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

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. Monetization for Creators on A Decentralized Content Platform in Chinese Community

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Hong Kong
    Project lead: YAO LIU

    Integrating the Web Monetization standard and the Interledger Protocol for creators on Matters, a decentralized content website providing a shared infrastructure for creators in the Chinese community. With this integration, creators will be able to receive money in various forms from readers when browsing the web.

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  8. Online Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Video Training Program

    Grant for the Web

    55 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Belgium
    Project lead: Pamela Alexander

    Modeling a repeatable, scalable monetization framework with Cinnamon and the Interledger protocol natively built in to deliver the 8-week online mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program to assist people with stress, anxiety, depression, and pain.

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  9. 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-FornƩs

    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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  10. REACH.Love

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Nonny de la PeƱa

    Designing a WebXR subscription solution that allows for the creation and experience of volumetric content in a PC-based browser, headset or mobile phone. REACH disrupts the technology landscape which has perpetuated a system that keeps compensation and coding know-how from underserved communities. Instead, both creators and REACH itself can monetize exclusive content.

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