Tokenized

Building Onchain Global Venmo Ft. Sling Money CEO Mike Hudack


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On Ep. 8 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, Head of Content & Strategy @ Sardine, and Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto @ Visa, are joined by Mike Hudack, Co-Founder @ Sling Money. Mike talks to Tokenized about how his time at Monzo, Meta and Deliveroo influenced Sling Money's rise into one of the best crypto experiences on the planet.

Timestamps:

  • 01:53 What is Sling Money?
  • 05:16 Creating a useable experience sending stablecoins
  • 07:20 Compliance infrastructure & technology
  • 12:58 Multi-currency experience
  • 16:02 Why is the user experience in crypto so poor?
  • 18:00 Gas abstraction
  • 21:56 Who should be thinking about this space?
  • 26:09 SG Forge rollout Euro CoinVertible on Solana
  • 30:03 Why Solana?
  • 30:52 MiCA & regulation
  • 31:34 On-chain FX
  • 37:12 Stablecoin native exchange TrueX
  • 40:33 What's the vision for Sling Money?

This episode is brought to you by Visa

A world leader in digital payments, Visa is bridging the gap between traditional financial institutions and innovative blockchain networks, helping players in the payments ecosystem navigate the ever-evolving world of tokenized fiat currencies with confidence and ease. Learn more at visa.com/crypto

Visa’s Tokenized Asset Platform (VTAP) uses smart contracts and cryptography to help banks bring fiat currencies onchain. VTAP allows financial institutions to issue fiat-backed tokens, improving financial efficiency and enabling programmable finance. Express interest in VTAP at globalclient.visa.com/vtap

This podcast is also supported by Digital Asset.

Digital Asset is excited to launch the Canton Network, a proven, trusted, and scaleable service that provides interoperability between institutional-grade tokenization platforms. The Global Synchronizer is now live, managed by Linux and institutions are actively using Canton Coin to manage the governance. No, the banks haven’t launched a token in the classic sense, this is much more interesting. They’ve done it to make all token networks interoperable. Find out more at canton.network

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