Overview

What is Rafiki?

Rafiki is open source software that allows an Account Servicing Entity to enable Interledger functionality on its users’ accounts.

This includes

• sending and receiving payments (via SPSP and Open Payments)
• allowing third-party access to initiate payments and view transation data (via Open Payments)

Caution

Rafiki is intended to be run by Account Servicing Entities only and should not be used in production by non-regulated entities.

Rafiki is made up of several components including an Interledger connector, a high-throughput accounting database called TigerBeetle, and several APIs:

• the Admin API to create peering relationships, add supported assets, and issue wallet addresses
• the Open Payments API to allow third-parties (with the account holder’s consent) to initiate payments and to view the transaction history
• the SPSP API for simple Interledger Payments

Additionally, this package also includes a reference implementation of a GNAP authorization server which handles the access control for the Open Payments API. For more information on the architecture, check out the Architecture documentation.