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

40 results

  1. Kendraio Pay

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: Daniel Harris

    Creating a unified dashboard interface for musicians and content creators to simplify monetizing their work, handling their rights, distributing their content to multiple platforms, analyzing their statistics, receiving payments in their digital wallet, and splitting royalties with their collaborators. This open-source, end-to-end workflow will help creators to upload, manage, and get paid for their work.

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  2. Monetizing philantrophy: Transparent and traceable microtransactions to content creators

    Grant for the Web

    49 498 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Netherlands
    Project lead: Catalina Goanta

    Creating a transparent and traceable system for spontaneous micro-transactions between creators and audiences to improve trust in the monetization of philanthropic initiatives on the web.

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  3. Storage To The People: Web-Monetized Payments For Digital Legacy Storage and Sharing

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Robert Friedman

    Prototyping a workflow and open source API endpoints that allow users to easily store data on Permanent.org using a one-time micropayment, with no need for storing financial data or making financial commitments. By identifying and mocking up components that are not readily available, we will identify missing ecosystem components and chart a course toward enabling anyone to purchase storage from Web Monetized storage providers.

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  4. 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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  5. web-monetised-multimedia - A Web Component Library for Web Monetisation

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Finland
    Project lead: Otto Liuhtonen

    Creating multiple examples of Web Monetization applications, including video and audio streaming use case examples with optional advertisement support and, an example of a multi-publisher blog, with an accompanying web components library. We chose web components because they can be used in many front-end contexts, including React and Vue. We aim to take the shroud off the Web Monetization API using our industry reach, and show through highly visual examples how one might use our web component library in their projects.

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  6. 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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  7. itme.online

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Travis Vachon

    Creating an open source Solid application that will let users easily publish, create, and monetize custom pages showcasing writing, music and video content hosted in their Solid Pod at a domain of their choosing. Existing platforms that allow users to monetize their content require either the skills and capitalization to maintain custom web infrastructure or a willingness to let a third party become a steward of both content and data about content creators. itme.online will provide a new option for users who would like to maintain full sovereignty over their content and monetize it without running a web server. Building on top of Solid and Web Monetization means that users will be free to move their content off of itme without interrupting the monetization of their content.

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  8. 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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  9. Metaculus Futures: Building a Sustainable Model for Forecasting

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Gaia Dempsey

    Augmenting the sustainability of the Metaculus platform and enhancing the tools for communicating its outputs, so that publicly accessible forecasting becomes more widespread, influential, and adopted. This project will present users with an entirely new way for them to support the platform via Web Monetization as well as an internal bounty system.

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  10. Monetization for Creators on A Decentralized Content Platform in Chinese Community

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Hong Kong
    Project lead: YAO LIU

    Integrating the Web Monetization standard and the Interledger Protocol for creators on Matters, a decentralized content website providing a shared infrastructure for creators in the Chinese community. With this integration, creators will be able to receive money in various forms from readers when browsing the web.

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