Grantee Directory

Projects and organizations funded by the Interledger Foundation, working to expand access to digital financial services around the world.

The Work in Practice

Interledger grantees work across the world in different financial environments, from regions with limited infrastructure to highly connected digital economies. They include community-based organizations, researchers, technologists, and advocates who build infrastructure, advance research, shape policy, and expand how financial systems work in practice.

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  1. Call & Response

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Carolyn Malachi

    Call & Response is a system to convert real-time, virtual concert audience responses into money and sound for performers using social media and other virtual platforms. Dubbed Call & Response after the eponymous Black music tradition, the system leverages blockchain and digital signal processing technologies to address for virtual environment performers two critical problems: silenced audiences and inadequate compensation. The system absorbs audience response data and delivers digital asset payments to performers.

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  2. Free Code Camp

    Grant for the Web

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Quincy Larson

    FreeCodeCamp will publish this course on their YouTube channel, which has more than 4 million subscribers and throughout their community of developers, mentors, and learners. The course itself will be Web Monetized with proceeds funding the non-profit freeCodeCamp

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  3. JSK13 Event Sponsorship 2021

    Grant for the Web

    6 300 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Poland
    Project lead: Andrjez Mazur

  4. The Keyes Collective

    Grant for the Web

    125 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Lola Keyes

    The Black Artist Collective’s platform will model a new, passive revenue stream for artists and curators to add long-term value to their essential work. The Art of Influence project will leverage close relationships with curators to connect black artists with a global network of collectors and art enthusiasts. Online exhibitions, curator “walk-throughs,” and studio visits will provide a meaningful access point for the public to engage with living artists’ work. By integrating Web Monetization micropayments into The Black Artist Collective’s platform, even novice art lovers can contribute to artists’ financial wellbeing as they learn more about their work.

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  5. Code Angel

    Grant for the Web

    20 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: John Asafo-Agyei

    Code Angel is a Question and Answer website for developers. Any user can post a code-related question and developers that are registered with the platform can choose to respond. Answers stay evergreen because developers are incentivised through micro-payments that are sent to them via XRP tips and Web Monetization. Developers who answer questions will use a Xumm account to receive/send XRP micropayments. The platform will take a small percentage and forward the rest to the person who provided the top answer.

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  6. Decentralized Identity & Payments

    Grant for the Web

    22 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Austria
    Project lead: Dominik Beron

    Self-Sovereign Identity provides means to return control over users' identities data back to the individuals themselves, enhancing privacy & security, and furthermore authenticity of the data. With this project we propose to research & design an Interledger-based payment protocol that extends our existing Open Source SSI stack to enable micropayments when exchanging W3C Verifiable Credentials. This will enable multiple use cases, bringing great value to the Web Monetization but also to the SSI ecosystems.

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  7. Drizzle

    Grant for the Web

    45 730 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Australia
    Project lead: Ashvin Parameswaran

    An education platform at interledger.dev where learners pay creators only for the time spent learning. This payment model aligns incentives for learners and creators; money spent and money earned are predictably scaled as usage increases. Streaming micropayments keeps the focus entirely on educational engagement and offers a viable alternative to ads, donations and paywalls.

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  8. Everything Is Connected: Even If It Is Not (EIC)

    Grant for the Web

    10 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Slovakia
    Project lead: Stanislava Sojakova

    Everything is Connected is a Web Monetized social experiment to incentivize mentorship, peer support and address an increasing polarized society. By building cross-platform discussions, peer knowledge sharing and an appreciation based culture Everything Is Connected aims to bridge disparate ideas, and reignite the love of discovery.

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  9. FlipToons - Web-Monetized Comic Platform

    Grant for the Web

    28 920 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Philippines
    Project lead: James Gabriel Casia

    Creating a webcomic reader platform with Web Monetization where creators get paid based on the duration of content consumption and readers get to consume webcomics without sacrificing privacy and dealing with multiple subscriptions. Also hosting the Web-Monetized Comic Challenge to provide opportunities and create awareness, especially to Filipinos, of the web’s broken business model and how WebMonetization helps solve them.

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  10. Folawole.com

    Grant for the Web

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Folawole Winfunke

    There are not enough black led performing arts online hubs that cater to black diasporic performing artists and allies around the globe. There has been historical, political and financial denial of black artist’s from creating lasting and autonomous cultural hubs and performing arts centers.. Folawole.com is a black-led performing arts platform for representation, mentorship, research and experimentation with a branch for focused activism through the very first black-led, international performing arts union. This project will explore how Web Monetization can inspire sustainable practices and holistic service-driven work on a website.

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