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Zora launches Attention Markets on Solana, enabling fast and low-cost trading on trending topics and memes.
Author: Arushi Garg
Steady attention without excessive speculation.
18th February, 2026 – Zora has officially launched its new Attention Markets on Solana. After making creator coins popular on Base in 2025, Zora is now bringing the same idea to a faster and cheaper network.
Anyone can create and trade tokens based on trending topics, memes, hashtags, or viral moments. It costs 1 SOL to launch a Trend, and trading happens at Solana speed. The same reward system is in place, and $ZORA now supports both Base and Solana. The attention economy is growing, and it is now live on Solana.
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Fely-DePIN
@Fely1982
@solana How do attention markets avoid becoming speculation on noise rather than measurable value?
BREAKING: Zora launches attention markets on Solana You can now start markets and take positions on any trending topic, idea, meme, or moment https://t.co/55c8tM5QnB
05:10 PM·Feb 17, 2026
CryptOpus
@ImCryptOpus
@solana Solana's spotlight just got brighter, attention markets are the next wave
BREAKING: Zora launches attention markets on Solana You can now start markets and take positions on any trending topic, idea, meme, or moment https://t.co/55c8tM5QnB
04:41 PM·Feb 17, 2026
Alpha Hunter
@cd_hunterx
@solana Big upside for creators but volatility and hype cycles will move fast.
BREAKING: Zora launches attention markets on Solana You can now start markets and take positions on any trending topic, idea, meme, or moment https://t.co/55c8tM5QnB
04:39 PM·Feb 17, 2026
Zora first started as an NFT marketplace on Ethereum, then shifted to Base where it introduced creator coins that let users trade tokens based on individual creators and social attention. That model became very popular in 2025, bringing high trading volume and strong price rallies for $ZORA.
Now, Zora has launched “Attention Markets” on Solana to allow trading on any trending topic, meme, or idea. The move was driven by the need for faster and cheaper transactions for small, high-frequency trades, and to stay ahead of competitors planning similar attention-based features.
Key milestones in Zora’s evolution from NFT platform to on-chain attention markets
Zora Labs raises a $2M seed round and launches as a decentralized NFT auction house on Ethereum.
Zora transitions from a traditional NFT marketplace to a “content as an asset” protocol, enabling programmable ownership of digital content.
The native $ZORA token goes live, powering creator coins and helping catalyze the on-chain creator economy boom.
Zora becomes fully accessible on Solana via NEAR Intents, enabling faster trading and seamless cross-chain interaction.
Zora introduces Attention Markets on Solana, allowing users to tokenize and trade real-time trends, memes, and online attention.
Zora has already hinted at rapid follow-up upgrades: cross-chain Trend mirroring between Solana and Base, developer APIs for custom dashboards, and potential oracle integrations to pull real-world events directly into Attention Markets. The team is also exploring revenue-sharing upgrades that could send a bigger slice of trading fees back to $ZORA stakers. If the 2025 creator-coin playbook repeats, we could see daily active Trends climb into the thousands within weeks, turning Zora into the default “cultural price discovery” layer for crypto Twitter, TikTok moments, and breaking news, all settled instantly on Solana. The attention economy just found its permanent home.
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