Projects and organizations funded by the Interledger Foundation, working to expand access to digital financial services around the world.
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.
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Ambassadorships & Fellowships
40 000 USD
Total amount committed
Project, “Empowering Global ROSCA Users through Digital Financial Inclusion,” focuses on ROSCA users and aims to discover what steps need to be taken to support their transition to using digital financial tools that encourage global participation.
Ambassadorships & Fellowships
40 000 USD
Total amount committed
”By Design? The Hidden Harms Within Banking Apps,” highlights how harmful design patterns (often called dark patterns or deceptive design patterns) are barriers to digital inclusion because they unintentionally trick, confuse, manipulate, or nudge users into making unintended decisions. This project aims to provide those building new digital financial services with insights on how to design inclusively and mitigate the risk of unintentional harm when engaging with demographics or contexts.
Ambassadorships & Fellowships
40 000 USD
Total amount committed
Hop Sauna, is an open-source template stack ready for custom development of community-moderated Open Payments-enabled web shops, including a base server and client, with documentation, to support rapidly creating new types of federated commercial social applications.
Ambassadorships & Fellowships
40 000 USD
Total amount committed
Financial Exclusion in the Southern U.S. : The Real Whys, Challenges, and the [Potential] Role of Digital Inclusion study investigates the financial exclusion faced by unbanked, underbanked, and neglected individuals in the Southern U.S. By prioritizing direct engagement, it seeks to uncover systemic and behavioural barriers that may be overlooked using traditional research methods.
Ambassadorships & Fellowships
40 000 USD
Total amount committed
Project, ”Shifting Power in the Informal Economy,” highlights the Informal economic activity in a continent that has over 90% digital connectivity.
Grant for the Web
5 000 USD
Total amount committed
Castopod, an open source podcasting platform, to support the latest draft of the Web Monetization standard and develop new capability for including wallet addresses in social web feeds. Demonstrate interoperability with Mastodon and other social web apps that have enabled Web Monetization at Fosdem 2025 and Fediforum in April 2025. Castopod’s previous implementation of Web Monetization must be updated in order to work with the new browser extension and other apps. The latest draft of the proposed Web Monetization standard contains backwardsincompatible changes. Additionally, the specification has changed how to include Web Monetization wallet addresses in the RSS 2.0 feed format used by the podcasting ecosystem and the Atom and JSON Feed formats used by the RSS ecosystem.