Projects and organizations funded by the Interledger Foundation, working to expand access to digital financial services around the world.
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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Grant for the Web
10 000 USD
Total amount committed
Building and experimenting with a new approach to sharing knowledge on the web, enabled by Web Monetization, that will allow users to have full access to a creator’s shared knowledge, paying them in a pay-as-you-use manner.
Grant for the Web
35 000 USD
Total amount committed
Monetizing africakitoko.com, a site that features rich, data-driven visual content about Africa and African Heritage. Implementing Web Monetization will allow experimentation with a different business model to reward our team of graphic and visual designers, and we will dedicate an explainer page on our website.
Grant for the Web
20 000 USD
Total amount committed
Continuing to develop Akita, a website, browser extension, and outreach initiative that seeks to increase awareness and improve understanding of Web Monetization by providing individuals with helpful resources and insight into their online browsing. It also increases accessibility by enabling engagement with Web Monetization without having to commit money. Additionally, this effort includes the ‘A Web Monetization Story’ project, an interactive, story-based Web Monetization tutorial for online creators.
Grant for the Web
15 000 USD
Total amount committed
Building a framework allowing content creators to design a customer loyalty/rewards program where users earn points by sending micropayments that can be redeemed for exclusive rewards.
Grant for the Web
15 000 USD
Total amount committed
Testing a new model for providing essential news to small towns through the development of a sustainable, monetized website that will incentivize local residents to produce original news coverage of their community.
Grant for the Web
50 000 USD
Total amount committed
Giving authors greater control over publishing and monetization through democratic ownership of online publications. We will prototype our publishing tools through COMPOST, our magazine that shares stories and art about the digital commons. It will publish to the World Wide Web and Distributed Web.
Grant for the Web
15 000 USD
Total amount committed
Conducting experiments in the creation, distribution, and discoverability of new content for children’s workshops in Design Club’s free and open Resource Hub. The team will educate themselves, their design-led community, and others in the open learning content space about Web Monetization.
Grant for the Web
50 000 USD
Total amount committed
Using the interactive web documentary series, Discriminator, to explore the use of Web Monetization as a funding mechanism for web documentaries, giving makers a direct relationship with audiences.
Grant for the Web
24 500 USD
Total amount committed
Helping musicians to maximize their potential income by making it easy to monetize recordings and smaller content like sounds, patches, and loops. We will provide musicians with a streaming music platform, and use it to compare revenue from Web Monetization to traditional methods, publishing this information and providing guidance to musicians on how to use the technology to supplement other sources of income.
Grant for the Web
50 000 USD
Total amount committed
Building a suite of open source plugins for etherpad, the open source real-time collaborative text editor, to provide monetization as well as many common popular features such as improved usability, accessibility, presence, retention, governance, conversion, and scalability.