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The Web Isn’t Free
The internet isn’t truly free: we “pay” with our time, attention, and data, which fuel platforms designed to capture and manipulate us. Alternatives like Web Monetization aim to restore privacy, fairness, and control by letting users directly support creators.
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Frontend Work Week: bonding and big decisions
Frontend team bonds, aligns, and makes key decisions while planning a full website redesign.
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Interledger Foundation awards $200,000 to Social Web Foundation to support decentralized social media
The Interledger Foundation has awarded a $200,000 Grant for the Web to the Social Web Foundation to research sustainable revenue and governance models for decentralized, community-run social platforms, with a focus on creators, publishers, and federated servers.
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Shanghai, Flip Phones, and Robots: An Interledger Engineering Adventure
The Interledger engineering team spent a week in Shanghai teaming up with KaiOS to plan the next phase of POS and Interledger Wallet integration. Between serious tech decisions, flip phone nostalgia, bubble tea, and surprise robots, the trip blended real engineering progress with great people, culture, and a lot of fun.
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From Tap to Packet: Exploring Card Payments on Interledger
A Journey from POS Onboarding to Transaction Processing.
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Web Monetization Wrapped 2025
Welcome to Web Monetization Wrapped, a look back at the progress we made in 2025 and everything we shipped, fixed, revived, and pushed forward this year.
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What’s Happened in December
As we come to the end of the year and review the past 2 months, we see that we have continued to make a significant impact in helping to close the financial exclusion gap worldwide. The surge in digital financial services is a major enabler as we continue to adopt services such as mobile banking, mobile money accounts, internet banking, and digital payments. Many have called this period a breakthrough moment for financial inclusion.
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2025 Interledger Policy Activation Grantee: The Alliance of Digital Finance and Fintech Associations
The Interledger Foundation has awarded Alliance of Digital Finance and Fintech Associations to be the first recipients of an Interledger Policy Activation Grant. This grant will enable them to lead a new global initiative to make Instant Payment Systems more inclusive and accessible to fintechs and non-banks.
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How Web Monetization uses Open Payments - Part 2: Payment Sessions
Explore next steps for sending money: how the extension finds receiving wallet addresses and sets up the necessary payment sessions.
