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1. Why We Weighed In on the Federal Reserve’s Payment Account Proposal

   Interledger Foundation advocates for inclusive, secure, and low-cost direct Fed payment access for non-banks.

   Ayden Férdeline

   Mar 18, 2026 5 min read
   

2. Web Monetization Meets Google’s Offerwall

   Web Monetization is now integrated into Google’s Offerwall, letting users directly support publishers through seamless micropayments alongside ads or surveys.

   Mar 17, 2026 6 min read
   

3. Interledger Foundation Launches “Interledger on Campus” Grant Program to Support Student-Led Initiatives in Open Payments

   The Interledger Foundation launched “Interledger on Campus,” a global mini-grant program offering up to $5,000 for university student clubs to run short projects exploring open payments, financial access, and interoperability.

   Mar 16, 2026 2 min read
   

4. Africa Doesn't Have a Payments Technology Problem. It Has a Business Model Problem.

   Africa’s payment systems struggle not because of missing technology but because of flawed business models and commercial design. To achieve adoption, systems must prioritize free P2P transfers, better accessibility, and simple proxy-based addressing, alongside regulatory reforms that overcome incumbent resistance.

   Arunjay Katakam

   Mar 13, 2026 4 min read
   

5. Fliqa Integrates Interledger to Power Open, Interoperable Payments

   The Interledger Foundation has awarded a 2025 Digital Financial Services Grant to Fliqa, a Slovenia-based fintech integrating Open Payments and the Interledger Protocol into its open banking solutions. The partnership will help expand real-time, low-cost, interoperable payment options for merchants and advance more open and inclusive digital financial infrastructure.

   Mar 10, 2026 2 min read
   

6. The Web Isn’t Free

   The internet isn’t truly free: we “pay” with our time, attention, and data, which fuel platforms designed to capture and manipulate us. Alternatives like Web Monetization aim to restore privacy, fairness, and control by letting users directly support creators.

   Sabine Schaller

   Feb 23, 2026 5 min read
   

7. Interledger Foundation awards $200,000 to Social Web Foundation to support decentralized social media

   The Interledger Foundation has awarded a $200,000 Grant for the Web to the Social Web Foundation to research sustainable revenue and governance models for decentralized, community-run social platforms, with a focus on creators, publishers, and federated servers.

   Jan 29, 2026 3 min read
   

8. Shanghai, Flip Phones, and Robots: An Interledger Engineering Adventure

   The Interledger engineering team spent a week in Shanghai teaming up with KaiOS to plan the next phase of POS and Interledger Wallet integration. Between serious tech decisions, flip phone nostalgia, bubble tea, and surprise robots, the trip blended real engineering progress with great people, culture, and a lot of fun.

   Timea Nagy

   Jan 7, 2026 5 min read
   

9. What’s Happened in December

   As we come to the end of the year and review the past 2 months, we see that we have continued to make a significant impact in helping to close the financial exclusion gap worldwide. The surge in digital financial services is a major enabler as we continue to adopt services such as mobile banking, mobile money accounts, internet banking, and digital payments. Many have called this period a breakthrough moment for financial inclusion.

   Dec 11, 2025 3 min read
   

10. 2025 Interledger Policy Activation Grantee: The Alliance of Digital Finance and Fintech Associations

    The Interledger Foundation has awarded Alliance of Digital Finance and Fintech Associations to be the first recipients of an Interledger Policy Activation Grant. This grant will enable them to lead a new global initiative to make Instant Payment Systems more inclusive and accessible to fintechs and non-banks.

    Dec 10, 2025 3 min read