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. The Waterworks of Money.

    Future Money Grant

    25 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Netherlands
    Project lead: Carlijn Kingma

    Digital Media/animation. They are mapping three future scenarios in which new forms of digital money, payment systems, and systemic change play a pivotal role. By making the world of money more understandable for people without a financial or economic background we have noticed discussions on the design of our monetary system become more accessible. With our maps and the metaphor of water, suddenly people who were never interested in the topic join the discussion about other payments structures, CBDC and restructuring our capital markets.

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  2. PeerPay

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Chile
    Project lead: Néstor Campos

    PeerPay will be a platform that through API allows small businesses to integrate payments on their websites and accept their own currencies, regardless of the currency with which their customers pay. In the same way, it will allow transactions between people, reducing transaction costs between them.

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  3. Web Monetized Digital Knowledge Commons - powered by Mysilio

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Tani Olhanoski

    Mysilio will build a prototype for an open-source platform for managing a shared knowledge commons that is financially sustained through passive Web Monetization. Readers, research groups, grantmakers, etc can pay a subscription to access a community's social knowledge graph, and the subscription fees will be split and attributed to the individual creators whose content is being consumed through the platform.

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  4. Alquimétricos Open STEAM toys academy

    Grant for the Web

    38 600 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Argentina
    Project lead: Fernando Daguanno, Carlos Fernando Daguanno

    Alquimétricos was founded in 2015 as an open-source initiative to bring STEAM educational resources to low-income communities, especially in Latin America. Over the years, the project has gained scale, prizes and followers, becoming an international community of educators, designers, makers, communicators and visual artists. This project will research, experiment, and build a case study on monetizing open-access content from the existing platform through Web Monetization to benefit a Brazilian ecosystem of low-income public schools and social institutions, as well as promoting Web Monetization as the main contribution option for premium content subscription.

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  5. Addis Futures Lab

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Metasebia Yoseph

    Digital Gojo addresses the lack of access to diverse digital content available to Ethiopians across the diaspora. Digital Gojo is a research and development project exploring use-cases to transform Ethiopia’s local and international creative value network into a sustainable web monetization ecosystem. The project will include a digital platform that will offer a working prototype for distributing and monetizing content while examining new commercial and cultural access models.

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  6. Everything Is Connected: Even If It Is Not (EIC)

    Grant for the Web

    10 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Slovakia
    Project lead: Stanislava Sojakova

    Everything is Connected is a Web Monetized social experiment to incentivize mentorship, peer support and address an increasing polarized society. By building cross-platform discussions, peer knowledge sharing and an appreciation based culture Everything Is Connected aims to bridge disparate ideas, and reignite the love of discovery.

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  7. 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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  8. Freesound Licensing

    Grant for the Web

    36 800 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Spain
    Project lead: Frederic Font

    Prototyping a licensing mechanism for Freesound Licensing to help content creators monetize their sounds by re-licensing them to content users that need usage rights beyond those allowed by the sounds' original CC restrictions.

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  9. The Effects of Monetization Visibility on User Behavior

    Grant for the Web

    43 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Israel
    Project lead: Lior Zalmanson (in the name of Tel Aviv University)

    Conducting experiments to study the effects of a micropayment counter on users' level of attention, length of engagement time, retention, sense of community, and other variables. The project is addressing the challenges of content creators to attract and retain users and make their work sustainable.

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  10. Design Club: Reboot (Web Monetization Discovery)

    Grant for the Web

    15 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: Jemima Gibbons

    Conducting experiments in the creation, distribution, and discoverability of new content for children’s workshops in Design Club’s free and open Resource Hub. The team will educate themselves, their design-led community, and others in the open learning content space about Web Monetization.

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