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. 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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  2. 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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  3. Sharing values, sharing funds - Web Monetization as a catalyst for social change

    Grant for the Web

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Israel
    Project lead: Lior Zalmanson

    The project addresses the challenge of raising funds for social causes via the internet, emphasizing issues and solutions relevant to users from disenfranchised communities and minority groups. While the internet has primarily democratized the act of fundraising, most activists struggle with ā€œconvertingā€ users from clicks to monetary support for their content and causes.

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  4. SITH Creative Community

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Eleni Maltas

    In the technology and music spaces, Women, Black, Brown, Asian, Indigenous, and LGBTQ communities have been underrepresented and under-served with far less access to equal resources and salaries than their white male cis counterparts.Ā  We want to give our community the opportunity to use cutting edge resources and technology to further advance their careers and artist profiles. In addition, we want to see our community receive the financial dues they deserve.

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  5. Web Monetized Digital Knowledge Commons - powered by Mysilio

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Tani Olhanoski

    Mysilio will build a prototype for an open-source platform for managing a shared knowledge commons that is financially sustained through passive Web Monetization. Readers, research groups, grantmakers, etc can pay a subscription to access a community's social knowledge graph, and the subscription fees will be split and attributed to the individual creators whose content is being consumed through the platform.

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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. Decentralization Off The Shelf

    Grant for the Web

    75 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Eileen Wagner

    Producing a library of developer resources, assets, and design patterns to support the design and development of better user-facing applications using the Web Monetization standard. Developers and designers can use the pattern library as a starting place for crafting key end-user interactions, such as an identity, a wallet, account backup, recovery, and multi-device usage, improving the initial quality of projects built using Web Monetization by providing a well-researched common design foundation.

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  9. Memex Social - A "substack.com" for online research, bookmarks and web annotations

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Germany
    Project lead: Oliver Sauter

    Memex Social is a "substack.com" for online research, bookmarks & annotations. It allows knowledge workers to curate, publish and collaborate on lists of web content, notes & annotations and get paid by followers. This work is extending the open-source and offline-first browser extension Memex, which enables users to full-text search their web history, annotate websites/PDFs, and organize content with lists and tags. Memex has about 15k users who are mainly knowledge workers like developers, journalists, scientists, students and productivity geeks. This project allows users to monetize their profiles, and develops list sharing and annotation based discussion features.

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  10. 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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