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Building real solutions: The Interledger Hackathon Winners 2025
At the 2025 Interledger Hackathon in Mexico City, 47 teams developed practical solutions for interoperable payments, with winners tackling global remittances, device-less payments, education-linked funding, and conversational finance to drive financial inclusion.
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Grantee Spotlight: A Boost for MSMEs with BessPay Plugin's Seamless Payment Solutions
The article introduces the BessPay Plugin, a tool that helps MSMEs in emerging economies receive fast, low-cost, cross-border payments in their local currency by integrating Interledger Open Payments with the Sharetribe platform. The project has progressed through technical development, pilot research, and partnerships, positioning BessPay as a promising solution for advancing financial inclusion and enabling broader participation in global digital commerce.
4 min read
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Turning Headlines into Backyard Conversations: Lessons from the 2025 OFN Conference
The article discusses key takeaways from the 2025 OFN Conference, emphasizing that building trust in community finance requires "turning headlines into backyard conversations" — meeting people where they are with language that speaks to their daily realities rather than abstract concepts.
Casey Ariel Dike’, Founder & CEO of Blaze Group, Contractor for the Interledger Foundation
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Mexico Joins the Interledger Network
Mexico joined the Interledger Network through a month-long tour of student hackathons, events, and fintech engagements across four cities, involving over 500 students from more than 40 universities.
Marian Villa
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Grantee Spotlight: Rafiki Remit Set on Slashing Costs and Speeding up Transactions
Rafiki Remit, developed by Paysys Labs in partnership with Allied Bank, is transforming cross-border payments in Pakistan using the Interledger Protocol to enable faster, low-cost, and inclusive remittance services.
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Grantee Spotlight: Kanzu Microloans bridges the financial divide in Uganda
Kanzu Microloans, developed by Kanzu Finance with support from the Interledger Foundation, uses the Interledger Protocol to deliver instant, secure microloans via mobile, expanding credit access for Uganda’s unbanked, especially women, youth, and low-income earners.
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What’s happened in September
As fall begins, there continues to be significant developments in financial inclusion globally driven by digital finance, regulatory action, and ongoing global campaigns.
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2025 Digital Financial Services Grant Recipient: miPlata
miPlata has been awarded the Interledger Foundation’s 2025 Digital Financial Services grant to develop an integrated platform connecting employers, workers, and families across borders, expanding affordable financial access for unbanked Latinos.
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Hacktoberfest with Interledger 2025: An Open Source Celebration
A global open-source event where Interledger invites contributors to build inclusive financial technologies through coding, collaboration, and community participation during Hacktoberfest.
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Open by Design: Confronting Harmful Patterns in Digital Finance
Interledger Ambassador Caroline Sinders warns that harmful or manipulative design patterns in digital finance can exploit vulnerable users and undermine trust, calling for transparent, user-centered, and inclusive design standards to ensure ethical financial technology.
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