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
2020

18 results

  1. W3C

    Grant for the Web

    268 700 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Jeff Jaffe

    This project ensures GftW proposals support open standardization by addressing often-overlooked web development aspects that hinder global scaling and impact. Key issues include: ● Privacy: Protecting user information to maintain trust and utility. ● Security: Establishing defenses against attackers and extortion. ● Internationalization: Designing for global accessibility beyond local markets. ● Accessibility: Ensuring the web is usable for individuals with disabilities. ● Device independence: Enabling functionality across all web-connected devices. ● Architectural consistency: Following established patterns for interoperability.

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  2. 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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  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. Integrate support for the Web Monetization standard into Open Index Protocol and it’s Reference Client and Support Partner Implementations

    Grant for the Web

    86 250 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Devon Read

    Adding Web Monetization support to the Open Index Protocol, an open source specification for a public, worldwide index for data publishing, file distribution and direct payments. It uses blockchain technology and peer-to-peer distribution to operate with no central authority: record indexing, file storage/distribution and transaction management are carried out collectively by decentralized networks. Web Monetization support will create additional financial incentives at both application and protocol layers, creating open market incentive alignment for all participants.

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  5. LikeCoin protocol - a public blockchain for content monetization, attribution and distribution, incorporating Web Monetization Standard and Interledger Protocol

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Hong Kong
    Project lead: kin ko

    Incorporating Web Monetization into the LikeCoin protocol, a public blockchain for decentralized publishing. This open source project gives content creators upgraded tools to control, own, and monetize their work. On the content readers' side, components such as Civic Liker encourage readers to contribute money to reward journalism and creativity. We aim to expand our impact coverage from the Greater China region to the rest of the world.

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  6. moncon - monetize your content should be fair, private and secure

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Estonia
    Project lead: Diego Torres

    Developing moncon, an open-source framework that lets content creators securely monetize their content. moncon is composed of an API, a dashboard where content creators can manage the site configuration, payments and metrics, and a wallet that will allow users to pay for and store the content they buy. Users can consume content, paying for the time they spend and storing content in their wallets. Creators can define the number of copies allowed and can set content to expire, making it exclusive and special for users.

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  7. Quartz Open Access: Fair rewards for Open Access publishing and reviewing.

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Spain
    Project lead: Ambar Tenorio-Fornés

    Providing a sustainable and fair business model for Open Access academic publishing through Quartz Open Access. Building upon the values, knowledge and experience of the academic Open Access communities and Platform cooperativism initiatives, this project aims to establish and popularize payments in the science publishing ecosystem using Web Monetization and blockchain technologies. The project will contribute to the fairness, quality, and speed of reviewing, will reduce costs of OA publishing for scholars and will permit better distribution of profits within the academic publishing industry.

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  8. 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) “Community Algorithmic Trust” (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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  9. 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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  10. Fueling social justice with a monetization stream, for Ushahidi grassroots users.

    Grant for the Web

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Kenya
    Project lead: Angela Oduor Lungati

    Web Monetizing deployments on Ushahidi, an open-source crowdsourcing platform that’s been used globally for crisis response, human rights protection, good governance, and ensuring integrity in elections. This will enable users to opt-in to access donations to their work seamlessly and directly from their projects. Users will also be able to publicize the licensing associated with content generated on their deployments using a content disclaimer feature.

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