Grove
Humans connect. Agents learn. Creators earn.
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Problem: AI consumes without paying.
14:1
Google
1,700:1
OpenAI
73,000:1
Anthropic
The result:
- Consumption without payment โ creator income collapses โ no incentive to produce original content
- Less original content โ weaker training data โ AI progress degrades
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Solution: Turning agent access into creator revenue
Agents Get Data
Institutional AI agents are given budgets and spend policies to access original online content on demand.
Creators Get Revenue
Creators earn revenue in the moment when AI consumes their content, driven by real usage and demand.
Open Market Incentive
No subscriptions. No paywalls. Every piece of content gets a price set by demand. The market decides what it's worth.
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Go-to-market: Curation is signal, not charity.
Why human curation works:
- Small payments (e.g., tips) feel good to give and receive
- No subscriptions, no commitments, no friction
- Giveaways & reward mechanics drive early adoption
How human curation integrates:
- Creators receive tips in a single address across all platforms
- Payers use Grove to send tips anywhere content lives
- Grove enables first-party, walletless tipping integrations
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Scaling the market: From human tipping to agent payments
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Creators add a crypto address to their socials and start receiving tips instantly
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Tips reveal demand, signaling content that is worth paying for
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Signals build a directory of quality data agents can query
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Agents query Grove's directory and pay creators directly for high-quality content
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Revenue attracts more creators and the flywheel accelerates
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Creators Onboard
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Demand Signals
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Directory Grows
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Agents Pay
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Revenue Scales
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Vision: The agent control layer
Once agents find content worth paying for they need tooling to manage who they pay and how they pay them.
Spend Controls
Custody
Grove escrows funds for agents.
Example: "Company's research agent has a $10K/month budget to pay for content, but should never touch private keys. Keys and funds are custodied with Grove."
Policy
Your rules, enforced at the payment layer by Grove. Example: "Agents only pay for approved sources (e.g., Reuters, AP). Adult content is blocked. Maximum spend capped at $0.25/request."
Budgets
Spend limits, enforced centrally by Grove.
Example: "Company sets a maximum of $50/day per agent and auto-pause when the limit is hit. Grove enforces it."
Payment Operations
Routing
Optimal path across chains and rails.
Example: "Agent deposits USDT over Solana. Creator only takes USDC over Base. Grove handles the swap & routing."
Attribution
Full record of who paid whom, when, and for what. Example: "Payment for WSJ article, by Agent A, on behalf of Company X, with request_id=abc123."
Compliance
Regulatory, tax, and internal controls.
Example: "Export agent spend as deductible R&D expenses. Audit trail for SOC 2 compliance."
Auditability
Immutable system of record.
Example: "Show all Q2 payments by Company X's agents, grouped by publisher."
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Why now? The moment for micro-payments is here.
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Crypto technical stack is ready
Coinbase launched โx402โ and processed 57m transactions in December 2025. Cloudflareโ and โGoogleโ adopted it.
Stablecoins rails are cheap, mature and growing in adoption.โ
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AI enterprise data pressure
Paying creators is cheaper than defending against them; 57 copyright lawsuits & โAnthropic sued for $1.5b.
Custom deals take time and leave millions of creators with nothing; News Corp signed a $250m deal with OpenAI.
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Market validation
Tether just launched Rumble Wallet for creator tipping, but it only works on Rumble.
โI think we do need a new deal, standard, protocol, whatever you want to call it, for how creators are going to get rewarded. We need to have new economic models where creators can earn revenue streams.โ- Sam Altman (Dec 2024)
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Live now: What we've built so farโฆ
Watch our 1-min demo on how you can tip anyone on ๐ with one click.
Leaderboards & Web App
- Enables Walletless Tipping with an escrow wallet
- Gamifies curation by surfacing top curators and earners
- Shows live tips to see what's trending
- Visit app.grove.city to see the leaderboard
Browser Extension
- Surfaces a "Tip ๐ฟ" button on every post and profile
- Tips with the escrow wallet setup in the app
- Works on ๐, Substack and personal websites today
Lotteries + Promotions
- Creators run giveaways
- Every tip is an automatic entry
- Bigger tip = more entries
Creators don't need to sign up to earn
- Add an existing wallet to their social bio or website
- Get paid instantly
- No account registration nor KYC
Example of our Tip button on ๐, surfaced by our browser extension.
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Revenue: We earn when creators earn.
Revenue grows with volume. Volume grows with adoption.
In Production
Payment Facilitation
We take a flat 10% fee on every transaction. Payments from as low as $0.01 thanks to low-cost blockchains (e.g., Base, Solana).
Roadmap
Compliance Subscriptions
Attribution logs, audit trails, exportable reports. Enterprise compliance for AI content access. Priced by transaction volume.
Currency Conversion
Cross-chain and cross-currency. We make payments land. A small fee on payments that wouldn't exist without us.
Float
Yield on custodial balances between deposit and payout. Money sits with us before it moves and we'll earn on the float.
Data & Analytics
Aggregate data and payments activity for publishers and platforms. Data quality signal for AI labs.
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The Ask: $3M to connect agents to creators
Human tipping bootstraps the ecosystem. Agent payments scales it.
Phase 1: Grow the Network (Human Tipping)
- Incentives: Creator bonuses, first-tip subsidies, referrals
- Distribution: Platform expansion, partnerships, marketing
- Experiences: Connect tippers to creators via paid giveaways
Phase 2: Scale the Network (Agent Payments)
- Tooling: SDKs & first-party integrations
- Control : custody, policy, budgeting
- Operations: payment routing, attribution, reporting
- Trust: SOC-2, AML, licensing, patents
Access our full data room for detailed information: grove.city/fundraising
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ยฉ 2026 Grove Redefines Our Very Existence Inc.