Projects and organizations funded by the Interledger Foundation, working to expand access to digital financial services around the world.
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.
8 results
Grant for the Web
84 700 USD
Total amount committed
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.
Grant for the Web
100 000 USD
Total amount committed
Developing moncon, an open-source framework that lets content creators securely monetize their content. moncon is composed of an API, a dashboard where content creators can manage the site configuration, payments and metrics, and a wallet that will allow users to pay for and store the content they buy. Users can consume content, paying for the time they spend and storing content in their wallets. Creators can define the number of copies allowed and can set content to expire, making it exclusive and special for users.
Grant for the Web
94 501 USD
Total amount committed
Researching and building a proof of concept as a first step towards a new financial and data ecosystem combining Solid Webapps, Solid Pods, and Web Monetization. Users will pay webapps to access supportive health webapps and process and store their data on their Solid Pod. Researchers get access to data of the userās Solid Pod and pay the user for the data, with respect for privacy and consent. This will support health improvements on both a personal and community level, will give people control over their data, and will simultaneously nourish academic research institutes with data from more diverse groups.
Grant for the Web
50 000 USD
Total amount committed
Using the interactive web documentary series, Discriminator, to explore the use of Web Monetization as a funding mechanism for web documentaries, giving makers a direct relationship with audiences.
Grant for the Web
49 759.55 USD
Total amount committed
Providing an alternative business model, based on voluntary donations, for organizations that offer free online services and content, and do not want to monetize user data. Using a browser extension, users will be able to donate small amounts according to their preferences.
Grant for the Web
22 300 USD
Total amount committed
Providing an authenticated way to enable pulling protected data from a server. It will ensure users' personal information is kept private and not shared with the content owner.
Ambassadorships & Fellowships
32 300 USD
Total amount committed
This technical scholarship is to determine if Web Monetization works using existing web technologies, or if new browser infrastructure is required to support the Interledger Protocol. Heāll also examine the potential implications for a browser from a privacy and security perspective, and ensure currently specified solutions are robust enough to work with modern web development practices.
Grant for the Web
35 000 USD
Total amount committed
Integrating Web Monetization into Waasabi, an open source portal software that allows communities organizing online events to easily add live streaming & video functionality to their website. Event hosts will be able to choose privacy-respecting business models while still receiving compensation and event speakers will have new ways to monetize their work.