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

25 results

  1. Providing free legal assistance to web monetization innovators

    Grant for the Web

    20 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Art Neil

    Conducting one-on-one consultations to provide pro-bono legal assistance to independent online creators who use Web Monetization technology, including to Grant for the Web grantees. Also, publishing educational resources based on those consultations to provide guidance to the vast majority of creators in need who we don’t have the capacity to directly assist.

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  2. Sustainable Funding Vlogcast, Case Studies, and Online Course for Media, Educators & Tech

    Grant for the Web

    15 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Canada
    Project lead: Erica Hargreave

    Using experiments, interviews, and case studies to create open educational, online learning opportunities around the Web Monetization standard, and to inform sustainable funding models.

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  3. Turn an archive into a library

    Grant for the Web

    15 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Canada
    Project lead: Patrick Tanguay

    Transforming a static archive of old newsletter issues by breaking them in parts, interlinking them, and making each a part of an evolving corpus of Web Monetized notes, connections, and new insights.

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  4. Web Monetization Payment Option For an Existing and Successful Multi-Publisher Local News Hub

    Grant for the Web

    30 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Alex Shiffer

    Prototyping Web Monetization on NewsAtomic.com, an online platform for local print newspapers based in New York's Hudson Valley. Adding a Web Monetization payment option will permit readers to pay our publishers to consume their content.

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  5. Distributed Media Lab

    Grant for the Web

    2 000 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Dave Gehring

    This project is focused on harnessing web monetization to provide the news publishing industry with a new consumer revenue model uniquely designed for the open web. As the news media industry adopts the revenue model, this will drive consumer adoption, which will be leveraged to support browser vendor engagement toward platform adoption of web monetization.

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