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Interledger Community Call Summary - 9 July 2025

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Here is a recap of our 9th July, 2025, Interledger Community Call, including a meeting summary and links to the recordings.

Notes, Recording and Podcast

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:

UCT Hackathon recap

  • Context: University of Cape Town's Financial Innovation Hub is NextGen Higher Education Program grantee (Oct 2024 announcement)
  • One group explored use of QR codes with Interledger Open Payments.

Rafiki work week
Interledger Foundation and People's Clearing House developers meeting in Cluj-Napoca, România to discuss diverse set of issues:

  • Performance Improvements
  • Rafiki Kubernetes Operator
  • General Documentation
  • Rafiki Security Improvements
  • Payment Pointer 2 SEPA
  • Open Payments
  • Rafiki Cards Services

Rafiki team will publish a post about all of the tracks and work they are doing after the Work Week.

Blogs:

Grants:

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.

Upcoming events:

  • Lunch & Learn: Pinging paradise: Digital experiences of a Himalayan community. Conversation with one of our Ambassadors, Smriti Parsheera
    Watch it on the ILF YouTube playlist here.

  • Chocó Colombia - July 26
    -- Marian will be attending

Web Monetization updates

  • New extension release
  • Great reception and huge interest from the dev community during the Pixel Pioneers conference
  • WM WordPress plugin now ready for community testing

Deeper look

Dynamic Coalition on Digital Financial Inclusion (DC-DFI) Framework presented at Internet Governance Forum in Oslo

  • The Internet Governance Forum is a multi-stakeholder platform convened by the United Nations (UN) to discuss public policy issues related to Internet governance.
  • No one runs the Internet, so forums like this are where multiple stakeholders come together to discuss ideas and form coalitions for advancing initiatives. "Open dialog and informed conversation"
  • IGF is focused on policy, whereas IETF is more focused on specific technology specifications.
  • Interledger Foundation participates in the Internet Governance Forum because it is supporting the development of financial infrastructure on top of Internet infrastructure. IGF provides a forum for discussing ideas about public infrastructure with regulators and industry.
  • The twice-annual forum is not where the "real work" happens. That happens in "dynamic coalitions". Interledger Foundation leads the Dynamic Coalition on Digital Financial Inclusion (DC-DFI). The coalition is composed of subject matter experts.
  • Ayden, Stephanie Perrin (grantee), Smriti Parsheera (grantee) presented the work of the DC-DFI in the last year. The coalition has produced a policy blueprint for interoperable payment protocols. The goal is for governments to have a guide for reasonably attainable policies that promote increased availability and access to financial services.
  • The blueprint covers much more than just technology because technology alone will not solve financial inclusion problems.
  • While Interledger Protocol and Open Payments meet the technology-related requirements of the policy blueprint, the DC-DFI is not promoting Interledger-specific technologies. Any payment methods that meet the requirements are a win for humanity.
  • Stephanie: podcast from Cory Doctorow that speaks to Ayden's diagram on the various partners in the multi-stakeholder model....https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1353-the-naked-emperor/episode/16142603-introducing-understood-who-broke-the-internet
  • Stephanie: Avoiding capture by monopolies is an important goal. Fair Competition strikes me as a core value that often has been ignored in Internet governance.

Reminders:

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