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zora minted 6.52m creator tokens on base. 17,800 survived. 0.3% retention. sounds like death. except youtube monetizes 0.06% of its 500m channels. spotify pays meaningful income to 0.5% of artists. zora's retention is 5x better than youtube's creator success rate at a $62m market cap down 90% from highs. the march 31 CLI launch for AI agents to create and trade tokens is the pivot. humans failed the bootstrapping problem. agents don't have emotional cost, don't need pre-built audiences, and can manage hundr ...