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.

Year
2020

112 results

  2. Artist Rescue Trust

    Grant for the Web

    299 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Todd Hansen

    We call our project: ā€œ_Teaching Artists to Fishā€ _playing on the adage ā€œyou can give a person a fish and they will eat for a day. If you teach a person to fish, they will eat for a lifetime.ā€ Artist Rescue Trust aims to help artists have sustainable income during and after COVID-19 using the power of the web. We launched ART in March 2020 as a COVID-19 direct relief program, giving $500/month for 3 months to approved artist applicants. To date we have given $1500 to 58 artists and received over 750 applications. We evaluate based on our eligibility requirements and if they meet the standard we place them in our qualified pool. Then we choose the number of grantees we can support randomly from the qualified pool.

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  3. Freesound Licensing

    Grant for the Web

    36 800 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Spain
    Project lead: Frederic Font

    Prototyping a licensing mechanism for Freesound Licensing to help content creators monetize their sounds by re-licensing them to content users that need usage rights beyond those allowed by the sounds' original CC restrictions.

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  4. IGDAF

    Grant for the Web

    505 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Nika Nour

    In partnership with Grant for the Web, The IGDA Foundation, a diversity and inclusion focused video game non-profit, aims to support underrepresented entrepreneurs seeking access and resources for individuals and independent teams on a global scale. Through this partnership, we developed the Diverse Game Developers Fund, a three-part initiative dedicated to empowering and funding marginalized developers and students in the games industry.

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  5. Kendraio Pay

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: Daniel Harris

    Creating a unified dashboard interface for musicians and content creators to simplify monetizing their work, handling their rights, distributing their content to multiple platforms, analyzing their statistics, receiving payments in their digital wallet, and splitting royalties with their collaborators. This open-source, end-to-end workflow will help creators to upload, manage, and get paid for their work.

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  6. Monetizing philantrophy: Transparent and traceable microtransactions to content creators

    Grant for the Web

    49 498 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Netherlands
    Project lead: Catalina Goanta

    Creating a transparent and traceable system for spontaneous micro-transactions between creators and audiences to improve trust in the monetization of philanthropic initiatives on the web.

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  7. Storage To The People: Web-Monetized Payments For Digital Legacy Storage and Sharing

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Robert Friedman

    Prototyping a workflow and open source API endpoints that allow users to easily store data on Permanent.org using a one-time micropayment, with no need for storing financial data or making financial commitments. By identifying and mocking up components that are not readily available, we will identify missing ecosystem components and chart a course toward enabling anyone to purchase storage from Web Monetized storage providers.

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  8. The Effects of Monetization Visibility on User Behavior

    Grant for the Web

    43 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Israel
    Project lead: Lior Zalmanson (in the name of Tel Aviv University)

    Conducting experiments to study the effects of a micropayment counter on users' level of attention, length of engagement time, retention, sense of community, and other variables. The project is addressing the challenges of content creators to attract and retain users and make their work sustainable.

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  9. W3C

    Grant for the Web

    268 700 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Jeff Jaffe

    This project ensures GftW proposals support open standardization by addressing often-overlooked web development aspects that hinder global scaling and impact. Key issues include: ā— Privacy: Protecting user information to maintain trust and utility. ā— Security: Establishing defenses against attackers and extortion. ā— Internationalization: Designing for global accessibility beyond local markets. ā— Accessibility: Ensuring the web is usable for individuals with disabilities. ā— Device independence: Enabling functionality across all web-connected devices. ā— Architectural consistency: Following established patterns for interoperability.

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  10. web-monetised-multimedia - A Web Component Library for Web Monetisation

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Finland
    Project lead: Otto Liuhtonen

    Creating multiple examples of Web Monetization applications, including video and audio streaming use case examples with optional advertisement support and, an example of a multi-publisher blog, with an accompanying web components library. We chose web components because they can be used in many front-end contexts, including React and Vue. We aim to take the shroud off the Web Monetization API using our industry reach, and show through highly visual examples how one might use our web component library in their projects.

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