Solid Web Monetization

The Solid decentralization effort decouples data from services, so that users are in full control over their personal data. In this light, Web Monetization has been proposed as an alternative business model for web services that does not depend on data collection anymore. Integrating Web Monetization with Solid, however, remains difficult because of the heterogeneity of Interledger wallet implementations, lack of mechanisms for securely paying on behalf of a user, and an inherent issue of trusting content providers to handle payments. We propose the Web Monetization Provider as a solution to these challenges. The WMP acts as a third party, hiding the underlying complexity of transactions and acting as a source of trust in Web Monetization interactions. This demo shows a working end-to-end example including a website providing monetized content, a WMP, and a dashboard for configuring WMP into a Solid identity.

@inproceedings{sebrechts_icwe_2022,
  author = {Sebrechts, Merlijn and Goethals, Tom and Dupont, Thomas and Kerckhove, Wannes and Taelman, Ruben and De Turck, Filip and Volckaert, Bruno},
  title = {Solid Web Monetization},
  month = jul,
  booktitle = {International Conference on Web Engineering},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://www.rubensworks.net/raw/publications/2022/solid_web_monetization.pdf}
}