Otium
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A Grass alternative that pays your own wallet
Both pay you for sharing internet you aren't using. Grass gives you points and decides later how they turn into GRASS tokens or USDC, paid in rounds you claim. Otium converts what you earn and sends it to your own wallet in the coin you choose as it builds up, shares only while you're away, and also mines with your computer.
| Otium | Grass | |
|---|---|---|
| What you earn | Your coin, converted from what Proxybase pays per GB: USDT, BTC, LTC, BNB, SOL, TRX, ETH or XMR. | Points, which have no money value of their own. Grass decides what rewards they bring, in GRASS tokens or USDC; the last round, for traffic until 8 June 2026, paid USDC. |
| When you're paid | Automatically, to your own wallet address, once $1 has built up and the network fee is a small part of the payout. Otium never holds your money. | In rounds after each period ends, claimed on the Grass dashboard; unclaimed rewards are kept by Grass. Grass hasn't yet said how traffic after 8 June 2026 will be paid. |
| Where it goes | Your own wallet address, which you can change any time. | A Solana wallet built into the Grass app, which you control, or a wallet you link, which you may not be able to change. |
| Fees | Otium's 2% of each payout. | $0.15 per wallet transaction plus Solana's network fee, and MoonPay's own fees to cash out to a card or PayPal. |
| Account and ID | No account and no ID: you paste a wallet address. An email is optional. | A verified account (email or Google), one per person. Not available in 25 countries and regions, including Russia, Iran and Venezuela, and Grass may verify your identity before you claim. |
| Devices | Windows, Linux and Apple-silicon Macs. | A desktop app for Windows, macOS and Ubuntu, a Chrome extension, and Android. Rewards are capped per internet connection. |
| Also earns by | Mining with your graphics card and processor while you're away. | Referrals, a share of the uptime points of people you refer, three levels deep; and staking GRASS. |
Grass's details are from its own pages, checked on 2 November 2026, and can change. See Sources below.
Where Grass is the better choice
Grass runs as a Chrome extension and on Android phones, which Otium doesn't, and has its own token you can hold and stake if you want a stake in the network.
Sources
- Grass: terms and conditions
- Grass Foundation: rewards program terms
- Grass: how Stage 2 rewards work
- Grass: the points model
- Grass: how the Grass wallet works
- Grass: setting up on every device
- Grass docs: points and referrals
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