At the 2025 Interledger Hackathon in Mexico City, 47 teams developed practical solutions for interoperable payments, with winners tackling global remittances, device-less payments, education-linked funding, and conversational finance to drive financial inclusion.
Mexico joined the Interledger Network through a month-long tour of student hackathons, events, and fintech engagements across four cities, involving over 500 students from more than 40 universities.
Interledger is hosting student hackathons across Mexico to teach open payments technology and fintech skills, culminating in the 2025 Mexico City Hackathon, where participants develop innovative solutions for financial inclusion and cross-border payments.
The Interledger Foundation’s 2025 Work Weeks in Romania brought global collaborators together to advance Web Monetization and Rafiki, focusing on new publisher tools, scalable infrastructure, and real-world payment integrations. These gatherings accelerated progress toward building an open, inclusive, and interoperable financial network.
Julaire Hall, a Program Officer at the Interledger Foundation, is advancing global digital financial inclusion by championing open, interoperable financial systems.
Paysys Labs, in partnership with the Interledger Foundation, is launching Rafiki Remit to streamline cross-border payments in Pakistan. The pilot with Allied Bank Limited aims to enable ILP-based international transfers, making remittances faster, cheaper, and more accessible.
Just as the internet once disrupted traditional business models, Web Monetization is offering a fresh alternative to ads and subscriptions—enabling seamless, micro-payments that give users more choice in how they support content online.
Chimoney and Interledger simplify cross-border payments with fast, low-cost transactions via payment pointers. Their integration powers freelancers, NGOs, and real-time monetization, making global payments more inclusive and efficient.
Paystreme is poised to be the pioneer in the realm of payment streaming platforms, offering users the unprecedented ability to make real-time payments for essential services like mobile coverage, broadband internet, pay-TV, streaming content, and more. Envision a world where the need for prepayments and subscriptions fades away, allowing us to revel in subscription-less services.
Introducing Sabine Schaller, Engineering Lead at Interledger Foundation, and a first-time speaker at Ad-Filtering Dev Summit. Her talk, titled “Web Monetization - The 100% Ad Filter”, explored a new standard of online monetization empowering user experience and supporting content creators.
In a move set to redefine global payments, Chimoney, the Toronto-based, Techstars-backed fintech, unveils its strategic integration with the Interledger Foundation (ILF) — a partnership that promises unparalleled financial inclusion and innovation. This strategic alliance is poised to reshape the landscape of cross-border transactions through the integration of Interledger Protocol (ILP) to Chimoney and bring Mobile Money, Airtime, Gift Cards, and Bank cash out to the Interledger ecosystem.
Build, test, and explore the potential of the Interledger Protocol (ILP).
We’re delighted to announce that we’ve started working on a testing platform for Interledger. The ILP Testnet Wallet has launched under the domain rafiki.money, providing a safe space for developers to test their Rafiki, Open Payments, and Web Monetization integrations.
