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

23 results

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  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. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. Web Monetization for Podcasting

    Grant for the Web

    83 875 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Danika Ragnhild

    Attention-based podcast monetization is being explored within the tech community but no solution has been widely adopted. Most podcasts are monetized through advertising or subscriptions through platforms like Apple and Spotify which help producers earn revenue while also taking their own cut, tying listenerā€™s consumption to their proprietary platform. What is needed is another option for podcast monetization that is as open and standards-based as podcasting itself and that connects support from listeners to the productions themselves.

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