Sling Money

Incredible interview 🎤 - Former Monzo CPO explains why building the Venmo for cross border needs Stablecoins. Having led product for Monzo, Meta and Deliveroo the key insight is that usability is everything. Stablecoins on Solana are - Fast - Reliable - Cheap Sling Money and Mike Hudack are solving the usability problem in Crypto by doing the hard things like 1. Heavy up front compliance work 2. Building native Crypto and Tradfi integrations 3. Making this truly global "The first major thing we spent money on was our financial crime team" You can find the full thing now but searching for Tokenized wherever you get your podcasts.

Ep. 8. of Tokenized Podcast: Banks Launch Stablecoins & Cross Border Crypto Simon Taylor and Cuy Sheffield are joined by Mike Hudack, Co-Founder of Sling Money to discuss: ➡️ Mike's journey from Meta -> Banking -> Crypto ⛓️ Why Sling uses Solana 🌐 The potential of Cross Border Crypto payments 👉 Why it makes sense that banks are taking stablecoins so seriously *** Link to the full show in the comments below! 👇

Today's Lunch & Learn - Coding crash course from our HTML expert Eli Schutze Ramirez 💻

This week’s 🌟 #TalentTuesday 🌟 highlights our brand new team member: Michael Leung! Michael joins us as a Backend Engineer with experience in software engineering and fintech. From developing software for Goodlord and Plum Fintech to being a Senior Backend Engineer and Engineering Manager at Monzo, Michael is keen to get stuck in building Sling Money. Since he has experience working for a company whose goal is to make money work for everyone, he recognizes that “Sling and Monzo have similar underlying aims, as well as shared values centered around building delightful products that solve real-life problems”. 🚀 A little more about Michael from his Q&A: 1. What did you want to be when you grew up? “A dog (that knows everything and can still speak English)” 🐶 2. What's the best piece of career advice you've ever received? “At least once a year, make the conscious choice to stay at your current job and justify it to yourself.” 💡 3. If you could have any superpower, what would it be and why? “Being able to recall the name, face and any interesting tidbits of anyone I've met before. It would save me a LOT of embarrassing situations…” 🧠 4. What's the best piece of advice you could give to someone just starting in your industry? “Ask questions and make friends - people love to help people, just make sure to pass it on!” 🫂 Please join us in welcoming Michael to our team! 🥳

Sling Money is building a world where sending and receiving money is effortless. The app leverages stablecoin and real-time payment technology to allow people to move money anywhere, in any currency, nearly instantly and for a negligible fee. Sling makes global transfers easy by enabling users to pay people, not anonymous account numbers. It’s available in 150 countries on the Android and iOS app stores. An Avian Labs product, Sling was founded by Mike Hudack and Simon Amor, who have decades of product engineering and design experience. Learn more at www.sling.money. Elliot Kipling was joined by Simon Amor & James Routley to help us understand more about the mission of Sling Money. Sling is still in closed beta, but we've made the access code 'enginears' so up to 100 listeners can skip the waitlist. Full podcast in the comments below ⬇️

In case you missed it, watch our CEO Mike Hudack's full talk from the Solana Foundation's conference on Friday. We're very excited to have built an app that lets you send money to anyone, anywhere, and now lets you send stablecoins to and from wallets that support USDC or USDP 🚀

Today at Solana Foundation's Breakpoint Conference we announced that Sling Money now supports adding and removing money with USDC and USDP stablecoins on the Solana blockchain. Up until now, you’ve been able to add and remove fiat currency to your Sling Wallet in 70 countries. Under the hood, Sling Money converts this fiat currency to a USD backed stablecoin. Now with the ability to add and remove USDC and USDP, Sling’s reach is extended to an additional 70 countries where you can use local exchanges to add and remove USDC or USDP from Sling almost instantly. We’re incredibly proud to now support over 140 countries across a mix of fiat and stablecoin currency. Our mission is to connect billions of people around the world to an instant financial system at as low a cost as possible. And today’s new feature gets us that much closer. With Sling Money you own your money, you own your wallet, and now you can seamlessly interact with the broader Solana ecosystem too. It’s that simple, and we’re very excited about it. Read the full release here: https://lnkd.in/e-f7zjWT

Listen to our CEO and co-founder Mike Hudack talk about his experience building Sling Money, as well as his work at Facebook, Monzo, and Deliveroo. Thank you 20VC and Harry Stebbings! https://lnkd.in/eQrfHqjK Keep an eye out on our socials to see Mike speaking about our progress on Sling Money at the Solana Foundation's Breakpoint conference in Singapore this Friday!

We’re hiring! If you want to be a part of the future of money, have a background in customer support software, and love remote working, apply to be our Customer Support Specialist. Help us improve the Sling Money's user experience to further amplify the work we’re doing to make global transfers easy, affordable, and quick. This role would involve building strong relationships with customers, helping them troubleshoot issues, and analyzing feedback in order to relay key findings to the rest of our team. Check out the details and how to apply here: https://lnkd.in/gsGuZtNn

In case you missed it, we saw a lot of support for Solana last week, and just as much support for Sling Money! New technologies and blockchain platforms like Solana are what allow our global money transfers to be faster, cheaper, and easier than other systems. Join the discussion by following us on Twitter or message us if you have any feedback on Sling! https://x.com/slingmoney