Method

How the numbers work

Coin stats, holder lists, individual trades and the follower counts of the social accounts each creator has linked on Zora come from Zora's public coins API. Trading rewards come from the events Zora's coin contracts write on Base, read from Base's public node, with ETH priced by Chainlink's feed there. Nothing is scraped from other platforms.

Which coins

Creator coins that appear in Zora's most valuable, trending, or top-volume creator lists. Stats refresh every hour. Follower counts are the ones Zora has on file for each linked account, and Zora doesn't keep them current: we re-read them daily, and between Sep 18 and Oct 5, 2026 not one of the 479 counts we read on two or more days (285 creators, a median 16 days apart) changed. Treat them as a rough size.

Audience

A creator's largest single linked account. The same fans often follow on several platforms, so adding the counts together would overstate reach.

Gap score

Holders per 1,000 followers, ranked against the other creators whose largest linked account is on the same platform, then weighted by audience size (a million followers is full weight). Audiences convert very differently by platform, so ranking an X audience against a Farcaster one would mostly measure the platform. A high score means a large audience and, for its platform, few holders. Creators with fewer than 1,000 followers or fewer than 10 holders are left out of the leaderboard: a tiny audience or a coin nobody holds isn't a useful lead.

Volume and trades

Summed from individual trades, each valued at the trade's own currency price in USDC. This can differ from the 24-hour volume on Zora's site, which is calculated on a slightly delayed window.

Holder churn

The share of yesterday's holders who no longer hold today. For coins with up to 500 holders we compare every holder; above that, the top 500 by balance, and the page says so.

Concentration

The ten largest wallets' share of total supply. The Uniswap v4 pool contract (0x4985…2b2b) holds each coin's trading liquidity, so it's reported separately rather than counted as a holder.

Trading rewards

Every trade on a Zora coin pays a fee that the coin's contract splits on the spot and announces in an event on Base. We read those events for every Zora coin, each hour, from the last block we saw: one event carries the five-way split (creator, the app that created the coin, the app that routed the trade, the protocol and Doppler), and a second carries the creator and protocol shares on creator-coin trades. Any contract can write a look-alike event, so only events from Zora's own hook contracts count: the list Zora's coin factory points to, read each hour, plus three older hooks it leaves out. A creator coin's contract announces one payment in both events, so when the second repeats the first (same trade, same coin, same creator and amount) it is counted once. Daily totals stored before that rule counted those payments twice and left ETH payouts at $0, so they aren't shown. Payouts come in the currency of the coin's pool: mostly ZORA, then ETH, USDC and creator coins. We value ZORA from any coin priced in it, ETH at Chainlink's ETH/USD price on Base (no older than three hours), USDC at $1, and creator coins at their price when the payout was recorded. Payouts in a currency we couldn't price count as $0, and the page says what share that is. A wallet shows its Zora handle when it has a profile.

Checking a coin

The Check your coin page asks Zora's public API from your browser, so it works for any profile and nothing is stored. Its median is holders per 1,000 followers across the creators on the gap map with at least 1,000 followers and 10 holders.

Limits

Follower counts are whatever Zora has on file for the linked account, and they don't change (see Which coins).
Holder counts include wallets of any size, including dust.
This is analytics, not advice. A gap means an audience hasn't bought in; it doesn't mean it will.

Daybreak is built by Rebel Studios and isn't affiliated with Zora.