Get paid on the platforms you already run — without forking them.

Universal Paywall is an open-core, non-custodial payment rail. A supporter stakes once and grants a bounded spending policy; every metered event — a view, a play, a minute watched — settles on-chain, feelessly, straight to the creator.

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Creators

“How do I get paid on the platform I already use?”

Find your platform →
Instance admins

“How do I attach this to my instance without forking it?”

Deploy a sidecar or plugin →
Developers

“How does the rail work, and how do I build a new integration?”

Architecture + playbook →

How it works — three steps

01 Stake & grant
The supporter stakes USDC once in their own StakeVault and grants a bounded, revocable spending policy (cap + expiry). Funds never leave their vault until a valid charge settles.
02 Meter the event
A permissionless adapter — sidecar, plugin, proxy or provider — observes the platform's own event stream (a counted view, a scrobble, presence seconds) and reports a metered charge. The platform is never modified.
03 Settle on-chain
The facilitator batches charges and calls StakeVault.settle. The invariant every test asserts: payee balance += rate × units. No custody, no processor cut.

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One rail, end to end

One rail, 10 attachment points

Every integration attaches through a surface the platform already exposes — a webhook, a config value, a plugin slot, a proxyable request path — never a fork.

PeerTube

Federated VOD published plugin tested

Install the published universal-paywall plugin — per-view support/tips settled on-chain, no PeerTube fork.
Owncast

Live video event sidecar tested

Register an admin webhook for chat presence events — viewers support the streamer per second watched.
Navidrome

Music config redirect tested

Point ND_LISTENBRAINZ_BASEURL at the sidecar — every play pays the artist, per listen.
Subsonic (gonic family)

Music config redirect tested

Meter the Subsonic scrobble endpoint — per-play royalties for gonic and other Subsonic-API servers.
Jellyfin

VOD event sidecar tested

Point the official Webhook plugin at the sidecar — watched minutes settle to the library owner.
RSSHub

Feeds event sidecar tested

A per-citation toll at the crawler boundary — AI agents pay authors when they ground answers in feed items.
Immich

Photo reverse proxy tested

A transparent reverse proxy in front of Immich meters shared-link photo resolves — a per-resolve license fee.
Mastodon

Fediverse external provider tested

Serve Mastodon's donation-campaign slot — instance donations settle on-chain, transparently.
MusicBrainz

Registry / resolver resolver tested

The identity registry that turns a music scrobble into a payable artist — recording MBID → artist MBID → wallet.
Browser extension

Payer-side payer-side adaptor tested payer-side

The consumer side of the rail — an MV3 adaptor that auto-pays x402 paywalls and tips creators on the user's behalf.

Why it's different

Non-custodial Funds stay in the supporter's own vault until a valid, in-policy charge settles. Nobody holds your money.
Feeless per-event Charges are batched and settled on-chain with no processor cut and no rent in the rail.
Never fork the platform Six permissionless attachment patterns. The platform's source is never edited — it can't even tell.
Works on any instance Size-neutral: a three-viewer Owncast stream and a large PeerTube instance attach the exact same way.