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.

Year
2020

19 results

  1. Memex Social - A "substack.com" for online research, bookmarks and web annotations

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Germany
    Project lead: Oliver Sauter

    Memex Social is a "substack.com" for online research, bookmarks & annotations. It allows knowledge workers to curate, publish and collaborate on lists of web content, notes & annotations and get paid by followers. This work is extending the open-source and offline-first browser extension Memex, which enables users to full-text search their web history, annotate websites/PDFs, and organize content with lists and tags. Memex has about 15k users who are mainly knowledge workers like developers, journalists, scientists, students and productivity geeks. This project allows users to monetize their profiles, and develops list sharing and annotation based discussion features.

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  2. Novelish

    Grant for the Web

    72 900 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Argentina
    Project lead: Martina Mariel Cena

  4. A New Approach to Sharing Knowledge on Websites Enabled by Web Monetization

    Grant for the Web

    10 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Germany
    Project lead: Benedikt Kick

    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.

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  5. COMPOST — An author-owned magazine about the digital commons; short for digital commons post

    Grant for the Web

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Canada
    Project lead: Benedict Lau, Maira Ishikawa Sutton

    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.

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  6. Diverse income streams for musicians via web monetisation

    Grant for the Web

    24 500 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: Simon Metson

    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.

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  7. Documento

    Grant for the Web

    12 100 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Canada
    Project lead: Abhinav Chawla, Arup Nath

    Refining Documento, a platform enabling developers to Web Monetize their documentation, by adding features including a customizable preview for documentations, branch-specific pushes, and support for multiple payment pointers.

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  8. Fueling social justice with a monetization stream, for Ushahidi grassroots users.

    Grant for the Web

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Kenya
    Project lead: Angela Oduor Lungati

    Web Monetizing deployments on Ushahidi, an open-source crowdsourcing platform that’s been used globally for crisis response, human rights protection, good governance, and ensuring integrity in elections. This will enable users to opt-in to access donations to their work seamlessly and directly from their projects. Users will also be able to publicize the licensing associated with content generated on their deployments using a content disclaimer feature.

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  9. hymn6

    Grant for the Web

    15 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Canada
    Project lead: Atif Ali

    This project aims at creating a no-subscription, no-login, no-ads internet music station based on the micro-transactions streaming ability enabled by the Web Monetization API and the Interledger Protocol.

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  10. Implement Web Monetization in PeerTube with support for skipping sponsor spots embedded in video

    Grant for the Web

    5 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Miles DeWitt

    Implementing Web Monetization features in PeerTube, a federated video sharing platform, giving creators an alternative to YouTube where they can earn money and not worry about fluctuations in ad rates or demonetization.

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