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. 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. 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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  3. AFRICA KITOKO: a collective of graphic and visual designers illustrating the African and Afro-american culture

    Grant for the Web

    35 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: CĆ“te d'Ivoire
    Project lead: Richard Seshie

    Monetizing africakitoko.com, a site that features rich, data-driven visual content about Africa and African Heritage. Implementing Web Monetization will allow experimentation with a different business model to reward our team of graphic and visual designers, and we will dedicate an explainer page on our website.

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  5. Diverse income streams for musicians via web monetisation

    Grant for the Web

    24 500 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: Simon Metson

    Helping musicians to maximize their potential income by making it easy to monetize recordings and smaller content like sounds, patches, and loops. We will provide musicians with a streaming music platform, and use it to compare revenue from Web Monetization to traditional methods, publishing this information and providing guidance to musicians on how to use the technology to supplement other sources of income.

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  6. Donation Stream

    Grant for the Web

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: Michael Huggins

    Developing a fast, efficient, streaming, and international payment system for on-site donations to provide alternative and convenient revenue streams at physical cultural locations such as charity events, museums and art galleries.

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  7. Immersive Payment

    Grant for the Web

    14 806 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: India
    Project lead: Rabimba Karanjai

    Providing digital artists and Web Mixed Reality content creators with a consolidated way to monetize their assets and creations using Web Monetization, which can be distributed in different platforms.

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  8. Live Streaming from Sweet Life Records

    Grant for the Web

    15 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Kyle Ricketts

    Using live streaming to broadcast full-length performances by the band Sweet Live, and experimenting with Web Monetization-based user engagement and strategic viability.

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  9. p5.js Editor

    Grant for the Web

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Dorothy Santos

    Using Web Monetization to create alternative revenue sources for p5.js, a JavaScript library for creative coding, with a focus on making coding accessible and inclusive. We aim to create a sustainable funding model for the p5.js Editor, the main tool used to code with p5.js.

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  10. Vision, Art & Faith: Creative Living for Dancers

    Grant for the Web

    45 990.75 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Belgium
    Project lead: Briana Stuart

    Addressing the lack of content made by dancers for dancers while providing valuable information about monetizing content, building networks, entrepreneurship, gaining professional skills, and boosting personal development. The 'Web Monetization for Dancerā€™s' award will provide financial support for dancers to create their own dance-related content.

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