If you're into experimenting with monetary rewards, one thing you can do right now is to enroll in programs such as Brave rewards.
As for monetization, Sandeep was mostly talking about revenue models for Hashnode. This doesn't mean that developers won't be able to earn money by blogging, but it's not very certain when and how will that happen. We're a very small team (6), so we have to tackle things one by one.