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. moncon - monetize your content should be fair, private and secure

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Estonia
    Project lead: Diego Torres

    Developing moncon, an open-source framework that lets content creators securely monetize their content. moncon is composed of an API, a dashboard where content creators can manage the site configuration, payments and metrics, and a wallet that will allow users to pay for and store the content they buy. Users can consume content, paying for the time they spend and storing content in their wallets. Creators can define the number of copies allowed and can set content to expire, making it exclusive and special for users.

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  2. Quartz Open Access: Fair rewards for Open Access publishing and reviewing.

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Spain
    Project lead: Ambar Tenorio-Fornés

    Providing a sustainable and fair business model for Open Access academic publishing through Quartz Open Access. Building upon the values, knowledge and experience of the academic Open Access communities and Platform cooperativism initiatives, this project aims to establish and popularize payments in the science publishing ecosystem using Web Monetization and blockchain technologies. The project will contribute to the fairness, quality, and speed of reviewing, will reduce costs of OA publishing for scholars and will permit better distribution of profits within the academic publishing industry.

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  3. ValueFlows Software for Distributed Cooperative Economic Activity on the Open Web

    Grant for the Web

    68 199.32 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Eli Sterling

    Building a web-based interface with back end support for a Distributed Cooperative Organization's (DisCO) “Community Algorithmic Trust” (the DisCO CAT). This will be a user-friendly, accessible online tool that will allow the use of Interledger and Web Monetization to connect value production with outside economic models, whether based in fiat currencies or digital coin on a blockchain. Our software will use CommonsPub, which is based on ActivityPub and ValueFlo.ws, together with Interledger though GraphQL to allow interoperability between diverse ledger models, and will be piloted by multiple organizations in order to help us find the strengths and pain points in our software design.

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  4. docs.plus

    Grant for the Web

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: Edward Saperia

    Building a suite of open source plugins for etherpad, the open source real-time collaborative text editor, to provide monetization as well as many common popular features such as improved usability, accessibility, presence, retention, governance, conversion, and scalability.

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  5. Fueling social justice with a monetization stream, for Ushahidi grassroots users.

    Grant for the Web

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Kenya
    Project lead: Angela Oduor Lungati

    Web Monetizing deployments on Ushahidi, an open-source crowdsourcing platform that’s been used globally for crisis response, human rights protection, good governance, and ensuring integrity in elections. This will enable users to opt-in to access donations to their work seamlessly and directly from their projects. Users will also be able to publicize the licensing associated with content generated on their deployments using a content disclaimer feature.

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  6. Harbour - CC License Request and COIL Tool

    Grant for the Web

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Joshua Elkes

    Addresses the challenges businesses and individuals face when wanting to properly license content from a creator. Harbour is developing a tool that makes it fast and easy for a person to send a content creator a license request link, which explains the context of the request and executes a license for both parties.

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  7. Monetizing web comments: unleashing engagement with novel incentives

    Grant for the Web

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: Matthew Linares

    Developing a version of the open-source Coral Talk comments system that incorporates monetization and experiments with new incentives that reward quality comments, encourage authors to participate in conversations, drive moderation, and that test new ways of stimulating engagement.

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  8. Nonprofit Multitenancy Logistics Software: Viability of Integrating Web Monetization

    Grant for the Web

    15 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Becks Boone

    Assessing the viability of using Web Monetization as a fundraising tool integrated into Food Rescue Alliance's open source logistics web app, a collaboration of thirty-one nonprofits.

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  9. Spooky

    Grant for the Web

    33 704.60 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Canada
    Project lead: Sam Allemang

    Demonstrating viability of comedy website Spooky by mentoring and publishing diverse and emerging comedy writers. Developing open-source resources to promote equity and ethics among web publishers.

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  10. Tembo: a platform for developing monetized web database applications

    Grant for the Web

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Josh Senyak

    Building Tembo, a free and open development platform, designed for creating open-source web database applications that are monetized by default, with micropayments accruing to the software creator.

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