NGI TALER Grants for Tryton and Interledger Interoperability

Christian Grothoff, professor for computer network security at the Bern University of Applied Sciences and co-maintainer of GNU Taler said: Taler (Taxable Anonymous Libre Electronic Resources) is a secure electronic payment system based on open standards, free software, and advanced cryptography. The NGI TALER programme is a pilot funded by the European Commission's Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative and the Swiss state with the aim of bringing GNU Taler to market across Europe. 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. Integration of privacy preserving payments with TALER in GNU Health will deliver a much needed contribution to medical privacy, providing the first digital alternative (next to cash payment) which allows patients to pay for their personal medical treatment and medication directly and with full discretion - keeping the doctor-patient privilege intact. (As well as open calls for other programmes.) NGI Taler project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No.