Mirror is in many ways an anticipation - a reaction - to tech and media trends of 2023. Entries are collectable, ad-free, and stored permanently online.
But what about the writing itself? Amidst GPTs and algo-curated feeds, would it become obsolete?
Mirror…
📄 is a new kind of publishing platform;
👥 is owned by users;
🏗 is money legos for writers;
🔏 requires a 🔑 to enter.
Mirror would like you to join, if you are ready.
👀 Have you logged into Mirror today?
The team's been busy!
📋 Introducing the (very improved) Mirror Dashboard:
A new way to create across your projects and communities
Connect your wallet and see the freshest tools for web3!
👇Check out what's new👇
✨ New year, new look! ✨
We’re excited to share a vision we believe reflects the best of our efforts over the course of our first year.
Let's take a look in the rearview Mirror 🪞 in celebration of our new home page!
🧵 ⬇️
Introducing Improved ✨NFT Embeds✨
Showcase your PFP, art and music in your next post.
Just add the NFT contract and token ID, Mirror will do the rest.
Available on:
⭐️ Mainnet
🔴 Optimism
💜 Polygon
👉 Get started today at
🔌 New plugin alert!
🪙 Mint your own ERC20 tokens
Introducing the easiest and most finely tuned way for communities to mint an ERC20 token in seconds. Now available for all in the Mirror Dashboard.
✨ Frame your Mirror ✨
Cast any Mirror URL to automatically turn it into a
@farcaster_xyz
frame:
- 🔔 one-click subscribe to your publication on Farcaster
- 💸 earn referral rewards for casting Mirror links
- 📖 click to mint or read the whole entry
🌎 Imagine a world where…
— Authors crowdfund writing using crypto
— Great writing is turned into collectibles via NFTs
— Backers receive tokenized stake in its financial success
— The writing remains a public good
📃 We invite feedback on this RFC.
🔌 Plug in to web3 plugins on Mirror
👀 Announcing the community alpha
Today we’re excited to take the first steps towards composing with web3 tools and projects across the ecosystem with Mirror plugins.
Deets below ↓
Mirror is excited to announce our next experiment in community growth: an airdrop of 302 $WRITE tokens distributed amongst Mirror’s most active members.
New post from
@PayPal
on why they support crypto:
"The answer is a practical one. Crypto gets us closer to what people desire: fast, cheap, global payments."
⛽️ Special treat: we snuck Mirror’s first L2 explorations into midwit. The Words contract is deployed to Arbitrum
@arbitrum
and Optimism
@optimismPBC
.
🍽 Have at it, and treat yourself to a nice dinner this weekend with the gas savings!
#L222
🔗
Welcome to the Mirror DAO Pre-Season!
Join us to:
📣 Prepare communication & governance
🚀 Articulate the DAO Mission
🎁 Update the DAO Membership Process
🤝 Strengthen Mirror's developer & partnership ecosystem
📍 Propose Season 1 roadmaps & objectives
Link below 👀👇
1/ Introducing ✨Writing NFTs 2.0✨
We’ve made some exciting improvements to the Writing NFT creation and collection experience that we think you’ll love!
Say hello to Boojum 👋: zkSync Era’s new high-performance proof system for radical decentralization. Boojum is an upgrade that will transition zkSync Era to a STARK-powered proof system, providing world-class performance on consumer-grade hardware.
💡 Learn more:…
Splits can be used to fund public goods! 🔀
Commit to a cause, and see your charitable contributions and personal wealth can grow side by side, forever.
Announcing the first public goods split, featuring:
—
@ETHGlobal
—
@gitcoin
—
@themintfund
✨ Introducing Discovery ✨
Find all the news that’s fit to mint on Mirror.
🔎 Explore: the most interesting onchain content curated by the Mirror team
📥 Inbox: new entries from creators you subscribe to
Another week, another network to publish and collecting Writing NFTs on!
✨Collectors✨
Entries are now collectable on
@LineaBuild
mainnet
✍️Creators✍️
You can now set Linea as your default network by going to Settings > NFTs > and choosing Linea from the dropdown.
Get…
1/ ✨Introducing the Mirror Reflection Awards✨
An ongoing recognition to people, communities, and projects that help drive the web3 ecosystem forward, with a special appreciation for the teams building on Mirror.
Mirror recently introduced splits, a way to route funds to an unlimited number of Ethereum addresses according to a set of percentages.
What did it take for splits to go from idea to efficient, production ready smart contracts on Ethereum?
8/ Writing NFTs are completely free for writers to create, and collection happens on an Ethereum L2—making transactions inexpensive, fast, and environmentally friendly.
Writing NFTs live on Optimism! (shoutout
@optimismPBC
)
7/ Subscribe to Mint NFTs are available to deploy today on Ethereum, Optimism, and Polygon in your Mirror dashboard!
Look out for more new features soon, as we continue to make Mirror the best place to create and communicate with your web3 community!
No wallet? No problem.
Starting today, anyone can subscribe to your publication with just an email.
Reach your entire audience, even if they don’t have a wallet (yet 😉).
👉 Get started today at
1/ Introducing $WRITE RACE 💨, a weekly showdown between writers who want to join Mirror.
You vote. Mirror tallies. The top 10 candidates get one $WRITE token, their ticket to the platform. Everyone gets an airdrop.
Rules in thread 👇
This week,
@kaiynne
dropped the
#Synthetix
L222 Roadmap on Mirror.
With your $WRITE token, we're looking forward to more
@synthetix_io
updates on your subdomain.
5/ Writing NFTs change the way we value ideas and participate in them as a community.
And they ensure that the next big idea in web3 won’t be a PDF, but an NFT.
📝 Subscribe to Mint is now available to everyone!
🙀 Because of the incredible response to the announcement, we wanted to get it in the hands of all creators ASAP!
👥 Thanks to those who participated in the community beta last week!
Try it now 👇
3/ Starting today, you can:
📝 Create your first Writing NFT from your Dashboard
🗂 Collect genesis entries curated by Mirror DAO
🔍 Explore the top entries on the new leaderboard
3/ Starting today, Subscribe to Mint is live in community beta and only accessible to Mirror Genesis NFT holders.
Collect the NFT to unlock early access to the tool, future product updates, and beta features!
Get all the details and mint here 👇
Collect to show appreciation for a post; collect to tip the creator; collect to keep track of interesting ideas you read online.
And now, earn (っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ rewards ♥ for yourself and for the creator via your collection activity.
Big gratitude to everyone that voted for Mirror in
@Optimism
's RetroPGF Round 3.
And congrats to the rest of the recipients, many of whom use Mirror to regularly publish updates!
7/ Adding a Writing NFT to your collection is a way of capturing these special moments and rallying behind the potential of an idea.
Starting today, Mirror allows you to mint your writing as a digital collectible and set a customizable supply and price.
Over the past few months, we made it a mission to build new discovery and curation surfaces to both help collectors find interesting content, and help creators reach their fans and build communities.
Read more:
Onchain summer is here ⛱️🌴
@BuildOnBase
entries are now collectable on Base mainnet, and you can set Base as your default network too.
Just go to Settings > NFTs > and select Base from the dropdown.
Get started today ->
Want to discover more in your Mirror inbox?
You can now 🔔S͟u͟b͟s͟c͟r͟i͟b͟e͟ ͟t͟o͟ ͟C͟o͟l͟l͟e͟c͟t͟o͟r͟s🔔
Fill your inbox feed with the latest and greatest content that collectors are minting daily.
4/ Finally, a web3 product announcement wouldn’t be complete without inviting a few community members to participate in the launch!
First up, the "Zerion Subscriber OGs" NFT drop from
@zerion
, a fully-featured web3 wallet.
ICYMI,
@OptimismFND
is rewarding contributors with 30,000,000 OP!
If you’ve provided impact, you’re eligible, whether you are a dev or an educator.
Learn more here:
4/ We owe so much to the vibrant community of web3 thinkers and the ideas that propel us and bind us together.
Shout out to
@VitalikButerin
’s Ethereum whitepaper, for starters, for catalyzing this entire movement.
2/ Subscribe to Mint works like an open edition drop, but with a Mirror-native twist.
In order to mint, a collector needs to subscribe to your project via email.
It's a powerful way for creators to bootstrap a communication channel to engage collectors on a recurring basis.
Pausing the $WRITE Race 🏁
We believe this is the right moment to pause the $WRITE Race, reflect on the community mission and align on the Mirror membership process.
Join us to discuss the future of Mirror membership during our 2nd town hall!
Writing as usual until you type /contract. Midwit makes it possible to interact with a generative web3 UI for any contract address.
Do you see where this is going? Yeah, us too ;)
6/ Did someone announce a project that you want to see brought to life?
Did a trend forecast spark your imagination or validate your own intuition?
Is someone embarking on a research project that resonated with you?
Do you dislike confusing onboarding processes? Great news—us too.
You’ll notice we snuck in an improved onboarding flow! Keep an eye out for more enhancements in the near future.
Questions? Comments? You know where to find us.
🧩Mirror blocks contain much of the same functionality you’d expect from an entire platform… so we gave them direct permalinks and expanded views!
Say hello to Block Permalinks 👋
The creation and collection of Writing NFTs and Optimism NFTs have been reinstated on Mirror.
Congrats to
@optimismFND
for successfully completing the migration to Bedrock.