From the latest edition of Unvalidated Ideas:
Have you heard of FedNow? It's an instant payments system that's due to launch in 2023.
Blockchain may get more headlines, but people overlook the Federal Reserve building a payments system to match that of European countries. It's going to be a game-changer for companies and consumers in the US.
As big stuffy applications often are, the FedNow API right now communicates over SOAP and XML. These technologies suck and are pretty terrible for modern development.
💼 🧠Build an appliance that enables interacting with the FedNow system via developer-friendly data exchange languages like JSON or gRPC.
(Read the rest in the latest edition!)