Meeting Minutes and Recordings from Interledger Community Call - 12 June 2024

Here is a recap of our 12 June 2024 Interledger Community Call with Meeting Notes and links to recordings.

Notes, Recording and Podcast

• Watch Meeting recording on Youtube.
• Listen to the Podcast for free on SoundCloud here and Castopod here.
• Public note-taking document here

For those new to our community, ILF stands for Interledger Foundation. We are a community of technologists, digital creatives, researchers, entrepreneurs, and educators working to build new pathways to financial inclusion and equity through digital transactions.

Fynbos

• Preparing for a hackathon with real money in production wallets
• Progress being made with Chimoney peering
• Fynbos wallets are working with Web Monetization browser extension alpha 1 release for people with other Fynbos wallets (no peering with other account service providers yet)
• https://interledgerpay.com/ also working with Fynbos wallets with real money

ILF

• ILF Financial Services Grant applications live
• ILF Ambassadors Grant applications live -- [Jeremiah] List of regulatory, tax, and Internet security topics I would still love to see research by qualified people as part of the ambassador program: https://community.interledger.org/jeremiahlee/research-id-like-to-see-funded-3j7k
• ILF NextGen Higher Education Grant live
• Interledger Summit (Sat, Oct 26 | Sun, Oct 27)
• Call for Speakers applications deadline extended
• ILP Summit - Save your spot!
• Interledger Salon - Interledger on Campus - June 26th!

ILF @ upcoming events | June 2024
May Events Marathon -

• https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2024 / Düsseldorf, Germany [Alex, Ioana and PPK]
• https://jsheroes.io/ / Cluj-Napoca, Romania | May [Ioana, Madalina]
• https://www.devtalks.ro/ - [Alex, Ioana]
• https://www.itu.int/net/wsis/ - [Ayden, Lawil]
• Workshop on Digital FinancialInclusion, New Delhi - [Smriti, Vineel]
• https://www.cpdpconferences.org/ - [Stephanie]
• Global Technology Retreat by WEF / SFO - [Vineel]
• https://cityjsconf.org/ / Athens, Greece | June [ Ioana]

Upcoming:

• UCT Hackathon / Cape Town | June [Tech Team] [If you are a student in and around Cape Town interested in participating in the hackathon, reach out to us for details to participate in the hackathon]
• https://c3fest.com/ (June 14-16) In-person / Virtual [Ioana]
• https://jsnation.com/ / (June 13-17) In-person / Virtual [Santosh]
• TigerBeetle conference (June 27-28) - [Alex, Sabine, Jason]
• https://www.techbeach.net/usvi - June 19-21, [Julaire]

Rafiki

• Rafiki Updates

Deeper look
Ayden Férdeline on Dynamic Coalition on Digital Financial Inclusion (IGF)

• The Internet developed largely freely via the private sector, but governments around the world are now looking to regulate more
• Interledger Foundation could benefit from a policy advocacy team to engage with the governments actively looking to regulate the Internet, as well as compete with incumbent payment providers who are skilled at working with regulators
• United Nations Internet Governance Forum a good forum for Interledger Foundation and community to engage with by suggesting technology and policy. Visa and Mastercard are already there. Ayden has been working to establish ILF’s presence there via a working group.
• Dynamic Coalition on the Digital Financial Inclusion: how can adoption of open, global interoperable payment networks overcome existing barriers and leverage opportunities to enhance financial inclusion across diverse stakeholder groups, and how will this shape the evolution of the Internet and digital economy by 2030? Research report with policy recommendations coming in December 2024. Many voices need to advocate as a coalition for the Interledger protocol as a solution to digital financial inclusion. If you are interested, subscribe to the UN mailing list. There are Monthly calls for 90 minutes. The calls are for guest speakers who are already building on Interledger protocol with prototypes or technology in the wild. The audience is less technical, and you need to be able to speak to such an audience with real examples.
• https://intgovforum.org/en/content/dynamic-coalition-on-digital-financial-inclusion-dc-dfi
• Hayden at ferdeline dot com One goal of engaging with policy forums is convincing governments that there is a real need and problem space and that potential solutions are worth investing in by funding experts to work on them.
• Presentation Slides

Community Share-outs and discussion

• [Jeremiah] Some regulatory, tax, and Internet security topics I would still love to see research by qualified people as part of the ambassador program: https://community.interledger.org/jeremiahlee/research-id-like-to-see-funded-3j7k

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