Web Monetization: October & November Recap

This edition zooms into the world of Web Monetization in October and November 2025.

Good things from…

We had some fantastic contributions for Hacktoberfest. A total of 30 contributions were completed, and about a third of them were for Web Monetization.

Overall, 13 individuals contributed to 10 projects.

A massive shout-out to our 2025 contributors from India, Tunisia and Poland! We hope to see you again next year, and bring a friend…we want to take this to the next level.

Growing the community

We connected with developers, browser-makers, W3C members and open source enthusiasts across 3 continents, making the case for open standards such as Web Monetization, and discussing the future of open source software.

• 30-31 October: At JSConf Mexico in Guadalajara, Marian Villa (DevRel) spoke about why Interledger cares about bridging the gap between fintech solutions and open source software. Alex Lakatos (CTO) spoke about what it means to "pay the web forward" and our vision for Web Monetization as a standard. Ioana Chiorean (Engineering Manager) attended the conference, making valuable connections and forging a pathway for Web Monetization awareness and adoption in Latin America.
• 7 November: At MozFest in Barcelona, Santosh Viswanatham (Interledger community member) spoke about what makes Web Monetization a viable option for revenue for independent owners, creators and open-source maintainers.
• 10 November: Sid Vishnoi (Senior Engineer), Alexander Surkov (Senior Engineer), Ioana Chiorean (Engineering Manager) and Alex Lakatos (CTO) spoke to web standard enthusiasts at TPAC in Kobe. The team showcased our work, in partnership with Igalia, to enable the Chromium browser to natively support Web Monetization, without the need for a plugin.
• 13 November: On the GitHub community's Jueves de Quack con Interledger Marian Villa (DevRel) spoke about the future of open payments and how Interledger drives digital financial inclusion through open standards such as Web Monetization.
• 18 November: Alex Lakatos also spoke at CTO Craft Con: Financial Services in London about Interledger’s community focused, open source approach to collaborating and building trusted software for the financial sector.

🧰 Tools for publishers

On the software front, we addressed bugs and added UX improvements to the publisher tools:

• Enhancing accessibility for input fields. This makes the tools more responsive to keyboards, screen readers or other accessibility aids.
• Making it simpler and faster to preview a Banner or Widget.
• Using polling for the Widget to verify payment completion.
• Ensuring that the tools are fully responsive when resized on any device.
• Enhancing error handling when the Widget and Banner generators save or retrieve wallet configuration.
• Improving code reusability and maintainability by restructuring how the Widget uses Open Payments into modular, logically organized components.

Browser extension for supporters

Incremental improvements and highlights for the browser extension include:

• Support for the MMAON digital wallet.
• Improved performance and error handling.
• A new consent screen that shows users what data the extension shares and allows users to give their consent.
• Publishing the extension on the Safari app store, which takes the number of browsers with Web Monetization support to 4 (i.e Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari).

WordPress plugin

Lastly, the WordPress plugin for Web Monetization now has user docs that guide publishers from installing to configuring the plugin on a WordPress a site.

That's all for this edition. Thanks for reading.