# Introducing Writer Coins Source: https://paragraph.com/@blog/writer-coins Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Introducing-Writer-Coins?index=0x69200fd30f9876ea67113817a8d281b882583983e1beb92c354e7e99ec6e34e4129a1231 Submitted by rvolz.eth on 2025-11-21 UTC, 5 upvotes, 7 comments ## Summary Paragraph is introducing writer coins, a way for readers to back a writer's work, signal that they were early supporters, and share in the writer's growth over time. Writers can launch a coin and send rewards of about 5% of the total supply to past supporters, including Paragraph and Mirror collectors, post coin buyers, current subscribers, and Farcaster and Base app followers. By default, coins are paired with Wrapped ETH, though writers can pair them with their Zora or Base app creator coin, which grows in lock-step with the writer coin. The company says it plans to add recurring purchases and reward mechanisms for actions such as shares and comments. ## Article Through Patreon, Substack, half-hearted attempts by big tech platforms, and beyond, paid subscriptions have significantly expanded the economy around creative work online. It's allowed a huge number of people the freedom to work on what they care about, when they want to, and with who they want to. But each day, we feel the shortcomings of paid subscriptions a bit more: deciding how much to charge, what to paywall, what perks to offer. And something about paid subscriptions lacks emotional appeal: it can feel transactional, especially for early supporters. For many writer & creators, launching a paid subscription is a vulnerable moment. You’re asking for money for your work for the first time. Those first supporters provide tremendous value beyond their dollars. Their early vote of confidence guides writers & creators through the early slog of any creative effort. Yet paid subscriptions don't really feel emotionally rewarding to early supporters, and they certainly don't allow for any sharing in the upside of the growth they helped spark. Today, we're introducing writer coins to help solve these problems. We want writer coins to be an easy way for readers to back a writer across all their work, signal they were early, and participate in the writer's growth over time. How writer coins work 1) Launch your writer coin & make it a moment. Launching your writer coin is a great opportunity to invite your readers, subscribers, and followers to back your work. There's a decent chance most activity will happen around when you launch your writer coin, so it's important to share your launch with the world. Some things you could consider as part of that announcement: Tell the origin story behind your writing, why you write, and remind folks what you write about. Let folks know any ideas you have for how to reward or show your appreciation for those that buy your writer coin. Invite your early readers to become early backers. 2) Reward your earliest supporters. Before you launch, you can send an allocation of your writer coin (~5% of total) to those that have supported you in the past. Rewards are a great way to show your appreciation to those that have supported you in the past, but also to spark early interest and discussion around your writer coin. We make it easy to send rewards by providing a few out-of-the-box groups to send rewards to: Readers that have collected your posts on Paragraph and Mirror. Readers that have purchased your post coins on Paragraph. With coin pairing, holders of your Zora or Base app creator coins or other ERC 20s. Your current subscribers. Your followers on Farcaster and Base app. For collectors, supporters, and coin holders, rewards are weighted by how much they've paid you in the past. For each group, you can view each of the recipients and how many coins they will receive. If you prefer, you can uncheck any of the groups from receiving rewards, or skip rewards all together. Send some of your writer coins to those that have supported you in the past. 3) Pair your coin. By default, writer coins are paired with Wrapped ETH (WETH), but you can pair with other tokens instead. If you pair with your Zora or Base app creator coin, both coins grow together in lock-step. This is perfect for artists and creators who write about their work on Paragraph. Plus, pairing lets you automatically share writer coins with your existing creator coin holders. Pair your writer coin with your Zora creator coin (or any ERC20). 4) Seamless discovery for readers. We've woven writer coins naturally into the reading experience: Readers will be prompted to buy your writer coin as they browse your publication and read your posts (any “Support” or primary button opens the writer coin purchase flow). New subscribers can immediately become backers with one extra tap. The purchase flow strips away all the crypto and coin complexity, serving as just a simple way to support. In addition, a new discovery feed highlights publications backed by writer coins, so your support directly translates into more visibility for their work. What's next with writer coins Looking forward, we’re excited to continue building writer coins into a meaningful, long-term way for readers to support writers and share in their growth. Over the coming months we’ll focus on a few key areas: Use rewards to encourage valuable behavior. Build reward mechanisms that credit actions that actually help writers grow: impact-generating shares, thoughtful comments & discourse, buying a writer coin & other types of support, all while preventing spam and ill-intentioned behavior. Enable repeat buying. Let readers buy a writer coin on a recurring basis so they can continually back a writer & share in their growth, providing a better alternative to paid subscriptions. Make buying effortless. Reduce the steps and interactions required to purchase a writer coin, offer strong defaults with some flexibility, and remove unnecessary complexity so supporting a writer is a simple, meaningful action. Launch your writer coin Your biggest fans don't just want to read your work. They want to be part of it. Writer coins make that possible, turning your writing journey into something you build together. To get started, head to your Paragraph dashboard and start the writer coin launch flow. And explore the discovery feed to find great writers already backed by their communities and support the ones you believe in. We'd love to hear what you think or any feedback — send a note to hello@paragraph.com. ## Comments **misha**: Actually since yesterday have been receiving rewards from writers for my ‘support’ whatever that means. Finally getting paid for all the reading I do :) Could get profitable to curate Kiwi News lol. **tim**: How are you receiving rewards? Sorry I'm a bit out of the loop on this. Also: I thought they had launched this already? Or did they launch article coins and now they're launching writer coins? **rvolz.eth**: They had rewards per article previously, but not as coins, IIRC. Now, you'll get an allocation by the writer or simply "participate in the growth of the coin", it seems. Is it the nearing Christmas time or the method that reminds me of $KIWIMAS? Wow, the site is still there: https://kiwimas.com/. **tim**: How does one get the writer coin by default? I saw some „long time reader“ get the AVC coin. But is that based on who subscribed? Guess I‘m rugged again, not subscribed to many Paragraphs 😬 **misha**: found this > readers who were early supporters, either by collecting (liking/saving) their posts or by being subscribers. and / or > If a writer "pairs" their new Paragraph writer coin with an existing coin they hold on another platform (like Zora), holders of that original coin can also be rewarded when the new writer coin is launched **tim**: I wish they‘d also factor in Kiwi News likes, how could this happen? Talking to Colin? **misha**: Don’t know, but obviously great idea.