This is huge:
https://twitter.com/Ripple/status/919915465396424704Ripple & the Gates Foundation Team Up to Level the Economic Playing Field for the Poor.
Ripple, in partnership with Dwolla, ModusBox, Software Group and Crosslake Technologies, with funding and support from the Gates Foundation, developed a new open-source software called Mojaloop for creating a real-time, interoperable payments platform on a national scale to reach the world’s poor with essential financial tools.