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
2022

44 results

  1. Correcting Error 402

    Grant for the Web

    36 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Michael Masnick

    This project is a content series exploring the concept of Web Monetization, and how very different the internet might look if Web Monetization was widely deployed. This series will be posted on Techdirt (and freely shareable, repostable anywhere), starting with a look at how there was, from early on, an intent for Web Monetization to be a part of the world wide web, as is clear from the creation of HTTP response status code 402: ā€œPayment required.ā€

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  2. Elementari Web Monetization

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Nicole Li

    Elementari Web Monetization enables us to develop and scale Web Monetization on the website elementari.com. We will implement the Web Monetization flow for artists to monetize their artwork. When a story is published, we will calculate the distribution between all artists for the book. Then when the published story is viewed, there will be Probabilistic Revenue Sharing.

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  3. Game On

    Grant for the Web

    9 800 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Zimbabwe
    Project lead: Takunda Chingonzo

    Using a mixed method research approach, Game On will develop training workshops to equip game developers with the best practices of adopting and utilizing Web Monetization, empowering Zimbabwean developers and their users to finally be able to transact and be fully active in the global digital community. This decentralized approach ensures that their ability to transact equitably and at the lowest cost possible given that most of these will be micro-transactions.

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  4. gFam.live

    Grant for the Web

    93 818.42 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Australia
    Project lead: Adam Waring

    gFam.live is a platform that enables content creators to earn for their content. This is enabled through Web Monetization, each creator can provide their own payment pointer and through XRP tips via the XUMM wallet.

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  5. Gib

    Grant for the Web

    90 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Alexander Mozeak

    Sharing content is easy, sharing paid content is hard. It's always frustrating to realize that the person you've shared a link with is blocked from viewing paywalled content. Gib is a gift card for the internet. Using the Gib payment handler, users will be able to share prepaid links to Web Monetized content, so that their friends, family, students - anyone they desire - can participate in the best experiences the Internet has to offer. Our project aims to build a technical prototype of the Gib payment handler using the Rafiki package and Interledger protocol. As part of this integration, we will test and document the features of Rafiki that Gib uses, as well as contribute bug fixes and other pull requests to the Rafiki codebase as necessary.

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  6. Gradual Skill Sharing at Community Scale

    Grant for the Web

    13 290 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Netherlands
    Project lead: Philo van Kemenade

    Our project's goal is to empower members of the Web Monetization community with a safe and accessible space to learn with others as we grow into a healthy, social and connected ecosystem.

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  7. Helping Small Businesses Adopt Web Monetization (HSBAWM)

    Grant for the Web

    33 300 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Rashon Massey

    Serving as a case study and roadmap for other online small business retailers, this project seeks to use Web Monetization as a vehicle for driving the potentiality of new/existing customers of MICOPEIA.com to exclusive online content, while also opening a pathway to growing a Web Monetized online community.

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  8. ITADI Digital Sustainable Farming Initiative

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Tabi Bonney

    The ITADI Digital Sustainable Farming Initiative will design and pilot the first direct to consumer farm that leverages the power of Web Monetization to prototype solutions addressing issues of transparency, sustainability, and equitable market access that plague coffee and other cash crop farmers around the world. This project will utilize a three part strategy that includes dynamic storytelling, limited-edition creative collaborations, and technologically upscaling a remote farm to become digitally enabled.

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  9. MicroMemberships - Subscriptions for Values-based Content and Services

    Grant for the Web

    49 995 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Netherlands
    Project lead: Robert GoenƩ

    In our increasingly digitized society, online spaces are oftentimes owned ā€“ or exploited ā€“ by large tech companies that seem to disconnect from shared public values. We have become largely dependent on their digital services, and digital platform or content creators are bound to their terms. The standard is ā€˜freeā€™ platforms built on advertisement income. In other words, the rights of users are violated by exploiting their personal data. These disruptive changes in our socio-economic landscape demand research into new financial models that are based on public values.

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  10. Monetization of Accented Web Authentication System

    Grant for the Web

    49 200 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Nigeria
    Project lead: Seyi Osunade

    This project seeks to monetize the use of Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Humans and Computer Apart (CAPTCHA), a web authentication system, during online transactions. A CAPTCHA system developed by the team will be used to test various Web Monetization models. The team will integrate Web Monetization API into the CAPTCHA and deploy on a website. A rewarded product demonstration and survey campaign will be done to allow users interact with the monetized CAPTCHA system. Data will be collected on userā€™s activity such as keystrokes, response time and any related security issues. The analysis will provide insight into monetization of authentication systems such as CAPTCHA.

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