Here is a recap of our 13th May 2026 Interledger Community Call, including a summary of the meeting and links to the recordings.

Notes, Recording and Podcast

• Watch Meeting recording on YouTube.
• Listen to the Podcast for free on YouTube here.
• Public note-taking document here

Deeper Look: Digital cash, made socially responsible | GNU Taler

For May’s community call, we had Taler team sharing a deeper look into their project - "Digital cash, made socially responsible | GNU Taler".

• Presentation and demo here.

About GNU Taler:
GNU Taler is a Free Software privacy-friendly payment system from the
GNU project. Taler does not use a blockchain: monetary policies are
expected to be set by a central bank. Digital money can be issued either by retail banks or by the central bank. Paying with Taler is
extremely efficient: customers authorize transactions with one click,
and then the system takes only a few milliseconds to finalize the
transactions. In this talk, we will introduce the political goals,
architecture and technology behind Taler, demonstrate the current state of the art and outline likely future developments.

About the Speaker:
Christian Grothoff is a professor for computer network security at the Bern University of Applied Sciences, researching future Internet architectures. His research interests include compilers, programming languages, software engineering, networking, security and privacy.
He is a GNU maintainer and co-founder of Taler Systems SA.

Lightning Intros:

• Alabama A & M University Students
• Covenant University Students
• Addis Futures Lab / Metasebia Yoseph

Updates:

Interledger Grants:

• Interledger Grants Wiki
• Discussions

Rafiki updates

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  Rafiki Updates - May 2026

  Max Kurapov for Interledger Foundation ・ May 13

  #rafiki #tech #engineering #ilp

Web Monetization updates

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  Web Monetization updates March to April 2026

  Tseli for Interledger Foundation ・ May 13

Blog posts:

• 2026 Policy Activation Grantee: Center for Technology and Society at FGV Law School, Rio de Janeiro
• Interledger Comes to Colombia to Help Build the Internet of Opportunity
• You Don’t Need 3 Apps to Pay Your Friends: Why U.S. Payments Feel Broken
• How the Web Monetization Extension works - Part 3: Sending money for real
• Subscriptions with Open Payments, a Test Network PoC
• A walk through the Web Monetization work week

Podcasts:

• Arts as Civic Infrastructure: Kristina Newman-Scott on Cultivating Equitable Communities

Reports and Community Share-outs:

• Next-Gen Secure FinTech for Digital Financial Inclusion Using Interledger
• Covenant University Partners ILF on the Next Gen Program
• FLIQA - ILF Grant Progress Report
• Nepal Interledger Financial Network
• Safeguarding financial data, empowering civil society — ILF Grant Progress Report

Upcoming events
May

• Future of CDFIs Unleashed Summit, Atlanta (May 12-14)
• Webinar | Digital Public Infrastructure for Payments: Digital Sovereignty, Interoperability and Consumer Protection. Join us! May 14 at 13h UTC. Register here >> https://evento.fgv.br/digitalinfrastructure1405/

June 1st

• Open Payments Learning Month
• A month of learning resources, social activities, rewards and workshops to learn more about Open Payments!
• Stay tuned in our Slack for updates (JOIN US HERE)

June 4th week

• UCT x ILF bootcamp & hackathon
• University of Cape Town, South Africa (June 22 to 27)

Reminders:

• Sign up for the ILF newsletter by joining our mailing list
• Have questions or need help? Join us on Slack here.
• Contribute to the Interledger project on GitHub and give it a ⭐