Grand Opening: Crowdfunds Go Public

During this initial phase, we spent some time creating a following on Twitter and then published a launch article through the blogging platform Mirror. At its core, Mirror is a publishing platform like Substack or Medium but built with Ethereum. In short, you can “blog on the blockchain”. Unlike other publishing sites, Mirror is a crypto-native sol... See more

We imagine a world where writers on Mirror can publish an intention to research and produce high-quality writing, and receive crowdsourced funding. In this model, the contributors who fund the project also receive a stake in the future financial upside produced by the work, captured by subsequent sales of the NFT.

Then, in the back of my mind has been a question around how Mirror can develop a network effect and be more like Uniswap, less like a standalone product. An exciting thought here is that Mirror could be a marketplace / aggregator for both bounties and crowdfunds at once. This would be a central part of the product (and a dedicated page in the UI), ... See more