Web3 doesn’t stand still: it evolves, it mutates, it leaves fossils behind. Nonetheless, blockchains are immutable state-recording memory machines.

Zora emerged on the New Year’s Eve of 2020 as a new place for collective value capture on the Internet. Beyond just another media platform, it became one of the great places for NFT creation and circulation. The tide was high: people begging for invites, 5-figure sales, memetic bid wars. Some tokens from this (now clearly) mania phase even crossed the trad-art border into Christie’s and Sotheby’s auctions.

But evolution is relentless. As Zora shifted its orbit (now focused onshitcoinsmemecoinscontentcoinscreatorcoins) the contracts that once carried this golden age were abandoned, after their UI was taked down. WETH, stables, ERC-20`s from past bids; and thousands of NFTs are currently escrowed inside those contracts. A buried layer of fungies and non-fungies sealed inside fossilized chests - waiting to be unearthed. Until now.