MicroChai is the Universal Content Gateway for the web. Pay cents to access quality content as part of a federated system. No subscriptions, no paywalls or captchas - just seamless access for humans and AI.
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In a world where quality content is drowning in a sea of SEO-optimized spam, locked behind captchas and private ecosystems, MicroChai is the beacon of hope for bloggers, publishers, and data providers. They no longer have to rely on centralized services such as X.com or substack that strip them of true ownership over their creations. The decline of newspapers, blogs, and data content APIs is not due to a lack of willingness from users to pay for high-quality content, but rather the friction and fees associated with traditional payment methods that make micropayments a challenge.
MicroChai's universal content protocol is a game-changer, enabling both humans and AI agents to access premium content through tiny payments. Readers can enjoy articles for just cents across any participating site, while AI systems and agents can efficiently access clean structured training data without the need for scraping, bypassing captchas, or wrestling with irrelevant html elements)
The beauty of MicroChai lies in its simplicity: one balance works everywhere across the ecosystem. With MicroChai, your balance is universal across all participating websites that implement our frameworks, and you can easily log in using your existing blockchain or social login. Our restaking mechanism ensures that all participants remain honest and committed to the ecosystem.
This isn't just another payment system—it's the infrastructure for quality content in the AI age. By removing friction and enabling true micropayments, we're creating a future where quality content thrives, creators maintain independence, and knowledge flows freely.
All of our work is in this public repo! https://github.com/NanoChai
The backend is a restaking node, used for batching signatures and approving them for content access. at a later stage the webmasters can redeem.
The smart contract lives on the base chain due to its low cost and simplicity of EVM.
#Frontend Demo (Woofington post) see for yourself! deployed at https://website-base-kappa.vercel.app/
A site to demo our functionality. It's primary purpose is to display dog-themed news behind a content to ensure that human readers can get the highest and most up to date quality news
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A site to demo potential connections of AI Agents to search other websites. uses AI agents to search Woofington post website were required.
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