Building New Formats

The protocol currently supports haiku, tanka, sonnet, open-format writing, and open letters. These are not the ceiling - they are the starting point.

How new formats get added

Each writing format is a product type: it defines the structure (what fields exist, what validation applies), the rendering behavior, and how it appears to collectors. Adding a new format means defining a new product type and building the tools around it.

Developers work with the Rising Tide team to bring new formats online. The team sets the direction, but the ideas and execution can come from anywhere.

What community builders participate in

Early builders who work with the protocol team to bring a new format online participate in the same revenue system as any other creator. If you design the visual template that becomes standard for a new format, you earn a royalty on every piece published using it. If you build the publishing tools, you are part of the ecosystem.

This is not a grant or a bounty. It is the same composable revenue system that powers the rest of the protocol - applied to the people who build it.

Formats worth thinking about

The protocol infrastructure is format-agnostic. Ghazals, prose poems, collaborative writing, annotated editions, translations - any structured creative form is a candidate. The most recent addition, sonnet, shipped as a config-driven product type without any new on-chain code. If there is a format that has a natural audience and a structure worth encoding, it is worth a conversation.

Reach out

If you have a writing format in mind - as a writer who wants it to exist, or as a developer who wants to build it - reach out to the Rising Tide team. Early builders get to shape how it works.