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. Snake Nation Web Monetization & ILP enabled VNM Wallet for Creators

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: South Africa
    Project lead: Karl Carter, Tawanda Brandon

    Snake Nation is a social media platform with a digital wallet & VNM, our Stellar based(XLM) utility token. Platform members are incentivized for their content engagement in VNM. We are building an ILP Capable VNM Wallet that allows for creative publishers to collect/stream Web Money and e-commerce to their VNM Wallet. The VNM token is meant to streamline and reduce the friction that exists on the current global payment systems, which in emerging markets, marginalizes most of our members when it comes to receiving their earnings. Having the ILP wallet integrated into the app allows for enhanced wallet functionality including the ability to make P2P payments, cross-border payments, withdrawals, top-ups, and contactless payments in any currency.

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  2. Web Monetization for Authenticated Content and Rightsholders | Fake news and plagiarism unintentionally open the door to rights-based Web Monetization.

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Janos Farkas

    This project seeks to address the shortcomings of current online monetization for content in these areas: (i) authenticating sources with tools proposed by recent initiatives, (ii) managing complex rights-holding and permissions,. (iii) handling multiple payees. Shared rights-holding means a single payment may need to be distributed among several - sometimes many - recipients to support decentralized commerce. The project will create and demonstrate tools which integrate the distribution of single ILP payments to multiple payees with content authentication, and licensing for real-world use cases.

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  3. Incentivizing Decentralized Application Development within Solid through Web Monetization

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Belgium
    Project lead: Ruben Taelman

    Enabling the monetization of Solid application,Ā allowing Solid identities to be linked to Web Monetization wallets, andĀ incorporating payment processing into Solidā€™s authentication.

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  4. MHz Curationist Sustainable Contributor Payment Study

    Grant for the Web

    15 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Mary Miller

    Exploring a sustainable web monetization model to pay contributors to the Curationist.org platform, an online space and free knowledge project for curating art and cultural heritage for all creative disciplines. Team includes Christian Dawson, Hilary Osborne, Virginia Poundstone, Matt Kennedy, and Amy Sawyer.

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  5. Kendraio Pay

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: Daniel Harris

    Creating a unified dashboard interface for musicians and content creators to simplify monetizing their work, handling their rights, distributing their content to multiple platforms, analyzing their statistics, receiving payments in their digital wallet, and splitting royalties with their collaborators. This open-source, end-to-end workflow will help creators to upload, manage, and get paid for their work.

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  6. Monetizing philantrophy: Transparent and traceable microtransactions to content creators

    Grant for the Web

    49 498 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Netherlands
    Project lead: Catalina Goanta

    Creating a transparent and traceable system for spontaneous micro-transactions between creators and audiences to improve trust in the monetization of philanthropic initiatives on the web.

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  7. Storage To The People: Web-Monetized Payments For Digital Legacy Storage and Sharing

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Robert Friedman

    Prototyping a workflow and open source API endpoints that allow users to easily store data on Permanent.org using a one-time micropayment, with no need for storing financial data or making financial commitments. By identifying and mocking up components that are not readily available, we will identify missing ecosystem components and chart a course toward enabling anyone to purchase storage from Web Monetized storage providers.

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  8. 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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  9. web-monetised-multimedia - A Web Component Library for Web Monetisation

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Finland
    Project lead: Otto Liuhtonen

    Creating multiple examples of Web Monetization applications, including video and audio streaming use case examples with optional advertisement support and, an example of a multi-publisher blog, with an accompanying web components library. We chose web components because they can be used in many front-end contexts, including React and Vue. We aim to take the shroud off the Web Monetization API using our industry reach, and show through highly visual examples how one might use our web component library in their projects.

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  10. Integrate support for the Web Monetization standard into Open Index Protocol and itā€™s Reference Client and Support Partner Implementations

    Grant for the Web

    86 250 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Devon Read

    Adding Web Monetization support to the Open Index Protocol, an open source specification for a public, worldwide index for data publishing, file distribution and direct payments. It uses blockchain technology and peer-to-peer distribution to operate with no central authority: record indexing, file storage/distribution and transaction management are carried out collectively by decentralized networks. Web Monetization support will create additional financial incentives at both application and protocol layers, creating open market incentive alignment for all participants.

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