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. Monetize the Value of Music Together and Create Economic Diversification

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Netherlands
    Project lead: Hessel van Oorschot

    To monetize music on the web you need to own the music or receive the written consent from rights holders to monetize their content. Today, only a small number of people and businesses dictate how music is (traditionally) monetized online and who gets paid. The unfairness of the current system is well documented by reliable sources. So if we want to research and unleash a resilient payment infrastructure and promote inclusive and sustainable monetization models for musicians and the music sector we have to start with artists, 100% in control and willing to experiment with new business models.

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  2. New Universe

    Grant for the Web

    99 960 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Colombia
    Project lead: Ivonne Zulema Prado Barros

    With this project we want to set a new way to monetize in the Web Monetization landscape specifically aimed at video games and user generated content. We will create a Web Monetized platform built on Unity, that allows users to export WebGL content with Coil integration.

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  3. PeerPay

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Chile
    Project lead: NĆ©stor Campos

    PeerPay will be a platform that through API allows small businesses to integrate payments on their websites and accept their own currencies, regardless of the currency with which their customers pay. In the same way, it will allow transactions between people, reducing transaction costs between them.

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  4. PipeWebMonetization

    Grant for the Web

    82 360 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Brazil
    Project lead: Andrey Torres de Lima

    PipeWebMonetization will facilitate the insertion of Web Monetization in the development of websites by leveraging WordPress, creating the possibility of users to leverage their existing businesses and websites by adding a possible new form of income through Web Monetization. The project will be successful when WordPress users, be they power users or not, can easily implement Web Monetization in their businesses.

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  5. Providing Free Legal Assistance to Web Monetization Innovators

    Grant for the Web

    20 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Art Neil

    Encouraging content creators to follow the law and ethics means that they will use their grants to be part of the ā€œsolution,ā€ as opposed to the ā€œproblem.ā€ We want to create an ecosystem where lengthy and expensive privacy and IP-related suits are no longer necessary because the projects have attended to these issues in advance.

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  6. Sharing values, sharing funds - Web Monetization as a catalyst for social change

    Grant for the Web

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Israel
    Project lead: Lior Zalmanson

    The project addresses the challenge of raising funds for social causes via the internet, emphasizing issues and solutions relevant to users from disenfranchised communities and minority groups. While the internet has primarily democratized the act of fundraising, most activists struggle with ā€œconvertingā€ users from clicks to monetary support for their content and causes.

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  7. SITH Creative Community

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Eleni Maltas

    In the technology and music spaces, Women, Black, Brown, Asian, Indigenous, and LGBTQ communities have been underrepresented and under-served with far less access to equal resources and salaries than their white male cis counterparts.Ā  We want to give our community the opportunity to use cutting edge resources and technology to further advance their careers and artist profiles. In addition, we want to see our community receive the financial dues they deserve.

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  8. Story Synth ā€“ Web Monetization for Storytelling Games and Community Grants for Game Designers

    Grant for the Web

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Randy Lubin

    Story Synth is an open source web platform for making, playing, and sharing storytelling games. It supports a variety of game types inspired by tabletop roleplaying games. This project would add new Web Monetization features to the Story Synth game platform and grow its community engagement and user base through a microgrant program awarding $300 grants to game designers from marginalized backgrounds.

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  9. The Costs of Creation: A Fair Future for Monetised Online Work

    Grant for the Web

    43 256 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: Ciaran Cummins

    What do those in the UK who engage in online work for low or no pay think is a desirable and fair future for the monetizing of online work? Specifically, for self-employed creators and those engaging in voluntary ā€˜digital civic labourā€™ (e.g. forum moderators). Through conversation with them, we can understand how a future rollout of the Interledger Protocol and Web Monetization API could reflect the needs of those who stand to gain the most from these.

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  10. Using Web Monetization for Incentivizing Sharing of ā€˜Goodā€™ Content

    Grant for the Web

    44 700 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: India
    Project lead: Tarunima Prabhakar, Denny George, Arathy Puthillam

    Our project aims to understand the possibility and effectiveness of web based monetization as a mechanism to promote sharing of better quality information in online spaces. This project is a collaboration between a group of psychologists and technologists who are trying to build better interventions against online misinformation.

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