Base Token on Zora Crashes 92% After Reaching $13M Valuation

  • Base’s social media post on Zora automatically minted as an ERC-20 token, reaching a $13 million valuation before crashing 92% to $1 million.
  • The incident highlighted Zora’s “content coin” feature that transforms social posts into tradable tokens, with Base automatically receiving 10 million tokens (1% of supply).
  • Base founder Jesse Pollak distinguished “content coins” from “meme coins,” describing the former as representing singular content with no expectations of returns.

Coinbase’s Base Layer 2 network sparked a cryptocurrency trading frenzy after a social media post automatically minted as a tradable token through Zora, an onchain social protocol. The "Base is for everyone" token originated from Base’s official X account on Wednesday afternoon when the company announced they had "coined it" on Zora at 3:12 PM ET.

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Despite a clear disclaimer on Zora’s webpage stating it was not an official Base token, traders quickly drove the asset’s valuation to $13 million. The excitement was short-lived, as the token’s value plummeted by 92% to just $1 million within three hours. According to DEXScreener data, the token later recovered slightly, rising 20% to $0.007.

"Base is posting on Zora because we believe everyone should bring their content onchain, and use the tools that make it possible," Base explained in a follow-up post on X. "If we want the future to be onchain, we have to be willing to experiment in public. That’s what we’re doing."

Meanwhile, Hantao Yuan, co-founder of quest-to-earn platform Moku, documented concerns about the token’s distribution, noting that the top three holders controlled 47% of the supply. In a separate post, he claimed "a bunch of volume bots" were manipulating the market, with one wallet alone controlling 25.6% of the supply.

Understanding Content Coins vs. Meme Coins

Jesse Pollak, founder and creator of Base, took to social media to educate users about the difference between "content coins" and traditional "meme coins." In a response on X, Pollak described content coins as representing "one piece of content" with "singular value" and "no expectations," contrasting with meme coins that aggregate content and carry high expectations.

The incident occurred through Zora’s feature that automatically transforms social posts into ERC-20 tokens. As the post creator, Base received 10 million tokens (1% of the supply), though the company pledged never to sell these tokens. A Base representative confirmed to Decrypt that the company did not sell the token and reiterated it was not official in any capacity.

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The Vision for Content Coins

Pollak later shared an essay by Jacob Horne, Zora’s co-founder, explaining the vision behind content coins. Horne argues that content coins can resolve the internet’s tension between information wanting to be free and the expense of producing it.

"Coins unlock a free and valuable internet—one where information can be freely accessed and shared while the value of that information finds its way into all of the hands that help create, distribute, and consume it," wrote Horne.

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According to onchain data, the token generated nearly $28 million in trading volume and over $60,000 in creator earnings for Base, highlighting the significant market activity triggered by this experimental post.

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