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Interledger on Campus
We were very excited to announce our new educational grantee - the Financial Innovation Hub at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa - last year at the Interledger Summit 2023 in Costa Rica. Half a year has passed since then and it was time for our first event together. We hosted a week-long bootcamp on digital financial inclusion and Open Payments, with a 24 hour hackathon being the grand finale of the week.
Read more about the winners here
Stay up to date with community news
Community Manager Vineel Pindi reflects on his time at the Global Technology Retreat hosted by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in his latest blog, ‘Harnessing the Future: Insights from the Global Technology Retreat on Digital Trust and Inclusion.’
Catch up on Program Officer, Juliare Hall's latest blog 'Bridging the Digital Divide to Improve the Underserved and Unbanked Financial Lives.’
ThitsaWorks, an award-winning fintech  will be partnering with the Mexican Association of Credit Unions of the Social Sector (AMUCSS) on The People’s Clearing House (PCH). View latest grant report here.
Our 2024 themes are digital public infrastructure (DPI), innovation, and inclusion. We’re inviting submissions in the following areas:
Talks or demos (25 mins)
Panels (40 mins)
Workshops (40/80 mins)
Call for speakers closes August 6, 2024.
Explore our latest grant opportunities
Get Interledger on Campus with our NextGen Higher Education grant. Access up to $50,000 in funding to develop and implement an Open Payments curriculum. The Interledger Foundation will provide extensive resources , ongoing guidance, and mentorship from industry experts. Letter of Intent process will reopen soon!
Get Interledger on your Campus
The Digital Financial Services grant is open for applications. From integrating Rafiki into your existing financial infrastructure to expanding payment options in web-based platforms, we can help. Â Closes August 30, 2024.
Digital Financial Services grant
Ambassador Program 2024. Ready to activate new communities and inspire the next wave of open, inclusive, digital financial services? Access a $30,000 grant for a 6 month proposal and join the prestigious Interledger Ambassador program. Closes August 31, 2024.
Tech Bytes
Project Manager, Tseli Thabane shares our Web Monetization updates here.
Interledger Ambassador Santosh Viswanatham brings you the latest Web Monetization, Rafiki and Open Payments contribution guides here. You can also check out his latest conference update at JS Nation here.
Engineering Lead, Sabine Schaller brings you the latest Rafiki updates here.
Reimagine the future of digital finance with Future|Money
In 2023 Interledger Foundation funded artists from around the globe to explore digital financial inclusion from new perspectives to help everyone reimagine what the future might hold. You can read the final grant reports from four amazing works and discover the artists inspiration through their accompanying F|M podcast episodes.
Loose (Chains) Change envisions a series of large-scale multimedia tapestries crafted from a unique and powerful material: leather and used lottery tickets collected from marginalized residents within Brooklyn. Read the final grant report here.
The Parallel Society explores the poetics and the politics behind the stories of historically marginalized communities: by featuring the parallel fate of two characters, a Lebanese migrant in Barcelona and a villager in rural China's Henan province. Read the final grant report here.
The structure of our money system is not a natural phenomenon. The way ‘the waterworks of money’ is organized, is ultimately a political choice. We can choose to change this architecture, so that the financial sector serves society and helps to tackle the major challenges of the age. Read the final grant report here.
Re/Simulate digs deep into the effectiveness of financial and economic programs. Â Re/Simulate steers one huge 3D clay printer and explores the sculptural possibilities, Â gaps, pitfalls, and strengths of digital financial systems. Read the final grant report here.
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So much going on in this space! Super exciting!