Grantees

Sharing content is easy, sharing paid content is hard. It's always frustrating to realize that the person you've shared a link with is blocked from viewing paywalled content. Gib is a gift card for the internet. Using the Gib payment handler, users will be able to share prepaid links to Web Monetized content, so that their friends, family, students - anyone they desire - can participate in the best experiences the Internet has to offer. Our project aims to build a technical prototype of the Gib payment handler using the Rafiki package and Interledger protocol. As part of this integration, we will test and document the features of Rafiki that Gib uses, as well as contribute bug fixes and other pull requests to the Rafiki codebase as necessary. This project builds on work previously funded by Grant for the Web.

Company XV is a virtual dance collective that seeks to innovate how arts patrons support the company and its artists. Patrons will be able to subscribe to content similar to streaming platforms like Hulu or Disney+. A portion of their subscription cost will cover Coil membership that we help set up. Each of five artists will moderate a fan page where patrons can support them directly by interacting and viewing content through the fan page. Company XV Dance seeks to democratize the relationship between artists, dance companies, and patrons. This model offers artists the chance to maintain a salary, while supplementing this income through web-monetized interactions with fans. Additionally, they can leverage the power of social media to bring fans into the Web Monetization ecosystem. Collectively, we believe this will increase the overall financial capacity of fans to support artists, convert casual content consumers to arts patrons, and encourage the evolving demographics of arts patronage.

Web Monetization aims to solve the problem of who gets paid, how much, and why, but remittance back to a content creator is exceptionally difficult and expensive. At present, there are a handful of options for creators to be paid, but we believe those are too cumbersome, slow, and riddled with fees and delays. We believe that content creators will want to value their content, and realize that value in their own currency (assetCode). As the number of people across the planet using Web Monetization increases, the profile of a potential user also changes. Currently, users of Web Monetization are “tech-savvy,” and/or willing to put in effort to make payment work for them. In the near future, we expect that profile to shift toward users who expect services that “just work,” and toward users who are unbanked. We aim to tailor payout solutions that are direct, intuitive, and localized, in order to usher forth a more inclusive future of Web Monetization that empowers more people from more backgrounds.

Elementari is an educational K-12 online platform to read, write, code, collaborate, publish, and remix interactive stories using professional illustrations and sounds. When stories are published, all contributing artists are automatically credited and notified. Elementari Web Monetization enables us to develop and scale Web Monetization on the website elementari.com. We will implement the Web Monetization flow for artists to monetize their artwork. When a story is published, we will calculate the distribution between all artists for the book. Then when the published story is viewed, there will be Probabilistic Revenue Sharing. Next, we will expand Web Monetization to our educator contributors. Educators can create or assign a lesson plan for their students. We will develop a lesson plan library so any educator can contribute a lesson plan for the community to use and be able to monetize their work whenever a lesson plan is used. Finally, we aim to develop something similar to Cinnamon Boost where we can distribute our profit shared revenue from sales of Elementari licenses to contributing artists and educators.

This project will allow the Brick House Cooperative to develop more partnerships for Briet, a WordPress plugin that will enable any publisher to create an ownable digital artifact compliant with digital library lending programs. We are working with the Open Library and the Internet Archive on this initiative. The result of this work will be vastly more digital publishers who can (a) control the rights and archiving of their media, (b) develop a new revenue stream from libraries acquiring their digital works to archive and lend, and (c) an unlocked value proposition for reader-supported projects, in that their donations can help publishers to produce new works, and libraries to acquire them permanently. Web Monetization will help us offer these benefits to readers, publishers and libraries in a flexible and forward-looking way.

Knowledge commons are incredibly important tools for academics, researchers, activists, and social change builders, but it is difficult to find a way to financially sustain these projects, and the traditional advertising model common on the web isn't compatible with the goals of these thought leaders. Most academic research and knowledge is locked away behind various academic journals or paywalls, which inhibits the sharing of ideas across channels, and many grassroots organizations publish their research in support of movement building but later find their work used by larger NGOs, with no proper attribution (or funding) flowing back to them. Mysilio will build a prototype for an open-source platform for managing a shared knowledge commons that is financially sustained through passive Web Monetization. Readers, research groups, grantmakers, etc can pay a subscription to access a community's social knowledge graph, and the subscription fees will be split and attributed to the individual creators whose content is being consumed through the platform. This project builds on work previously funded by Grant for the Web.

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. In addition, the project will utilize Interledger Protocol to establish a digital marketplace where our consumer base and global community of supporters can purchase ITADI coffee directly from our farm through Web Monetized transactions enabled by ILP. This farm-to-table curated coffee platform will develop unique Web Monetization integrations into www.itadicoffee.com & www.itadibody.com, whose established user bases can benefit from the enhanced utility that Web Monetization can offer. By creating a multifaceted digital platform with multiple points of entry that offers rich storytelling / content, commercial / retail access, and artistic engagement directly from ITADI coffee producers and the creatives that support them, this project will establish a unique ecosystem that can serve as a new fair trade model for connecting conscious consumers with sustainable coffee farms and communities.

In the technology and music spaces, Women, Black, Brown, Asian, Indigenous, and LGBTQ communities have been underrepresented and under-served with far less access to equal resources and salaries than their white male cis counterparts. We want to give our community the opportunity to use cutting edge resources and technology to further advance their careers and artist profiles. In addition, we want to see our community receive the financial dues they deserve. www.soulinthehorn.com is home to hundreds of DJs and artists from around the world. We will test Web Monetization and Interledger Protocol on a chosen few DJs and musicians, well-known and emerging, that have a growing audience of fans and followers. We will create artist profiles on our website, so that when a fan clicks directly on that artist’s profile micropayments immediately begin to transfer from fan account to artist account. We want to test whether we can direct micropayments to user specific accounts within the same web domain or if we need to create separate websites for each artist.

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. We have access to many of them. In our initial GftW funded project, we did extensive research amongst thousands of stakeholders. For this project, we will select interoperable tools, content, relevant user groups from both our global music communities and co-develop a fair, economic monetization framework. Obviously this will include today’s Web Monetization models. On top of that, new payment products for tipping, paying contributors and subscription models (mandates) will be welcome too. With the millions of visitors and contributors on Free Music Archive we have a good chance to accelerate the adoption of Web Monetization.

After the pandemic and with a large number of immigrants arriving in other countries, the problem occurs that these people need to send money to their families in the countries of origin, but the remittance market is currently very expensive, and the problem of using 100 % cryptocurrencies is that many countries of destination of the money there are few exchanges to be able to convert it to a currency to be used. In the same way, there are small businesses that are not accepted in payment platforms because they do not have adequate information or are not incorporated as a company, which reduces the possibility of accepting electronic payments (except for direct bank transfers) or as they are produced in Latin America, the payment gateway market in a monopoly in certain countries (such as Chile). PeerPay will be a Web payment gateway dedicated to transactions between people or from people to small businesses without the possibility of integrating other payment methods in their platforms due to not being banked. Using Interledger, PeerPay will be a platform that through API allows small businesses to integrate payments on their websites and accept their own currencies, regardless of the currency with which their customers pay. In the same way, it will allow transactions between people, reducing transaction costs between them. This project builds on work previously funded by Grant for the Web.

The problem we want to solve with our project is the lack of video game content using Web Monetization, an issue that exists due to the difficulty and the technical requirements involved in creating them (which makes it difficult for young people and people that live in third-world countries to start creating and monetizing games). Although successful platforms such as Roblox and Rec Room have managed to make it easier to create games for people new to video game development, they still require a high learning curve for creators and also specific devices for certain types of content that limit access to people in countries with fewer resources, sometimes marginalizing them or indirectly neglecting them (sometimes because those platforms don't provide a safe environment). With this project we want to set a new way to monetize in the Web Monetization landscape specifically aimed at video games and user generated content. We will create a Web Monetized platform built on Unity, that allows users to export WebGL content with Coil integration. Team includes: Ivonne Zulema Prado Barros, José Roberto Ardila García, Tania Paola Tejada Buitrago.

Traditionally, blogs and educational content in the design industry have been openly accessible for anyone on the web to learn from, no matter their background. With the cost of design education inaccessible to many, the open web enabled a thriving self-taught generation of designers and developers. Throughout 2016 to today though, there's been a rise in centralized publishing platforms optimizing for paywalled business models that create a barrier to free learning. Prototypr is an independent online UX/UI design publication with 2k+ authors and 6k+ articles published over the last 5 years. Topics we cover include design, prototyping, coding, and future technologies such as AR/VR, AI and 3D. In a community that has knowledge sharing at its core, Web Monetization gives us the ability to reward creators, whilst keeping the web open. Prototypr contributors are industry professionals who value the reach and distribution of their articles just as much (or even more) than earning money from what they write. This project will develop Prototypr as an inclusive Web Monetized publishing platform for designers, that rewards contributors whilst democratising design education by providing openly accessible, quality content across different cultures.

gFam.live is a platform that enables content creators to earn for their content. This is enabled through Web Monetization, each creator can provide their own payment pointer and through XRP tips via the XUMM wallet. Building on work previously funded by Grant for the Web, this project will see gFam build further functionality for creators and consumers. It will also include content creation and marketing efforts to bring more users onto the platform and educate the public on the benefits of Web Monetization and decentralized social media.

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 listener’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. This project will implement Web Monetization for podcasting in our OSS publishing system and embeddable podcast player. We will work with several acclaimed podcasters across our portfolio to pilot WM functionality for podcasters. We’ll also add WM support to the PRX embeddable podcast player by using the newly added RSS payment pointers, the monetization javascript API to align with audio playback, and counters with other UX elements to indicate WM support and use. The player is MIT Licensed, works with any RSS podcast feed, and has >50k monthly unique users across many podcaster sites.

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.

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 “converting” users from clicks to monetary support for their content and causes. In the typical situation, creators will appeal for financial aid as part of or alongside their content. However, Web Monetization saves the creators from the emotional labor in making constant direct appeals or advertisements. We propose that, as can be hypothesized based on the self-consistency theory, users (viewers) who adopt Web Monetization are becoming more loyal to social and civic causes that interest them. As a result, grassroots initiatives and activists raising funds for social change could benefit from creating socially aware content and encouraging users to become members of Web Monetization through Coil. This project builds on work previously funded by Grant for the Web.

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. By making Web Monetized games with Story Synth, designers gain another income stream and expand their audience. Players will be able to access more games than they would if they spent an equivalent amount on existing platforms.

In our increasingly digitized society, online spaces are oftentimes owned – or exploited – 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 ‘free’ 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. Research conducted for MicroDonor, a project previously funded by Grant for the Web, revealed that beneficiaries need more structural support than irregular donations. Furthermore, subscriptions have regained popularity as a means of committing audiences, but run via large, centralized parties with untransparent revenue streams such as Substack and Survey Monkey. MicroMemberships builds on this earlier work by examining whether and how MicroMemberships models contribute to a more fair, open and inclusive Internet.

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 user’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.

This joint project with Monk Prayogshala 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. We’ll share our learning on the effect micropayments administered through Interledger Protocol have on the quality of content people share. As part of this project we also plan to build and share the source code of a web service that people could self host in their communities. This would enable anyone to create an online content platform that rewards its community members for sharing and engaging with their content without tracking their data.

Online corporations making vast profits are exploiting those whose work and skills they benefit from without payment. From individuals creating online content that popularizes platforms, to community moderators helping keep their users safe, and open-source developers maintaining the infrastructure on which they depend, much of this work is going unrewarded. The Web Monetization API and Interledger Protocol open up a future of online payment that could benefit these workers. The question is how to scale this technology in a way that realizes this potential in practice for the worse off. Answering this means exploring an array of difficult questions in turn: do creators, curators, and moderators of content agree over the future of Web Monetization? Should we monetize online work that is currently done out of goodwill? How do we ensure that technology doesn’t reproduce existing inequalities in whose content is deemed more valuable? This project asks: 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 ‘digital civic labour’ (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.

The pandemic disproportionately impacted creators of color. According to a report by the "Americans for the Arts," Black, Indigenous, artists of color had higher rates of unemployment than white artists in 2020 and lost a larger percentage of their creative income. Black Web Fest x Web Monetization will address these issues by teaching Black creators about the benefits and utility of Web Monetization. During the project, organizers will engage the Black Web Fest community through a film competition, a virtual marketing course, and digital publicity course. All the courses will be recorded, transcribed, and available for playback on Blackwebfest.org.

This project is a content series exploring the concept of Web Monetization, and how very different the internet might look if Web Monetization was widely deployed. This series will be posted on Techdirt (and freely shareable, repostable anywhere), starting with a look at how there was, from early on, an intent for Web Monetization to be a part of the world wide web, as is clear from the creation of HTTP response status code 402: “Payment required.” The content series will then explore the history of Web Monetization, what has failed in the past, what has potential today, and where there are real opportunities to create a better internet. It will include interviews and profiles of projects that are exploring Web Monetization today, along with graphics, and other shareable content.

Serving as a case study and roadmap for other online small business retailers, this project seeks to use Web Monetization as a vehicle for driving the potentiality of new/existing customers of MICOPEIA.com to exclusive online content, while also opening a pathway to growing a Web Monetized online community. MICOPEIA is an online wellness brand that relies heavily on education and community engagement in order to sell products. This project will help introduce and engage customers with Web Monetization by building an entirely new Web Monetized website using the Wordpress Coil Web Monetization plugin, to offer evergreen herbalism webinars, educational courses and exclusive content. This project will offer free trial Coil subscriptions to new users to build MICOPEIA’s unique Web Monetized community. This project builds on work previously funded by Grant for the Web.

We will provide Grant for the Web grantees (and other monetization innovators) an option to get pro-bono legal support to encourage the safe and wide distribution of their content or technology projects. Niche legal services like ours are increasingly expensive ($400-600 per hour) and in-demand. The under-served creatives and entrepreneurs who we work with genuinely want to make their projects compliant but often don’t have the funds to hire a lawyer. As a result, they may choose to “hope for the best” thereby jeopardizing the rights of their users as well as putting their own projects at risk. We have found that when creators do not understand the extent and limitations of copyright and trademark laws, it acts as a chilling effect to creativity. Lack of information often encourages creators to distribute their work to a more limited audience for fear of exposing it to greater scrutiny and potential liability from a larger audience. Encouraging content creators to follow the law and ethics means that they will use their grants to be part of the “solution,” as opposed to the “problem.” We want to create an ecosystem where lengthy and expensive privacy and IP-related suits are no longer necessary because the projects have attended to these issues in advance. This project is a continuation of our previous Grant for the Web grant. There was high demand for our services from the community under the previous grant and we were able to provide over 350 hours of services to Web Monetization projects.

In a world where technological and societal change is quick, capacity for personal and professional development are more important than ever. While the web has democratized access to a plethora of educational resources, there is a relevance gap between what is offered via top down educational content providers and people who wish to learn something in the context of their daily practice. In fast-moving, innovative domains - like the Web Monetization community - technical systems and the knowledge required to contribute are often so dynamic that structured learning resources aren’t widely available. We want to empower members in the Web Monetization community with a safe and accessible space to learn with others as we grow into a healthy, social and connected ecosystem. This project will support the community of current GftW grantees in their social learning needs, using the Gradual skill sharing process and web-based tooling. We will integrate a skill sharing process and tool into the Grant for the Web cohort community, in order to equip grantees with a space to express any topics they’d like to learn and share while they are working on their projects. The resulting learning sessions, led by members of the grantee community, might relate directly to the Web Monetization API and its implementation, or to any broader topics.

Web Monetization for the Arts is an education and outreach project that listens to and informs arts organizations in the United States about Web Monetization so that they may develop more effective and sustainable online content practices. Our project researches and surveys classical music and performing arts groups to discover their current understanding of Web Monetization, meeting them where they are, and then writes and delivers educational materials in order to create sustainable and equitable practices and deconstruct myths around free art.

The global game development ecosystem has been rapidly evolving so as to meet the trending market demands. Central to this progression is the adoption of web monetization models which offer far greater business and revenue generating opportunities as compared to traditional game monetization models. Yet, in Zimbabwe, local currency is not accepted by Google Playstore or other international payment gateways. This severely restricts the potential paying user base, preventing aspiring and professional game developers from sustainably generating revenue. Using a mixed method research approach, Game On will develop training workshops to equip game developers with the best practices of adopting and utilizing Web Monetization, empowering Zimbabwean developers and their users to finally be able to transact and be fully active in the global digital community. This decentralized approach ensures that their ability to transact equitably and at the lowest cost possible given that most of these will be micro-transactions. That is true democratization of economic activity, a right that most developers easily enjoy in other communities across the world, but which Zimbabwean developers ( in Zimbabwe) only dream of.

The Black Artist Collective’s platform will model a new, passive revenue stream for artists and curators to add long-term value to their essential work. The Art of Influence project will leverage close relationships with curators to connect black artists with a global network of collectors and art enthusiasts.By integrating Web Monetization micropayments, even novice art lovers can contribute to artists’ financial wellbeing as they learn more about their work.

Digital Gojo is a research and development project exploring use-cases to transform Ethiopia’s local and international creative value network into a sustainable Web Monetization ecosystem. The project will include a digital platform that will facilitate micropayments to Digital Gojo members and subscribers invited to participate in the revenue sharing, allowing for a circular ecosystem where members benefit from the shared value of their network.

Call & Response is a system to convert real-time, virtual concert audience responses into money and sound for performers using social media and other virtual platforms. Dubbed Call & Response after the eponymous Black music tradition, the system leverages blockchain and digital signal processing technologies to absorb audience response data and deliver digital asset payments to performers.

The Little INKPLAY Shop® will create The Black Tattoo Anthology to address the historical erasure of Black artists and Black tattoo culture. Comprised of an anthology that chronicles the Black tattoo experience (including the historical milestones, movements, and contributions of Black artists and artistry to the tattoo industry) and a digital collection that will be created, curated, maintained, and Web Monetized by Black practitioners and the tattoo community, these stories will be shared both digitally and in physical form.

freeCodeCamp will develop a course to teach developers about Web Monetization tools, including the Interledger Protocol, and incorporate them into their projects. The course will be published on YouTube where freeCodeCamp has more than 4 million subscribers, and shared with their community of developers, mentors, and learners. The course itself will be Web Monetized with proceeds funding the non-profit freeCodeCamp.

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. 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. Team includes Gulzar Ahmend & Hamza Nouradine.

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.

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. 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. Team includes Team includes Dre Ngare, Amber Ryan, Tawanda Brandon, Lawil Karama, Tshitso Mosolodi, Jacque Njeri, and Orinea Tshivhenga.

MOVA is a project that uses the International Standard Content Code to make a light fingerprint of a video and register it with a Web Monetization wallet on a distributed ledger through a desktop app; then uses CiviCRM to execute a revenue-sharing agreement for it. These new approaches could support both filmmakers and rightsholders in making works available under Web Monetization, while broadening the spaces and platforms that can share, monetize and champion them. Team includes Matthew Wire, Connor Turland, Pegah Vaezi, Silvia Schmidt, Sebastian Posth, and Titusz Pan.

Regulation, including GDPR, consumer law and privacy, presents a barrier to entry to implementing Web Monetization standard and Interledger Protocol. We will develop a suite of legal texts including a template for generating a GDPR record of processing, a privacy policy, a generic terms of use, and consumer terms for using Web Monetization Standard and Interledger Protocol. Team includes Tim Astley, Usha Guness & Jiri Svorc.

Kult is a network-based platform for culture & entertainment content curation. It is a space to share, discover and debate movies, TV series, music, podcasts (and soon books), supported by a community-rewarding system. Team includes Helena Tude, Diogo Peralta Cordeiro, Phablulo Joel dos Santos & Gleibson Silva.

Hyperaudio for Conferences is a web-based platform to which conferences can add recorded content maximising accessibility, engagement, and revenue. Our focus is to broaden the accessibility of conference talks by augmenting them with multi-lingual interactive transcripts. By placing Web Monetization at its heart, we’ll create new models to incentivize viewing, sharing, and transforming audiovisual content. Team includes Annabel Church, Piotr Fedorczyk, Daniel Schultz, Laurian Gridinoc & Joanna Bogusz.

HostBeak Kreators will create, educate and provide a community of 1,000 empowered African creators with personalized websites, their preferred domain name, and the ability to monetize their content on the web. We will train the creators on payment pointers, how to manage their website, web hosting and more. Team includes Ogoluwa Ojewale, Joshua Folorunsho, Victoria David Akpan, Abdulhafiz Ayobami Abdulfatai, Felica Ojekunle, James Moses James, Naomi Frank, Ezekiel Lawson, Glory Praise Emmanuel & Ukpono James.

Reductress is the first and only satirical women’s magazine. With this grant we are laying the groundwork to rely more substantially on Web Monetization in general and building out core features of a “Members Only” section of our site to engage Web Monetized users in a world of curated Reductress content that they can rank and discuss in an online community. Team includes Dima Kronfeld, Jibran Bisharat & Kendra Singh.

MG.Social is a live and fully functional, ad-free, Web Monetized social network (micro-blogging) platform. The business model of MG.Social is built around the revenue generated by integrating the Web Monetization standard into the platform and requiring a Web Monetization provider subscription for access.

Qwyre.com will enable cooperative and collaborative literary publishing and distribution of African speculative fiction online, and by conversion to downloadable standards compliant EPUBs, by facilitating Web Monetization of proportional micropayments for writers and editors through development of an open-source Python and Vue.js progressive web application.

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.

LOS SUELOS, CA is a multimedia content platform that utilizes web monetization to benefit charitable organizations. An immersive literary universe in the vein of Twilight Zone and Stranger Things, LOS SUELOS, CA unites writers, musicians, and artists to create a narrative set in the mysterious, surreal town of Los Suelos. Team includes Barton Aikman, Ian Kappos, and Karter Mycroft Harmon.

New Day is an experimental project aimed at exploring ways of using the Web Monetization Standard to fund independent and investigative journalism. It will bring together a selection of Slovenian news media outlets and online publications in a pilot program focused on implementation of the Web Monetization Standard, optimization of user onboarding, and testing of communication strategies. Filip Dobranić, Jasmina Ploštajner, Tadej Štrok, Maja Cimerman, Eva Vrtačič & Franci Zidar.

An education platform at interledger.dev where learners pay creators only for the time spent learning. This payment model aligns incentives for learners and creators; money spent and money earned are predictably scaled as usage increases. Streaming micropayments keeps the focus entirely on educational engagement and offers a viable alternative to ads, donations and paywalls. Team includes Gaurav Mitra.

Alquimétricos was founded in 2015 as an open-source initiative to bring STEAM educational resources to low-income communities, especially in Latin America. This project will research, experiment, and build a case study on monetizing open-access content from the existing platform through Web Monetization to benefit a Brazilian ecosystem of low-income public schools and social institutions. Team includes Tatiana Tabak, Paula Martini, Léo Melo, Camila , Italo Martins, Prof. Carlos Vidal &Tatiana Tabak.

Interruptor is the first Portuguese journalistic outlet to take a data-driven approach to analyse cultural issues, beyond current affairs. Our work is anchored on the principles of open source and open culture.Our goal with Web Monetization Standard is to use it as an extra revenue stream for our work and empower other small media to do the same. Team includes Ricardo Correia & Ciaran Edwards.

Launchpad is an interactive game, playable through messengers (WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, etc) and a companion web app. The goal is to playfully educate and enable internet users to successfully monetize their creations on the web and gamifies real processes in the software and web market.

Creating a webcomic reader platform with Web Monetization where creators get paid based on the duration of content consumption and readers get to consume webcomics without sacrificing privacy and dealing with multiple subscriptions. Team includes Kent Leo L. Makibulan & Camelle Angela Gomez.

Self-Sovereign Identity provides means to return control over users' identities data back to the individuals themselves, enhancing privacy & security, and furthermore authenticity of the data. With this project we propose to research & design an Interledger-based payment protocol that extends our existing Open Source SSI stack to enable micropayments when exchanging W3C Verifiable Credentials. Team includes Philipp Potisk.

Code Angel is a Question and Answer website for developers. Any user can post a code-related question and developers that are registered with the platform can choose to respond. Answers stay evergreen because developers are incentivised through micro-payments that are sent to them via XRP tips and Web Monetization.

A platform where artists can not only survive, but thrive. Users can choose to monetize their content or not, and experimental features will be built around the use of Web Monetization and how it should reward good content/art. Team includes Talia Skyles.

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.Team includes members of O Foundation (OFDN) in collaboration with the Ho and Santali community.

ProgNovel is a modern open-source PWA that focuses on bringing speed, modern features, and modern monetization, to empower authors and contributors with a minuscule effort and resources to host.

Mukto Library is an open platform for book lovers. Starting with the Bengali-speaking community with plans to expand for all languages, Mukto Library allows users to read books, write notes and reviews, or just add books and build a virtual personal library. Team includes Blue Cube Community.

Everything is Connected is a Web Monetized social experiment to incentivize mentorship, peer support and address an increasing polarized society.

An experienced WordPress developer, David led a team to develop the world's first Web Monetization plugin for Wordpress. He will create a WordPress-powered showcase that uses the Coil WordPress plugin to demonstrate how publishers and content creators can leverage Web Monetization technology.

The IGDA Foundation (IGDA-F) will create a Diverse Game Developers Fund (DGDF) distributing more than $300,000 to marginalized game developers and students around the world. The program will help developers explore web monetization options with global applicability as an alternative to relying on traditional models of revenue generation built by and for a western audience.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) will help ensure that the Grant for the Web program, grantees, and community shape an emerging Web Monetization ecosystem favorable to open standardization.

As a Grant for the Web Ambassador, Kokayi will bring his experience, network, and point of view to build initiatives that connect to black creatives and technologists while ensuring that these voices help shape and benefit from the fund and the Web Monetization movement.

Artist Rescue Trust (A.R.T.) supports musicians and artists whose ability to perform, tour, and earn a living has been negatively affected by COVID-19. In addition to providing direct relief to creatives, A.R.T. will build and launch a Web Monetization training program to teach artists how to monetize their work and run their businesses-as-artists. They will train over 1000 artists on Web Monetization and reach 20,000+ artists via a campaign about how Web Monetization can help creatives.

Researching and building a proof of concept of a web-based platform to enable citizens to participate in citizen science, integrating interledger protocol and payment pointers so researchers can reimburse citizens for participation in for example environmental health research. Survey-data will be stored in linked data format and users can copy the data on their own SolidPod. Team includes Thom van Kalkeren, Arthur Dingemans, Joep Meindertsma and Winfried Tilanus.

Adding educational and collaborative components to the DisCO platform that prototype interoperable forms of ownership, governance, entrepreneurship, and value accounting meant to counteract pervasive economic inequality. Team includes Irene López de Vallejo, Ann Marie Utratel, Ruth Catlow, Ela Kagel, Phoebe Tickell, Elena Martínez Vicente, Elsie Bryant, Bronagh Gallagher, Sofia Bustamante, Mamading Ceesay, Mercè M. Tarres, and Mireia Juan Cuco.

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. Team also includes Darren Mothersele, Antonio Talarico, and Lena Pagel.

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. Team includes Jani Anttonen, Daren Tuzi, and Juha Viitala.

Building a web-based interface with back end support for a Distributed Cooperative Organization's (DisCO) “Community Algorithmic Trust” (the DisCO CAT). This will be a user-friendly, accessible online tool that will allow the use of Interledger and Web Monetization to connect value production with outside economic models, whether based on fiat currencies or digital coins on a blockchain. Our software will use CommonsPub, which is based on ActivityPub and ValueFlo.ws, together with Interledger through GraphQL to allow interoperability between diverse ledger models, and will be piloted by multiple organizations in order to help us find the strengths and pain points in our software design. Team includes Jill Ada Burrows, Joseph Gallegos Jr, Lynn Foster, Aspasia Beneti, Micky Metz, and Denise Colbray.

Standardizing the agreements for conditional data sharing between data owner and data user to allow Solid Pod owners to monetize their data. Pods re-decentralize the web by giving people a way to store their data, and make it available to others while keeping full data ownership. Interledger offers a perfect solution for micro-payments without the need for complex and centralized payment providers. Team includes Joep Meindertsma, Arthur Dingemans, Thom van Kalkeren, Laurens van Berkcen, Jan Meijer, and Sander van Haren.

Adding Web Monetization support to the Open Index Protocol, an open-source specification for a public, the 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. Team includes Jeremiah Buddenhagen, and Martin Adams.

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. Team includes Nathan Schneider, Primavera De Filippi, Ricardo Saavedra, Seth Frey, and Amy Zhang.

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.

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. Team includes Anthony Aguirre, Max Wainwright, Tamay Besiroglu, and Matej Vrzala.

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. Team includes Karl Fogel and James Vasile, Open Tech Strategies.

Integrating the Web Monetization standard and the Interledger Protocol for creators on Matters, a decentralized content website providing a shared infrastructure for creators in the Chinese community. With this integration, creators will be able to receive money in various forms from readers when browsing the web. Team includes Jieping Zhang and Guo Liu.

Incorporating Web Monetization into the LikeCoin protocol, a public blockchain for decentralized publishing. This open-source project gives content creators upgraded tools to control, own, and monetize their work. On the content readers' side, components such as Civic Liker encourage readers to contribute money to reward journalism and creativity. We aim to expand our impact coverage from the Greater China region to the rest of the world. Team includes Phoebe Poon, Chung Wu, David Ng, and William Chong.

Erase All Kittens is an epic online adventure game designed to teach kids transferable coding skills and give girls the confidence to code, through highly gamified, story-driven gameplay. The team will conduct Web Monetization experiments - the Erase All Kittens website will be monetized and parents will have exclusive early access to new gameplay and additional content such as hackable cards, mini-games and an illustrated e-book. EAK has 150,000 players in over 100 countries and 95% of girls want to learn more about coding after playing. Team includes Leonie Van Der Linde, Rex Van Der Spuy, Mark Martin and Rajeev Singh.

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. Team includes Vincent den Boer, Christoper Harris, Jonathan Samosir..

Developing moncon, an open-source framework that lets content creators securely monetize their content. moncon is composed of an API, a dashboard where content creators can manage the site configuration, payments and metrics, and a wallet that will allow users to pay for and store the content they buy. Users can consume content, paying for the time they spend, and storing content in their wallets. Creators can define the number of copies allowed and can set content to expire, making it exclusive and special for users. Team includes Jose Juan, Nuno Figueiredo, Juanjo Fernández, Angélica Galíndez, and Javi Santos.

Creating an open-source Solid application that will let users easily publish, create, and monetize custom pages showcasing writing, music, and video content hosted in their Solid Pod at a domain of their choosing. Existing platforms that allow users to monetize their content require either the skills and capitalization to maintain custom web infrastructure or a willingness to let a third party become a steward of both content and data about content creators. itme.online will provide a new option for users who would like to maintain full sovereignty over their content and monetize it without running a web server. Building on top of Solid and Web Monetization means that users will be free to move their content off of itme without interrupting the monetization of their content. Team includes Ian Davis, Tani Olhanoski, and Dr Dédé Tetsubayashi.

Providing a sustainable and fair business model for Open Access academic publishing through Quartz Open Access. Building upon the values, knowledge, and experience of the academic Open Access communities and Platform cooperativism initiatives, this project aims to establish and popularize payments in the science publishing ecosystem using Web Monetization and blockchain technologies. The project will contribute to the fairness, quality, and speed of reviewing will reduce the costs of OA publishing for scholars and will permit better distribution of profits within the academic publishing industry. Team includes Elena Martínez Vicente, Elena Pérez Tirador, Tatiana Nazarova, and Evgeniya Lupova.

Building Web Monetization into Moja, a WiFi platform providing free consumer access to the Internet for those who typically cannot afford it. We are tackling two issues with content in the African context: Local content creation is poorly monetized and therefore high value and relevant content is not created or widely published, and access to existing pay-walled content platforms is difficult if not impossible due to low disposable income and relatively high costs for premium and paywalled content. Web Monetizing Moja will both provide an income stream via Web-Monetization, and connect our users with rich content available online. Team includes Loyce Chole, Antony Orenge, and Erik Hersman.

Immers Space is helping to create the metaverse: a cross-platform and decentralized social network for the Immersive Web. It embraces open standards, enables self-ownership of data and content, and creates alternative business models for content creators that protect user privacy. The Immers Space team also includes Dulce Baerga, Quinn Madson, and Khullani Abdullahi.

Building gFam, a Web Monetization application designed for consumers to directly support creators, on a platform without advertising nor fees. Creators can post a short story of their day, their thoughts, their creative processes, their training, their adventures, or their struggles along with a selfie/photo… which can then be tipped on by their fans/friends/audience. Tips are transactions solely between the consumer and creator on posts or comments. Creators can also receive micropayments when Coil Subscribers spend time on their posts. The web application uses the XUMM payment mobile application that runs on the XRP ledger to process and settle the tip payments in real-time. Team includes Raymond Greycloud, Alexandra Young, and Eduardo Norell.

Building the Hard Drive Review Section, an entirely new area of Hard Drive's website that focuses exclusively on game reviews. The video game community has already embraced the idea of micro-donations and directly supporting content creators via Twitch, but there are many video game content creators with massive audiences whose content does not translate to that platform. We want to introduce Web Monetization to our community members and show them this new technology that allows them to support their favorite creators on all kinds of platforms, including independent websites. Team includes Kevin Flynn, Andy Holt, Mark Roebuck, and Peter Kemme.

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. Team includes Karissa McKelvey and Eileen Wagner.

Building a Web Monetized audiobook platform without ads, data tracking, predatory contracts, or steep prices. It will be open for all, even users that aren't web monetized, featuring work from the public domain and welcoming authors that are right-owners to upload their own audiobooks and control how they share them. Team includes Martina Cena and Tomás Arias.

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. Team includes Britta Fischlin, Andrea Handl, Lisa Pecunia, and Britte van Meurs.

Exploring alternative revenue models in film distribution by staging the worldwide premiere of the film The Faithful on the Cinnamon platform. Audiences members who use Web Monetization to purchase a ticket will gain access to special bonus events. Team includes Matt Mankins.

Producing Web Monetized videocasts, short films, feature articles, and interviews that showcase how global cultures are reshaping the ballet world. The performing arts, especially dance, typically rely on live, in-person audiences to showcase their work and to monetize artistic creation. Online, most performing arts groups offer their content for free. We believe that Web Monetization technology presents an opportunity to revolutionize the performing arts industry, bringing arts to broader audiences than could ever attend theatres and providing new streams of income for creators and performers. Team includes Lindsay Alissa King.

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.

Creating a working prototype of a "pay what you can" eBook publishing model, characterized by transparent and simple royalties structures. It will integrate both WMS and legacy payment rails, and anchor royalties in self-sovereign identity tooling. Team includes Jefferson Sofarelli and Anja Henckel.

Tracking the non-monetary value of your creation using a flexible graph database schema. GretNet extends current limited accounting systems, like spreadsheets, and captures the bigger system picture while quantifying the grey area of transaction ownership and value add.

Building Tembo, a free and open development platform, designed for creating open-source web database applications that are monetized by default, with micropayments accruing to the software creator.

Addresses the challenges businesses and individuals face when wanting to properly license content from a creator. Harbour is developing a tool that makes it fast and easy for a person to send a content creator a license request link, which explains the context of the request and executes a license for both parties. Team includes Joshua Elkes, Eric Doversberger and Kevin Rochford.

Using the interactive web documentary series, Discriminator, to explore the use of Web Monetization as a funding mechanism for web documentaries, giving makers a direct relationship with audiences. Team includes Darren Pasemko.

Engaging with the Moodle community to design, develop, publish, support, and promote a suite of plugins to bring Web Monetization to Moodle. The plugins will allow entire sites, courses, or individual activities to be monetized. A reference site will be set up to demonstrate the technology, allow selected individuals and organizations to publish content, and provide free courses on installing and configuring the plugins (for site admins) and setting up a digital wallet (for consumers). Once the plugins are delivered there will be a programme of out-reach via Sussex University to not-for-profit organizations who would benefit from building new or more sustainable business models around existing content and knowledge.

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.

Web Monetizing deployments on Ushahidi, an open-source crowdsourcing platform that’s been used globally for crisis response, human rights protection, good governance, and ensuring integrity in elections. This will enable users to opt-in to access donations to their work seamlessly and directly from their projects. Users will also be able to publicize the licensing associated with content generated on their deployments using a content disclaimer feature.

Creating a live-streaming platform that employs the freemium approach to grow Web Monetization usage. The platform will drive community engagement by delivering events and educational content, showcasing Web Monetization, and leveraging Coil and Interledger to provide fairer creator rewards. Team includes Greg Hannam, Ike Iwumene, Yo-Der Song, and Ben Marshall.

Improving healthy and equitable participation in digital economies by allowing users to purchase and share prepaid links to Web Monetized content using Gib. Creators will be able to set increments of access that will be made available for purchase, and sharing will engage potential audiences that may not otherwise experience the value of their premium content. Team includes Alexander Mozeak and Adelya Aksanova.

Building a suite of open-source plugins for etherpad, the open-source real-time collaborative text editor, to provide monetization as well as many common popular features such as improved usability, accessibility, presence, retention, governance, conversion, and scalability.

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 for artists, designers, educators, and beginners. We aim to create a sustainable funding model for the p5.js Editor, the main tool used to make things with p5.js.

Giving authors greater control over publishing and monetization through democratic ownership of online publications. We will prototype our publishing tools through COMPOST, our magazine that shares stories and art about the digital commons. It will publish to the World Wide Web and Distributed Web.

Providing an alternative business model, based on voluntary donations, for organizations that offer free online services and content, and do not want to monetize user data. Using a browser extension, users will be able to donate small amounts according to their preferences.

Adding support for Web Monetization features to the Mural software, while building engagement in the arts community to explore how Web Monetization can be implemented for artists in a user-friendly and intuitive way. Team includes Pete Haughie, Naomi Aro, and Dr. Dominic Smith.

Producing the second season of the series What Kind of Internet Do You Want? with a focus on educating people about Web Monetization through fun educational videos, deep-dive discussions with experts, and reviewing case studies of monetized projects. Team includes Amy James, Ryan Jordan, Kris Newsom, and Devon James.

Improving the business model for the publication of ultra-resolution images using Micrio, an IIIF-compatible platform for creating interactive stories. This involves making ultra-resolution stories less risky for publishers and building monetization solutions that fit specific content. Team includes Erwin Verbruggen, Guido Bouman, Marcel Duin, Mathijs Kadijk, and Taco Ekkel.

Creating open-source plugins for the HTML5 game libraries Phaser 2, Phaser 3, and Pixi 5 that enable developers to easily add Web Monetization features to their games. The plugins will be backed with comprehensive tutorials and game-specific examples.

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 Dancer’s' award will provide financial support for dancers to create their own dance-related content. Team includes Evan Morsell and Akande Davis.

Experimenting with Web Monetization a revenue method to keep Streetmix accessible and funded solely by industry professionals as our customers. Streetmix is a web-based street design platform, which encourages anyone to redesign streets in their own neighborhood, without needing urban planning or civil engineering expertise.

Enabling Web Monetization by default in all open-source implementations of the Solid pod server specification. Also, making changes to Darcy Social, a Solid-based social space, so that payments end up at the actual creator of the content that is being viewed, even if it's embedded in a newsfeed.

Unlocking a more sustainable authorship experience for self-publishing writers through Little Webby Press, a progressive web app (PWA) that generates both an eBook in EPUB3 format and a Web Monetized static website with the book content.

Writing a white-paper that explores the potential long-term impacts of the Web Monetization standard and Interledger protocol, positing both positive and negative ways these tools may change to how we use the web, and providing practical recommendations to ensure these technologies result in a more equitable, open, and diverse web.

Building WMHub, a tool that simplifies Web Monetization by allowing users to configure multiple projects at once. Users can then add capabilities such as revenue sharing and custom content, and get insights on how their content is consumed. Team includes Gabrielle Telman Lopes da Silva.

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.

Integrating Web Monetization into Waasabi, open-source portal software that allows communities organizing online events to easily add live streaming & video functionality to their website. Event hosts will be able to choose privacy-respecting business models while still receiving compensation and event speakers will have new ways to monetize their work.

Demonstrating the viability of comedy website Widget by mentoring and publishing diverse and emerging comedy writers. Developing open-source resources to promote equity and ethics among web publishers. Team includes Caitlin Kunkel (Second City, Belladonna Comedy).

Develop a series of libraries (generic as well as specialized libraries for Jquery, NodeJS, VueJS and React) that allow Web Monetization to be used in any web application with minimal impact on the code and extend development and community to the whole world in a simple way.

Prototyping Web Monetization on NewsAtomic.com, an online platform for local print newspapers based in New York's Hudson Valley. Adding a Web Monetization payment option will permit readers to pay our publishers to consume their content. Team includes Sharon Richman, Mike Loeffler, and Amberly Jane Campbell.

Integrate Web Monetization features into the web application builder Tiki. Site administrators will be able to monetize the contents using Coil and users will be able to monetize the pages or contents they own on a Tiki site. We'll also build modules & integrate ILP in Tiki sites to send and receive online payments for products or services.

Enabling portable, monetized 3D content in the browser by integrating a monetization feature into Webaverse's package system so usage of packages implicitly pays the creator while unlocking perks for the user.

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. Team is Simon Metson, Ben Wellby, Ian Popperwell, Matt Hamilton, and Ali Chant.

Providing an authenticated way to enable pulling protected data from a server. It will ensure users' personal information is kept private and not shared with the content owner.

Developing courses to teach web 3 technologies using Porium, a pipeline for creating more web 3 developers, collaborators, and co-founders. Participants will access material developed in collaboration with engineers maintaining technologies like IPFS, Interledger, Polkadot, Near Protocol, Ethereum, and more.

Conducting one-on-one consultations to provide pro-bono legal assistance to independent online creators who use Web Monetization technology, including to Grant for the Web grantees. Also, publishing educational resources based on those consultations to provide guidance to the vast majority of creators in need who we don’t have the capacity to directly assist.

Continuing to develop Akita, a website, browser extension, and outreach initiative that seeks to increase awareness and improve understanding of Web Monetization by providing individuals with helpful resources and insight into their online browsing. It also increases accessibility by enabling engagement with Web Monetization without having to commit money. Additionally, this effort includes the ‘A Web Monetization Story’ project, an interactive, story-based Web Monetization tutorial for online creators.

Running a Web Monetization hackathon with NaijaHacks, Africa's largest hackathon. Open to both beginners and experienced developers, mentors will be assigned to teams and there will prizes for the winners. At this moment in history, it is especially important that we are inclusive and support communities around the world equally so that regardless of where a person is born, they have access to learn and create on the Web. Team includes Christine Dikongué.

Web Monetizing the Chicago Genius Herald, a satire outlet experimenting with civic-focused longer-form content. Without the corporate backing, other satire sites rely on, we look forward to learning about what a profitable, sustainable way forward might look like that leaves our creative vision intact and continues to generate content that spurs essential community dialogue. Team includes Alexander Borkowski, Carolyn Ten Eyck, Erik Morrison, Ron Ferrara, and Hobert Thompson.

Developing a version of the open-source Coral Talk comments system that incorporates monetization and experiments with new incentives that reward quality comments, encourage authors to participate in conversations, drive moderation, and that test new ways of stimulating engagement.

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. Team includes Constanta Rosca, Bogdan Covrig, Vikas Jaiman, Dimitris Kolovos, Jerry Spanakis, and Visara Urovi.

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. Team includes Denisa Kera.

Designing a WebXR subscription solution that allows for the creation and experience of volumetric content in a PC-based browser, headset or mobile phone. REACH disrupts the technology landscape which has perpetuated a system that keeps compensation and coding know-how from underserved communities. Instead, both creators and REACH itself can monetize exclusive content. Team includes Chaitanya Shah and Dan Brower.

The goal of this project is to integrate the Web Monetization specification into the Solid ecosystem, allowing Solid application developers to monetize their application without resorting to alternative forms of monetization, such as advertisements or selling user-collected data. Since Solid not only puts users in full control over their own data, but also of their identity, a Web Monetization wallet can be linked to a Solid identity. This will allow payment initiation on the level of authenticated Solid users instead of the user agent and will make it possible to attach a Web Monetization wallet to a Solid WebID, and execute payments wherever the user is logged into, independent of the user agent. Team includes Ben De Meester, Pieter Heyvaert, and Ruben Verborgh.

Prototyping a licensing mechanism for Freesound Licensing to help content creators monetize their sounds by re-licensing them to content users that need usage rights beyond those allowed by the sounds' original CC restrictions. Team includes Alastair Porter, Sonia Espí and Xavier Serra.

This project aims at creating a no-subscription, no-login, no-ads internet music station based on the micro-transactions streaming ability enabled by the Web Monetization API and the Interledger Protocol.

Building a framework allowing content creators to design a customer loyalty/rewards program where users earn points by sending micropayments that can be redeemed for exclusive rewards.

Assessing the viability of using Web Monetization as a fundraising tool integrated into Food Rescue Alliance's open source logistics web app, a collaboration of thirty-one nonprofits. Team includes Becks Boone, Hayden Dansky, and Blair Young.

Producing a new season of Power Plays – a weekly podcast that charts how important decisions about the Internet have been made – with a focus on Web Monetization, including the technology itself, the legal and regulatory environment, and possibilities for innovation that it could bring.

Converting The Nordly – a Minneapolis-based humor site that satirizes the Upper Midwest – to a Web Monetized model to sustainably continue to create locally-focused comedy and support the diverse comedians who make it. Team includes Anna Larranaga, Aron Woldeslassie, and Nate Wong.

Conducting experiments in the creation, distribution, and discoverability of new content for children’s workshops in Design Club’s free and open Resource Hub. The team will educate themselves, their design-led community, and others in the open learning content space about Web Monetization.

Using experiments, interviews, and case studies to create open educational, online learning opportunities around the Web Monetization standard, and to inform sustainable funding models. Team includes Lori Yearwood and Kevin Ribble.

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.

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

Transforming a static archive of old newsletter issues by breaking them in parts, interlinking them, and making each a part of an evolving corpus of Web Monetized notes, connections, and new insights.

Using the personal website www.pattyalexx.com to raise awareness on Web Monetization, cryptocurrencies, and the Interledger Protocol, by educating readers that arrive to see other content.

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.

Exploring the feasibility and implementation of Web Monetization in connection with Ampled – an artist/worker-owned cooperative platform allowing direct community support for musicians – along with research of how Web Monetization may be used as an alternative to streaming and advertising models in music. Team includes Austin Robey and Arkadiy Kukarkin.

Creating a prototype Web Monetized news aggregator website exclusively for content from independent not-for-profit media that displays content from multiple RSS feed sources. Team includes Ranjana Peiris and Christopher Chrysostomou.

Introducing, educating, and engaging individuals to/with the tools of Web Monetization via Coil and Puma through the creation of original copyrightable content, with a focus on serving minority groups and women.

Creating an educational course conducted in Mandarin for anyone who wants to learn more about the basics of Web Monetization and Interledger in order to grow adoption.

Refining Documento, a platform enabling developers to Web Monetize their documentation, by adding features including a customizable preview for documentations, branch-specific pushes, and support for multiple payment pointers. Team includes Abhinav Chawla.

Using this new and innovative method of monetization – and its profits – to support the writing staff at Ladyspike, the only website of its kind focussing on amplifying voices of women and LGBTQ+ performers in comedy.

Building and experimenting with a new approach to sharing knowledge on the web, enabled by Web Monetization, that will allow users to have full access to a creator’s shared knowledge, paying them in a pay-as-you-use manner.

Using Web Monetization to provide access to children’s bedtime stories without advertisements and tracking getting in the way.

Writing two short books including one about implementing the JavasScript monetization API that fit into an existing series by the Undead Institute combining pedagogy with humor (and zombies) to make learning fun.

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. Team includes Christina Tromp, Klara Skinner, Lauren Ellwood, and Louise Steward.

Implementing Web Monetization features in PeerTube, a federated video sharing platform, giving creators an alternative to YouTube where they can earn money and not worry about fluctuations in ad rates or demonetization.

Testing a new model for providing essential news to small towns through the development of a sustainable, monetized website that will incentivize local residents to produce original news coverage of their community. Team includes Steve Goss and Letrell Crittenden.

DML will develop and launch an innovative reader revenue platform that harnesses Web Monetization and the AMP framework to power distributed reader revenue across a network of participating publishers. This decentralized approach will empower publishers to harness the natural scalability of the open web.

Working with Firefox team at Mozilla, Sid will explore how Web Monetization can be integrated into a web browser. He will work to create a reference implementation of the Web Monetization (WM) specification in Gecko/Firefox (Desktop), allowing the Web Monetization community to evaluate the implementability and feasibility of Web Monetization in a browser's engine. This will also allow the community to see what existing web infrastructure can be leveraged and determine if any new technology or protocols are needed. Sid will also explore bringing Web Monetization to web developers: are the currently specified solutions sufficiently robust to work with modern web development practices?

During his Ambassadorship, Akintunde will introduce Web Monetization to the developer community in Africa, create resources to simplify the process of using Web Monetization, and produce features on DevCareer’s Mini CV page that will allow new users to easily test out their payment pointers.

As a Grant for the Web ambassador, Jesse’s focus will be on exploring Interledger pull payments — preauthorized, recurring payments from a user's digital wallet.

Ewa and Andrzej Mazur of the indie HTML5 game development studio, Enclave Games, will innovate in web monetized indie game development with new games, documentation, and the js13kGames competition.

The Defold Foundation will add support for the Web Monetization standard in HTML5 games created using their Defold game engine.

Tribe of Noise, the owners and stewards of Free Music Archive (FMA) – the world’s leading source for free and royalty free music – will develop new online business models based on open standards, supporting access to royalty free music.

DEV will serve as a key promotional partner and community resource by amplifying Grant for the Web’s first public Call for Proposals, encouraging developers to learn about the technology through their hackathon. They will also implement a site-wide payment pointer as a real-life application of the technology on DEV.to, which boasts 350k+ registered developers and millions of monthly visitors , as well as enabling authors to add their own payment pointer to their own posts.

The world’s largest library for COVID-19 response is a crowdsourced handbook demonstrating innovative use of the Web Monetization API.

Popular webdev blogger and tutorial-maker, HJ Chen will be implementing Web Monetization on her website via Coil and documenting the entire experience and takeaways for others who wish to do the same.

Cris will explore the relationship between incentivization, revenue generation, and Web Monetization through a digital art project called the Becoming Dragon Card Deck.