Overview
Open infrastructure for permanent, ownable creative work with automatic revenue splits, recorded on-chain.
Publish your work. Own it forever. Get paid automatically.
Rising Tide is open infrastructure for creators. Permanent ownership, automatic revenue splits, and a public record of who made what - so an app can focus on the experience instead of the plumbing.
Why this exists
Every creative platform of the last two decades has been built the same way: a company hosts your work on their servers, runs the payment rails, owns the relationship with your audience, and decides what stays up. When the company changes its mind, raises rates, gets acquired, or shuts down, you lose. Your work, your earnings, and your audience belong to the platform - never to you.
Rising Tide flips that. Your work does not live on our servers. It lives on a public network nobody owns. Your readers pay you directly - the money never passes through us. Your audience is not locked inside one app - you can see who supported you across every app on the protocol. If we disappear tomorrow, none of that goes away.
What that gets you
| The old way | Rising Tide | |
|---|---|---|
| Where your work lives | On a company's servers | On a public network nobody owns |
| Who can take it down | The platform, at any time | Nobody. Once published, it's on the record. |
| How you get paid | Platform fees, payout cycles, account holds | Directly, on every collect, no intermediary |
| Who knows your audience | The platform - and they can change the rules | You - across every app on the protocol |
| What happens if the app folds | Your work goes with it | Your work stays. Your audience stays. Your earnings history stays. |
This is not a Web3 product. The technology is invisible. The point is that the work, the audience, and the earnings belong to the creator, not the platform - and the only way to actually guarantee that is to make the platform optional.
Start here
Whatever brought you, one of these is the next page.
| If you are | Start with |
|---|---|
| Wondering how you get paid | How Earning Works - what things cost, sats, and where a balance comes from |
| A writer or poet | For Writers - the formats, and what publishing one looks like |
| An illustrator or designer | For Artists - templates and stickers, and the royalty that follows them |
| Raising money for something | Support a Cause - routing a share of every collect to a cause |
| Here to read and collect | Any app below |
| Without an invite | Ask for a spot at risingtide.app/join - we open a limited number of places each month |
| Unsure what a word means | Vocabulary - the dozen terms this site uses |
One primitive, many products
Everything here is the same primitive - a smart product: something ownable, numbered, and permanent, with its revenue split encoded once and paid out on every collect. Writing, open letters, events, predictions, a message in a bottle - these are not separate systems. They are one primitive, shaped for a purpose, and the same shape is open for domains nobody has built yet.
What exists today
The shapes people have made so far.
Pages - permanent, numbered editions
Writers, poets, and illustrators publish work as numbered editions - permanent, provably theirs, and owned by whoever collected them. Readers collect them, transferable forever. Revenue splits are encoded at creation: the writer, the illustrator whose template gives the page its look, any collaborators, and any causes the creator designates all get paid automatically on every collect.
Page types: haiku, tanka, sonnet, open-format writing, and open letters. See For Writers.
Open letters are permanent public statements anyone can co-sign. Each co-signer gets a numbered edition and provides a 1-10 agreement rating plus an optional personal note. Organizers see a live sentiment distribution - not just who signed, but how strongly they feel and what they said. That picture of your audience belongs to you, not to a platform.
Templates and stickers - the visual layer
Illustrators and designers publish visual templates that creators apply to pages and tickets. The designer earns a royalty on every collect - no licensing negotiation, no per-deal contracts. Sticker artists publish individual elements that layer on top of any page or ticket. Passive revenue that grows with every creator who builds on your work. See For Artists.
Events - with reservations and tickets built in
Create an event and get ticketing, RSVPs, and attendee tracking included - no separate platform to configure. Your event is recorded on a public network: tickets are verifiable and your attendee list is yours. Tickets carry the same visual template system as pages, so every ticket is a designed artifact, not just a barcode.
Predictions and tournaments - by request
Bracket-style tournaments are built and running on the protocol, but not open for anyone to start yet. Participants submit picks, results settle on-chain, and prize distribution is encoded at creation. See Bracket Blitz, and reach out if you want to host the next tournament.
Causes get paid the same way everyone else does
A creator can route a share of every collect to a cause, set once at creation and paid automatically on every edition after that. No pledge drive, no reconciliation, no trusting anyone to forward it. See Support a Cause.
Know your audience
Because everything runs through the same protocol, earnings from pages, ticket sales, and tournament distributions roll up into a single view - no reconciling data across separate platforms. You can see who has collected your work, which events they attended, and how their engagement has grown over time across every app on the protocol. Your audience relationship belongs to you, not to whichever app introduced you.
Earning is built in
You are given the funds to create, and you earn Bitcoin when people collect your work - no card, no exchange, no buying your way in. New creators arrive on a funded invite and start earning from their very first piece.
What you do next is not a guessing game either. Your achievements are five things worth making, in order: each one opens the next app, and the last one hands you an invite of your own to give away. See How Earning Works.
Apps on the protocol today
Everything below runs on the open testnet. It is real software with real balances, and the network it settles on is a test network - nothing here is on a live money network yet.
| App | What it is | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Grammata | Permanent writing - haiku, tanka, sonnets, basic pages | testnet.grammata.app |
| On The Record | Multi-campaign open letters with co-signing | testnet.itsontherecord.app (+ per-campaign sites) |
| Bottle Drop | Messages in a bottle - drop a letter, find one, write back | testnet.bottledrop.app |
| Bracket Blitz | On-chain bracket prediction tournaments | By request - not open yet |
| Events Calendar | Public events with ticketing built in | testnet.events.risingtide.app |
| Profile Hub | Your cross-app identity, collection, and earnings dashboard | testnet.profile.risingtide.app |
Each app handles its own surface. Identity, ownership, payment, and provenance are shared across all of them through the protocol.
Building on it?
The technical documentation - the SDK, the API, the data model, the contracts - is a separate site: Rising Tide Developers. Start there if you want to build an app on the protocol rather than publish through one.