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.
17 results
Grant for the Web
100 000 USD
Total amount committed
Adding educational and collaborative components to the DisCO platform that prototype interoperable forms of ownership, governance, entrepreneurship, and value accounting meant to counteract pervasive economic inequality.
Grant for the Web
68 199.32 USD
Total amount committed
Building a web-based interface with back end support for a Distributed Cooperative Organization's (DisCO) “Community Algorithmic Trust” (the DisCO CAT). This will be a user-friendly, accessible online tool that will allow the use of Interledger and Web Monetization to connect value production with outside economic models, whether based in fiat currencies or digital coin on a blockchain. Our software will use CommonsPub, which is based on ActivityPub and ValueFlo.ws, together with Interledger though GraphQL to allow interoperability between diverse ledger models, and will be piloted by multiple organizations in order to help us find the strengths and pain points in our software design.
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.
Grant for the Web
50 000 USD
Total amount committed
Improving healthy and equitable participation in digital economies by allowing users to purchase and share prepaid links to Web Monetized content using Gib. Creators will be able to set increments of access that will be made available for purchase, and sharing will engage potential audiences that may not otherwise experience the value of their premium content.
Grant for the Web
40 100 USD
Total amount committed
Unlocking a more sustainable authorship experience for self-publishing writers through Little Webby Press, a progressive web app (PWA) that generates both an eBook in EPUB3 format and a Web Monetized static website with the book content.
Grant for the Web
49 000 USD
Total amount committed
Creating open-source plugins for the HTML5 game libraries Phaser 2, Phaser 3, and Pixi 5 that enable developers to easily add Web Monetization features to their games. The plugins will be backed with comprehensive tutorials and game-specific examples.
Ambassadorships & Fellowships
32 300 USD
Total amount committed
This technical scholarship is to determine if Web Monetization works using existing web technologies, or if new browser infrastructure is required to support the Interledger Protocol. He’ll also examine the potential implications for a browser from a privacy and security perspective, and ensure currently specified solutions are robust enough to work with modern web development practices.
Grant for the Web
50 000 USD
Total amount committed
Building Tembo, a free and open development platform, designed for creating open-source web database applications that are monetized by default, with micropayments accruing to the software creator.
Grant for the Web
35 000 USD
Total amount committed
Integrating Web Monetization into Waasabi, an open source portal software that allows communities organizing online events to easily add live streaming & video functionality to their website. Event hosts will be able to choose privacy-respecting business models while still receiving compensation and event speakers will have new ways to monetize their work.
Grant for the Web
49 676 USD
Total amount committed
Adding support for Web Monetization features to the Mural software, while building engagement in the arts community to explore how Web Monetization can be implemented for artists in a user-friendly and intuitive way.