Here is a recap of our 13th August, 2025, Interledger Community Call, including a meeting summary and links to the 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.
Interledger Foundation:
Blogs:
- Open Payments help ROSCAs modernise for global impact
- Interledger at the Internet Governance Forum 2025
Grant updates:
- Digital Financial Services grant closed on August 1. Received 88 applications from corporations, educational institutions, nonprofits, fintechs, etc., across 26 countries.
-- 85% of the applicants are new to the ILF ecosystem.
From the March grant cycle, 1 grantee was selected and that announcement is coming soon.
-- Several March cycle applicants who sought feedback resubmitted proposals in July.
-- We are currently conducting preliminary reviews, next step is assigning shortlisted applications for judge's review.
NextGen Higher Education grant is still open, and accepting LOIs.
- The deadline to submit a LOI is October 3rd.
- 3 projects have been approved to date, details on the selected institutions and projects coming soon.
From our Call for Papers grant we had over 60 applicants. We have awarded 7 authors, with announcements coming soon. We are also working with 7 additional authors for blog posts about their research work.
Grant for the Web 2.0 we have started to make some grants exploring publishing platforms and WM, we will have more details about those projects and chances to participate further in the coming months
Interledger Summit:
- Interledger Summit 2025 will take place in the heart of Mexico City—one of the world’s most dynamic and culturally rich capitals. This event will bring together global leaders in Open Payments, technology, and financial inclusion to explore how interoperable payment networks can expand access and opportunity. -🎟️Reserve your Interledger Summit Ticket here.
Interledger Hackathon
- Nov. 8-9, 2025 - Mexico City
- Applications are open. Learn more.
Upcoming events:
Web Monetization updates
Rafiki updates
Deeper look
University of Cape Town Financial Innovation Hub Hackathon
- University of Cape Town x Interledger Foundation Financial Innovation Hub - Bootcamp and Hackathon The UCT team and ILF team shall dive deep into the bootcamp and hackathon hosted at the UCT. We will have three winning teams sharing about their projects.
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 ⭐
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