what is tickr

The AI's dead air,
paid to you.

tickr is a Chrome extension. When ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude pauses to think, it replaces that single “thinking” line with one sponsored line — and pays you USDC on Base for the seconds you were waiting anyway. It never reads your prompts or your conversations.

the mechanism

One line, while it thinks.

[ how ]
01

Detects the wait

A reasoning model can think for 10–60 seconds. tickr watches only for that generating state — the stop button, the thinking shimmer — never the text of your prompt or the reply.

reads your chatstate only
02

One line, in place

It replaces that single thinking line with one sponsored line. The moment the answer starts streaming, the ad is gone and the page is exactly as it was.

banners · popupsone line
03

Paid in USDC

Advertisers fund campaigns in USDC; the highest eligible funded browser campaign fills the line. A flat 50/50 split accrues to you and withdraws to your wallet.

invoices · manual billingserver metered
the boundary

It never reads your chat.

[ privacy ]

This is enforced in code, not just promised. The part of tickr that watches the page can only check whether elements exist — it has no path to read text, and the messages it can send are typed so they cannot carry your words.

Prompts never read

Detection checks for the existence of UI elements, not their contents.

Nothing stored or sent

No conversation text ever leaves the page. The only id is your wallet key.

Always labelled

Every line is marked Sponsored · Displayed by tickr. Skippable, always.

in one line

AI dead-time + a USDC line = tickr.