Zoide Name and picture from twetch — not on-chain. The signature is; the profile is not.

🟢 You'll Know When It Matters

Zoide now has verified email and browser notifications. Here's what that actually means — and why it was built this way.

Until this week, Zoide had exactly one way to tell you something: the bell in the header. It worked, but it had an obvious flaw. If you weren't on the site, you didn't know. An offer landed on your piece, someone outbid you forty seconds before an auction closed, a drop opened its mint window — and you found out whenever you happened to come back.

On a marketplace, that gap isn't a minor inconvenience. It's money.

An accepted offer reserves the piece for 24 hours. That clock starts whether or not you're looking at it. A mint window on a good drop closes in minutes. The difference between knowing now and knowing tomorrow is the difference between a sale and a missed one.

So the gap is closed. Zoide can now reach you three ways: the bell, your browser, and your inbox.

🟢 Three channels, and only two of them are yours to turn off

The bell is always on. It is not configurable, and that is deliberate — it's precisely what makes everything else safe to switch off. Silence your browser notifications and your email entirely, and a time-sensitive notice still waits for you in the bell. You can never lose an opportunity by turning something off. That guarantee is the foundation the rest is built on.

Browser notifications reach you on desktop and mobile, even with the tab closed. You grant the permission once, per device, and you can be selective about what comes through.

Email reaches you anywhere. But it comes with a condition, and that condition is the most important part of this release.

🟢 No email goes to an address you haven't proven is yours

Before this release, Zoide had email addresses on file that nobody had ever confirmed. Typos. Abandoned mailboxes. Addresses typed in a hurry years ago. Sending account information to any of them would have been, at best, useless — and at worst, sending your data to a stranger.

So verification was built, and made a precondition, not a suggestion.

When you change your email address, nothing is saved. You get a six-digit code at the new address, and only when you enter that code does the address become yours on the account. Abandon the process halfway and your previous address stays exactly as it was. There is no state in which Zoide holds an unconfirmed address and treats it as real.

The email channel doesn't open until that's done. Not to be difficult — because consent to receive mail at a mailbox you've proven you control is the only kind of consent that means anything.

And if you later change your address, verification is revoked automatically. The consent belonged to that mailbox, not to the field.

🟢 Not everything was switched on, deliberately

This is the decision most likely to be questioned, so here it is straight.

When you verify your email, Zoide does not start sending you all 22 notification types. Only two categories are on by default: sales and offers — the ones with money and a clock attached. Collections, airdrops, community activity: off, until you decide otherwise.

Opening the tap would have looked more generous. It would also have meant roughly forty-six emails a day flowing out of a domain that was registered days ago, and the fastest way to end up in everyone's spam folder is to behave like something worth filtering. That reputation, once lost, follows every message ever sent — including the one telling you your piece just sold.

Restraint here isn't caution. It's making sure the messages that matter actually arrive.

Everything else is one click away in your settings, grouped by category, switchable individually or all at once.

🟢 The exception: your own account

There is one category that cannot be switched off, and it's better explained than hidden.

Notices about your account itself — your subscription, an affiliate invitation, a courtesy grant — always reach you. They aren't broadcast; they're correspondence about your account, the same class of thing as the bell. You'll find them absent from the settings screen along with a line saying exactly that.

Hiding them and staying quiet about it would be the worse choice.

🟢 What this is really about

None of this is glamorous. Nobody mints a notification preference.

But a marketplace that can't reliably tell you that your piece sold isn't a marketplace yet — it's a gallery with a payment button. The infrastructure that lets a platform reach the right person, at the right moment, through a channel they consented to, is the difference between a project and a business.

This is the first step, and it's a load-bearing one. Verified addresses are what make it possible to send a receipt, a settlement notice, a security alert. Push is what makes a time-limited offer something you can actually act on. Preferences are what keep all of it from becoming noise you learn to ignore.

It was built in the order that made the guarantees possible, not the order that demoed best.

🟢 Turning it on

Open Settings.

Next to your email address there's a green check if it's verified, or an orange cross if it isn't. Press Edit to change it and confirm the code that arrives.

Under Notifications, flip the browser switch. Your browser will ask for permission — that request only happens when you ask for it, never on page load.

Then open any category and set it exactly how you want it.

On iPhone, one extra step: browser notifications only work if Zoide is added to the home screen. That's an Apple restriction, and the settings screen flags it when it applies.

🟢 If this was useful, pass it on

Half the people who'll benefit from this don't know it exists yet. If you found it useful — or if you know someone who has a piece listed and no idea when it sells — send it their way.

A marketplace works better when the people in it actually know what's happening. That's not a marketing line; it's the entire reason this was built. Every collector who turns notifications on is one more person who answers an offer in an hour instead of a week, and that's better for whoever made the offer too.

Share it with a collector, a creator, or anyone who's ever come back to Zoide and found out something had already happened without them.

https://zoide.io/settings 🐰🥒

The Hatchening: Round Two is live. 🐇

540 claims2. 72 hours. Then the windows close.

Inception Rabbits — 100 eggs, 6 rarities, on-chain since the early days of BSV.

The rule hasn't changed: an egg only cracks when every rabbit inside is claimed. Empty it in time and the egg hatches — LFG!w. Let the clock run out and it stays sealed, waiting for a round that may not come soon.

55 eggs have never opened. Yours might be one of them.

Windows open Aug 7, rarest first. EXOTIC at 12:00 UTC — 30 rabbits in a single egg. Then LEGENDARY. Then the rest.

Check your eggs. Some things only happen once. 🥚→🐇

Vibe this out there 🌱🥒

GFM🫡

https://zoide.io/ordinals-collection/inception-rabbits

🟢 Offers on Zoide just became a real deal — not a handshake.

Until now, accepting an offer was only half the story. You'd accept, and then you still had to list the ordinal yourself, at the right price, and hope the buyer showed up. Two people coordinating by hand over something they'd already agreed on.

That's gone. Accepting an offer is the transaction now.

Here's what happens the moment you accept:

→ The ordinal is listed automatically at the price you agreed. No manual step, no wrong price, no forgetting.

→ It's reserved for the buyer who made the offer. While reserved, it doesn't show up in the market listings — so the deal you just agreed to doesn't turn into someone else's bargain.

→ The buyer completes with one click from their Offers page. Notified instantly, done in seconds.

You sign once. After that, you don't have to do anything at all.

And here's the part we care about most: the market never takes custody of your ordinal.

Not for a second. When you accept, the ordinal moves into a lock that can only be opened one way — by paying you exactly what was agreed. We can't move it, we can't redirect it, we can't hold it. And you can cancel that listing whenever you want and take it straight back.

That's not a promise about our good intentions. It's how the contract works.

Two details worth knowing before you use it:

The offer amount is what the seller receives. Fees and royalties are paid by the buyer on top — same as any listing on Zoide. When you accept, you see exactly what lands in your wallet.

The reservation isn't forever. The buyer has a window to complete. After that, the item goes back to the open market like any other listing.

Negotiating a price shouldn't be harder than buying at one.

https://zoide.io/market/offers

🟢 July didn't ask for attention. The activity chart earned it.
Zoide's usage curve moved with real momentum this month, and the chart attached tells the story better than words could. Here's the breakdown

🟢 What changed in July

🔹 Wallet sync got noticeably faster, cutting the friction that used to slow first-time users down
🔹 Marketplace browsing became smoother, with less lag between listings and load times
🔹 Overall usability was refined across the board, from onboarding to checkout
🔹 Community chat and achievements kept engagement inside the platform instead of scattering it elsewhere

None of this was cosmetic. It was infrastructure work aimed directly at the parts of the experience that decide whether a user stays or bounces.

🟢 The result

The community responded before the announcements did. Activity climbed on its own, driven by people who felt the platform get lighter and faster under their fingers. That is the kind of growth that does not need to be forced. It shows up in the volume, and it shows up in the chart below.

🟢 For those still watching from the sidelines

Every cycle has a moment where being early stops being a theory and starts being a missed window. Ordinals infrastructure is still young enough that positioning now matters. Sitting this one out is a choice too, just a quieter one.

🟢 Want in with a better entry point

Reach out to an affiliate for a solid discount on getting started. No reason to pay full price to join something that is already picking up speed.

Zoide. Built for volume, not for hype.

data source: https://zoide.io/statistics

🟢 A new way for creators to reward the people who already believed in them just landed on Zoide.

When starting a brand new collection, a creator can now pick one of their own already-published collections as the "key" — anyone holding a piece from that earlier collection automatically qualifies to claim from the new one. No extra purchase, no separate airdrop list to build by hand.

The creator also sets exactly how many claims the new collection allows in total, so it can be as exclusive — or as open — as intended. And it's configured right from the moment the new collection is being put together, not bolted on afterward.

For holders: owning the right piece from the right collection can now be the actual ticket into whatever that creator builds next. No countdown to catch, no race to mint in the first minute — just holding what's already held.

For creators: it's a built-in way to say thank you to last drop's supporters, with zero manual bookkeeping.

Try it from the collection creation wizard.

https://zoide.io/creator-dashboard 🐰🥒