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Zora is a social app run by Zora Labs, Inc. where profiles and posts are tradable coins. It mostly runs on Base, and each coin trades in its own Uniswap V4 pool with a 1% trading fee for coins created since September 2025.
Cost: The Zora app charges a transaction fee of 1% on trades of $50 or more and a flat $0.50 under $50. Separately, coins created since 2025-09-15 carry a 1% pool trading fee on every trade, and half of it goes to the creator. Trend Coins carry a 0.01% pool fee. Older coins keep legacy pool fees of 1% to 3%. A $1,000 buy-and-sell costs about $20.00 in Zora fees.
Referral: About $10 in ZORA after a qualifying deposit of at least $10, made via Apple Pay, Google Pay or another approved method.
Checked 2026-10-16 · sources below- Status
- live
- Custody
- embedded-wallet
- KYC
- unknown
- Platforms
- web, ios
- Round trip fee
- 2%
- Launched
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Best for: Creators and collectors on Base who want to post, coin and trade social content in one app.
Zora fees
| Fee | Type | Rate | Applies to | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zora app transaction fee | platform | 1% | Buy and sell | 1% on trades of $50 or more; a flat $0.50 on trades under $50. Help center notes final amounts also vary with relayer fees and price impact. |
| Coin pool trading fee (Creator and Content Coins) | protocol | 1% | Buy and sell | Applies to all trades on the Zora-deployed Uniswap market, on zora.co or other platforms. Split: creator 0.5%, market/LP contribution 0.2%, platform referral 0.2%, trade referral 0.04%, protocol 0.05%, Doppler 0.01%. Applies to coins created on or after 2025-09-15. |
| Creator share of pool fee | creator | 0.5% | Buy and sell | Part of the 1% pool fee above; paid out in ZORA. |
| Trend Coin pool fee | protocol | 0.01% | Buy and sell | All goes to the protocol; no creator allocation. |
| Sniper tax | other | 99% | Buy and sell | Starts at 99% at launch and decays over the first 10 seconds of trading. |
| Legacy coin pool fees | protocol | — | Buy and sell | Coins created 2025-02-21 to 2025-09-15 keep their original 1%, 2% or 3% total fee structures. |
| Base network gas | network | — | Buy and sell |
| Trade size | Zora fee, buy + sell |
|---|---|
| $100 | $2.00 |
| $1,000 | $20.00 |
| $10,000 | $200.00 |
Platform fees only. On-chain network/priority fees, pool (LP) fees and price impact are extra and vary by trade.
Is Zora legit?
Terms say Zora accounts include a self-custodial Privy wallet. Mobile accounts also get a smart wallet built on Coinbase infrastructure. Zora does not hold private keys, and external wallets can be connected.
Backers: Haun Ventures (lead), Coinbase Ventures, Kindred Ventures and others ($50,000,000), 2022-05.
We found no reported hacks or fund losses in the sources we checked. That is not a guarantee.
Where Zora is available
| Region | Status |
|---|---|
| United States | Available |
| United Kingdom | Unverified |
| European Union | Unverified |
Zora Labs, Inc. is New York-based. Its terms bar residents of comprehensively US-embargoed jurisdictions and sanctioned persons. Users under 18 need a parent's account. The new-user referral rewards are offered only to users located in the United States. The UK and EU are not named. (source)
We report what the venue's own terms say. Don't use a VPN to get around restrictions; venues can freeze accounts that do.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Creators get 0.5% of all pool trading volume on their coins, paid in ZORA, for trades on any interface.
- Pool fees on coins created since September 2025 are 1%, down from the 3% charged on June–September 2025 coins.
- Terms describe self-custodial Privy and smart wallets, and Zora never holds private keys.
- A 99% sniper tax decays over the first 10 seconds of trading, which deters launch bots.
- Haun Ventures led a $50M round in May 2022 at a reported $600M valuation.
Cons
- In-app trades add a 1% transaction fee, or a flat $0.50 under $50, on top of the 1% pool fee.
- The flat $0.50 fee is 5% of a $10 trade.
- DefiLlama shows about $7,400 in ZORA Coins fees over the last 30 days, against $10.4M all-time.
- The Defiant reports co-founder Dee Goens replaced Jacob Horne as CEO, staff fell below 10 people, and Base fees dropped 99% year over year.
Features
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Zora referral code
What you get: About $10 in ZORA after a qualifying deposit of at least $10, made via Apple Pay, Google Pay or another approved method. Codes only apply at signup.
What the referrer gets: About $10 in ZORA per qualifying new US user, up to 10 invites (about $100). Separately, protocol rewards pay 0.2% of volume to whoever invited a coin's creator and 0.04% of volume to the trade referrer on that trade.
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Head to head
Where Zora ranks
- #4 in Best memecoin trading apps available in the USof 6
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Zora FAQ
Is Zora legit?
Zora is run by Zora Labs, Inc. in New York. Haun Ventures led a $50M round in it in 2022. Coins trade in Uniswap V4 pools, and terms describe self-custodial wallets. Activity has fallen sharply: DefiLlama shows about $7,400 in coin fees over 30 days. Coins on Zora are highly volatile.
What fees does Zora charge?
The Zora app adds a transaction fee of 1% on trades of $50 or more and $0.50 under $50. Each coin's pool also charges 1% per trade for coins created since 2025-09-15. Trend Coins charge 0.01%. Older coins keep legacy fees of up to 3%.
How do creators earn on Zora?
For coins created since 2025-09-15, the creator gets 0.5% of every trade, which is half the 1% pool fee. Payouts are in ZORA. Platform referrers get 0.2% and trade referrers 0.04%.
Does Zora have a referral program?
Yes, for US users only. A brand-new user who signs up with a referral link and deposits at least $10 can get about $10 in ZORA. The referrer gets about $10 in ZORA per qualifying invite, up to 10. Existing accounts cannot claim the new-user reward.
Which chains does Zora use?
Creator, content and trend coins run on Base. Zora's help center also lists Custom Pairs on Robinhood Chain and Solana, each with a 1% fee split between creator, protocol and Doppler.
Can I use Zora in the US or UK?
Zora is US-based, and its referral rewards target US users. Its terms bar comprehensively US-embargoed jurisdictions and sanctioned persons. They do not mention the UK or EU, and users outside the US must check their own local laws.
Sources
Last checked . Fees and terms change often; the venue's own page wins if it disagrees with ours.
- Understanding Rewards on Zora (edited 2026-08-12) — checked 2026-10-16
- Zora Terms of Service (last updated 2026-05-15) — checked 2026-10-16
- Zora New User and Referral Rewards Program (edited 2026-07-20) — checked 2026-10-16
- How do I earn the Trade Referral Rewards? — checked 2026-10-16
- Zora docs: Coin Rewards — checked 2026-10-16
- Zora docs: Earning Referral Rewards — checked 2026-10-16
- Zora docs: Trend Coins — checked 2026-10-16
- Zora docs full text (sniper tax, supply allocation, Base deployment) — checked 2026-10-16
- Zora raises $50 million in round led by Haun Ventures (The Block, 2022-05-05) — checked 2026-10-16
- Zora co-founder Dee Goens replaces Jacob Horne as CEO (The Defiant) — checked 2026-10-16
- DefiLlama ZORA Coins fees (30d and all-time) — checked 2026-10-16
- Zora: Post. Discover. Trade. (App Store) — checked 2026-10-16