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. FlipToons - Web-Monetized Comic Platform

    Grant for the Web

    28 920 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Philippines
    Project lead: James Gabriel Casia

    Creating a webcomic reader platform with Web Monetization where creators get paid based on the duration of content consumption and readers get to consume webcomics without sacrificing privacy and dealing with multiple subscriptions. Also hosting the Web-Monetized Comic Challenge to provide opportunities and create awareness, especially to Filipinos, of the web’s broken business model and how WebMonetization helps solve them.

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  2. 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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  3. LOS SUELOS, CA

    Grant for the Web

    48 975.28 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Lauren Lavin, Joshua Duke

    LOS SUELOS, CA is a multimedia content platform that utilizes web monetization to benefit charitable organizations. An immersive literary universe in the vein of Twilight Zone and Stranger Things, LOS SUELOS, CA unites writers, musicians, and artists to create a narrative set in the mysterious, surreal town of Los Suelos.

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  4. 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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  5. New Day: Helping Independent Investigative Journalism Thrive On Its Own Terms

    Grant for the Web

    46 014 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Slovenia
    Project lead: Tadej Štrok, Maja Cimerman

    New Day is an experimental project aimed at exploring ways of using the Web Monetization Standard to fund independent and investigative journalism. It will bring together a selection of Slovenian news media outlets and online publications in a pilot program focused on implementation of the Web Monetization Standard, optimization of user onboarding, and testing of communication strategies.

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  6. Qwyre literary publishing & distribution management platform for African speculative fiction

    Grant for the Web

    50 600 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: France
    Project lead: Gavin Chait

    Qwyre.com will enable cooperative and collaborative literary publishing and distribution of African speculative fiction online, and conversion to downloadable standards compliant EPUBs, by facilitating Web Monetization of proportional micropayments for writers and editors through development of an open-source Python and Vue.js progressive web application. Qwyre will permit multiple authors and editors to collaborate on preparing a literary work for publication, publish that work, and share proportionally in web monetization micropayments. Instead of accumulating micropayments and making bulk transfers to stakeholders, incurring numerous transaction fees along the way, the system will pay proportionally after each download or read, directly to the writer, editor or publisher's account.

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  7. Reductress: The "Members Only" Section

    Grant for the Web

    80 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Sarah Pappalardo

    Reductress is the first and only satirical women’s magazine. For years, the ad model has forced Reductress to focus on pageviews, site traffic, and loading the site with ads, which has compromised site speed and user experience, with diminishing returns in revenue. In line with our goal to leave the ad model behind, Reductress has already enabled the framework for microdonations and subscriptions to the site for an ad-free experience and exclusive content. We’re ultimately laying the groundwork to rely more substantially on Web Monetization in general and building out core features of a “Members Only” section of our site to engage Web Monetized users in a world of curated Reductress content that they can rank and discuss in an online community.

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