Hello everyone!
We have been quite busy across the team since the last update, mostly preparing for and hosting the 2025 Interledger Summit and Hackathon in Mexico City. As always, the Summit was a great opportunity to meet community members, grantees and partners to discuss and see the work being done in digital payments & financial inclusion.
Summit Presentations
If you didn't get a chance to attend the Summit this year, we have videos from the main stage and the Demo Lab available on our YouTube channel.
In particular, we wanted to highlight the Rafiki & Open Payments presentation from our team to give you an overview of what we've build over the last year: from the release of multi-tenancy, to the addition of several Open Payments features (such as Log-in with Open Payments & Grant Spent Amounts) to the Rafiki integration for the Interledger card (which was also presented in the Demo Lab).
Releases
In preparation for the summit, we released Rafiki version v2.0.0-beta, which officially included multi-tenancy support (with corresponding updated, versioned documentation), as well as version v2.2.0-beta, which contains two additional services: card-service and point-of-sale for, as you might have guessed, enabling card functionality within Rafiki.
We are planning a final release before the end of the year as well.
2026
Looking forward to next year, we have several items for our road-map:
Security audit
Rafiki is currently undergoing a security audit, as a follow-up to last year's audit. Together with the security and penetration testing company we are working with, our goal is to confirm that we have addressed all of the changes correctly, as well as test the additional features we have released.
Encrypted data exchange
We are continuing our work to finalize the encrypted data exchange feature. This will enable Rafiki integrators/ILP peers to exchange data securely between one another during ILP payments. We describe how this will work under the hood in Rafiki in the Summit presentation, if you would like more details about this project.
Updated architecture
One of our biggest initiatives for 2026 will be to complete an updated Rafiki architecture for increased performance and scalability. Other than working with integrators to add support for additional features they require, this initiative will support them in making sure it is easy to scale Rafiki to match their own rapid pace of growth and user adoption.
Additional Open Payments features
Besides adding additional Open Payments SDKs to support more languages, we will also be developing new Open Payments features, such as directed identity for non-interactive grant requests.
Thank you everyone for another great year of collaboration, and progress toward our shared goals. The Rafiki team wishes you a great holiday season!
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