It's been in the works for the past few months and now it's finally here: Wetfish is registered for business. There is now a legal structure in place allowing Wetfish to pay members of the community for their contributions to projects. Whether you're a designer, developer, writer, or something else entirely, odds are there's some way you can help. Check out the Jobs board on Trello for more details.

As discussed on the forums, a bank account for Wetfish has been set up and a transparency page is being developed using the Plaid API. The transparency page will be automatically updated, allowing members of the community and the public to see how much money is available to the company and how it's being spent.

At the time of writing, the account's balance is $6,000—an initial investment made by me to cover the costs of contractors over the next 6 months. As a nice bonus, Wetfish is currently earning enough in advertising revenue to cover the operating costs for its websites and IRC servers.

The plan over the next few months is to develop a donation platform, e-commerce platform, and new versions of existing wetfish projects. This would provide immediate benefit to the community while also creating software that can be customized and sold to other businesses.

Interested? Get in touch: [email protected]

Officially released in early December, the first month of the Wetfish Forums was a roaring success. With over 2000 posts and 50 members registered the forums were a shining beacon of hope to mark the end of 2016.

Wetfish Online features cute fish avatars with lots of items you can use to show off just how cool you are. Forum members have already contributed custom items to the project and renowned Wetfish artist RadHeron even made some awesome fan art of her avatar (TWICE).

If you're new, you might not have ever heard of Wetfish Online, but promotional material for this highly anticipated project has been around since 2008. Finally after all these years, long time community member Justin decided to spearhead the project, becoming the project lead and doing 99% of the work.

So what are you waiting for? Register today!