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' +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? 🎶