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

9 results

  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. 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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  3. Memex Social - A "substack.com" for online research, bookmarks and web annotations

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Germany
    Project lead: Oliver Sauter

    Memex Social is a "substack.com" for online research, bookmarks & annotations. It allows knowledge workers to curate, publish and collaborate on lists of web content, notes & annotations and get paid by followers. This work is extending the open-source and offline-first browser extension Memex, which enables users to full-text search their web history, annotate websites/PDFs, and organize content with lists and tags. Memex has about 15k users who are mainly knowledge workers like developers, journalists, scientists, students and productivity geeks. This project allows users to monetize their profiles, and develops list sharing and annotation based discussion features.

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  4. Online Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Video Training Program

    Grant for the Web

    55 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Belgium
    Project lead: Pamela Alexander

    Modeling a repeatable, scalable monetization framework with Cinnamon and the Interledger protocol natively built in to deliver the 8-week online mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program to assist people with stress, anxiety, depression, and pain.

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  5. A case study on monetizing open-access content

    Grant for the Web

    5 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: South Africa
    Project lead: Arthur Attwell

    Collecting and sharing data on Web Monetization implemented in the same way across a range of open-content websites to compare results across content genres and territories.

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  6. Exploring the future of Web Monetization

    Grant for the Web

    38 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Canada
    Project lead: Stephanie Rieger

    Writing a white-paper that explores the potential long-term impacts of the Web Monetization standard and Interledger protocol, positing both positive and negative ways these tools may change to how we use the web, and providing practical recommendations to ensure these technologies result in a more equitable, open, and diverse web.

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  7. Helping Minority Content Creators Monetize on the Web (HMCCMW)

    Grant for the Web

    14 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Rashon Massey, Rashon Massey

    Introducing, educating and engaging individuals to/with the tools of Web Monetization via Coil and Puma through the creation of original copyrightable content, with a focus on serving minority groups and women.

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  9. Future of Micropayments Conference

    Community Grants

    1 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Anselm Hook, Amber Case