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. HostBeak Kreators

    Grant for the Web

    80 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Nigeria
    Project lead: Ogoluwa Ojewale

    HostBeak Kreators will create, educate and provide a community of 1,000 empowered African creators with personalized websites, their preferred domain name, and the ability to monetize their content on the web. We will train the creators on payment pointers, how to manage their website, web hosting and more, all to help them become well informed on the importance of Web Monetization and how to be compensated for creating digital footprints of their talent, content, skill and ideas online.

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  2. Hyperaudio for Conferences

    Grant for the Web

    85 900 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Italy
    Project lead: Mark Boas

    Hyperaudio for Conferences is a web-based platform to which conferences can add recorded content maximising accessibility, engagement, and revenue. Our focus is to broaden the accessibility of conference talks by augmenting them with multi-lingual interactive transcripts. By placing Web Monetization at its heart, weā€™ll create new models to incentivise viewing, sharing, and transforming audiovisual content. Weā€™ll also use Web Monetization to ensure that viewers only pay for what they consume and that funds can be transparently divided between content creators, remixers, sharers, and our service.

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  3. Instill Science: A community for constructive peer reviews reviews

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Jan Zheng

    Instill is a community that incentivizes researchers to write constructive peer reviews. The platform also provides a safe place for underrepresented researchers to ask the community for feedback on how to improve their drafts, to increase their chances of publication. Existing peer review communities like PubPeer or PREreview don't support feedback requests, and also lack proper reward or incentive systems that attract peers to give feedback. Instill will initially start with Coil integration, but will explore using Web Payments to add community tipping (like Reddit badge awards), a payout pool program, where membership fees proportionally pay authors, and a bounty system where authors are paid to write feedback upon request.

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  4. Interruptor

    Grant for the Web

    33 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Portugal
    Project lead: Ana Rute Correia

    Interruptor is the first Portuguese journalistic outlet to take a data-driven approach to analyse cultural issues, beyond current affairs. Our work is anchored on the principles of open source and open culture.Ā  All of our content is accessible without paywalls. We respect the privacy of our readers and listeners and do not use any invasive trackers nor cookies. Our goal with Web Monetization Standard is to use it as an extra revenue stream for our work and empower other small media to do the same. Our motto is "Cultura livre, cĆ³digo aberto": "free culture, open code".

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  5. Kult - A human-centered social platform & digital library for cultural content curation

    Grant for the Web

    96 968 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Portugal
    Project lead: Patrick Rahy

    Kult is a network-based platform for culture & entertainment content curation. It is a space to share, discover and debate movies, TV series, music, podcasts (and soon books), supported by a community-rewarding system. It allows the creation of personal galleries to save and organize content, encouraging people to become curators while offering the possibility of monetization and recognition for valuable curation. We will test and develop a sustainable and collaborative way of monetization for culture creators & curators on the web, using Web Monetization to offer a better alternative than streaming business models and existing social media.

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  6. 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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  7. LOS SUELOS, CA

    Grant for the Web

    48 975.28 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Lauren Lavin, Joshua Duke

    LOS SUELOS, CA is a multimedia content platform that utilizes web monetization to benefit charitable organizations. An immersive literary universe in the vein of Twilight Zone and Stranger Things, LOS SUELOS, CA unites writers, musicians, and artists to create a narrative set in the mysterious, surreal town of Los Suelos.

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  8. Lowering Legal Friction

    Grant for the Web

    97 400 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: Andrew Katz

    Regulation, including GDPR, consumer law and privacy, presents a barrier to entry to implementing Web Monetization standard and Interledger Protocol. We will develop a suite of legal texts including a template for generating a GDPR record of processing, a privacy policy, a generic terms of use, and consumer terms for using Web Monetization Standard and Interledger Protocol. We will develop them in the open, and make them available under a Creative Commons Attribution licence. We want people implementing Web Monetization to concentrate on providing excellent content and a great user experience, and not have to waste time and resources on unnecessarily expensive and time-consuming routes to compliance with legal regulation.

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  9. MG.Social

    Grant for the Web

    79 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Mathew Safford

    MG.Social is a live and fully functional, ad-free, Web Monetized social network (micro-blogging) platform. The business model of MG.Social is built around the revenue generated by integrating the Web Monetization standard into the platform and requiring a Web Monetization provider subscription (Coil) for access. For content creators, the advantage of the platform is the ability to easily monetize and receive instant compensation when their content is consumed by Coil subscribers on MG.Social. The advantage for content consumers is the ability to directly support creators as they consume that creator's content, advertiser-free. The nature of a micro-blogging platforms leads to users that tend to both create and consumer content, allowing them to obtain both benefits.

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  10. Monetizing Open Video Assets (MOVA)

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: Nicol Wistreich

    MOVA is a project that uses the International Standard Content Code to make a light fingerprint of a video and register it with a Web Monetization wallet on a distributed ledger through a desktop app; then uses CiviCRM to execute a revenue-sharing agreement for it. These new approaches could support both filmmakers and rightsholders in making works available under Web Monetization, while broadening the spaces and platforms that can share, monazite and champion them.

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