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The Future of Financial Inclusion Starts With Trust
Financial inclusion starts with trust: people need financial systems that are transparent, relevant, and aligned with how they earn and manage money today. As the digital economy grows, institutions must combine modern technology with education and community-focused design to expand opportunity.
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Why We Funded Research Into Who Gets Left Out of Instant Payments
Research across more than 20 countries found that instant payment systems often aim for inclusion but are designed in ways that exclude smaller financial providers through governance, regulatory, economic, and technical barriers.
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Interledger Foundation and Small Foundation partner with AllianceDFA to strengthen inclusive digital finance ecosystems
The Interledger Foundation and Small Foundation are jointly funding AllianceDFA to strengthen global collaboration and capacity-building across inclusive digital finance ecosystems. The partnership aims to help fintech and digital finance associations better support underserved communities through more responsible and accessible financial services.
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2026 Policy Activation Grantee: Center for Technology and Society at FGV Law School, Rio de Janeiro
Research project funded by an Interledger Foundation Public Policy Activation Grant exploring how BRICS governance models shape digital payment systems and end-user outcomes.
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Interledger Foundation Launches āInterledger on Campusā Grant Program to Support Student-Led Initiatives in Open Payments
The Interledger Foundation launched āInterledger on Campus,ā 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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" ā meeting people where they are with language that speaks to their daily realities rather than abstract concepts.
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