Surfing online, watching videos, playing games or being on social networking sites is fun, but often considered unproductive. Moreover, today, an internet connection is essential in every home and on every smartphone, but it also has a cost that we all incur on a regular basis. What if there was a way to recoup some or all of this expense and thus get paid using the Internet as we are already doing every day? With Grass, it is possible: it is an innovative platform that allows you to earn money by sharing your unused Internet bandwidth with verified companies. Without changing your online habits, you can turn your connection into a source of passive income, all in a safe and secure way.
Before we get into how Grass works and why it could be the convenience you were looking for, let’s get one thing straight: Grass pays you for using your unused internet bandwidth. What does this mean? Unused internet bandwidth’ refers to the part of your internet connection that is not used while you surf or use the web. Every internet connection has a speed and a maximum capacity (measured in Mbps or Gbps) that can be used at a certain time; this capacity is called ‘bandwidth’.
For example, if you have a fast connection (which is common for all of us now anyway) but at that moment you are only using a small portion of that speed to surf social networking sites or read a news item on a site or watch a video, the unused portion is considered ‘unused bandwidth’. Grass uses this portion of your connection, collecting the free and unused parts for activities such as market research or price analysis, but without interfering with your activities and maintaining your privacy. In other words: there is no slowdown in surfing sites, playing games or using the social networks we do on a daily basis, you simply won’t even realise you have Grass active. For those who want to know more, there is a useful FAQ section on their site.
How Grass works
Let’s get down to business: Grass is a rather innovative network that allows us to share our unused internet connection with verified institutions, in exchange for rewards, specifically in points that are then converted into the cryptocurrency $GRASS. Companies use this bandwidth for specific purposes, such as market analysis, local price research or regional advertising campaigns, without ever having access to our personal data. Grass ensures that your personal data always remains protected: it does not track online activities, nor does it access personal information. The system has been audited by leaders in computer security, such as AppEsteem, to ensure that no sensitive data is ever shared or misused.
Grass provides you with a dashboard to monitor the status of your network, accumulated points, redeem bonuses and other useful metrics.
So ultimately, every day you pay for an internet connection whose full capacity you often don’t use. Grass allows you to put that unused bandwidth to work, turning it into a productive and profitable resource. This helps companies improve their services and products, while you earn a fee (of $GRASS) for a resource you would otherwise have wasted anyway.
How to join GRASS
To sign up with GRASS and start earning money with your unused internet bandwidth, follow these very few steps, within the reach of anyone:
- Create an account: go to the Grass website and choose the option to create a new account. Enter your basic data, such as a user name, your email address and a secure password.
- Once registration is complete, you will be asked to download an extension. It is secure.
- After downloading and installing the app, log in with the credentials you created (username and email, together with password).
Once logged in, follow the instructions within the app to activate your bandwidth sharing. Grass will start using this part of your connection for its activities. You won’t have to do anything else and you won’t even notice that it is active, at least not until you occasionally get the curiosity to go and look at the dashboard.
Our test: how much we gained
We used Grass for about 6 months in this 2024 while the computer was simply switched on, never even realising that we had this system active until we were notified on X (formerly Twitter) that rewards would finally be awarded (as of 6 November 2024 the token was listed).
Once we received the reward tokens, we also noticed the possibility of staking it, as the APR is currently 53.58%, a useful solution for those interested in holding the tokens with a long-term view.
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