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. Story Synth ā€“ web monetization for storytelling games and community grants for game designers

    Grant for the Web

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Randy Lubin

    Story Synth is an open source web platform for making, playing, and sharing storytelling games. It supports a variety of game types inspired by tabletop roleplaying games. This project would add new Web Monetization features to the Story Synth game platform and grow its community engagement and user base through a microgrant program awarding $300 grants to game designers from marginalized backgrounds.

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  2. The Costs of Creation: A Fair Future for Monetised Online Work

    Grant for the Web

    43 256 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: Ciaran Cummins

    What do those in the UK who engage in online work for low or no pay think is a desirable and fair future for the monetizing of online work? Specifically, for self-employed creators and those engaging in voluntary ā€˜digital civic labourā€™ (e.g. forum moderators). Through conversation with them, we can understand how a future rollout of the Interledger Protocol and Web Monetization API could reflect the needs of those who stand to gain the most from these.

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  3. Using Web Monetization for Incentivizing Sharing of ā€˜Goodā€™ Content

    Grant for the Web

    44 700 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: India
    Project lead: Tarunima Prabhakar, Denny George, Arathy Puthillam

    Our project aims to understand the possibility and effectiveness of web based monetization as a mechanism to promote sharing of better quality information in online spaces. This project is a collaboration between a group of psychologists and technologists who are trying to build better interventions against online misinformation.

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  4. Web Monetization for Podcasting

    Grant for the Web

    83 875 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Danika Ragnhild

    Attention-based podcast monetization is being explored within the tech community but no solution has been widely adopted. Most podcasts are monetized through advertising or subscriptions through platforms like Apple and Spotify which help producers earn revenue while also taking their own cut, tying listenerā€™s consumption to their proprietary platform. What is needed is another option for podcast monetization that is as open and standards-based as podcasting itself and that connects support from listeners to the productions themselves.

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  5. Web Monetization for the Arts

    Grant for the Web

    11 410 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Natalie Axton

    Web Monetization for the Arts is an education and outreach project that listens to and informs arts organizations in the United States about Web Monetization so that they may develop more effective and sustainable online content practices. Our project researches and surveys classical music and performing arts groups to discover their current understanding of Web Monetization, meeting them where they are, and then writes and delivers educational materials in order to create sustainable and equitable practices and deconstruct myths around free art.

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  6. Web Monetization to Protect Libraries and the Digital Future: The Brick House Cooperative

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Maria Bustillos

    This project will allow the Brick House Cooperative to develop more partnerships for Briet, a WordPress plugin that will enable any publisher to create an ownable digital artifact compliant with digital library lending programs. We are working with the Open Library and the Internet Archive on this initiative. The result of this work will be vastly more digital publishers who can (a) control the rights and archiving of their media, (b) develop a new revenue stream from libraries acquiring their digital works to archive and lend, and (c) an unlocked value proposition for reader-supported projects, in that their donations can help publishers to produce new works, and libraries to acquire them permanently.

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  7. 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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  8. AlquimƩtricos Open STEAM toys academy

    Grant for the Web

    38 600 USD

    Total amount committed

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

    AlquimƩtricos 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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  9. 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 Ethiopiaā€™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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  10. 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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