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
2022

20 results

  1. Beats By Girlz

    Community Grants

    40 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Erin Barra

    Beats By Girlz is a US based 501c3 with a global footprint whose mission is to empower the next generation of women and gender minorities through music and technology. We’re committed towards giving our community the tools, resources, access, and opportunities to reach their full potential and we do that work in full partnership with our chapters and chapter leadership all around the world.

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  2. Geo-limited monetization: integrating Web Monetization and GeoIP services

    Grant for the Web

    24 500 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: Ian Forrester

    Develop an enhanced service that could be of value to organizations whose activities are geographically constrained, by demonstrating how the integration of GeoIP data and Interledger based monetization can offer organizations the opportunity to selectively deploy monetization.

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  3. Black Web Fest x Web Monetization

    Grant for the Web

    38 519.94 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Victoria Coker

    Black Web Fest x Web Monetization will address these issues by teaching Black creators about the benefits and utility of Web Monetization. During the project, organizers will engage the Black Web Fest community through a film competition, a virtual marketing course, and digital publicity course. All the courses will be recorded, transcribed, and available for playback on Blackwebfest.org.

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  4. Accrue: Commercial Viability and Required Infrastructure for Direct and Flexible Payout Options

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Canada
    Project lead: David Benoit

    Web Monetization aims to solve the problem of who gets paid, how much, and why, but remittance back to a content creator is exceptionally difficult and expensive. At present, there are a handful of options for creators to be paid, but we believe those are too cumbersome, slow, and riddled with fees and delays.

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  5. Company XV Dance

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Jakari Sherman

    Company XV Dance seeks to democratize the relationship between artists, dance companies, and patrons. This model offers artists the chance to maintain a salary, while supplementing this income through web-monetized interactions with fans. Additionally, they can leverage the power of social media to bring fans into the Web Monetization ecosystem. Collectively, we believe this will increase the overall financial capacity of fans to support artists, convert casual content consumers to arts patrons, and encourage the evolving demographics of arts patronage.

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  6. Game On

    Grant for the Web

    9 800 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Zimbabwe
    Project lead: Takunda Chingonzo

    Using a mixed method research approach, Game On will develop training workshops to equip game developers with the best practices of adopting and utilizing Web Monetization, empowering Zimbabwean developers and their users to finally be able to transact and be fully active in the global digital community. This decentralized approach ensures that their ability to transact equitably and at the lowest cost possible given that most of these will be micro-transactions.

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  8. Helping Small Businesses Adopt Web Monetization (HSBAWM)

    Grant for the Web

    33 300 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Rashon Massey

    Serving as a case study and roadmap for other online small business retailers, this project seeks to use Web Monetization as a vehicle for driving the potentiality of new/existing customers of MICOPEIA.com to exclusive online content, while also opening a pathway to growing a Web Monetized online community.

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  9. ITADI Digital Sustainable Farming Initiative

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Tabi Bonney

    The ITADI Digital Sustainable Farming Initiative will design and pilot the first direct to consumer farm that leverages the power of Web Monetization to prototype solutions addressing issues of transparency, sustainability, and equitable market access that plague coffee and other cash crop farmers around the world. This project will utilize a three part strategy that includes dynamic storytelling, limited-edition creative collaborations, and technologically upscaling a remote farm to become digitally enabled.

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  10. MicroMemberships - Subscriptions for values based content and services

    Grant for the Web

    49 995 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Netherlands
    Project lead: Robert Goené

    In our increasingly digitized society, online spaces are oftentimes owned – or exploited – by large tech companies that seem to disconnect from shared public values. We have become largely dependent on their digital services, and digital platform or content creators are bound to their terms. The standard is ‘free’ platforms built on advertisement income. In other words, the rights of users are violated by exploiting their personal data. These disruptive changes in our socio-economic landscape demand research into new financial models that are based on public values.

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