Zap Collections

A gamified content monetization concept.

TL;DR

You "collect" notes by being the highest zapper. A beautiful view of your shiny zap collection is on display at your profile. Author's can attach special privileges to their notes for zap collectors to enjoy. Collected notes are transferable.

Bidding Process

Every new note becomes available for collection. Users zap a note to try to collect it. After some time limit has ended, the user that zapped the most sats collects the note, and a shiny collectible version shows up in their profile.

Clicking on a note shows:

- the amount time remaining for bidding

- total sats zapped

- leaderboard of top 3 zappers

Bidding Time

A 24 hour countdown bidding timer begins once the first zap is made on a note. The timer resets every time the leaderboard of the top 3 zappers changes. After 24 hours of the leaderboard not changing, the bidding ends. Zaps can continue after the bidding time has ended, but those zaps don’t count towards collecting the note. That note is already collected, and so must be purchased from the current collector.

Programmability

Content creators can grant special VIP access, discounts, or privileges to the collectors of their notes. For example, notes could grant the collector:

- backstage access at the musician’s concerts

- a free daily meal at the owner's restaurants

- the ability to schedule a 20 minute video call with the content creator

- a claim to the first prints of the author’s new books

Transferability

Collected notes and the special privileges associated with them can be transferred to a different collector. Content creators can specify a transfer limit for a specific note, as well as a transfer fee (i.e. 0% to 90%) that the author collects every time the note is transferred between collectors.

Clients

Zap Collections is a powerful monetization concept for clients. Not only could the client developers become desirable collectibles themselves, but users will flock to whatever clients curate the best content and user experience. Zaps are a powerful content filtering mechanism to leverage. I suspect client developers will produce desirable collectibles themselves not only because there is prestige for collectors to claim a bit of history that marks a particular bug fix, feature upgrade, or nation state censorship event, but developers could grant VIP privileges and premium features to their collectors.

Relays

Relay operator notes could become desirable collectibles by granting access and features to collectors.

Content Creators

Content creators are rewarded for creating content that is

- higher quality

- more evergreen

- loaded with cool VIP access privileges and features

Curators

Users are rewarded for being early to discover great content creators.

Hopefully this post helps get some creative juices flowing for how Nostr can do collectibles the right way.

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