“Automattic reported that the company does not receive a cut of any payments passed through Gravatar links, nor does it have financial partnerships with any of the payment providers.”

My understanding from the GoDaddy Payments discourse is that Automattic does have these percentage-of-transactions relationships with companies like Stripe for WooCommerce, so presumably that could be a future monetization opportunity. Also it’s probably not accurate to say that they “don’t have” a partnership, they’re just not applying it to this product.