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  1. The Paystreme team

    Unleashing Real-Time Potential with Streaming Payments

    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.

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  2. Briana Marbury and Maha Bahou at the Interledger Summit

    Interledger Foundation Announces historic partnership with Jordan Payments and Clearing Company (JoPACC) to advance financial inclusion in the digital economy

    Announced on the main stage at the Interledger Summit November 7, 2023 in San Jose, Costa Rica. Interledger took another step forward in fulfilling their mission of building an equitable and inclusive global interoperable payments network that helps people and communities excluded from the digital economy.

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  3. Hacktoberfest 2023

    Hacktoberfest with Interledger: Join the Open Payments Movement

    We are thrilled to announce that Interledger will be participating in this year's Hacktoberfest edition. Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of Open Source that encourages people to contribute to open source throughout October. Find out how you can get involved.

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  4. Sabine Schaller speaking on stage at the Ad Filtering Dev Summit '23

    Ad Filtering Dev Summit '23 | Web Monetization - The 100% Ad Filter

    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.

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  5. Setting up the Chimoney NFC card

    Revolutionizing Global Payouts and Boosting Financial Inclusion

    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.

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  6. Illustration of a lady sitting on a bench holding a mobile device

    Announcing the new ILP Testnet Wallet

    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.

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  7. Uchi Uchibeke speaking with an attendee at the Interledger Summit

    Announcing the twelve recipients of our Financial Services awards

    To build on our mission and goals, we will need more people to experiment and innovate in the Interledger-enabled network, so we are thrilled to announce twelve recipients of our Financial Services awards. These twelve projects will receive funds to cover 6-months of research to explore compelling use cases for ILP-enabled digital wallets, neobanks and community platforms.

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  8. Students from Bowie State at the Interledger Summit

    The Interledger Foundation and Bowie State Create New Partnership

    The Interledger Foundation (ILF) awarded Bowie State University(BSU) a $25,000 grant to partner on an undergraduate course that will enable students to explore open payments technologies and issues in eCommerce and personal finance. Open payments technologies allow individuals and businesses to pay for goods and services online via a phone, mobile device, or plug-in technologies from anywhere in the world at any time.

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  9. Illustration of a keyboard with a finger pressing the Enter key

    How the Interledger Protocol (ILP) Powers Web Monetization

    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.

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  10. Stefan Thomas speaking at a conference

    The History and Promise of Interledger: Q&A with Co-Founder Stefan Thomas

    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.

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