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
2023

17 results

  1. Sikhula Sonke - Living Archives of Afrofuturist Village Banking

    Future Money Grant

    25 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Zambia
    Project lead: Esther Mwema

    The audio-visual art exhibition will build an imagery that shifts mindsets about wealth and how it is defined. Sikhula Sonke is an isiXhosa phrase which means ‘we grow together.’ The living archives will present stories of elders from Southern Africa whose knowledge can inform Afro-futurist financial systems that are not centered on Capitalism. The mixed media visual artwork will depict alternative systems based on archival research on the same topic so that the Afrocentric storytelling will serve as a continuation of archives, hence becoming living archives shaping an Afro-futurist imagining of financial systems based on village banking.

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  2. The Waterworks of Money

    Future Money Grant

    25 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Netherlands
    Project lead: Carlijn Kingma

    Digital Media/animation. They are mapping three future scenarios in which new forms of digital money, payment systems, and systemic change play a pivotal role. By making the world of money more understandable for people without a financial or economic background we have noticed discussions on the design of our monetary system become more accessible. With our maps and the metaphor of water, suddenly people who were never interested in the topic join the discussion about other payments structures, CBDC and restructuring our capital markets.

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  3. An Inclusive Payment Network for the Unbanked and Underbanked in Myanmar

    Digital Financial Services

    75 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Singapore
    Project lead: Nyi Nyein Aye

    An Inclusive Payment Network for the Unbanked and Underbanked in Myanmar. ThitsaWorks works on the digital transformation of the microfinance sector through enabling digital payments and building their capacities to implement digital strategies.

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  4. Interledger Ambassador: Hollis Wong-Wear

    Ambassadorships & Fellowships

    30 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Hollis Wong-Wear

    Develop programs and opportunities for working artists to plug their vision and creativity into the shaping of web monetization technology, adaptation and education. I feel my experience as an artist as well as a community-centered grant manager makes me especially suited to develop the Future|Money Artist Award program alongside the Foundation.

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  5. Interledger Ambassador: Jeremiah Lee

    Ambassadorships & Fellowships

    52 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Sweden
    Project lead: Jeremiah Lee

    Advocate for the integration of Interledger payment pointers into Mastodon and other fediverse projects through design and code contributions, including implementing metadata on Activity Streams posts and exposing it within servers and clients. Additionally, support the adoption of Web Monetization among content creators and fediverse users, while assisting the Interledger Foundation with its own fediverse presence.

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  6. Bowie State University

    NextGen Higher Education

    150 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Dr. Andrew Mangle

    Through ILF’s support, Bowie State University will use the proposed course to hone the focus of eCommerce through the lens of the digital financial ecosystem that supports the exchange of goods and services. In particular, the course will explore tipping, alternative advertising, disintermediation, and rearchitecting eCommerce without central authorities.

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  7. Fynbos Technologies Limited

    Digital Financial Services

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Adrian Hope-Baille

    In collaboration with the Interledger Foundation, Fynbos will provide wallets to grantees in all supported jurisdictions. While the initial launch of the Fynbos application is limited to US-resident users and internal payments, future updates will expand access to the UK and EU. This expansion will enable international payments between those regions and the US.