Provider at a glance
- Category
- SocialFi
- Entity
- All 2 Zora products
- Official website
- zora.co
Independent rankingchecked How it works
Details
Scored 45 out of 100 under methodology 2026.10.18, from the evidence read in September 2026.
Zora
Social app where posts are coins
SocialFi
#7 Overall
Ranked #7 of 8 SocialFi in the published ranking
45
ChainChoice Score
The ChainChoice Score, shown against 100: published scores run from 41 to 99.- High evidence confidence
Is Zora right for you?
Look elsewhere if these come first
- If this company shuts down tomorrow, is my handle and my follower list still mine?1/10 here; Farcaster scores 7
- Can I actually walk out with my audience — and is there anywhere to walk to?2/10 here; Farcaster scores 8
- Who takes a cut of what I earn here, and is the number actually written down?6/10 here; the category best is 9
- Whose key can override mine — and what exactly can they do with it?3/10 here; Farcaster scores 5
Not yet tested for your country. Markets it lists: Global.
to test where you can use it.
The rank above is the published one, the same for every reader. Find my best SocialFi platform shows where it lands for you.
What will Zora cost you?
Not priced on this basis
- Your monthly volume
- $1k
How safe is Zora?
- Evidence: verified4 of 4 criteria rest on quoted, sourced receipts. Read September 2026.
- LicenceMiCA (EU): no register record on file here.
Alternatives to Zora
Compare all 4- 5Farcaster23 points above · stronger on handle and graph custody (7 against 1)68
- 6Towns Protocol9 points above · stronger on handle and graph custody (6 against 1)54
- 8Paragraph4 points below · stronger on exit path and somewhere to go (4 against 2)41
For your setup
Find out if Zora fits you
The rank above is the published one — the same for every visitor. Answer the category's questions and this section shows where Zora lands for you, which criteria your answers weight up, and which stated needs the record does or does not meet. The published rank stays beside it.
- A few questions
- No account required
- Ranking-blind: no commercial input
- Personalised in under 60 seconds
Find my best SocialFi platformNothing is inferred from clicks, popularity or commercial value.
Why this rank
Why Zora ranks #7
Each strength is read from evidence on a 0–10 ladder and weighted as the published methodology states. The 32 objective points these produce (9.1 here) sit inside the score; availability, friction, trust record and measured data add the rest.
4 published criteria · Σ weight 100
CriterionWeightStrength · 0–10ScoreContrib.MedianBestRankEvidence
321+1.026.510#7/8Loading evidence…
272+1.737.09#8/8Loading evidence…
256+4.805.59#2/8Loading evidence…
163+1.544.010#5/8Loading evidence…
Hairline = best in this ranking · tick = its median · a missing bar is "not scored", never zero
Margin−9behind Towns Protocol, #6
RobustnessHoldsacross a one-point change to each of its 4 criterion scores, the re-run scores 43–47 and stays #7
Evidence4 of 4 scored4 quoted, 4 with a source link
What would move the rank
Each line is the ranking run again with one of Zora’s criterion scores changed and every other value held: the smallest whole-point change on that criterion that moves its rank, and where the re-run puts it. Up to 4 climbs and 3 falls are listed, smallest change first. Nothing here is a forecast.
If this company shuts down tomorrow, is my handle and my follower list still mine? 1 → 6 on its ladder · passes Towns Protocol+555#7 → #6
Can I actually walk out with my audience — and is there anywhere to walk to? 2 → 8 on its ladder · passes Towns Protocol+655#7 → #6
Who takes a cut of what I earn here, and is the number actually written down? 6 → 2 on its ladder · Paragraph passes it−441#7 → #8
Smallest climb: “If this company shuts down tomorrow, is my handle and my follower list still mine?” 1 → 6 passes Towns Protocol, #6.
Strengths
0 from the score dataWhere it leads
No scored criterion is at or within one point of the category best, so no strength can be stated from the data.
Tradeoffs
4 from the score dataWhere it trails
Not for readers who put first
- If this company shuts down tomorrow, is my handle and my follower list still mine? — 1/10 against a category best of 10/10
- Can I actually walk out with my audience — and is there anywhere to walk to? — 2/10 against a category best of 9/10
- Who takes a cut of what I earn here, and is the number actually written down? — 6/10 against a category best of 9/10
- Whose key can override mine — and what exactly can they do with it? — 3/10 against a category best of 10/10
Record watch-outs
- You are building a name and an audience inside a database you cannot read without Zora's permission, and Zora has written down that it can take both. The coin is onchain; the handle, the profile and whatever passes for an audience are rows behind 'https://api-sdk.zora.engineering/api' that require you to 'Log in or create an account on Zora' and 'Create an API key' just to query. Zora's own Trust & Safety page says content removal 'applies to any content type: posts, profiles, messages, or Trends', that enforcement covers 'Profile information (usernames, bios, profile images)', and that 'The user's account is permanently banned from Zora.' — while the Terms add that Zora may 'deny access to and use of the Services ... to any person for any reason or for no reason'. And the fee you priced your business on is not fixed: '5.4.1. Platform Fee. ... We reserve the right to change our fee at any time', a right already exercised once when the structure moved from 3% to 1% at v2.2.0. The itemisation is the most honest in this category and it is describing a rate the vendor may reset.
Competitive position
Where Zora leads and where it trails
Rank on every objective dimension among the rows scored on it. A criterion in the top third of its pool is listed as a lead, the bottom third as a trail; the middle is neither. Popularity, size and commercial terms are not dimensions.
Availability#1 / 814.0 of 20 · constant here
Published criteria#7 / 86.8 of 30 · best 21.0
Friction#1 / 82.7 of 10 · constant here
Trust record#1 / 83.2 of 8 · constant here
Measured data#1 / 88.3 of 18 · constant here
Where Zora leads
- Who takes a cut of what I earn here, and is the number actually written down?#2 / 8
Where it trails
- If this company shuts down tomorrow, is my handle and my follower list still mine?#7 / 8
- Can I actually walk out with my audience — and is there anywhere to walk to?#8 / 8
Closest alternatives
The 3 nearest rows by score
Nearest by published score in either direction. Each card states the criteria on which the two rows differ and the cost difference under the same scenario inputs; the compare arithmetic below shows why the higher one ranks higher.
Paragraph#8 of 8 · score 41 · 4.0 points behind
Zora leads on
- Who takes a cut of what I earn here, and is the number actually written down?6 vs 1
- Whose key can override mine — and what exactly can they do with it?3 vs 2
Paragraph leads on
- Can I actually walk out with my audience — and is there anywhere to walk to?4 vs 2
Largest single reason Zora is ahead: published criteria (+5.5 display points).Scenario cost: Paragraph has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Towns Protocol#6 of 8 · score 54 · 9.0 points ahead
Zora leads on
- Who takes a cut of what I earn here, and is the number actually written down?6 vs 4
Towns Protocol leads on
- If this company shuts down tomorrow, is my handle and my follower list still mine?6 vs 1
- Can I actually walk out with my audience — and is there anywhere to walk to?3 vs 2
Largest single reason Towns Protocol is ahead: published criteria (+8.6 display points).Scenario cost: Towns Protocol has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Farcaster#5 of 8 · score 68 · 23.0 points ahead
Zora leads on
- Who takes a cut of what I earn here, and is the number actually written down?6 vs 5
Farcaster leads on
- If this company shuts down tomorrow, is my handle and my follower list still mine?7 vs 1
- Can I actually walk out with my audience — and is there anywhere to walk to?8 vs 2
- Whose key can override mine — and what exactly can they do with it?5 vs 3
Largest single reason Farcaster is ahead: published criteria (+22.6 display points).Scenario cost: Farcaster has no verified pricing for this scenario.
Against the leader
82 vs 45 · gap 37.0Why Nostr ranks above Zora
The compare workspace's arithmetic applied to these two rows. Each dimension's share of the gap is its weight × the difference, on the displayed scale — it reproduces the displayed gap of 37.0 to within rounding.
DimensionThisNostrGap share
Availability · 23% weight · constant here14.014.0same
Published criteria · 35% weight6.821.0−36.9, worse
Friction · 12% weight · constant here2.72.7same
Trust record · 9% weight · constant here3.23.2same
Measured data · 21% weight · constant here8.38.3same
Published criterionThisNostrPoints
If this company shuts down tomorrow, is my handle and my follower list still mine? · w32110−9.22, worse
Can I actually walk out with my audience — and is there anywhere to walk to? · w2729−6.05, worse
Whose key can override mine — and what exactly can they do with it? · w16310−3.58, worse
Net4582−37.0
Your scenario
Zora is not priced for this scenario
Marketplace fee on your volume for a year. Excludes network gas and any withdrawal fee. Change an input and every figure recomputes from the published rate; the published rank does not move.
your cost/yr · default scenario — set your own
Your monthly volume · your input$1k
Rate read from the provider’s published pricing ↗ on 28 September 2026.
your cost/yrCost is stated as your cost/yr in USD; it is never a yield, never annualised, and it does not enter the score.
Not priced on this basis
Under the default inputs · USDCategory medianNot priced0 of 8 rows priced
Cheapest pricedNone pricedDifference not stated · availability not applied — set your country to filter
8 of 8 rows in this ranking have no verified rate for this scenario and are absent from the median, not counted as free.
Evidence
Evidence read 28 September 2026
One row per published criterion: the page each strength was read from, its source type by domain, the reading date and whether the file and the published table agree. Open a row for the quote and the receipt.
4 of 4 cells scored
Score evidenceVerified4 of 4 criteria reconstruct from receipts
4 of 4 criteria reconstruct from a quoted, sourced receipt equal to the published strength.Public receiptsReading…4 quoted with a source URL
The receipt file has not been read yet.Evidence confidenceHighcoverage and corroboration, never freshness
4/4 criteria scored, with 4 dated sources quoted.RobustnessHoldsrank #7 across every one-point re-run
Whether the position holds when one criterion score is changed by one point and the ranking is run again. It is always a re-run of the ranking, never an estimate.The newest evidence read on the platform is 3 November 2026; this category's reading is older. The scores stand as read on 28 September 2026.
Reading the evidence ledger…
CriterionSourceTypeReadFreshnessStatusReceipt
If this company shuts down tomorrow, is my handle and my follower list still mine?strength 1 · weight 32Report an error—28 September 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Can I actually walk out with my audience — and is there anywhere to walk to?strength 2 · weight 27Report an error—28 September 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Who takes a cut of what I earn here, and is the number actually written down?strength 6 · weight 25Report an error—28 September 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.Whose key can override mine — and what exactly can they do with it?strength 3 · weight 16Report an error—28 September 2026*
Unknown
No reading date is recorded for this cell or its category.No receipt
A strength is published but no quote or source page is on file for it.How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
- Control failure (Zora 3/10): a key or vote changes the rules, freezes or mints.Scored by Whose key can override mine — and what exactly can they do with it? · 16%
- Custody failure (Zora 1/10): whoever holds the assets loses or withholds them.Scored by If this company shuts down tomorrow, is my handle and my follower list still mine? · 32%
- Exit failure (Zora 2/10): you cannot get out at par, on time, or with what is yours.Scored by Can I actually walk out with my audience — and is there anywhere to walk to? · 27%
Not assessed by this ranking: Contract failure, Regulatory failure, Execution failure, Information failure. A high place says nothing about these; the Methodology tab says what each means. Also scored, as cost, quality or a summary of several families: Who takes a cut of what I earn here, and is the number actually written down? (25%).
Facts
facts, not scoresWhat the record publishes
- Pricing
- PUBLISHED, ITEMISED AND RESETTABLE. From https://
docs .zora .co /coins /contracts /rewards (HTTP 200, fetched 28 September 2026), table "Content Coins & Creator Coins (1% total fee on pools)", columns Recipient / % of Market Rewards / % of Total Fees: "Creator 62.5% 50%", "Platform Referral 25% 20%", "Trade Referral 5% 4%", "Doppler 1.25% 1%", "Protocol 6.25% 5%", plus "LP Rewards - 20%". Launch tax, same page: "The fee decays linearly from 99% to the coin's base fee over 10 seconds", formula "fee = 99% - (elapsed_seconds / 10) × (99% - 1%)". Trend Coins, same page: "Trend Coins : 0.01% / 1 bps (100 pips)", fee recipient "Protocol (100%)". Summary line on https:// docs .zora .co /coins (fetched 28 September 2026): "1% trading fee - Split across creator, referrers, protocol, and LP". MUTABILITY, Terms of Service https:// support .zora .co /en /articles /6171073 ("Last updated May 15, 2026", fetched 28 September 2026), section 5.4.1 Platform Fee: "We reserve the right to change our fee at any time, provided that any fees then-applicable to your transaction will be clearly disclosed prior to the completion of such transaction." The rewards page also documents one past repricing, a "Fee Structure Comparison (Pre-2.2.0 vs Current)" from a "(3% total fee)" to a "(1% total fee)".Zora — official pricing page ↗ · 28 September 2026 - Prices published in
- USDZora — official pricing page ↗ · 28 September 2026
- Licences held
- Not published
- Compliance level
- partial
- Regulatory note
- Not published
- Supported chains
- Base
- Markets served
- global
- Primary markets
- Not published
- Restricted markets
- Not published
- Operating limits
- Not published
- Availability note
- STANDARD OFAC/SANCTIONS REPRESENTATION, NOT A REGIONAL FOOTPRINT. The Terms of Service (https://
support .zora .co /en /articles /6171073) carry an eligibility warranty, not a market restriction: 'Regulatory Compliance. By using the Services, you represent and warrant that: (a) you are not located in, ordinarily resident in, or organized under the laws of any jurisdiction that is subject to a comprehensive U.S. Government embargo ("Embargoed Jurisdiction"); (b) you are not subject to any sanctions administered by an agency of the U.S. Government, any other government, or the United Nations (collectively, "Sanctions")'. There is also a US trade-control clause, '24. Export Laws.', barring re-export 'into any U.S. embargoed countries or any country that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a "terrorist supporting" country'. There is no country allow-list, no state-by-state restriction and no geo-blocked feature list. This is the eligibility rule nearly every crypto ToS carries and applies everywhere; it is not evidence of a regional footprint. Hence 'global'. A US contact address appears in the Terms: 'Suite N 112 Sacramento, CA 95834, or by telephone at (800) 952-5210' (this is the California DFPI complaint-referral boilerplate, not Zora's own address).
Legal entity on file: Zora, placed in 2 products. Only confirmed entities are shown; nothing is inferred from the brand name.
If something goes wrong with Zora: where to complain, and where to report a scam
Loading the routes for your country.
How this page is reviewed
Reviewed means this product in this category was read against its sources on or after that date; every ranked category is re-read at least every 45 days. Models research, extract and parse. A deterministic engine ranks. Every quote passes an adversarial refute pass.
Accountable for this review: Mathias Siemonsmeier, Founder.
How we review · Review calendar · Corrections log · How we make money
History
What the record carries
Changes to published ranks are recorded in a ledger; every step and its cause is listed on the rank-history page. The entries below begin with the current verified snapshot, then the methodology versions whose changes applied to this category, newest first.
9 methodology entries
- 28 September 2026Current verified snapshot · methodology 2026.10.18Score 45, #7 of 8. 4 of 4 criteria scored. History starts here; earlier values are not interpolated.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.8When nothing serves your country, the list shown for reference is the published ranking · platform-wide- fixed The reference list shown when nothing serves your country is the published order with the published scores, and a build check now fails any such list out of that order or with a score the ranking does not publish.
- fixed The explorer prints an overall rank only for a row the published ranking holds; a country entrant such as Coinbase Commerce for US merchants shows no overall rank.
- changed Published orders do not move. Country results change only where nothing serves the country: in India bill pay keeps Bitcoin Well first and now shows Strike second, as published; 35 such runs across all categories and countries now match the published list exactly.
- 10 October 2026
2026.10.6A criterion you require re-scores the rows that meet it · platform-wide- changed The explorer sends each criterion you require, at any band, as fit_required with your other answers; region, licence, chain and fact filters stay filters. On /best, a required criterion joins For you as a marked preference does, which needs your country; Overall stays the published ranking, filtered.
- added Every published criterion has a golden case as the explorer sends it (require:<criterion>), so the order a requirement gives is replayed and gated as the published order is, and a change to it needs an entry here.
- 16 September 2026
2026.09.15Dimension scores carry tenths, and eleven more categories are re-read from primary sources · platform-wide- changed Dimension scores resolve to tenths of a point (O-04b), and weightedTotal is rounded to six decimal places before the order is read. 518 published scores move across 107 categories that were not re-read; none of them moves by more than 4 points, and most move by 1.
- fixed 66 published scores change in the eleven re-read categories, against a verbatim source each. The largest moves are Reflexer RAI (−16), Beefy and Unrekt (−11), Aztec (−10) and Golem (+9) — all of them rows whose sources had moved since their last read.
- changed Published order moves in 38 of 119 categories and three #1s change: smart_contract_audits (Zellic → Certora) and travel_rule_compliance (Sumsub Travel Rule → CodeVASP) on the finer resolution, kyc_compliance (Veriff → Sumsub) on the re-read.
- added availabilitySource (O-04g): for a reader who states a country, a row whose availability in that country rests on a region tag its record gives no source for sorts below every sourced row. It is inert in every order published here, which states no country.
Methodology 2026.10.18, the same published run every visitor sees · receipt socialfi:zora_social:2026.10.18:4f61424dedef
Are you Zora? Reply to this verdict, or send evidence, ask for a correction or claim the listing. Every message gets a public ticket number; none of it changes a rank unless a public page or a signed statement supports it.