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 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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  2. web-monetised-multimedia - A Web Component Library for Web Monetisation

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Finland
    Project lead: Otto Liuhtonen

    Creating multiple examples of Web Monetization applications, including video and audio streaming use case examples with optional advertisement support and, an example of a multi-publisher blog, with an accompanying web components library. We chose web components because they can be used in many front-end contexts, including React and Vue. We aim to take the shroud off the Web Monetization API using our industry reach, and show through highly visual examples how one might use our web component library in their projects.

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  3. A healthy future Ultra Resolution Storytelling

    Grant for the Web

    49 280 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Netherlands
    Project lead: Roelf-Jan de Vries

    Improving the business model for the publication of ultra-resolution images using Micrio, an IIIF-compatible platform for creating interactive stories. This involves making ultra-resolution stories less risky for publishers and building monetization solutions that fits specific content.

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  4. Ballet Rising

    Grant for the Web

    55 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Netherlands
    Project lead: Casey Herd

    Producing Web Monetized videocasts, short films, feature articles and interviews that showcase how global cultures are reshaping the ballet world. The performing arts, especially dance, typically rely on live, in-person audiences to showcase their work and to monetize artistic creation. Online, most performing arts groups offer their content for free. We believe that Web Monetization technology presents an opportunity to revolutionize the performing arts industry, bringing arts to broader audiences than could ever attend theatres and providing new streams of income for creators and performers.

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  5. Decentralization Off The Shelf

    Grant for the Web

    75 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Eileen Wagner

    Producing a library of developer resources, assets, and design patterns to support the design and development of better user-facing applications using the Web Monetization standard. Developers and designers can use the pattern library as a starting place for crafting key end-user interactions, such as an identity, a wallet, account backup, recovery, and multi-device usage, improving the initial quality of projects built using Web Monetization by providing a well-researched common design foundation.

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  6. DisCO: human-friendly tools and practices for web-based collaboration, value sovereignty, and self-determination that create open commons and inclusive communities.

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Spain
    Project lead: Stacco Troncoso

    Adding educational and collaborative components to the DisCO platform that prototype interoperable forms of ownership, governance, entrepreneurship, and value accounting meant to counteract pervasive economic inequality.

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  7. Erase All Kittens

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: Deepti Saigal

    Erase All Kittens is an epic online adventure game designed to teach kids transferable coding skills and give girls the confidence to code, through highly gamified, story-driven gameplay.

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  8. gFam

    Grant for the Web

    81 304 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Australia
    Project lead: Adam Waring

    Building gFam, a Web Monetization application designed for consumers to directly support creators, on a platform without advertising nor fees. Creators can post a short story of their day, their thoughts, their creative processes, their training, their adventures or their struggles along with a selfie/photoā€¦ which can then be tipped on by their fans/friends/audience. Tips are transactions solely between the consumer and creator on posts or comments. Creators can also receive micropayments when Coil Subscribers spend time on their posts. The web application uses the XUMM payment mobile application that runs on the XRP ledger to process and settle the tip payments in real time.

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  9. Immers Space: experience the Immersive Web together

    Grant for the Web

    84 700 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: William Murphy

    Immers Space is helping to create the metaverse: a cross-platform and decentralized social network for the Immersive Web. It embraces open standards, enables self-ownership of data and content, and creates alternative business models for content creators that protect user privacy.

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  10. Integrate support for the Web Monetization standard into Open Index Protocol and itā€™s Reference Client and Support Partner Implementations

    Grant for the Web

    86 250 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Devon Read

    Adding Web Monetization support to the Open Index Protocol, an open source specification for a public, worldwide index for data publishing, file distribution and direct payments. It uses blockchain technology and peer-to-peer distribution to operate with no central authority: record indexing, file storage/distribution and transaction management are carried out collectively by decentralized networks. Web Monetization support will create additional financial incentives at both application and protocol layers, creating open market incentive alignment for all participants.

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