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What is Novaro? The platform explained in five minutes
What Novaro offers, how the free webinars and the membership work, and what Novaro deliberately does not do.
The short version
Novaro is an independent education and information platform operated by Novaro Technology LLC. Its purpose is to explain how everyday card payments, payment infrastructure, blockchain protocols such as SHOP and other new technologies work – in plain language and in 24 languages.
You can use most of Novaro for free: weekly live webinars, recordings in your language, the explainer video and the articles on this site. A paid membership adds the Novaro Academy, analysis tools, project insights and the community.
Why payments?
Every time someone taps a card, a chain of companies works in the background: the shop's bank, the card network, the cardholder's bank and several technical providers. Each step generates small fees. Billions of such transactions happen every day, yet very few people understand how the money flows – or that business models are emerging around this flow.
Novaro uses payments as a starting point because everyone already knows the experience from the customer side. From there, the infrastructure and the new models built on it become much easier to understand.
What you get for free
Live webinars run every week on Zoom, currently in English on Tuesdays at 20:00 and in German on Wednesdays at 20:00 and Thursdays at 19:00 Central European Time. A session takes about an hour and always ends with an open Q&A. Registration requires only a name and an email address.
If you cannot attend live, you can watch a recording in your language. The explainer video on the homepage gives a two-minute overview.
What the membership adds
The Novaro VIP membership costs 100 US dollars per month. It includes the Novaro Academy (structured lessons), analysis tools, project insights and access to the community. According to the current offer it also includes a 1/12 share of a GSM100 Minter that generates SHOP tokens under the rules of the SHOP protocol.
The membership is managed on the separate platform home.novaro.vip with its own terms. Before subscribing, read them – and attend a webinar first, so you know exactly what you are buying.
What Novaro is not
Novaro is not a bank, a broker, an exchange or an investment adviser. It does not hold your money or your digital assets and gives no personal investment recommendations. Novaro is also independent from SHOP: it explains the protocol but does not issue the token or control the rules.
Any figures you see – such as "up to 1 % per month" or the SHOP price chart – describe what a third-party protocol may generate or has done in the past. They are not promises. Digital assets can lose value, and you should never commit money you cannot afford to lose.
This article is for educational purposes only and is not financial, investment, tax or legal advice.