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. Lowering Legal Friction

    Grant for the Web

    97 400 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: Andrew Katz

    Regulation, including GDPR, consumer law and privacy, presents a barrier to entry to implementing Web Monetization standard and Interledger Protocol. We will develop a suite of legal texts including a template for generating a GDPR record of processing, a privacy policy, a generic terms of use, and consumer terms for using Web Monetization Standard and Interledger Protocol. We will develop them in the open, and make them available under a Creative Commons Attribution licence. We want people implementing Web Monetization to concentrate on providing excellent content and a great user experience, and not have to waste time and resources on unnecessarily expensive and time-consuming routes to compliance with legal regulation.

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  2. MG.Social

    Grant for the Web

    79 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Mathew Safford

    MG.Social is a live and fully functional, ad-free, Web Monetized social network (micro-blogging) platform. The business model of MG.Social is built around the revenue generated by integrating the Web Monetization standard into the platform and requiring a Web Monetization provider subscription (Coil) for access. For content creators, the advantage of the platform is the ability to easily monetize and receive instant compensation when their content is consumed by Coil subscribers on MG.Social. The advantage for content consumers is the ability to directly support creators as they consume that creator's content, advertiser-free. The nature of a micro-blogging platforms leads to users that tend to both create and consumer content, allowing them to obtain both benefits.

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  3. Monetizing Open Video Assets (MOVA)

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: Nicol Wistreich

    MOVA is a project that uses the International Standard Content Code to make a light fingerprint of a video and register it with a Web Monetization wallet on a distributed ledger through a desktop app; then uses CiviCRM to execute a revenue-sharing agreement for it. These new approaches could support both filmmakers and rightsholders in making works available under Web Monetization, while broadening the spaces and platforms that can share, monazite and champion them.

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  4. Mukto Library

    Grant for the Web

    14 600 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Bangladesh
    Project lead: Nasir Khan

    Mukto Library is an open platform for book lovers. Starting with the Bengali-speaking community with plans to expand for all languages, Mukto Library allows users to read books, write notes and reviews, or just add books and build a virtual personal library. Coil members will have access to additional content, like 'meet the authors' events, an ad free experience & more.

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  5. New Day: Helping Independent Investigative Journalism Thrive On Its Own Terms

    Grant for the Web

    46 014 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Slovenia
    Project lead: Tadej Å trok, Maja Cimerman

    New Day is an experimental project aimed at exploring ways of using the Web Monetization Standard to fund independent and investigative journalism. It will bring together a selection of Slovenian news media outlets and online publications in a pilot program focused on implementation of the Web Monetization Standard, optimization of user onboarding, and testing of communication strategies.

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  6. OpenSpeaks

    Grant for the Web

    15 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: India
    Project lead: Subhashish Panigrahi

    Only 22 of the 780 languages of India are officially recognized. The rest of the languages, mostly indigenous, are still used as first languages by communities that have extremely low access and participation in the knowledge commons. This project aims to research web-based citizen media in select indigenous languages of India to develop frameworks and conceptual models for integrating Web Monetization for multimedia content platforms, especially using Creative Commons. All the research outputs (report, multimedia, code and data) will be released under open licenses.

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  7. ProgNovel

    Grant for the Web

    15 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Indonesia
    Project lead: Radhy Ramadhan

    ProgNovel is a modern open-source PWA that focuses on bringing speed, modern features, and modern monetization, to empower authors and contributors with a minuscule effort and resources to host. In addition to no-ads and exclusive content features, ProgNovel will experiment with revenue sharing and affiliate marketing powered by the Web Monetization API to encourage contributors (editors, proofreaders, etc) and influencers to participate actively to help authors create web novel contents.

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  8. Qwyre literary publishing & distribution management platform for African speculative fiction

    Grant for the Web

    50 600 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: France
    Project lead: Gavin Chait

    Qwyre.com will enable cooperative and collaborative literary publishing and distribution of African speculative fiction online, and conversion to downloadable standards compliant EPUBs, by facilitating Web Monetization of proportional micropayments for writers and editors through development of an open-source Python and Vue.js progressive web application. Qwyre will permit multiple authors and editors to collaborate on preparing a literary work for publication, publish that work, and share proportionally in web monetization micropayments. Instead of accumulating micropayments and making bulk transfers to stakeholders, incurring numerous transaction fees along the way, the system will pay proportionally after each download or read, directly to the writer, editor or publisher's account.

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  9. Reductress: The "Members Only" Section

    Grant for the Web

    80 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Sarah Pappalardo

    Reductress is the first and only satirical womenā€™s magazine. For years, the ad model has forced Reductress to focus on pageviews, site traffic, and loading the site with ads, which has compromised site speed and user experience, with diminishing returns in revenue. In line with our goal to leave the ad model behind, Reductress has already enabled the framework for microdonations and subscriptions to the site for an ad-free experience and exclusive content. Weā€™re ultimately laying the groundwork to rely more substantially on Web Monetization in general and building out core features of a ā€œMembers Onlyā€ section of our site to engage Web Monetized users in a world of curated Reductress content that they can rank and discuss in an online community.

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  10. Snake Nation Web Monetization & ILP enabled VNM Wallet for Creators

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: South Africa
    Project lead: Karl Carter, Tawanda Brandon

    Snake Nation is a social media platform with a digital wallet & VNM, our Stellar based(XLM) utility token. Platform members are incentivized for their content engagement in VNM. We are building an ILP Capable VNM Wallet that allows for creative publishers to collect/stream Web Money and e-commerce to their VNM Wallet. The VNM token is meant to streamline and reduce the friction that exists on the current global payment systems, which in emerging markets, marginalizes most of our members when it comes to receiving their earnings. Having the ILP wallet integrated into the app allows for enhanced wallet functionality including the ability to make P2P payments, cross-border payments, withdrawals, top-ups, and contactless payments in any currency.

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