Frequently Asked Questions

Grove API is one API for AI to pay humans for content. It enables AI agents to tip and compensate content creators with a single API call. We handle custody, currency conversion, routing, and compliance—bringing Twitch-style tipping to the rest of the web.

Three factors converge:

• AI training infrastructure and inference tools are growing exponentially
• AI labs face regulatory pressure from governments due to creator demands
• The infrastructure for cheap, reliable, and stable internet-native payments via crypto rails is finally here

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The industry cannot align on how content creators should be paid, rewarded, or acknowledged for their work. This creates lost revenue for creators, legal liability and compliance uncertainty for enterprises, and trust breakdown across the ecosystem. Tipping provides an intermediate solution while the industry figures out long-term models.

Make one API call to grove.city/api/{url}/{amount} and we handle the rest. We support payment in stablecoins, crypto, or fiat. Our technical architecture uses pragmatic decentralization—supporting x402, ERC-8004, A2A (Agent2Agent), MCP, JSON-LD, and llms.txt protocols to work anywhere on the web.

We support stablecoins, crypto, fiat, credit, and debit. Grove handles automatic currency conversion, payment routing, and settlement—you pay in what works for you, creators receive what works for them.

We handle compliance, attribution, and custody for you. Grove holds your funds and tracks attribution, providing risk mitigation and a complete audit trail. This addresses the legal liability exposure, compliance uncertainty, and reputational damage that enterprises face when using AI-generated content.

We adapt rather than onboard. Grove integrates into social graphs the same way Plaid integrated into banks—building adapters for existing platforms rather than requiring creators to migrate. This works anywhere on the web through seamless integration with existing protocols.

Yes. Grove provides detailed payment tracking, audit trails, and attribution reporting—critical for enterprise compliance and risk mitigation.

AI agents, AI assistants, AI browsers, CDNs, enterprise AI, and any platform wanting to compensate content creators. Grove works for both humans and agents—enabling human ↔ agent and agent ↔ agent commerce for the AI era.

Other solutions have limitations:

• Brave: Ecosystem lock-in
• Flattr: Low adoption
• Coil: Ecosystem-bound
• GitHub Sponsors: Niche use case
• OpenAI licensing: Closed, favors large publishers
• Cloudflare AI Audit: Binary on/off, no payments

Grove's approach: API-first, rail-agnostic, no ecosystem lock-in, built for enterprise, and works for both humans and agents.

Yes. Creators can register with Grove to receive automatic payments from AI systems that use their content—from training data to inference-time retrieval. Any digital content type is supported: articles, images, videos, code, datasets, and more.

Grove sits at the intersection of three explosive growth vectors: AI training and inference ($30B+ AI data licensing market), creator monetization infrastructure ($100B+ across YouTube, Patreon, Twitch, Substack, GitHub), and the emerging machine payment economy (billions of daily agent transactions expected this decade).