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.

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  1. ILF Ambassador Caroline Sinders

    Ambassadorships & Fellowships

    40 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Caroline Sinders

    ”By Design? The Hidden Harms Within Banking Apps,” highlights how harmful design patterns (often called dark patterns or deceptive design patterns) are barriers to digital inclusion because they unintentionally trick, confuse, manipulate, or nudge users into making unintended decisions. This project aims to provide those building new digital financial services with insights on how to design inclusively and mitigate the risk of unintentional harm when engaging with demographics or contexts.

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  2. ILF Ambassador Gavin Chait

    Ambassadorships & Fellowships

    40 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: France
    Project lead: Gavin Chait

    Hop Sauna, is an open-source template stack ready for custom development of community-moderated Open Payments-enabled web shops, including a base server and client, with documentation, to support rapidly creating new types of federated commercial social applications.

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  3. ILF Ambassador Sheena Allen

    Ambassadorships & Fellowships

    40 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Sheena Allen

    Financial Exclusion in the Southern U.S. : The Real Whys, Challenges, and the [Potential] Role of Digital Inclusion study investigates the financial exclusion faced by unbanked, underbanked, and neglected individuals in the Southern U.S. By prioritizing direct engagement, it seeks to uncover systemic and behavioural barriers that may be overlooked using traditional research methods.

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  6. Snake Nation - ILP Summit 2024 Partnership

    Community Grants

    25 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Andre Ngare

    Snake Nation seeks to be The Interledger Foundation's (ILF) first-ever Interledger Summit Community Partner grantee and use the opportunity to contribute to the Interledger ecosystem and further our relationships with regulators and other stakeholders in Open Payments in South Africa. To address the grant’s aims to activate local change-makers in the Interledger Summit’s host city, Snake Nation will engage the local community to grow our influence better and advance their digital financial inclusion initiatives. Snake Nation will leverage this opportunity to build stronger bonds with local and regional regulators, entrepreneurs, government officials, and the broader open-source development community.

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  7. Chimoney

    Digital Financial Services

    500 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Nigeria
    Project lead: Uchi Uchibeke, Uchi Uchibeke

    Chimoney is integrating the Interledger Protocol across its financial services ecosystem to enable seamless, interoperable payments through its Wallet-as-a-Service platform and ILP-enabled infrastructure. By issuing payment pointers, supporting web monetization, and enabling cross-platform transactions, the project expands access to efficient digital payments and accelerates global adoption of open payments.

  8. Stichting Waag / Here To Support

    Digital Financial Services

    75 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Netherlands
    Project lead: Pourya Omidi

    This project seeks to research and develop an ILP-based digital wallet prototype to provide undocumented individuals in the Netherlands with secure access to payments and financial services despite lacking formal identification. By introducing a community vouching system and piloting inclusive registration models, the initiative aims to reduce financial exclusion and create a more accessible and equitable digital banking ecosystem.

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  9. WalletGuru

    Digital Financial Services

    498 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Fernando Almiñana

    This project advances Paystreme, an ILP-based payment network leveraging streaming payments to enable real-time, flexible transactions for consumers and utility providers across Latin America. By combining a scalable, cost-efficient platform with an open, incentive-driven ecosystem, the initiative aims to pilot and refine its solution while expanding access to affordable digital financial services.

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