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.

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  1. Erica Hargreave

    Ambassadorships & Fellowships

    30 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Canada
    Project lead: Erica Hargreave

    To extend the Web Monetization learning materials, creating educational assets on different ways to Web Monetize your digital assets and on different Web Monetization tools and platforms. In parallel to this, I'd also focus on community outreach, education, and on-boarding to specific digital niche communities with a focus on disability communities as well as within various digital communities that I am a part of that are well suited to Web Monetize with ease (including the open education, travel media, web series, and contemporary media communities globally).

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  2. Democratising Design Education with a Web Monetized Publishing Platform

    Grant for the Web

    99 370 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: Graeme Fulton

    This project will develop Prototypr as an inclusive Web Monetized publishing platform for designers, that rewards contributors whilst democratising design education by providing openly accessible, quality content across different cultures.

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  3. Helping Small Businesses Adopt Web Monetization (HSBAWM)

    Grant for the Web

    33 300 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Rashon Massey

    Serving as a case study and roadmap for other online small business retailers, this project seeks to use Web Monetization as a vehicle for driving the potentiality of new/existing customers of MICOPEIA.com to exclusive online content, while also opening a pathway to growing a Web Monetized online community.

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  4. PeerPay

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Chile
    Project lead: NĆ©stor Campos

    PeerPay will be a platform that through API allows small businesses to integrate payments on their websites and accept their own currencies, regardless of the currency with which their customers pay. In the same way, it will allow transactions between people, reducing transaction costs between them.

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  5. Web Monetization for the Arts

    Grant for the Web

    11 410 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Natalie Axton

    Web Monetization for the Arts is an education and outreach project that listens to and informs arts organizations in the United States about Web Monetization so that they may develop more effective and sustainable online content practices. Our project researches and surveys classical music and performing arts groups to discover their current understanding of Web Monetization, meeting them where they are, and then writes and delivers educational materials in order to create sustainable and equitable practices and deconstruct myths around free art.

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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. Instill Science: A community for constructive peer reviews reviews

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Jan Zheng

    Instill is a community that incentivizes researchers to write constructive peer reviews. The platform also provides a safe place for underrepresented researchers to ask the community for feedback on how to improve their drafts, to increase their chances of publication. Existing peer review communities like PubPeer or PREreview don't support feedback requests, and also lack proper reward or incentive systems that attract peers to give feedback. Instill will initially start with Coil integration, but will explore using Web Payments to add community tipping (like Reddit badge awards), a payout pool program, where membership fees proportionally pay authors, and a bounty system where authors are paid to write feedback upon request.

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