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

5 results

  1. Chimoney

    Digital Financial Services

    75 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Uchi Uchibeke

    Chimoney, a Global Payouts Platform, and API, is embarking on an ambitious project to integrate Rafiki with our proprietary Chimoney Wallets. This integration aims to harness the potential of the Interledger Protocol (ILP), paving the way for enhanced financial interoperability and accessibility on a global scale. With Rafiki's capabilities melded into Chimoney Wallets, users will experience a seamless transition between diverse financial touchpoints, ensuring that the benefits of the digital economy are accessible to a wider audience.

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  2. RESIMULATE: Economic Agendas to (Get Rich and) Stop Worrying about the Future

    Future Money Grant

    25 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Mexico
    Project lead: Felipe Brugues

    RESIMULATE explores the effectiveness of financial and economic programs popular in the self-help business literature and in various worldwide political policies in generating financial inclusion. With the use of interactive computational simulations of economic models, RESIMULATE directs two large-scale 3D clay printers. Through the expression in the sculptural possibilities, the voids, weaknesses, and even strengths of financial systems and strategies take shape and become self-evident.

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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