Paragraph

News, updates & feature launches from paragraph.xyz.

Providing even more ways for creators to grow & monetize.

New from Paragraph: referral programs, new chains & more

Let your readers collect audio, video or image NFTs directly in your posts (or their inboxes).

Introducing native NFT embeds using Highlight.xyz

Discover great content, all across web3, in your social graph & beyond.

Introducing new ways to discover

We're excited to announce an integration between Paragraph & Coinvise.

Use Coinvise to create token-powered Paragraph newsletters

We're thrilled to announce our pre-seed fundraise.

Paragraph raises $1.7m

A new way to register and login to Paragraph.

Partnering with Unstoppable Domains

New features: theming, welcome emails, a new editor & more

Whenever an article or blogpost is published, readers primarily talk about it on social media. Hot takes get shared on Twitter, in-depth discussion occurs on Hacker News, and video responses get posted on YouTube and TikTok.

Rarely does all discussion occur *on the article itself*. It’s much easier for readers to converse using tools they’re already using, with an audience they already engage with regularly.

Because of this decentralized nature of discussion, it’s challenging for authors to keep track of (and respond to!) all engagement they’re receiving. It’s also difficult for readers to dive deeper and get a holistic overview of all discussion on a piece of content. Lastly, the reputation and status you accrue on a single platform is entirely tied to that platform - you can’t export your Twitter followers or tweets and immediately make use of them on Facebook, for example.

Developers of web2 writing platforms could try to pull in all discussion from social media and display it on the article itself, but social media companies offer no (or limited) APIs to grant access to this functionality. Twitter, for example, limits the number of tweets you can query per month, and charge an exorbitant amount for access. These platforms aren’t incentivized to extend these limits or provide ways to make their audience portable, since they’d naturally prefer if all discussion happens *on their own* platform within the constraints of *their own* walled garden.

Web3 improves upon this greatly via permissionless, global access to data. No longer does data need to be silo’d and exposed via API - now, data can be used permissionlessly via sufficiently decentralized protocols. No longer is there a risk of API access getting limited or shut off - this is impossible at a protocol-level.

At Paragraph, this type of permissionless data access & portability is why we’re so excited about **[sufficiently decentralized social networks](https://www.varunsrinivasan.com/2022/01/11/sufficient-decentralization-for-social-networks)**. We believe your content & your audience should be owned by you; and developers should always be able to build on top of it. No one should be able to change this - these rules should be enforced via code.

That’s why we’re excited to announce the very first integration with one such protocol - **[Farcaster](https://www.farcaster.xyz/).**

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Starting today, whenever a Paragraph post URL is shared on Farcaster, the comments & associated discussion are permissionlessly displayed on the post itself. This allows authors and readers to get a holistic view of all discussion, giving writers a chance to respond and readers a chance to dive deeper.

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We believe web3 social networks like Farcaster and Lens will unlock new ways to create, consume, curate & distribute content, and we’re excited to continue experimenting and building on top of these protocols.

Interested in your own Paragraph newsletter? [Connect your wallet](https://paragraph.xyz/register) and get started in seconds. (We’re also pretty active on [Discord](https://paragraph.xyz/discord)).

Want to join Farcaster? Send [Dan](https://twitter.com/dwr) a DM on Twitter.

Our First Farcaster Integration

Over the past two months we’ve been busy at [Paragraph](https://paragraph.xyz), and today we’re excited to announce a handful of new features we’ve been working on.

## Token-gated newsletters

You can now create **token-gated newsletters** on Paragraph.

You can gate posts behind ERC20 or ERC721 tokens on Ethereum or Polygon networks. When your readers subscribe to your token-gated newsletter, they’re prompted to connect their wallet and email. After that, every time you publish a new newsletter we only deliver it to your recipients if they’re still holding your tokens.

Don’t have an existing token? No problem - you can mint an NFT on Paragraph for **0 gas fees,** on the Polygon network. You can also specify the quantity & price, allowing you to create different tiered memberships (possibly with different benefits associated to each).

### Why NFTs?

We’re still at the early stages of experimenting with tokens & writing, but we believe NFT-based memberships provide a handful of benefits for creators & communities alike:

**NFTs are composable, portable, open & permissionless.**

NFTs can be used across the entire crypto ecosystem, and new experiences can be built atop them without requiring centralized APIs or intermediaries.

Airdrop your earliest supporters, create token-gated Discord channels to foster closer discussion, sell physical goods in token-gated ecommerce, or bundle newsletters together by providing free access to a shared token-based readership. This open ecosystem is in contrast to closed web2 platforms: without open APIs, it’s impossible to answer simple questions like “is this email on my subscriber list?”

We believe newsletters & written content will be a valuable way of providing even more utility to NFTs across web3.

**Readers can get new forms of ownership, upside, and engagement with a writer or community.**

Paid subscriptions grant access, but not much more than that. NFTs, on the other hand, grant ownership - they unlock the ability to crowdsource ideas, vote on the next topic to cover, or decide how to direct treasury funds. Create *with* your audience, instead of just *for* them.

Readers can also be given upside in your publication: in the future, we’ll add support for distributing royalties to token holders. Your readers already help you grow by sharing newsletters with their friends - why not financially reward them, further incentivizing growth?

##  ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/e7cca9f1263077580136227dc25abf57)Sub-newsletters

Paragraph now lets you divide your newsletter into **multiple sub-newsletters** (what we call ‘communities’). You can have one for weekly rollups, one for ecosystem news, one for inter-DAO updates, etc. Posts can be published under certain communities, keeping them organized in your publication and sending them only to users that subscribed to a given community.

Best of all - each sub-newsletter one can be token-gated individually!

## Multiple accounts per newsletter

Writing in a collective (rather than alone) has several benefits: you experience less burnout, you distribute the load, and you can feed off each others creativity. Now, Paragraph lets you add other writers to your publication, enabling you to collaborate together on a single newsletter.

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That’s all for now. Any feedback or feature requests, just let us know by replying to this email or joining our [Discord](https://paragraph.xyz/discord)!

June feature roundup: token-gated newsletters, multiple accounts, & sub-newsletters

Today, we have some exciting news to share regarding the evolution of our company.

We’re rebranding, and changing our name from **Papyrus** to **Paragraph**. This new brand better reflects our long-term vision and focus - helping creators publish content, reach their audience, build closer communities, and get paid directly from their users.

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## Why ‘Paragraph’?

Beyond the obvious reference to writing, *graphs* are used in mathematics and computer science to represent relationships. Relationships play a large role in the creator economy - musicians have listeners, streamers have viewers, and writers have readers (or newsletter subscribers).

Web3 is fundamentally changing how creators own, manage, and monetize these relationships. As we outlined in a [recent post](https://paragraph.xyz/@blog/web3-tools-for-future-of-creator-economy), we believe this direction is the future, so we intend on continuing to build novel ways of connecting creators with their audience. 

## What This Means for Our Users

All links - including all blogs and posts - will permanently (HTTP 308) redirect from https://papyrus.so to https://paragraph.xyz starting from today.

All newsletters were previously sent by *your-newsletter@papyrus.so.* Now, they’ll be sent by *your-newsletter@your-newsletter.paragraph.xyz.*

If you have a custom domain, there should be no changes for how you or your readers continue accessing your blog.

If you have any questions, we’re happy to help - just reach out on [Discord](discord.gg/yMCfGRuENg) or via email (hello@paragraph.xyz).

## The Path Ahead for Paragraph

This rebranding represents the first of many steps towards [our vision](https://paragraph.xyz/@blog/web3-tools-for-future-of-creator-economy) of the future of the creator economy. We’re just at the tip of the iceberg - we have big plans to continue changing how publishers grow and get paid, and how closer communities get built. Token-gated access, recurring crypto payments, wallet-to-wallet newsletters, and more ways to engage with readers & writers are just a few upcoming product features on the roadmap.

We also have some exciting news to share in the next few weeks that will help accelerate our goals - stay tuned!

As always, we’re incredibly grateful for your never-ending support, and we’re thrilled to have you along on our journey.

Papyrus is now Paragraph