Getting paid

When a dataset of yours is licensed, the payout is written into a contract on Stellar and credited to your wallet. It shows on your earnings page as something to claim.

Where the money sits

Not with us. There is no Datavar account holding payout money — there used to be, and closing it was the point. Earnings sit in the payout contract, and the contract has one rule about paying them out: it pays the wallet that signed the request. All Datavar can do is record who the money belongs to. It cannot pay itself, redirect a payout, move funds out, or stop you claiming yours.

That is the difference between being owed money and holding it. The contract refuses to credit a sale it can't cover, so a balance on your earnings page is money already sitting in the contract — not an IOU against an account you have to trust us with.

Claiming

One press, then your wallet asks you to sign. The contract pays you and returns a transaction hash, which resolves on a public explorer whether or not this site is up.

Your wallet has to exist on Stellar to sign — the same requirement as granting consent. Testnet accounts open with friendbot in a click.

Why XLM

A Stellar payment costs a fraction of a cent and settles in seconds, which is what makes a fifty-cent payout worth sending at all. On most rails the fee would eat it.

Fiat payouts through PayPal are planned.

What a dataset earns

Rare data earns more than common data. The estimator on the home page quotes the average settled price per category, computed from real sales — a category nobody has bought yet shows a dash rather than a number we invented.

Buyers are simulated while the demand side is built, and payouts settle in test XLM on Stellar testnet. The contract and the payment are real and on-chain; the demand behind them isn't yet.