GNU TALER is a protocol enabling open payment through the implementation of free reference software: fast, secure and easy.

This new system aims to protect buyers' privacy, by guaranteeing anonymity and compatibility with the European GDPR, AML ("Anti-money Laundering") and KYC ("Know your Customer Regulation").

In addition to anonymity, user-friendliness and security, GNU TALER offers a number of advantages, including

- The assurance of revenue control for the State by establishing a cryptographic link between revenues and underlying commercial activities in order to prevent tax evasion, money laundering, tax fraud, etc.

- The assurance of providing a micro-payment system for the purchase of digital services.

- An open protocol to reduce the fragmentation of the payment market and the resulting high integration costs.

The main aim of the TALER project is to market the TALER instant payment system throughout Europe.

Partnership:

Coordinator: Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands)

Partners:

- GLS Bank (Germany)

- Code Blau GmbH (Germany)

- Visual Vest (Germany)

- Taler Systems SA (Luxembourg)

- Petites Singularités (Belgium)

- E-Seniors association (France)

- Homo Digitalis (Greece)

- Stichting NLnet (Netherlands)

- Magnet Bank (Hungary)

- Bern University of Applied Sciences (Switzerland)

The expected results of the project are:

- Carry out all the necessary steps to make the GNU Taler payment system work legally in the euro zone, Hungary and Switzerland.

- Integrate the GNU Taler exchange software into the core banking systems and into banks' consumer products.

- Make GNU Taler monitorable in real time.

- Refine and improve the GNU Taler offering.

- Engage with economic players, including consumers, and stakeholders in three vertical markets to make it easily usable for the elderly, the disabled and marginalised groups.

- Gather structured data on beneficiaries.

- Extend the availability of GNU Taler payment system components to as many platforms as possible.

- Improve the security function of the GNU Taler system.

Website: https://stage.taler.net/en/ngi-taler.html