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. gFam

    Grant for the Web

    81 304 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Australia
    Project lead: Adam Waring

    Building gFam, a Web Monetization application designed for consumers to directly support creators, on a platform without advertising nor fees. Creators can post a short story of their day, their thoughts, their creative processes, their training, their adventures or their struggles along with a selfie/photoā€¦ which can then be tipped on by their fans/friends/audience. Tips are transactions solely between the consumer and creator on posts or comments. Creators can also receive micropayments when Coil Subscribers spend time on their posts. The web application uses the XUMM payment mobile application that runs on the XRP ledger to process and settle the tip payments in real time.

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  2. Immers Space: experience the Immersive Web together

    Grant for the Web

    84 700 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: William Murphy

    Immers Space is helping to create the metaverse: a cross-platform and decentralized social network for the Immersive Web. It embraces open standards, enables self-ownership of data and content, and creates alternative business models for content creators that protect user privacy.

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  3. Integrate support for the Web Monetization standard into Open Index Protocol and itā€™s Reference Client and Support Partner Implementations

    Grant for the Web

    86 250 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Devon Read

    Adding Web Monetization support to the Open Index Protocol, an open source specification for a public, worldwide index for data publishing, file distribution and direct payments. It uses blockchain technology and peer-to-peer distribution to operate with no central authority: record indexing, file storage/distribution and transaction management are carried out collectively by decentralized networks. Web Monetization support will create additional financial incentives at both application and protocol layers, creating open market incentive alignment for all participants.

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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. Meaty: A Virtual Event Venue for Playful Large-Scale Festivals, Conferences, and Performances in the Browser

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Andrew Baio

    Building a new virtual space to organize and attend large-scale immersive and playful real-time conferences, festivals, and performances in the browser, with a focus on casual social interaction with audio and video. By integrating the Web Monetization API, attendees can financially support the artists, organizers, and events they love simply by attending events or exploring the spaces they've designed.

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  7. Memex Social - A "substack.com" for online research, bookmarks and web annotations

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Germany
    Project lead: Oliver Sauter

    Memex Social is a "substack.com" for online research, bookmarks & annotations. It allows knowledge workers to curate, publish and collaborate on lists of web content, notes & annotations and get paid by followers. This work is extending the open-source and offline-first browser extension Memex, which enables users to full-text search their web history, annotate websites/PDFs, and organize content with lists and tags. Memex has about 15k users who are mainly knowledge workers like developers, journalists, scientists, students and productivity geeks. This project allows users to monetize their profiles, and develops list sharing and annotation based discussion features.

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  8. Metaculus Futures: Building a Sustainable Model for Forecasting

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Gaia Dempsey

    Augmenting the sustainability of the Metaculus platform and enhancing the tools for communicating its outputs, so that publicly accessible forecasting becomes more widespread, influential, and adopted. This project will present users with an entirely new way for them to support the platform via Web Monetization as well as an internal bounty system.

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  9. Micro-Donations for Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums via Web Monetization and the Omeka S Platform

    Grant for the Web

    49 949 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Lincoln Mullen

    Creating a plugin for the open-source Omeka S platform that uses the Web Monetization Standard to collect micro-donations from users, allowing them to contribute automatically and voluntarily to cultural heritage and educational institutions without requiring these institutions to lock content behind a paywall.

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  10. 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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