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.
The Web Monetization API is a nascent JavaScript browser API that allows the creation of a payment stream from the user agent to the website. In simpler terms, it will enable a website to get paid from the browser.
Stefan Thomas is the co-creator of the Interledger Protocol, the technology behind all the great work and accomplishments we’re seeing across our community. He is also Chairperson of the Interledger Foundation and Founder and CEO of Coil. Read on to learn more about his journey in creating the Interledger Protocol and his insights on the Foundation’s work.
