The Old Way is Broken
The internet promised creators direct access to their audience. Instead, it built a surveillance economy that extracts 30% fees, forces subscription fatigue, and harvests behavioral data at industrial scale.
What's wrong with Web2 access
Your email, reading habits, and social graph are harvested and sold to advertisers.
Apple takes a 30% cut. Terms change without notice. Your access can be revoked.
You pay monthly for content you read once. Cancel and you lose everything.
30 tracking scripts run before you read a single word. Your data funds the platform, not the creator.
Creator encrypts content
Any digital content — articles, videos, files — is encrypted and published on the web behind a ZeroGate paywall.
User pays with Polkadot wallet
One click. 0.1 PAS micro-payment goes directly to the creator's wallet. No platform cut. No middleman.
Smoldot verifies on-chain
A light client running entirely in your browser verifies the transaction against the Polkadot Relay Chain. No Infura. No Alchemy. True decentralization.
Content decrypts locally
The decryption key is returned and stored in your browser's localStorage. The content is yours forever — even offline.
Technical Architecture
Browser (Next.js)
User interface, wallet connection, Smoldot WASM light client — all running locally in the browser.
Paseo Relay Chain
Polkadot's testnet. Smoldot syncs block headers directly — no centralized RPC providers.
localStorage
Decryption key persisted locally. No server stores your data. Own it forever.