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
2021

8 results

  1. Alquimétricos Open STEAM toys academy

    Grant for the Web

    38 600 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Argentina
    Project lead: Fernando Daguanno, Carlos Fernando Daguanno

    Alquimétricos was founded in 2015 as an open-source initiative to bring STEAM educational resources to low-income communities, especially in Latin America. Over the years, the project has gained scale, prizes and followers, becoming an international community of educators, designers, makers, communicators and visual artists. This project will research, experiment, and build a case study on monetizing open-access content from the existing platform through Web Monetization to benefit a Brazilian ecosystem of low-income public schools and social institutions, as well as promoting Web Monetization as the main contribution option for premium content subscription.

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  2. Call & Response

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Carolyn Malachi

    Call & Response is a system to convert real-time, virtual concert audience responses into money and sound for performers using social media and other virtual platforms. Dubbed Call & Response after the eponymous Black music tradition, the system leverages blockchain and digital signal processing technologies to address for virtual environment performers two critical problems: silenced audiences and inadequate compensation. The system absorbs audience response data and delivers digital asset payments to performers.

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  3. Free Code Camp

    Grant for the Web

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Quincy Larson

    FreeCodeCamp will publish this course on their YouTube channel, which has more than 4 million subscribers and throughout their community of developers, mentors, and learners. The course itself will be Web Monetized with proceeds funding the non-profit freeCodeCamp

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  4. Code Angel

    Grant for the Web

    20 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: John Asafo-Agyei

    Code Angel is a Question and Answer website for developers. Any user can post a code-related question and developers that are registered with the platform can choose to respond. Answers stay evergreen because developers are incentivised through micro-payments that are sent to them via XRP tips and Web Monetization. Developers who answer questions will use a Xumm account to receive/send XRP micropayments. The platform will take a small percentage and forward the rest to the person who provided the top answer.

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  5. Drizzle

    Grant for the Web

    45 730 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Australia
    Project lead: Ashvin Parameswaran

    An education platform at interledger.dev where learners pay creators only for the time spent learning. This payment model aligns incentives for learners and creators; money spent and money earned are predictably scaled as usage increases. Streaming micropayments keeps the focus entirely on educational engagement and offers a viable alternative to ads, donations and paywalls.

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  6. HostBeak Kreators

    Grant for the Web

    80 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Nigeria
    Project lead: Ogoluwa Ojewale

    HostBeak Kreators will create, educate and provide a community of 1,000 empowered African creators with personalized websites, their preferred domain name, and the ability to monetize their content on the web. We will train the creators on payment pointers, how to manage their website, web hosting and more, all to help them become well informed on the importance of Web Monetization and how to be compensated for creating digital footprints of their talent, content, skill and ideas online.

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  7. 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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  8. Mukto Library

    Grant for the Web

    14 600 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Bangladesh
    Project lead: Nasir Khan

    Mukto Library is an open platform for book lovers. Starting with the Bengali-speaking community with plans to expand for all languages, Mukto Library allows users to read books, write notes and reviews, or just add books and build a virtual personal library. Coil members will have access to additional content, like 'meet the authors' events, an ad free experience & more.

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