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. Launchpad - an interactive game about successfully making and monetizing web applications.

    Grant for the Web

    32 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Germany
    Project lead: Michael Kleinhenz

    Launchpad is an interactive game, playable through messengers (WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, etc) and a companion web app. The goal is to playfully educate and enable internet users to successfully monetize their creations on the web and gamifies real processes in the software and web market. This way, it also abstracts and describes processes and ideas such as DRM, AI-based algorithms, paywalls, etc., and educates players on the challenges and importance of modern internet and web technologies, enabling them to make the right decisions.

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  2. Future of the Browser

    Grant for the Web

    1 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: Anselm Hook, Amber Case

  3. DisCO: human-friendly tools and practices for web-based collaboration, value sovereignty, and self-determination that create open commons and inclusive communities.

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Spain
    Project lead: Stacco Troncoso

    Adding educational and collaborative components to the DisCO platform that prototype interoperable forms of ownership, governance, entrepreneurship, and value accounting meant to counteract pervasive economic inequality.

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  4. ValueFlows Software for Distributed Cooperative Economic Activity on the Open Web

    Grant for the Web

    68 199.32 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Eli Sterling

    Building a web-based interface with back end support for a Distributed Cooperative Organization's (DisCO) ā€œCommunity Algorithmic Trustā€ (the DisCO CAT). This will be a user-friendly, accessible online tool that will allow the use of Interledger and Web Monetization to connect value production with outside economic models, whether based in fiat currencies or digital coin on a blockchain. Our software will use CommonsPub, which is based on ActivityPub and ValueFlo.ws, together with Interledger though GraphQL to allow interoperability between diverse ledger models, and will be piloted by multiple organizations in order to help us find the strengths and pain points in our software design.

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  5. docs.plus

    Grant for the Web

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: Edward Saperia

    Building a suite of open source plugins for etherpad, the open source real-time collaborative text editor, to provide monetization as well as many common popular features such as improved usability, accessibility, presence, retention, governance, conversion, and scalability.

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  6. Gib

    Grant for the Web

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Alexander Mozeak

    Improving healthy and equitable participation in digital economies by allowing users to purchase and share prepaid links to Web Monetized content using Gib. Creators will be able to set increments of access that will be made available for purchase, and sharing will engage potential audiences that may not otherwise experience the value of their premium content.

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  7. Little Webby Press

    Grant for the Web

    40 100 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: Andre Garzia

    Unlocking a more sustainable authorship experience for self-publishing writers through Little Webby Press, a progressive web app (PWA) that generates both an eBook in EPUB3 format and a Web Monetized static website with the book content.

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  8. Phaser and Pixi Web Monetization Plugins and Tutorials

    Grant for the Web

    49 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: Richard Davey

    Creating open-source plugins for the HTML5 game libraries Phaser 2, Phaser 3, and Pixi 5 that enable developers to easily add Web Monetization features to their games. The plugins will be backed with comprehensive tutorials and game-specific examples.

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  9. Sid Vishnoi / Firefox Gecko

    Ambassadorships & Fellowships

    32 300 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: India
    Project lead: Sid Vishnoi

    This technical scholarship is to determine if Web Monetization works using existing web technologies, or if new browser infrastructure is required to support the Interledger Protocol. Heā€™ll also examine the potential implications for a browser from a privacy and security perspective, and ensure currently specified solutions are robust enough to work with modern web development practices.

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  10. Tembo: a platform for developing monetized web database applications

    Grant for the Web

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Josh Senyak

    Building Tembo, a free and open development platform, designed for creating open-source web database applications that are monetized by default, with micropayments accruing to the software creator.

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