Interledger interoperability inquiry
Investigate synergy between Interledger and GNU Taler
The Interledger Protocol and Open Payments API specification are the payment protocols used for an online tipping specification being proposed in the W3C Web Platform Incubator Community Group called Web Monetization. The Web Monetization specification allows for automatic streaming micropayments and low-friction on-demand tipping to online creators who specify an Open Payments wallet address in their HTML or respective metadata of the online experience (e.g. JSON-LD in Activity Streams/ActivityPub, XML attribute in podcast RSS).
This project proposal will investigate the technical feasibility of using Taler as a payment method on the Interledger payment network to support Web Monetization. The outcome will be a an overview of potential approaches for integrating Taler using the Interledger Protocol or as a payment method in Interledger’s Open Payments API reference implementation (Rafiki).
This project was funded through the NGI TALER Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology. NGI TALER is part of NGI TALER, an R&D pilot programme under Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101135475. Additional funding is made available by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).
