Welcome to the Web Monetization station! The month of July was about 3 things:
- Testing and levelling up the publisher tools.
- Introducing Chimoney digital wallet support.
- Polishing the browser extension, and adding Safari browser compatibility.
Check this out…
The browser extension
We're working on Safari browser support for the extension. While it isn’t yet officially available, you can set up a local development environment, install it on Safari, and test it out.
We improved functionality across all browsers so that when connecting a wallet, the extension now:
- Avoids overriding user-entered amounts with default budget suggestions.
- Correctly handles errors during the connection process, after user consent for key-addition.
- Immediately opens a new tab with the intended web page, instead of opening an empty tab first.
The extension has also improved payment handling so that:
- At least one payment session must be ready before a website is shown as monetized.
- A monetization session properly resumes if a revoked key gets re-added to the wallet.
- The monetization state gets properly managed or cleared when pages reload, unload, or when sessions pause and resume.
💰 Digital wallets
Chimoney is a digital wallet that has added support for Web Monetization. You can now sign up for a Chimoney wallet to:
- Connect your Chimoney wallet address to your browser extension, and start paying web monetized sites.
- Receive Web Monetization payments into your Chimoney wallet.
🧰 Publisher Tools
The publisher tools are for anyone that owns or publishes content on the internet, no matter the size of their audience. The tools make it simple and quick to start getting paid with Web Monetization.
How do the publisher tools work?
To get paid with Web Monetization, you need a way to receive Web Monetization payments. A compatible digital wallet makes this possible—this is the financial account that holds your funds.
- Sign up for an account with a digital wallet provider.
- Find your wallet address. Some wallets call this a payment pointer.
Example of a wallet address:
https://walletprovider.com/MyWallet
Example of payment pointer:
$anotherwalletprovider.org/YourWallet
💡 Once you have a wallet address or payment pointer, you can use the publisher tools. 💡
The Link tag generator
Use this tool to create a short piece of code, an HTML tag, which enables Web Monetization on your website.
- Input: your wallet address
- Output: your monetization link tag
- What next? Go to your website's HTML file and add the generated link tag into the
<head>section. - Result: Once this is done, your website is Web Monetization enabled.
The Banner generator
Build a banner for your website, inviting your audience to use Web Monetization to support your work.
- Input:
- your wallet address
- choose and preview the format and styling for your banner
- Output: your banner in HTML form
- What next? Copy the script to your website’s HTML page, into the section.
- Result: Anyone visiting your site is shown the banner. Only visitors that already have the Web Monetization browser extension installed will not see the banner.
The RevShare generator
If you publish or own a website that has multiple contributors, you can use the probabilistic revenue share generator (RevShare) to share earnings between the contributors.
- Input:
- the wallet addresses of all contributors
- the percentage weighting you assign to each contributor
- Output: an HTML link tag that contains a unique URL
- What next? Copy the link tag to your website’s HTML page
- Result: Each time someone visits your site, one wallet is chosen at random, from a list of the contributor wallet addresses. The probability of one contributor being chosen over the others is based on the weightings you assigned each contributor.
WordPress plugin for Web Monetization
The new Web Monetization plugin for WordPress isn’t yet available on the WordPress marketplace, but it is coming soon. You can install it manually from the source, to test: https://github.com/interledger/web-monetization-wordpress-plugin/
With the plugin, you can:
- Enable Web Monetization to pay contributors to different posts and pages.
- Show a banner on your site, inviting your audience to support your work by using Web Monetization.
Join us, please
- You’re invited to the next Web Monetization Community Call is on August 14th, 2025.
- Check your timezone
- Add to your Google Calendar
- Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/fjy-vjef-ogj
Come build with us on GitHub by contributing to these:
That’s it for this month! See you next time.
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