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.

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  1. 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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  2. Beats By Girlz

    Community Grants

    40 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Erin Barra

    Beats By Girlz is a US based 501c3 with a global footprint whose mission is to empower the next generation of women and gender minorities through music and technology. We’re committed towards giving our community the tools, resources, access, and opportunities to reach their full potential and we do that work in full partnership with our chapters and chapter leadership all around the world.

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  3. Snake Nation As- A-Tier 1 ILPS

    Digital Financial Services

    75 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Andre Ngare

    Snake Nation is a mission driven, culture content and tech company, focused on creating economic opportunities for young M2 (multicultural millennial) creators through a frictionless and diverse digital and creative economy. One of the significant current gaps in the ILP network is access to local African Nodes with the ability to use a Tier 1 ILP capable wallet on the African continent and other Global South countries like South East - Asia, and South America. Snake Nation plans to develop a Tier 1 ILPv4 Network through its University Society Network as a foundational solution to an open payment system, a key pillar of Africa 4.0 ( 4th Industrial revolution).

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  4. Interledger Ambassador: Lawil Karama

    Ambassadorships & Fellowships

    30 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Netherlands
    Project lead: Lawil Karama

    The main issue with the adoption of the technology is that it is build through the Western Gaze, meaning that a more mainstream adoption of the technology will come through searching for the groups that develop for different demographics. I hope to accomplish more awareness and adoption of Web Monitization and Interledger technology within the mainstream domain.

  5. Company XV Dance

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Jakari Sherman

    Company XV Dance seeks to democratize the relationship between artists, dance companies, and patrons. This model offers artists the chance to maintain a salary, while supplementing this income through web-monetized interactions with fans. Additionally, they can leverage the power of social media to bring fans into the Web Monetization ecosystem. Collectively, we believe this will increase the overall financial capacity of fans to support artists, convert casual content consumers to arts patrons, and encourage the evolving demographics of arts patronage.

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  6. Elementari Web Monetization

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Nicole Li

    Elementari Web Monetization enables us to develop and scale Web Monetization on the website elementari.com. We will implement the Web Monetization flow for artists to monetize their artwork. When a story is published, we will calculate the distribution between all artists for the book. Then when the published story is viewed, there will be Probabilistic Revenue Sharing.

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  7. Monetize the Value of Music Together and Create Economic Diversification

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Netherlands
    Project lead: Hessel van Oorschot

    To monetize music on the web you need to own the music or receive the written consent from rights holders to monetize their content. Today, only a small number of people and businesses dictate how music is (traditionally) monetized online and who gets paid. The unfairness of the current system is well documented by reliable sources. So if we want to research and unleash a resilient payment infrastructure and promote inclusive and sustainable monetization models for musicians and the music sector we have to start with artists, 100% in control and willing to experiment with new business models.

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  8. Web Monetization for the Arts

    Grant for the Web

    11 410 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Natalie Axton

    Web Monetization for the Arts is an education and outreach project that listens to and informs arts organizations in the United States about Web Monetization so that they may develop more effective and sustainable online content practices. Our project researches and surveys classical music and performing arts groups to discover their current understanding of Web Monetization, meeting them where they are, and then writes and delivers educational materials in order to create sustainable and equitable practices and deconstruct myths around free art.

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  9. Black Tattoo Anthology

    Grant for the Web

    50 783 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Imani K Brown

    The Black Tattoo Anthology addresses the historical erasure of Black artists and Black tattoo culture. The project will create an anthology that chronicles the Black tattoo experience from professional artists with at least five years in their craft and outlines the historical milestones, movements, and contributions of Black artists and artistry to the tattoo industry. This digital collection will be created, curated, maintained, and Web Monetized by Black practitioners and the tattoo community, and the stories will be shared both digitally and in physical form.

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  10. 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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