WeatherXM data is free for non-commercial academic or personal use.
For commercial uses, there are two options:
1. Purchase a Commercial Data License from the WeatherXM Network Association.
2. Get access to data through a Commercial Data License holder.
The licensing purchase approach is inspired by spectrum auctions used by governments. License holders can use WeatherXM data for their businesses, like an energy trader optimizing trades, or a meteorological company selling added value services developed on top of the data, such HTTP API access of weather forecasts.
Today we are announcing that we will auction four (4) Commercial Data Licenses that enable commercial use of data for the calendar year of 2024. The auction will run from June 30, 2024, at 00:00 GMT to July 14, 2024, at 00:00 GMT. The minimum bid is 100,000 $WXM. Licenses will be awarded to the top four bidders. This is an open-bid, English-style auction.
Participants must send their bid via email to ga@weatherxm.network. The subject line should be “2024 Data License Auction.” In the email, they must state the bid amount in $WXM and the wallet address holding equal or more $WXM.
More details about licensing WeatherXM Network data can be found on our website.
We understand that some terms of the current licensing (example: one calendar year license duration), might be limiting for some business cases. Licenses will evolve over time to meet the needs of the market. We’re open to suggestions that will help us get there faster and in this direction we have initiated public dialogue in our discord server.
We are also aware that bidding via email is far from efficient, especially for a web3 organization. We plan to hold the next auction (end of 2024) on-chain, but we want to get things right first.
The details and the implementation of the licensing model will evolve as the project evolves.
