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Interledger, a protocol for the future of money

Digital money has taken on a rather bad reputation of late, but what if the transfer money could be as frictionless, and inexpensive as the exchange of information enabled by the internet? Just as TCP/IP transformed the way information was exchanged, and drove the cost of that transfer inexorably lower, the interledger protocol, a W3C standard, aims to do that for payments and the transfer of value.

Already connecting traditionally unbanked communities into the world’s financial systems, the protocol opens opportunities for new business models and value exchange.

How might it transform what we do online and in the physical world?

About Alex Lakatos

Alex has spent the past 11 years working on the Open Web within Browser, Communications, and FinTech organizations.

With a background in web technologies and developer advocacy, he’s helped organizations build developer-friendly products while engaging with the developer community at large.

As the new Technology Lead for the Interledger Foundation, he focuses on lowering the barrier to entry into the Payments ecosystem and driving the adoption of the Web Monetization standard.