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.

Year
2020

13 results

  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Meaty: A Virtual Event Venue for Playful Large-Scale Festivals, Conferences, and Performances in the Browser

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Andrew Baio

    Building a new virtual space to organize and attend large-scale immersive and playful real-time conferences, festivals, and performances in the browser, with a focus on casual social interaction with audio and video. By integrating the Web Monetization API, attendees can financially support the artists, organizers, and events they love simply by attending events or exploring the spaces they've designed.

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  6. Micro-Donations for Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums via Web Monetization and the Omeka S Platform

    Grant for the Web

    49 949 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Lincoln Mullen

    Creating a plugin for the open-source Omeka S platform that uses the Web Monetization Standard to collect micro-donations from users, allowing them to contribute automatically and voluntarily to cultural heritage and educational institutions without requiring these institutions to lock content behind a paywall.

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  7. AFRICA KITOKO: a collective of graphic and visual designers illustrating the African and Afro-american culture

    Grant for the Web

    35 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: CĆ“te d'Ivoire
    Project lead: Richard Seshie

    Monetizing africakitoko.com, a site that features rich, data-driven visual content about Africa and African Heritage. Implementing Web Monetization will allow experimentation with a different business model to reward our team of graphic and visual designers, and we will dedicate an explainer page on our website.

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  9. Diverse income streams for musicians via web monetisation

    Grant for the Web

    24 500 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: Simon Metson

    Helping musicians to maximize their potential income by making it easy to monetize recordings and smaller content like sounds, patches, and loops. We will provide musicians with a streaming music platform, and use it to compare revenue from Web Monetization to traditional methods, publishing this information and providing guidance to musicians on how to use the technology to supplement other sources of income.

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  10. Donation Stream

    Grant for the Web

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: Michael Huggins

    Developing a fast, efficient, streaming, and international payment system for on-site donations to provide alternative and convenient revenue streams at physical cultural locations such as charity events, museums and art galleries.

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