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
2021

36 results

  1. AlquimƩtricos Open STEAM toys academy

    Grant for the Web

    38 600 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Argentina
    Project lead: Fernando Daguanno, Carlos Fernando Daguanno

    AlquimƩtricos was founded in 2015 as an open-source initiative to bring STEAM educational resources to low-income communities, especially in Latin America. Over the years, the project has gained scale, prizes and followers, becoming an international community of educators, designers, makers, communicators and visual artists. This project will research, experiment, and build a case study on monetizing open-access content from the existing platform through Web Monetization to benefit a Brazilian ecosystem of low-income public schools and social institutions, as well as promoting Web Monetization as the main contribution option for premium content subscription.

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  2. Addis Futures Lab

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Metasebia Yoseph

    Digital Gojo addresses the lack of access to diverse digital content available to Ethiopians across the diaspora. Digital Gojo is a research and development project exploring use-cases to transform Ethiopiaā€™s local and international creative value network into a sustainable web monetization ecosystem. The project will include a digital platform that will offer a working prototype for distributing and monetizing content while examining new commercial and cultural access models.

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  3. Black Tattoo Anthology

    Grant for the Web

    50 783 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Imani K Brown

    The Black Tattoo Anthology addresses the historical erasure of Black artists and Black tattoo culture. The project will create an anthology that chronicles the Black tattoo experience from professional artists with at least five years in their craft and outlines the historical milestones, movements, and contributions of Black artists and artistry to the tattoo industry. This digital collection will be created, curated, maintained, and Web Monetized by Black practitioners and the tattoo community, and the stories will be shared both digitally and in physical form.

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  4. Call & Response

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Carolyn Malachi

    Call & Response is a system to convert real-time, virtual concert audience responses into money and sound for performers using social media and other virtual platforms. Dubbed Call & Response after the eponymous Black music tradition, the system leverages blockchain and digital signal processing technologies to address for virtual environment performers two critical problems: silenced audiences and inadequate compensation. The system absorbs audience response data and delivers digital asset payments to performers.

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  5. Free Code Camp

    Grant for the Web

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Quincy Larson

    FreeCodeCamp will publish this course on their YouTube channel, which has more than 4 million subscribers and throughout their community of developers, mentors, and learners. The course itself will be Web Monetized with proceeds funding the non-profit freeCodeCamp

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  6. JSK13 Event Sponsorship 2021

    Grant for the Web

    6 300 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Poland
    Project lead: Andrjez Mazur

  7. The Keyes Collective

    Grant for the Web

    125 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Lola Keyes

    The Black Artist Collectiveā€™s platform will model a new, passive revenue stream for artists and curators to add long-term value to their essential work. The Art of Influence project will leverage close relationships with curators to connect black artists with a global network of collectors and art enthusiasts. Online exhibitions, curator ā€œwalk-throughs,ā€ and studio visits will provide a meaningful access point for the public to engage with living artistsā€™ work. By integrating Web Monetization micropayments into The Black Artist Collectiveā€™s platform, even novice art lovers can contribute to artistsā€™ financial wellbeing as they learn more about their work.

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  8. Code Angel

    Grant for the Web

    20 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: John Asafo-Agyei

    Code Angel is a Question and Answer website for developers. Any user can post a code-related question and developers that are registered with the platform can choose to respond. Answers stay evergreen because developers are incentivised through micro-payments that are sent to them via XRP tips and Web Monetization. Developers who answer questions will use a Xumm account to receive/send XRP micropayments. The platform will take a small percentage and forward the rest to the person who provided the top answer.

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  9. Decentralized Identity & Payments

    Grant for the Web

    22 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Austria
    Project lead: Dominik Beron

    Self-Sovereign Identity provides means to return control over users' identities data back to the individuals themselves, enhancing privacy & security, and furthermore authenticity of the data. With this project we propose to research & design an Interledger-based payment protocol that extends our existing Open Source SSI stack to enable micropayments when exchanging W3C Verifiable Credentials. This will enable multiple use cases, bringing great value to the Web Monetization but also to the SSI ecosystems.

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  10. Drizzle

    Grant for the Web

    45 730 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Australia
    Project lead: Ashvin Parameswaran

    An education platform at interledger.dev where learners pay creators only for the time spent learning. This payment model aligns incentives for learners and creators; money spent and money earned are predictably scaled as usage increases. Streaming micropayments keeps the focus entirely on educational engagement and offers a viable alternative to ads, donations and paywalls.

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