Adbytes.Media vs Settlematic: Which Is Better in 2026?

Adbytes.Media is an online advertising platform connecting advertisers with participating sites and tools. It brings campaign purchasing, publisher participation and a blockchain-based rewards system into one platform. The service is available online, allowing advertisers and publishers to manage their activity through their accounts.

Advertisers can create banner and paid-to-click campaigns to promote their websites, products or services. Advertising purchases use Platform Credit, the platform’s advertiser balance. Registration is free, while advertising is paid by usage. Supported funding currencies include Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Dash, Ethereum, Zcash, USDT and USDC. This gives customers who hold cryptocurrency a way to purchase practical advertising services.

Participating publishers can submit sites and tools for review and integrate advertising placements. New websites and banner campaigns go through review before activation. Eligible participants earn ADBYTES rewards through the platform. Publisher rewards follow the platform’s reward allocation rules; they are not simply a percentage of an advertiser’s click charge.

ADBYTES is the ecosystem’s utility token on Base. Participants can redeem eligible rewards for Platform Credit to purchase advertising and other platform services. Platform Credit and ADBYTES rewards are separate balances, and redemption follows the platform’s published rules rather than a live exchange price. This connects token rewards with services that advertisers can actually use.

The ecosystem also includes token staking and an ADBYTES/USDC market on Uniswap V3. The token has a fixed initial supply of one billion, no additional minting and periodic burns. The project’s whitepaper explains the token and platform in more detail.

Adbytes.Media is relevant to advertisers seeking crypto-friendly campaign purchasing, website operators looking to participate in an advertising network, and users interested in a Base-based token with advertising utility. Advertisers do not have to be crypto businesses: the platform serves advertisers and participating sites and tools across suitable categories. Users should review campaign requirements, publisher eligibility and the current platform terms before participating.

What problem it solves

Connects advertisers seeking crypto-friendly advertising with participating sites and tools, while allowing eligible ADBYTES rewards to be redeemed for advertising credit.

Settlematic is a non-custodial crypto invoicing and payment gateway built for teams that already hold their own wallets. You quote in USD, GBP, or EUR. Clients pay in USDC, USDT, EURC, ETH, or BTC across Ethereum, Polygon, BSC, Solana, Tron, and Bitcoin. Each invoice or checkout address is bound to a destination you control at issuance, so funds never sit in a processor float.

Custodial processors take the payment, hold it, and pay you later. Settlematic does the opposite: we watch the chain, attach the transaction hash, and reconcile against the fiat amount on the invoice. We cannot move the funds. Partial payments and multi-asset fills count toward the same balance.

Collect covers invoices, payment links, and recurring billing. Gateway adds hosted checkout, embeddable widgets, a REST API, and merchant onboarding. Pricing is Lite at $20 per month for Collect with 25 invoices, and Pro at $49 per month for unlimited invoicing plus Gateway. There is no percentage take rate. Network gas is paid to validators as usual. A 15-minute sandbox at settlematic.com/demo needs no card.

Settlematic is made by Keshav Sharma at Simplileap Digital LLP in Bengaluru. SOC 2 work is in progress; we do not claim certification. Try the sandbox, then point Collect or Gateway at wallets you already operate.

Invoice statuses include sent, partial, paid, and overdue. Every confirmed payment stores the chain, asset, amount, and transaction hash so finance can reconcile without exporting a processor CSV. Sweep destinations can be cold storage, an ops wallet, or a multisig you already run. The product is invoicing plus a payment gateway, not payroll and not mass payout.

Sandbox access lasts fifteen minutes and does not ask for a card. Production Lite is twenty dollars a month. Pro is forty-nine dollars a month with a seven-day trial that does require a card. Gas is never a Settlematic fee. If you already operate wallets and you want clients to pay in crypto against a fiat invoice, this is the loop: issue, watch, reconcile, settle to you.

What problem it solves

B2B teams that want crypto pay-in without giving a processor custody of funds.

Alternatives & competitors

A non-custodial alternative to BitPay, Coinbase Commerce, CoinGate, and Request Finance. BTCPay is self-hosted; Settlematic is hosted invoicing with wallet-bound addresses.