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

29 results

  1. Storage To The People: Web-Monetized Payments For Digital Legacy Storage and Sharing

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Robert Friedman

    Prototyping a workflow and open source API endpoints that allow users to easily store data on Permanent.org using a one-time micropayment, with no need for storing financial data or making financial commitments. By identifying and mocking up components that are not readily available, we will identify missing ecosystem components and chart a course toward enabling anyone to purchase storage from Web Monetized storage providers.

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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Monetization for Creators on A Decentralized Content Platform in Chinese Community

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Hong Kong
    Project lead: YAO LIU

    Integrating the Web Monetization standard and the Interledger Protocol for creators on Matters, a decentralized content website providing a shared infrastructure for creators in the Chinese community. With this integration, creators will be able to receive money in various forms from readers when browsing the web.

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  6. Novelish

    Grant for the Web

    72 900 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Argentina
    Project lead: Martina Mariel Cena

  7. 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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  8. Web Monetized content creation and Web Monetized content discovery on Moja WiFi in Africa

    Grant for the Web

    90 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Reg Orton

    Building Web Monetization into Moja, a WiFi platform providing free consumer access to the Internet for those who typically cannot afford it. We are tackling two issues with content in the African context: Local content creation is poorly monetized and therefore high value and relevant content is not created or widely published, and access to existing pay-walled content platforms is difficult if not impossible due to low disposable income and relatively high costs for premium and paywalled content. Web Monetizing Moja will both provide an income stream via Web-Monetization, and connect our users with rich content available online.

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  9. 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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  10. A New Approach to Sharing Knowledge on Websites Enabled by Web Monetization

    Grant for the Web

    10 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Germany
    Project lead: Benedikt Kick

    Building and experimenting with a new approach to sharing knowledge on the web, enabled by Web Monetization, that will allow users to have full access to a creatorā€™s shared knowledge, paying them in a pay-as-you-use manner.

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