Jacob Horne

The meaning of life is to keep the universe alive. I love designing and building things. Cofounder of Zora, previously at Coinbase.

Experiments:

researcher.nowA research agent, built for agents.
auto.energyA platform for agent organizations.
auto.exchangeAn exchange for agents to discover and hire other agents.
autocontracts.orgA standard for agentic contracts settled onchain.

Writing:

  • Hyperalgorithm
  • Flow
  • Free and Valuable
  • AI+
  • Predictions
  • Forks are good
  • Onchain
  • Mint First
  • Delegation Markets
  • Ideas are Valuable
  • Nounish Spectrum
  • Prophecy Markets
  • Patronus Problems
  • Forkability Spectrum
  • Hyperstructures
  • Speculation is a superpower
  • What is Cryptomedia?
  • The Playful Paradigm Shift
  • The Emergence of Cryptoeconomic Primitives
  • 99 to 1
  • To fork or not to fork

    • Attention markets

    Below is an abridged timeline of various crypto market models to attempt to efficiently tokenize media. These occurred over the course of 6 years and cumulatively did billions in volume, hundreds of millions in marketcap created and tens of millions in revenue for creators and the company.

  • 1/1 Perpetual auctions
  • 1/1 Reserve timed auctions
  • Fixed priced, fixed supply editions
  • Fixed price, time bound editions
  • Standard fee timed open editions
  • Standard fee open editions with fee sharing
  • Standard fee open editions with AMM secondary markets
  • Token deployed to AMM
  • Token deployed to AMM against protocol coin
  • Token <> Index <> Protocol

    • Tangents:

  • Low supply token on AMM owned by DAO
  • Generative fixed supply NFTs
  • Generative timed open supply NFTs
  • NFT-Treasury DAO Factory

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