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

7 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. 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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  4. 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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  5. Launchpad - an interactive game about successfully making and monetizing web applications.

    Grant for the Web

    32 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Germany
    Project lead: Michael Kleinhenz

    Launchpad is an interactive game, playable through messengers (WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, etc) and a companion web app. The goal is to playfully educate and enable internet users to successfully monetize their creations on the web and gamifies real processes in the software and web market. This way, it also abstracts and describes processes and ideas such as DRM, AI-based algorithms, paywalls, etc., and educates players on the challenges and importance of modern internet and web technologies, enabling them to make the right decisions.

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  6. Web Monetization for Authenticated Content and Rightsholders | Fake news and plagiarism unintentionally open the door to rights-based Web Monetization.

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Janos Farkas

    This project seeks to address the shortcomings of current online monetization for content in these areas: (i) authenticating sources with tools proposed by recent initiatives, (ii) managing complex rights-holding and permissions,. (iii) handling multiple payees. Shared rights-holding means a single payment may need to be distributed among several - sometimes many - recipients to support decentralized commerce. The project will create and demonstrate tools which integrate the distribution of single ILP payments to multiple payees with content authentication, and licensing for real-world use cases.

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  7. 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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