The Interledger Community 🌱: Erika

How to use View Source to see a page's payment pointer

Erika — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 17:35:02 +0000

Are you curious which payment pointer your streaming payments and tips are being directed to? There's an easy way to find out.

When visiting a Web Monetized page, check out the source code:

In Firefox, click Tools -> Browser Tools -> Page source.
In Chrome, click View -> Developer -> View Source.

Next, search for a string of text that contains the following:

meta name="monetization" content="PAYMENT POINTER IS HERE"

A real example from Creative Living For Dancers' site looks like this:

<meta name="monetization" content="$ilp.uphold.com/FR7UfwWWfib3" />

Now...this doesn't tell you a whole lot. As a privacy-centric company, Coil has both a simple explanation of sender-side and wallet-side privacy, and a deeper dive if you're interested in learning more.

However, if you want to confirm that the payment pointer in use on a page is one of the social benefit and open web pointer we are featuring for MozFest, you can check it against the list.

How to spend your MozFest tips

Erika — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 18:08:04 +0000

If you're a MozFest ticket holder, you will receive a free trial from Coil, providing you with $10 (USD) to tip folks who have created resources for the festival. Don't have your MozFest ticket yet? It's not too late. Get your ticket.

Here's how to spend your tips:

1. Activate your free Coil trial

Check your inbox for an email from Mozilla Festival with the subject line "Activate Your Coil Membership Trial For MozFest". Click the custom link in the email that takes you to a Coil page where you can activate your free trial. If you already have a Coil account, use your promo code to access the tipping demo.

2. Install the Coil browser extension

Find your extension for Firefox, Chrome, Brave, Edge, Puma for iOS and Android, and Samsung Internet for Android.

3. Find a Web Monetized site

Once you've installed your extension and logged in to your free Coil trial account, the icon on your browser extension will indicate when you're on a Web Monetized site with a little green dot or $ sign, like this:

Take a look - this page is Web Monetized, so your Coil icon should be green. (It's not? Troubleshoot here.)

Web Monetized MozFest resources can be found here or head over to the #web-monetized-assets MozFest Slack Channel.

4. Press the tip button

Click on the Coil icon to reveal your tipping options.

You can choose the amount to tip and there's a confirmation and a thank you to let you know it worked.

Curious where the money goes?

When you press the tip button, money is seamlessly transferred from your trial Coil account into a digital wallet linked to the payment pointer. Not everyone is interested in setting up a digital wallet, so we've provided a list of social benefit and open web payment pointers that people can use to monetize their MozFest resources.

For example, I've selected Creative Living for Dancers as my social benefit organization for the duration of MozFest, so if you tip one of my resources such as this blog, the proceeds will go directly to Creative Living for Dancers' digital wallet.

Questions? Ask in the comments, or check out these other posts:

Internet Archive: Our latest non-profit recipient

Erika — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 19:58:33 +0000

The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, they provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, people with print disabilities, and the general public. Their mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.

Internet Archive began in 1996 by archiving the Internet itself, a medium that was just beginning to grow in use. Like newspapers, the content published on the web was ephemeral - but unlike newspapers, no one was saving it. Today they have 25+ years of web history accessible through the Wayback Machine and they work with 950+ library and other partners through their Archive-It program to identify important web pages.

We're excited to direct payments from the global areas of this site to Internet Archive. As of today, this community forum has 1087 members, many who use Coil to stream micropayments. We're about to kick off The Grand MozFest Web Monetization Experiment -- our community's first chance to experiment with tipping -- and we're excited to see how this benefits all of our non-profit friends, including the Internet Archive.

Remember: you can set your own payment pointer on this site, you can support one of these non-profits, or you can leave the setting blank and all revenue will go to the global recipient.

Mozilla Rally: Use your data for change

Erika — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 19:19:39 +0000

Mozilla has launched Rally, an interesting new initiative allowing you to "donate your data" by contributing browsing data to specific research studies, while consenting at a granular level.

One of the studies, Beyond the Paywall, examines the news economy, the impact of ads as newspapers migrate their focus to the internet, and which alternative funding models for local journalism may be feasible.

To participate, you need to use Firefox, reside in the United States, and be age 19 and older.

Learn more at rally.mozilla.org.

Interledger Foundation hiring for three roles

Erika — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 17:03:38 +0000

The Interledger Foundation, the non-profit home of Grant for the Web, is growing! We are working towards a more equitable and creative global society through an open payments network that connects and benefits each human, regardless of identity, geography, or income. To advance this work, we're currently hiring for three new positions:

Community Manager: This person will engage, grow and support a diverse Interledger Community of Developers.

Senior Technical Writer: This person will develop and maintain a high standard for writing best practices across the Interledger organisation and help people across the Interledger ecosystem and the developer community to contribute to our documentation.

Junior Technical Writer: This person will help untangle and explain the Interledger and Web Monetization technologies and contribute to the organization’s successful growth.

We are a fully distributed team and we offer generous time off and comprehensive benefits. And, we're transparent about our salary range.

We seek mission-oriented, strategic, creative, and collaborative candidates who cares deeply about using the platform of the web to expand financial inclusion - please share this posting with your networks.

Image from Humaaans. Made by Pablo Stanley.

Office hours to discuss the Call For Proposals

Erika — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 19:19:41 +0000

Our Call for Proposals has been live for a few weeks and it's been wonderful to see the applications start to roll in. In response to the interest, we've extended the deadline by one week to Wednesday September 22 at 7:00pm UTC.

We know many of you are working hard to develop your ideas and that you may have questions for us as you finalize your application. We've scheduled three office hours sessions where you can drop in and ask questions:

Session 1 (sign up to attend): Wednesday September 1 at 7:00pm UTC

Session 2 (sign up to attend): Friday, September 10 at 12:00am UTC

Session 3 (sign up to attend): Thursday, September 16 at 2:00pm UTC

There is also an ongoing thread for questions about applying to this Call for Proposals.

Image from #WOCinTech Chat

Call for Proposals deadline extended

Erika — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 19:17:56 +0000

Due to the significant interest we are seeing around the Call for Proposals, we've decided to extend the deadline now so that everyone can take full advantage of the extra week.

The new deadline for the Call for Proposals is Wednesday, September 22 at 7:00pm UTC.

There will not be another extension.

We look forward to reading your proposals!

The Grant for the Web Team: Ayesha, Chris, Alex, Kokayi & Erika

Image by Icons8_team from Pixabay

S.T.O.P. : Our latest non-profit recipient

Erika — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 16:35:46 +0000

Founded in 2019, the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) advocates and litigates to abolish local governments’ systems of mass surveillance. Their work highlights the discriminatory impact of surveillance on Muslim Americans, immigrants, the LGBTQ+ community, BIPOC individuals, and particularly the unique trauma of anti-Black policing.

S.T.O.P. uses grassroots advocacy, legislation, education, and litigation to dismantle mass surveillance. Their campaigns push long-overdue reforms and cutting-edge innovations. They reshape narratives around privacy with hundreds of articles and op-eds, ranging from the New York Times, NPR, and Fox News to community papers. They design custom privacy trainings driven by the needs of communities, partnering with trusted messengers to deliver the trainings. They serve survivors of surveillance abuse through impact litigation, suing government agencies and their vendors to end these abuses and to reveal records to the public.

We're excited to direct payments from the global areas of this site (plus our website to S.T.O.P. As of today, this community forum has 590 members, many who use Coil to stream micropayments. We just announced our latest Call for Proposals, which should generate some additional activity in this community space, so we look forward to seeing how much money is generated for S.T.O.P

Remember: you can set your own payment pointer on this site, you can support one of these non-profits, or you can leave the setting blank and all revenue will go to the global recipient.

Ask your questions about the CFP here!

Erika — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 19:35:27 +0000

Grant for the Web's latest call for proposals is live! We know you you'll have lots of questions, so here are some resources to help you out:

Please use this thread for all questions related to the CFP. We're requesting that all questions are made public so everyone can benefit from the answers.

We are planning three Office Hours sessions across different time zones to answer your questions in a call format. These will take place at the end of August and beginning of September. Stay tuned – we'll post times, dates and signup links the week of August 23rd.

(Image by Dean Moriarty from Pixabay)

Categories for the July 2021 CFP

Erika — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 18:51:18 +0000

The July 2021 open call for proposals requires applicants to select one of the four following categories:

Business Plans for Web Monetized Content

For the ecosystem to thrive we need dynamic, diverse, and successful content and creators who embrace Interledger-driven business models for the web. We are interested in proposals that investigate the relationship between specific content types and consumer appetites for monetization. Proposals need to make a compelling plan to generate users, build a Web Monetized community, and offer value propositions that are different from traditional web business models.

Proposals in this category should consider:

A clear theory of how to grow and sustain a Web Monetized user base with content
Marketing and outreach plans with specific goals and metrics to test your theory
Demonstrating an understanding of current monetization applications with ideas for improvements
Conveying a sophisticated understanding of your user base: what content types will they respond best to?
How you will invite and include in your design process, people who have been historically marginalized in technology and structurally excluded from financial opportunities.
How you will use existing tools and code to test your theory on sites with existing Web Monetization functionality.
What problematic monetization practices do you hope to provide alternatives to?
A clear plan for compensation to contributors and participants. Is there an opportunity to pay contributors through Web Monetization as part of this relationship?
If your project’s technical requirements depends on third party technical features you should demonstrate a practical understanding that they will meet your needs
Partnerships should have letters of support.
See examples of platforms and networks built around Web Monetized content

Web Monetization API & Interledger Prototypes

For the ecosystem to thrive we need continued development of tools, code, widgets, add-ons, and other technical advancements. We are interested in proposals that have a plan to build important technical infrastructure that will advance the capabilities of Web Monetization to launch new business models for the web. Proposals need to clearly define what the work is with a realistic timeline and budget, and be focused on shipping a beta or minimum viable product.

Proposals in this category should consider:

Using milestones, team, and budget to demonstrate capability to execute the technology build
Grounding plans in the current technology
Providing documented research that there's a need or market for your tool. Grant for the Web has already funded tech builds of all sizes so please ensure you’re building on existing projects – or improving them – rather than duplicating what already exists.
A philosophy and plan for releasing open source outputs and working within relevant open technology communities.
Advancing the development of the tech stack by contributing to a larger ILP/WM knowledge base.
Clearly stating technical dependencies. Partnerships or collaborations to address dependencies will benefit from documented evidence or letters of support.
Adherence to good web design principles, including the accessibility, internationalization, privacy and security areas in proposal questions, will be key in determining which projects are funded.
If your project’s technical requirements depend on third party technical features you should demonstrate a practical understanding that they will meet your needs.
Collaborations with platforms should have letters of support.
See examples of tools and prototypes

Research on/with/for Web Monetization API & Interledger

For the ecosystem to thrive, a robust body of evidence, arguments, and thought leadership is needed to convince more people to adopt Web Monetization technology and practices. We are interested in proposals that can articulate a clear research question and devise a plan to investigate it with a commitment to share that learning with the wider community. Proposals need to define what the research methodology will be and assemble a team with practical and theoretical knowledge to carry it out. Outputs for this research could include whitepapers, user researcher reports, field/market research, academic papers, technical writing, and crowd-sourced community projects.

Proposals in this category should consider:

Including a thesis statement and well-scoped and testable research question
Communicating a clear research methodology and suitable team Demonstrated knowledge of past and/or existing web business models, including the technology that drives them
Knowledge of existing research. A lit review would be a valuable addition to include in the supporting documents section of the application.
A clear plan to share and distribute findings to support public learning including fair use licensing.
How people who have been historically marginalized in technology and structurally excluded from financial opportunities will be included in your project.
An understanding of any ethical implications of the work and plan to address.
If your project’s technical requirements depends on third party technical features you should demonstrate a practical understanding that they will meet your needs.
Collaborations with platforms should have letters of support.
Read Web Monetization research papers

Advocacy and Public Education

For the ecosystem to thrive we need more participants. There is no shortage of ways to define these participants, including: Web Monetized consumers, content creators, builders, evangelists, and more. We are interested in proposals that help grow the community, make the ideas more digestible, and invite new ecosystem players to get involved. Proposals need to clearly define a plan to target communities, institutions, companies and the general public with a dynamic pathway for people to learn about and advocate for openly networked payments enabled by the Interledger Protocol and the Web Monetization API.

Proposals in this category should consider:

Producing public and/or educational resources that advance Web Monetization, networked payments, and new business models on the web
Using open licensing to help the community to learn and grow How you will serve communities that have typically been left out of conversations around advocacy and tech
Describing a robust marketing and outreach plan with specific strategies, goals, and metrics for your target audience(s)
Plans may include in-person gatherings, but should not be entirely dependent on them. Any in-person gatherings should have an alternative plan in case COVID restrictions tighten during the project period.
A plan to Web Monetize all web-based digital outputs
If your project’s technical requirements depends on third party technical features you should demonstrate a practical understanding that they will meet your needs
Collaborations with platforms should have letters of support

Recording of first community call

Erika — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 17:08:52 +0000

Today we held our first ever 🎉 Web Monetization community call 🎉 led by host extraordinaire @chrislarry. We've been looking forward to launching our series of community engagements and were delighted with the participation in today's call.

Here is a recording of the call (it begins after we finished with the breakout rooms). And the call notes live in this etherpad, provided by Permanent. Check it out if you're new to etherpad - it's Web Monetized!

Huge thanks to @end3r from Enclave Games and @ckrum from Permanent/Storage to the People for their shareouts.

We'll be hosting our first Demo Call in mid-July on grantee @andybaio's Skittesh platform - can't wait to see you there!

And finally....if you're interesting in hosting a Skillshare in the future, here's a form to sign up.

🌏 In recognition of our global community, we will be rotating the times of our ongoing community engagements so everyone has the chance to attend a live call.

Announcing our second grantee cohort

Erika — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 17:22:21 +0000

Grant for the Web announces 25 recipients from our Second Chance call for proposals.

Successful Second Chance projects were applications that demonstrated an evolution and maturation of the ideas originally proposed, but not selected, in our first open call for proposals.

Funded projects range from an Interledger Protocol-enabled wallet linked to a South African social media platform to a Web Monetized Portuguese journalistic outlet anchored on the principles of open source and open content. Grants range from $10,000 to $100,000 USD.

Projects were submitted through a public, global call for proposals launched in January. Out of 177 people that were eligible to apply, 70 submitted applications that were then reviewed by a panel of independent judges recruited from across the technology, open standards, philanthropy, and arts/culture sectors. The successful grantees in our second cohort come from 18 different countries.

See all of Grant for the Web's grantees.

Everything Is Connected: Even If It Is Not

Filomena Slovak, Slovakia

Everything is Connected is a Web Monetize social experiment to incentivize mentorship, peer support and address an increasing polarized society. By building cross-platform discussions, peer knowledge sharing and an appreciation based culture Everything Is Connected aims to bridge disparate ideas, and reignite the love of discovery.

Mukto Library

Nasir Khan, Bangladesh

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. Coil members will have access to additional content, like 'meet the authors' events, an ad-free experience & more. Team includes Blue Cube Community.

ProgNovel

Radhy Ramadhan, Indonesia

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. In addition to no-ads and exclusive content features, ProgNovel will experiment with revenue sharing and affiliate marketing powered by the Web Monetization API to encourage contributors (editors, proofreaders, etc) and influencers to participate actively to help authors create web novel contents.

Web Monetized Art (drawings/paintings) Platform

Xander Jake de los Santos, USA

A platform where artists can not only survive, but thrive. It will be a website similar to most social media platforms but without the ads and will reward artists for what they create through Web Monetization. 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

OpenSpeaks

O Foundation, India

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

Code Angel

John Asafo-Agyei, UK

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. Developers who answer questions will use a Xumm account to receive/send XRP micropayments. The platform will take a small percentage and forward the rest to the person who provided the top answer.

Decentralized Identity & Payments

Dominik Beron, Austria

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. This will enable multiple use cases, bringing great value to the Web Monetization but also to the SSI ecosystems. Team includes Philipp Potisk.

FlipToons

James Casia, Philippines

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. Also hosting the Web-Monetized Comic Challenge to provide opportunities and create awareness, especially to Filipinos, of the web’s broken business model and how WebMonetization helps solve them. Team includes Kent Leo L. Makibulan and Camelle Angela Gomez.

Launchpad

Michael Kleinhenz & Veethika, Germany & India

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. This way, it also abstracts and describes processes and ideas such as DRM, AI-based algorithms, paywalls, etc., and educates players on the challenges and importance of modern internet and web technologies, enabling them to make the right decisions.

Interruptor

Rute Correia, Portugal

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. All of our content is accessible without paywalls. We respect the privacy of our readers and listeners and do not use any invasive trackers nor cookies. 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. Our motto is "Cultura livre, código aberto": "free culture, open code". Team includes Ricardo Correia and Ciaran Edwards.

Alquimétricos LAB, Nuvem de criação (Creation cloud)

Fernando Daguanno, Brazil

Alquimétricos was founded in 2015 as an open-source initiative to bring STEAM educational resources to low-income communities, especially in Latin America. Over the years, the project has gained scale, prizes and followers, becoming an international community of educators, designers, makers, communicators and visual artists. 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, as well as promoting Web Monetization as the main contribution option for premium content subscription. Core team includes Tatiana Tabak, Paula Martini, Léo Melo, Camila Couto, Italo Martins, Prof. Carlos Vidal, Luciana Squeri and Rudá Cordaro.

Interledger.dev

Ashvin Parameswaran, Australia

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.

New Day

Today is a New Day, Slovenia

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. Team includes Filip Dobranić, Jasmina Ploštajner, Tadej Štrok, Maja Cimerman, Eva Vrtačič, and Franci Zidar.

Folawole.com

Folawole, On the land stewarded by Native Americans forcefully named USA

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 artist’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

Qwyre

Gavin Chait, France

Qwyre.com will enable cooperative and collaborative literary publishing and distribution of African speculative fiction online, and 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. Qwyre will permit multiple authors and editors to collaborate on preparing a literary work for publication, publish that work, and share proportionally in web monetization micropayments. Instead of accumulating micropayments and making bulk transfers to stakeholders, incurring numerous transaction fees along the way, the system will pay proportionally after each download or read, directly to the writer, editor or publisher's account.

MG.Social

Mathew Safford, USA

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 (Coil) for access. For content creators, the advantage of the platform is the ability to easily monetize and receive instant compensation when their content is consumed by Coil subscribers on MG.Social. The advantage for content consumers is the ability to directly support creators as they consume that creator's content, advertiser-free. The nature of a micro-blogging platforms leads to users that tend to both create and consumer content, allowing them to obtain both benefits.

HostBeak Kreators

Ogoluwa Ojewale, Nigeria

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, all to help them become well informed on the importance of Web Monetization and how to be compensated for creating digital footprints of their talent, content, skill and ideas online. Team includes Ogoluwa Ojewale, Joshua Folorunsho, Victoria David Akpan, Abdulhafiz Ayobami Abdulfatai, Felica Ojekunle, James Moses James, Naomi Frank, Ezekiel Lawson, Glory Praise Emmanuel, and Ukpono James.

Reductress

Sarah Pappalardo, USA

Reductress is the first and only satirical women’s magazine. For years, the ad model has forced Reductress to focus on pageviews, site traffic, and loading the site with ads, which has compromised site speed and user experience, with diminishing returns in revenue. In line with our goal to leave the ad model behind, Reductress has already enabled the framework for microdonations and subscriptions to the site for an ad-free experience and exclusive content. We’re ultimately 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, and Kendra Singh.

Hyperaudio for Conferences

Mark Boas, Italy

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 incentivise viewing, sharing, and transforming audiovisual content. We’ll also use Web Monetization to ensure that viewers only pay for what they consume and that funds can be transparently divided between content creators, remixers, sharers, and our service. Team includes Annabel Church, Piotr Fedorczyk, Daniel Schultz, and Laurian Gridinoc and Joanna Bogusz.

Kult

Patrick Rahy, Portugal

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. It allows the creation of personal galleries to save and organize content, encouraging people to become curators while offering the possibility of monetization and recognition for valuable curation. We will test and develop a sustainable and collaborative way of monetization for culture creators & curators on the web, using Web Monetization to offer a better alternative than streaming business models and existing social media. Team includes Helena Tude, Diogo Peralta Cordeiro, Phablulo Joel dos Santos, and Gleibson Silva.

Lowering Legal Friction

Andrew Katz, UK

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. We will develop them in the open, and make them available under a Creative Commons Attribution licence. We want people implementing Web Monetization to concentrate on providing excellent content and a great user experience, and not have to waste time and resources on unnecessarily expensive and time-consuming routes to compliance with legal regulation. Team includes Tim Astley, Usha Guness, and Jiri Svorc.

Monetization for Authenticated Content and Rightsholders

Janos Farkas, USA

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. Team includes Gulzar Ahmend and Hamza Nouradine.

Snake Nation

Karl Carter & Tawanda Brandon, USA & South Africa

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

Instill Science

Jan Zheng & Jessica Sacher, PhD, USA & Canada

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.

Monetizing Open Video Assets (MOVA)

Nicol Wistreich, UK

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, and Sebastian Posth.