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
2023

4 results

  1. The Parallel Society

    Future Money Grant

    25 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Germany
    Project lead: Xiaoji Song

    In what ways do a migrant who journeys thousands of miles from their homeland and a rural villager who has only known the town adjacent to their birthplace echo, despite their seemingly disparate backgrounds? The Parallel Society is a storytelling game that explores financial inclusion and equity by featuring the parallel fate of two characters, a Lebanese migrant in Barcelona and a villager in rural China's Henan province. The game sheds light on financial traumas, such as behavior patterns and psychological impacts as results of financial exclusions experienced by these two characters, and radically imagines a world where such barriers no longer exist, but the characters are still trapped in the old pattern.

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  2. RESIMULATE: Econonomic agendas to (get rich and) stop worrying about the future.

    Future Money Grant

    25 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Mexico
    Project lead: Felipe Brugues

    RESIMULATE explores the effectiveness of financial and economic programs popular in the self-help business literature and in various worldwide political policies in generating financial inclusion. With the use of interactive computational simulations of economic models, RESIMULATE directs two large-scale 3D clay printers. Through the expression in the sculptural possibilities, the voids, weaknesses, and even strengths of financial systems and strategies take shape and become self-evident.

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  3. The Waterworks of Money.

    Future Money Grant

    25 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Netherlands
    Project lead: Carlijn Kingma

    Digital Media/animation. They are mapping three future scenarios in which new forms of digital money, payment systems, and systemic change play a pivotal role. By making the world of money more understandable for people without a financial or economic background we have noticed discussions on the design of our monetary system become more accessible. With our maps and the metaphor of water, suddenly people who were never interested in the topic join the discussion about other payments structures, CBDC and restructuring our capital markets.

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  4. Bowie State University 2

    NextGen Higher Education

    150 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Dr. Andrew Mangle

    Through ILFā€™s support, Bowie State University will use the proposed course to hone the focus of eCommerce through the lens of the digital financial ecosystem that supports the exchange of goods and services. In particular, the course will explore tipping, alternative advertising, disintermediation, and rearchitecting eCommerce without central authorities.

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