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
2021

5 results

  1. Black Tattoo Anthology

    Grant for the Web

    50 783 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Imani K Brown

    The Black Tattoo Anthology addresses the historical erasure of Black artists and Black tattoo culture. The project will create an anthology that chronicles the Black tattoo experience from professional artists with at least five years in their craft and outlines the historical milestones, movements, and contributions of Black artists and artistry to the tattoo industry. This digital collection will be created, curated, maintained, and Web Monetized by Black practitioners and the tattoo community, and the stories will be shared both digitally and in physical form.

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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Web Monetized Art (drawings/paintings) Platform

    Grant for the Web

    15 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Xander Jake de los Santos

    A platform where artists can not only survive, but thrive. It will be a website similar to most social media platforms but without the ads and will reward artists for what they create through Web Monetization. Users can choose to monetize their content or not, and experimental features will be built around the use of Web Monetization and how it should reward good content/art.

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  5. MHz Curationist Sustainable Contributor Payment Study

    Grant for the Web

    15 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Mary Miller

    Exploring a sustainable web monetization model to pay contributors to the Curationist.org platform, an online space and free knowledge project for curating art and cultural heritage for all creative disciplines. Team includes Christian Dawson, Hilary Osborne, Virginia Poundstone, Matt Kennedy, and Amy Sawyer.

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