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Africa Doesn't Have a Payments Technology Problem. It Has a Business Model Problem.
Africaās payment systems struggle not because of missing technology but because of flawed business models and commercial design. To achieve adoption, systems must prioritize free P2P transfers, better accessibility, and simple proxy-based addressing, alongside regulatory reforms that overcome incumbent resistance.
Arunjay Katakam
4 min read
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Getting Started with Open Payments Java SDK
Discover the Open Payments Java SDK and master its usage for seamless integrations.
Oana Lolea4 min read
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Fliqa Integrates Interledger to Power Open, Interoperable Payments
The Interledger Foundation has awarded a 2025 Digital Financial Services Grant to Fliqa, a Slovenia-based fintech integrating Open Payments and the Interledger Protocol into its open banking solutions. The partnership will help expand real-time, low-cost, interoperable payment options for merchants and advance more open and inclusive digital financial infrastructure.
2 min read
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The Web Isnāt Free
The internet isnāt truly free: we āpayā 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.
Sabine Schaller
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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.
Anca Matei7 min read
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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.
Timea Nagy
5 min read
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From Tap to Packet: Exploring Card Payments on Interledger
A Journey from POS Onboarding to Transaction Processing.
Jason Bruwer12 min read
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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.
Rabeb Othmani3 min read