add new blog article: Web Monetization Wrapped 2025

Author: Anca2022

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+title: 'Web Monetization Wrapped 2025'
+description: 'Welcome to Web Monetization Wrapped, a look back at the progress we made in 2025 and everything we shipped, fixed, revived, and pushed forward this year. '
+date: 2025-12-17
+slug: web-monetization-wrapped-2025
+authors:
+  - Rabeb Othmani
+author_urls:
+  - https://interledger.org/team/rabeb-othmani
+tags:
+  - Web Monetization
+  - Updates
+---
+
+![“Web Monetization Wrapped 2025” banner over a colorful background featuring a microphone.](/developers/img/blog/2025-12-17/wrapped-banner.png)
+
+Welcome to **Web Monetization Wrapped**, a look back at the progress we made in 2025 and everything we shipped, fixed, revived, and pushed forward this year.
+
+Turn up the volume. Let’s relive the year. 🎧✨
+
+### 🎼 Top Genre: Strengthening The Ecosystem
+
+![Text reading “More wallet providers supporting Web Monetization, bringing the number to three” on a colorful background.](/developers/img/blog/2025-12-17/wrapped-4.png)
+
+2025 wasn’t theoretical, it was measurable.
+
+- More wallet providers supporting Web Monetization, bringing the number to 3
+- More publishers & podcasts experimenting with Web Monetization
+- More developers building creative tools and integrations
+- More momentum than we've had in years
+
+The needle moved and we moved it.
+
+### 🎵 Top Song: Reviving The Grant Program
+
+![Text reading “More publishers and podcasts experimenting with Web Monetization” displayed over a disco-style background.](/developers/img/blog/2025-12-17/wrapped-3.png)
+
+This was our headline track of 2025.
+
+- Relaunched the Web Monetization Grant Program
+- Brought in three publishing platforms that will bring new tools and experiments to their 900+ podcasts, 500,000+ writers, and 200,000 social web users in 2026.
+- Strengthened the ecosystem with real, tangible support. $100,000 in financial support , to be exact.
+
+This wasn’t just an initiative, it was a comeback tour.
+
+### 🎥 Your Artist Clip: We Refreshed Our Web Presence
+
+As a thank-you, your Web Monetization browsing experience got a glow up.
+
+- Completely redesigned [webmonetization.org](http://webmonetization.org)
+- Modernized the visual identity and restructured the content to make it more accessible, informative, and action-oriented
+- Updated and expanded the documentation
+- Made information easier to find, clearer to understand, and simpler to act on
+
+Looks better. Works better.
+
+### 💿 Top Albums: We Leveled Up Our Product Offerings
+
+![Graphic presenting a list of product offerings styled as tracks on a CD.](/developers/img/blog/2025-12-17/wrapped-2.png)
+
+Because a standard only moves if we do.
+
+- Expanded [extension](https://github.com/interledger/web-monetization-extension/releases) availability to Safari
+- Improved the user experience for the [Publisher Tools](https://webmonetization.org/tools/)
+- Shipped new Publisher Tools
+- Shipped fixes and docs that unblock users
+- Launched a [WordPress Plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/interledger-web-monetization-integration/)
+- Resolved bugs and improved overall extension performance
+- Developed a prototype for the in-browser implementation.
+
+### ⏱️ Minutes Listened: We Strengthened Community Connections
+
+Not just building tech, building a movement.
+
+- Brought more publishers, partners, and developers into the conversation
+- Received impactful code contributions from community developers who stepped up for Hacktoberfest.
+- Supported community events and working groups
+- Listened, iterated, and responded to ecosystem needs and community feedback.
+
+More voices, more momentum.
+
+## 💫 That’s Web Monetization Wrapped 2025
+
+![Music player–style graphic showing “We Did It as a Team” as the track title and “Powering the Internet of Opportunity” as the artist.](/developers/img/blog/2025-12-17/wrapped-1.png)
+
+Consistent follow-through, collaboration across teams, transparency, listening to the community, and a willingness to solve problems as they came.
+
+Different skills, different roles, same mission:
+
+**Powering the Internet of Opportunity**
+
+Real progress. Stronger foundations. New energy.
+
+Ready for the next track? 🎶