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. Folawole.com

    Grant for the Web

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Folawole Winfunke

    There are not enough black led performing arts online hubs that cater to black diasporic performing artists and allies around the globe. There has been historical, political and financial denial of black artistā€™s from creating lasting and autonomous cultural hubs and performing arts centers.. Folawole.com is a black-led performing arts platform for representation, mentorship, research and experimentation with a branch for focused activism through the very first black-led, international performing arts union. This project will explore how Web Monetization can inspire sustainable practices and holistic service-driven work on a website.

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  2. Instill Science: A community for constructive peer reviews reviews

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Jan Zheng

    Instill is a community that incentivizes researchers to write constructive peer reviews. The platform also provides a safe place for underrepresented researchers to ask the community for feedback on how to improve their drafts, to increase their chances of publication. Existing peer review communities like PubPeer or PREreview don't support feedback requests, and also lack proper reward or incentive systems that attract peers to give feedback. Instill will initially start with Coil integration, but will explore using Web Payments to add community tipping (like Reddit badge awards), a payout pool program, where membership fees proportionally pay authors, and a bounty system where authors are paid to write feedback upon request.

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  3. OpenSpeaks

    Grant for the Web

    15 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: India
    Project lead: Subhashish Panigrahi

    Only 22 of the 780 languages of India are officially recognized. The rest of the languages, mostly indigenous, are still used as first languages by communities that have extremely low access and participation in the knowledge commons. This project aims to research web-based citizen media in select indigenous languages of India to develop frameworks and conceptual models for integrating Web Monetization for multimedia content platforms, especially using Creative Commons. All the research outputs (report, multimedia, code and data) will be released under open licenses.

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  4. The Effects of Monetization Visibility on User Behavior

    Grant for the Web

    43 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Israel
    Project lead: Lior Zalmanson (in the name of Tel Aviv University)

    Conducting experiments to study the effects of a micropayment counter on users' level of attention, length of engagement time, retention, sense of community, and other variables. The project is addressing the challenges of content creators to attract and retain users and make their work sustainable.

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  5. Decentralization Off The Shelf

    Grant for the Web

    75 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Eileen Wagner

    Producing a library of developer resources, assets, and design patterns to support the design and development of better user-facing applications using the Web Monetization standard. Developers and designers can use the pattern library as a starting place for crafting key end-user interactions, such as an identity, a wallet, account backup, recovery, and multi-device usage, improving the initial quality of projects built using Web Monetization by providing a well-researched common design foundation.

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  6. Memex Social - A "substack.com" for online research, bookmarks and web annotations

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Germany
    Project lead: Oliver Sauter

    Memex Social is a "substack.com" for online research, bookmarks & annotations. It allows knowledge workers to curate, publish and collaborate on lists of web content, notes & annotations and get paid by followers. This work is extending the open-source and offline-first browser extension Memex, which enables users to full-text search their web history, annotate websites/PDFs, and organize content with lists and tags. Memex has about 15k users who are mainly knowledge workers like developers, journalists, scientists, students and productivity geeks. This project allows users to monetize their profiles, and develops list sharing and annotation based discussion features.

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  7. Metaculus Futures: Building a Sustainable Model for Forecasting

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Gaia Dempsey

    Augmenting the sustainability of the Metaculus platform and enhancing the tools for communicating its outputs, so that publicly accessible forecasting becomes more widespread, influential, and adopted. This project will present users with an entirely new way for them to support the platform via Web Monetization as well as an internal bounty system.

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  8. Online Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Video Training Program

    Grant for the Web

    55 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Belgium
    Project lead: Pamela Alexander

    Modeling a repeatable, scalable monetization framework with Cinnamon and the Interledger protocol natively built in to deliver the 8-week online mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program to assist people with stress, anxiety, depression, and pain.

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  9. The Metagovernance Project: Community governance and participatory budgeting for the Web

    Grant for the Web

    78 180 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Joshua Tan

    Prototyping a modular, customizable governance standard and framework for online communities that will allow users to design their own rule-sets, choose voting schemes, and make collective decisions about resource allocation and monetary flows through the Web Monetization standard. Rather than providing a fixed governance algorithm, the Metagovernance standard allows developers and users to build, assemble, and share their own governance processes, appropriate to their needs. Through it, for instance, a community that earns money through Web Monetization would have a transparent, accountable means for deciding together how that money should be saved or spent.

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  10. A case study on monetizing open-access content

    Grant for the Web

    5 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: South Africa
    Project lead: Arthur Attwell

    Collecting and sharing data on Web Monetization implemented in the same way across a range of open-content websites to compare results across content genres and territories.

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