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. Instill Science: A community for constructive peer reviews reviews

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Jan Zheng

    Instill is a community that incentivizes researchers to write constructive peer reviews. The platform also provides a safe place for underrepresented researchers to ask the community for feedback on how to improve their drafts, to increase their chances of publication. Existing peer review communities like PubPeer or PREreview don't support feedback requests, and also lack proper reward or incentive systems that attract peers to give feedback. Instill will initially start with Coil integration, but will explore using Web Payments to add community tipping (like Reddit badge awards), a payout pool program, where membership fees proportionally pay authors, and a bounty system where authors are paid to write feedback upon request.

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  2. LOS SUELOS, CA

    Grant for the Web

    48 975.28 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Lauren Lavin, Joshua Duke

    LOS SUELOS, CA is a multimedia content platform that utilizes web monetization to benefit charitable organizations. An immersive literary universe in the vein of Twilight Zone and Stranger Things, LOS SUELOS, CA unites writers, musicians, and artists to create a narrative set in the mysterious, surreal town of Los Suelos.

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  3. Mukto Library

    Grant for the Web

    14 600 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Bangladesh
    Project lead: Nasir Khan

    Mukto Library is an open platform for book lovers. Starting with the Bengali-speaking community with plans to expand for all languages, Mukto Library allows users to read books, write notes and reviews, or just add books and build a virtual personal library. Coil members will have access to additional content, like 'meet the authors' events, an ad free experience & more.

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  4. New Day: Helping Independent Investigative Journalism Thrive On Its Own Terms

    Grant for the Web

    46 014 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Slovenia
    Project lead: Tadej Štrok, Maja Cimerman

    New Day is an experimental project aimed at exploring ways of using the Web Monetization Standard to fund independent and investigative journalism. It will bring together a selection of Slovenian news media outlets and online publications in a pilot program focused on implementation of the Web Monetization Standard, optimization of user onboarding, and testing of communication strategies.

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  5. Qwyre literary publishing & distribution management platform for African speculative fiction

    Grant for the Web

    50 600 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: France
    Project lead: Gavin Chait

    Qwyre.com will enable cooperative and collaborative literary publishing and distribution of African speculative fiction online, and conversion to downloadable standards compliant EPUBs, by facilitating Web Monetization of proportional micropayments for writers and editors through development of an open-source Python and Vue.js progressive web application. Qwyre will permit multiple authors and editors to collaborate on preparing a literary work for publication, publish that work, and share proportionally in web monetization micropayments. Instead of accumulating micropayments and making bulk transfers to stakeholders, incurring numerous transaction fees along the way, the system will pay proportionally after each download or read, directly to the writer, editor or publisher's account.

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  6. Reductress: The "Members Only" Section

    Grant for the Web

    80 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Sarah Pappalardo

    Reductress is the first and only satirical women’s magazine. For years, the ad model has forced Reductress to focus on pageviews, site traffic, and loading the site with ads, which has compromised site speed and user experience, with diminishing returns in revenue. In line with our goal to leave the ad model behind, Reductress has already enabled the framework for microdonations and subscriptions to the site for an ad-free experience and exclusive content. We’re ultimately laying the groundwork to rely more substantially on Web Monetization in general and building out core features of a “Members Only” section of our site to engage Web Monetized users in a world of curated Reductress content that they can rank and discuss in an online community.

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  8. A healthy future Ultra Resolution Storytelling

    Grant for the Web

    49 280 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Netherlands
    Project lead: Roelf-Jan de Vries

    Improving the business model for the publication of ultra-resolution images using Micrio, an IIIF-compatible platform for creating interactive stories. This involves making ultra-resolution stories less risky for publishers and building monetization solutions that fits specific content.

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  9. itme.online

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Travis Vachon

    Creating an open source Solid application that will let users easily publish, create, and monetize custom pages showcasing writing, music and video content hosted in their Solid Pod at a domain of their choosing. Existing platforms that allow users to monetize their content require either the skills and capitalization to maintain custom web infrastructure or a willingness to let a third party become a steward of both content and data about content creators. itme.online will provide a new option for users who would like to maintain full sovereignty over their content and monetize it without running a web server. Building on top of Solid and Web Monetization means that users will be free to move their content off of itme without interrupting the monetization of their content.

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  10. LikeCoin protocol - a public blockchain for content monetization, attribution and distribution, incorporating Web Monetization Standard and Interledger Protocol

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Hong Kong
    Project lead: kin ko

    Incorporating Web Monetization into the LikeCoin protocol, a public blockchain for decentralized publishing. This open source project gives content creators upgraded tools to control, own, and monetize their work. On the content readers' side, components such as Civic Liker encourage readers to contribute money to reward journalism and creativity. We aim to expand our impact coverage from the Greater China region to the rest of the world.

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