The results of NGI TALER’s 3rd Open Call (October 2024) have been announced!
Project 1: Open Banking Gateway Taler Wallet Top-Up/Merchant Verification
Add GNU Taler support to Open Banking Gateway
Transferring Euro to the Taler wallet should be quick, easy and flawless. Taler Open Banking Gateway (TOBG) will provide the technology to top-up a Taler wallet in a regulatory compliant, instant and user-friendly way. TOBG will use the Payment Initiation Services mechanism introduced and regulated under the revised European Payment Services Directive (PSD2). A German bank will support and run the platform, providing technical and regulatory alignment.
The project will help to improve adoption and usage of the Taler system significantly. It will also extend the existing Open Banking Gateway software with additional functionality, improved user experience and additional adaptors for European banks. The outcome will be a full functional solution with a focused scope of supported banks users can top-up from. Both the operators and the free and open source community will able to further extend the reach, functionality, supported channels and use cases. One of these use cases is to use Payment Initiation Services in merchant apps for account verification.
Read more on the project’s own website
Project 2: TALER integration in flohmarkt
Secure payments for P2P classified adds federating with ActivityPub
Flohmarkt is a decentral federated small advertisement platform, sorted by category (hence the name “classified ads”). The name flohmarkt comes from the German word for “flea market”. Flohmarkt allows to federate local platforms by using the web-based federation protocol ActivityPub, make up one big place for small advertisements about exchange of goods and services. This project will integrate Taler payments into Flohmarkt - allow individuals to informally sell goods to each other in a privacy preserving manner.
Read more on the project’s own website
Project 3: Payment Module for Nuxt/Vue.js
Module to add GNU Taler support in Nuxt/Vue.js
Nuxt is a widely used JavaScript library for building web interfaces based on the lightweight Vue.js framework. This project will create a dedicated GNU Taler module for Nuxt, allowing developers the same convenience when supporting a privacy-friendly option they would have using Nuxt modules for proprietary services like Stripe and PayPal. It includes Vue.js components for donation and order payment, documentation and examples such as a file-based webshop.
Read more on the project’s own website
Next Open Calls
The sixth call of NGI TALER opened up on February 1st 2025, with a deadline of April 1st 2025 12:00 CEST (noon). Check out the guide for applicants and the frequently asked questions.