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.

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  1. Interledger Ambassador: Peter-Paul Koch

    Ambassadorships & Fellowships

    30 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Netherlands
    Project lead: Peter-Paul Koch

    Grantee Peter-Paul Koch Webontwikkeling Will Serve As An Interledger Foundation Ambassador, Continuing Outreach Efforts Initiated In 2021 To Engage Web Developers And Browser Vendors In The Adoption Of Web Monetization Technology. The Project Recognizes Web Developers As Key Early Adopters Who Can Promote Web Monetization Solutions To Website Owners And Clients, Thereby Expanding The Ecosystem Of Alternative Revenue Models For Digital Content Creators. This Initiative Supports The Foundation's Mission To Advance Open, Accessible, And Equitable Payment Solutions For The Internet.

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  3. The Parallel Society

    Future Money Grant

    25 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Germany
    Project lead: Xiaoji Song

    The Parallel Society is an educational storytelling game that promotes financial inclusion and equity awareness. The program uses interactive narrative featuring two charactersā€”a Lebanese migrant in Barcelona and a villager in rural China's Henan provinceā€”to illustrate the universal challenges of financial exclusion across different global contexts. Through gameplay, participants learn about the behavioral and psychological impacts of limited access to financial services, while exploring solutions for greater financial equity. The program serves educational and charitable purposes by raising awareness of economic barriers faced by underserved populations worldwide.

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  4. Anemoia or Scenes from the Future

    Future Money Grant

    25 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Gianfranco Fernandez-Ruiz

    Narrative short film. When a series of giant museums begin to appear out of thin air, housing numerous photographs depicting business and entrepreneurial ingenuity, the world slowly begins to understand the purpose of these photographs: a future that is not set, but could be attainable if financial inequity was reconciled.

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    Future Money Grant

    25 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: India
    Project lead: Subhashish Panigrahi

    Bringing Down A Hill: is a documentary short centered around the idea that "financial inclusion is a right, not a privilege, and that financial systems should work for everyone, everywhere". The film would reimagine with communities how they would want to make digital payment systems work for them and move exclusionary barriers, while critiquing Indiaā€™s Unified Payment Interface (UPI). UPI amounts to 52% of Indiaā€™s digital transactions and has helped many first-generation mobile users transact conveniently. But, it also excludes a large number of people due to linguistic, literacy, tech fluency, frauds and many other barriers.

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  6. Liminal Matter

    Future Money Grant

    25 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: France
    Project lead: Lena Ghaninejad

    Liminal Matter is a mixed-media installation combining grains (barley), black obsidian/coltan and 3D hologram technology. The installation aims to illustrate the evolution of money from tangible matter that originates directly from the Earth (grains, food & stones), into an increasingly immaterial entity which leaves more people behind as financial systems complexify and access to technology remains limited -thus asking the question: how can we best share the planet's resources?

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  7. Loose Chains

    Future Money Grant

    25 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Mia Wright-Ross

    Loose Change (Chains) reimagines a structure by which the litter of Hope based lottery tickets can be collected, recycled, and reflected (by Black & Brown Community Liaisons) to question the theologies of money, poverty, wealth, gain, loss, and hope that persists through the Capitalist White Supremacist's systems that prevails within the history and legacy of the U.S. Lottery

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  8. RESIMULATE: Economic Agendas to (Get Rich and) Stop Worrying about the Future

    Future Money Grant

    25 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Mexico
    Project lead: Felipe Brugues

    RESIMULATE explores the effectiveness of financial and economic programs popular in the self-help business literature and in various worldwide political policies in generating financial inclusion. With the use of interactive computational simulations of economic models, RESIMULATE directs two large-scale 3D clay printers. Through the expression in the sculptural possibilities, the voids, weaknesses, and even strengths of financial systems and strategies take shape and become self-evident.

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  9. Sikhula Sonke - Living Archives of Afrofuturist Village Banking

    Future Money Grant

    25 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Zambia
    Project lead: Esther Mwema

    The audio-visual art exhibition will build an imagery that shifts mindsets about wealth and how it is defined. Sikhula Sonke is an isiXhosa phrase which means ā€˜we grow together.ā€™ The living archives will present stories of elders from Southern Africa whose knowledge can inform Afro-futurist financial systems that are not centered on Capitalism. The mixed media visual artwork will depict alternative systems based on archival research on the same topic so that the Afrocentric storytelling will serve as a continuation of archives, hence becoming living archives shaping an Afro-futurist imagining of financial systems based on village banking.

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  10. The Waterworks of Money

    Future Money Grant

    25 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Netherlands
    Project lead: Carlijn Kingma

    Digital Media/animation. They are mapping three future scenarios in which new forms of digital money, payment systems, and systemic change play a pivotal role. By making the world of money more understandable for people without a financial or economic background we have noticed discussions on the design of our monetary system become more accessible. With our maps and the metaphor of water, suddenly people who were never interested in the topic join the discussion about other payments structures, CBDC and restructuring our capital markets.

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