chain non-fungible token and tokenization protocol, has announced ready plans to launch its own token dubbed “$ZORA” this week. The team behind the Zora token hinted at plans for its fun-only token earlier this year. The highly anticipated $ZORA will go live tomorrow, April 23, 2025, 13:00 UTC. In this article, we shall discuss in-depth this most-awaited crypto token airdrop.

Zora Set to Launch Fun Token On April 23

In an April 20 blog post, the Zora team confirmed ready plans to launch their Zora token this week. The Zora development team will launch its self-described meme coin on the Base, the Ethereum layer-2 network. “What started as an experiment six years ago has finally turned into something larger and bigger than we could have imagined,” the protocol wrote in a blog post introducing the token. “Thank you to everyone who has realized the vision of Zora with us this far.”

$ZORA will be live on April 23, 2025. pic.twitter.com/yZdjlnDohH
— zora (@zora) April 20, 2025

Launched in 2023, Zora is a renowned platform designed to help creators connect, share, and earn cryptocurrencies. It enables users to post content freely and allows creators and collectors to increase value through selling and minting. This on-chain social network, Zora, was designed to provide a fast, cost-effective, and scalable way to bring media on-chain. The Zora Network is a decentralized, scalable L2 blockchain explicitly developed for creators, brands, and artists.

The Zora development also manages a non-fungible token marketplace called Zora. Zora is more than just an NFT marketplace. It not only allows users to buy and sell non-fungible tokens, but also makes it easier for artists to collect royalties on their work. The NFT market platform also gives users exclusive exposure and helps them build communities. Zora is built on the Ethereum blockchain network.

$ZORA Tokenomics

To commemorate the Zora ecosystem’s continued support, the Zora token development team has prepared a token generation event and an airdrop. By description, an airdrop is a method used by crypto and NFT projects to distribute cryptocurrencies to a large number of users, often for free, as part of a marketing campaign or to encourage wider adoption of a new or existing project. It’s essentially a giveaway of digital assets, usually tokens or coins, to wallet addresses.

“$ZORA is for fun only”
Why does team need to keep 65% of a token that’s for fun only?
Why would a project maintain a treasury of a worthless “for fun only” token?
Why would contributors want to receive 26% of the supply of a worthless token that entitles them to nothing? pic.twitter.com/OeO9jBN3zn
— karbon 🐺🦊 (@basedkarbon) April 21, 2025

The upcoming $ZORA token will feature a limited edition of 10,000,0000 tokens created on the Base Layer two blockchain network. The Zora team has allocated 20% of the total tokens to the community as incentives for their support. It has also allocated another 20% to the treasury and 10% to the retroactive airdrop. The Zora team has also allocated 18.9% to themselves, 5% for the community liquidity, and 26.1% of the total tokens to its strategic contributors.

Notably, this highly anticipated $ZORA token is created for fun. It does not entitle its holders to any governance rights or a claim on any equity ownership in Zora or its products. The crypto x has already expressed their disgruntlement with $Zora token, demanding questions on “Why does team need to keep 65% of a token that’s for fun only? Why would a project maintain a treasury of a worthless “for fun only” token? And why would contributors want to receive 26% of the supply of a worthless token that entitles them to nothing?

why does the token need to exist at all if it serves absolutely zero purpose?
this type of vapor for a project that raised $60M+ in total at a $600M valuation is just embarrassing for the space.
— ZachXBT (@zachxbt) April 21, 2025