Building Onchain Global Venmo Ft. Sling Money CEO Mike Hudack
Building Onchain Global Venmo Ft. Sling Money CEO Mike Hudack  
Podcast: Tokenized
Published On: Mon Oct 07 2024
Description: 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 stablecoins07:20 Compliance infrastructure & technology12:58 Multi-currency experience16:02 Why is the user experience in crypto so poor?18:00 Gas abstraction21:56 Who should be thinking about this space?26:09 SG Forge rollout Euro CoinVertible on Solana30:03 Why Solana?30:52 MiCA & regulation31:34 On-chain FX37:12 Stablecoin native exchange TrueX40:33 What's the vision for Sling Money?This episode is brought to you by VisaA 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/cryptoVisa’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/vtapThis 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